Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-07

Monday evening last. We findiit reported
10 the Prsss of that city, but it's 100 long
for our columns. We publish some ex
tracts from IL:
Sir, Ithank you and the other signers o.
that Invitation in consequence Of which |
occupy this position to. night, for the hon
or done me by inviting me to this city,
and thank you, ladies aud gentlemeu, for
the very cordial and hearty reception with
which you have greetedme Down 10 the
period Of the breaking out of the present
1nhsppy war between the States North
aud South upon this continsnl, the unex
Ampled progress and prosperity OF this
cOuntry vas, in the estimation OF all per.
sons Ia Europe, excepting the pEej1aieed
and sRneApiidt 0nR Of the Eondefs ofsm6d-
eTu oiTiliGation. AS the Great Republic,
this nation stood apart from AIltthe other
governments in Chris,eDdom. The vast.
ness Of your territory, the freedom Dfyour
laws, your most admirable system of edu-
cation, your geusfAI intelligence, the spi-
Eit of imProVemrpt which animated the
fpeOpie, all eoAiF butsEi TO arrest the
worlds attention, and 10 command the
worlds respect. Guaranteeing, US it did,
to every mau freedom of conscience aud
speech, to every press the utmost altitude
OF criticism and expression, to every indi.
vidual perfect application of property,
the Constitution OF the Uuited States en-
listed the admiratiou OF every friend OF
liberty throughout the world. Whatever
Has their loyalty and attachment to the
forms aud government under which they
lived, these friends rejOiced in the success
Of the great experiment of republican
democratic government on the shores of
North America. One source of poignant
regret there was, that under such n gov.
ernment such az institution as that of sla-
very should have bad q tolerated exist.
ence. But even that monstrous evil did
not blind US of Europe to the many excel
leuces Of n political system that for Pc
riod of upwards Of 10 years had otherwise
worked SO we'll, and had wrought out such
mArTellously happy results. We could
Distinguish between that which was the
growth and development Of your glorious
and tree institutions or the natural or
spring upon which your independence and
Government were founded, and that which
WAS the fruit Of the hateful system which
you permitted TO remain amongst you after
you had asserted aud IriumphHutly maiu.
tAined your right to govern yourselves.
lion. which now fills America with the
throes OF another, but, thank God, bet.
ter revolution than that OF of'76-(applause)
for thirty years preceding that act OF
assassination committed against Ibs,Uaiou-
and the Constitution ottle Countrywide
friends of human freedom In other lTuds
marked 10 their sorrow and dismay the
rapid strides of the slave power ON this
continent, aud it's supreme aud universal
domination. During these years it seemed
as though the mighty power possessed by
the sovereign white race could be welded
ouly for the extension of slavery and the
perpetuation of the abasemest OF the col
ored race. Al length, however, the spirit
Of resistance was manifested by the people
of the North to the eneroachments and ar
bitrary power Of the slsvebolding oligarchy
Of the South. That spirit was nobIy ex
hihited 10 the great partisan political
struggle Of 1856. 1t was again developed
in 1860, when the efforts of those opposed
to slavery were met with success in the
election OF Mr.. Abraham Lincoln. (Up.
roarious applause, aud three cheers for
LinColn.) The world is coguiIAnt of the
events to which that election has led. All
are aware that certain slave States,
long before any state openly re-
VoIIed sgainsI the Federal Govern
meut, severed the bonds which
bound them TO their sister States. They
formed C1nfederacy which had slavery
for its corner stone, aud repudiated the
Constitution under which they mad lived,
under which they bad been fostered, under
which they bad been peUled and spoiled.
EApplause Regulating this Constitu-
Ilon, they adopted one which gave TO the
stronger race the right Of euslAving the
weaker race, and declared the normal cou-'
dition of the black man to be that of sub
ordination and subjugatiOu to the white
man. By this event your Union has been
plunged into q cruel war, aud on this, my
third visit to your shores, ! fiud yon in
The midst of second great revolutionary
sIruggls-A struggle at first for the resto-
ration OF political Unioo, now revelation
for an impartial aud universal liberty.
TApplnuss. In this terrible and sublime
conflict between freedom aud slaVery-be-
tween free institutions and oligarchical
despotism-i find the Keystone State of
the Union occupying position worthy of
her naue-Worthy of her past history,
worthy of the illuStriOus men that are 10
be found on the scroll of her citizens, and
worthy of the great cause of which Amer.
lea has once again declared herself a
champion-the cause Of human equality
aud universal liberty.
Thrice happy am [, therefore, under
these circumstances, and after 3 lapse of
thir " years, to be permitted in this mag
nificent building, and before this still more
magnificent audience, to raise my feeble
and humble voice In advocacy Of the cause
which first brought me to your soil, aud
which now appears SO near its final, glori
ous consummation. Oh that my s,Tords,
or any words which have the power to
utter this night, might strengthen and ia-
tensify, inflAme and confirm. the resolution
you have already formed, 70 purge your
beloved country from the last Remaining
stain brough. upon it by that accursed
system which has been the cause of all
your past political disorders, as it is the
cause OF your present calamities and the
saDguipary war still raging amongst you !
Standing where l do to: night, cannot