The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-03
Mcclellan Meeting
Last Saturday Night!
IMMENSE CROWDi
Great Enthusiasm!
Cheers for Little Mac!

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The MCCLELLAN meeting last Saturday
night was a complete success. The friends
Of the Union and of Constitutional Liber>
ty went to work with will, and the re
suit fully justified their most sanguine OK
pectations. Wheeling has redeemed her.
self, and West Virginia may yet DO able to
nav to General MCCLELLAN the debt >ot
gratitude she owes.
At an early hour in the evening the Court
House bell was rung, and the streets were
soon tbronged with men vending their way
to the meeting. Rockets were fired, and
as the darkness came on. illuminated the
CITY with their varying hues. The front OF
the Court House was decorated with Chi
nese lanterns, exhibiting the national coll
ers, and in the Court Room, above the
Judges bench, were suspended various
notices, taken, mostly, from McClellan's
writings: "The Onion is the one condition
of peace-we ask no more;" !"All l ask is,
to share the fate of my comrades in the
field; :" "The Union must be preserved at
all hazards :" "Lincoln's platform No
peace without the abandonment of slaves
ry,'" &c., occupied prominent positions.
Notwithstanding the brief notice that
had been given as we'll as the unfavofable
state Of the weather, the house was soon
filled to ovorhowing. Hundreds went away
unable to obtain even standing place in
the court room, 1t was estimated, by those
most competent to judge, that at least t'co
thousand men were present. The Union
Brass Band entertained the audience with
various patriotic airs, excellently performed,
and at half past seven o'clock the meeting
was called to order by Captain ANDREW
Wilson, Chairman of the MCCLELLAN Ex>
ecutlve Committee, and Ex-Mayor A. j.
SWEENEY was nominated and elected Prest"
dent. Upon taking the chair he was greeted
with hearty applause, and in few appro-
pirate and eloquent remarks returned
thanks for the honorable position which he
had been called to fill, and referred to the
object for which the meeting had been called
MIR HOBBS was nominated and elected
Secretary, and on motion by MIR. ). NC
OLEILAN committee was appointed to
prepare resolutions to be submitted for the
action of the meeting, Messrs. S. McCLEL.
Ian, A. WILSON, JOHN HOFFMAN,, j. NJ.
BIcKEL, and j. T. ScoTT, were appointed by
the chairman. After the committee had
retired in order to make up their report,
Jos. W. PARKER, Esq, of Pittsburg was in'
troduced by the President and proceeded
to address the meeting. We regret that it
is impossible for us to present more than a
mesgre synopsis of his remarks. The
speech abounded in eloquent and forcible
passages of which our report can convey
no idea, and, were We even able to give the
exact words of the speaker, his voice and
manner being wanting, the reader would
fail to appreciate the full force Of The clio
ouence which fred the vast audience with
enthusiasm.
MIR. PARKER's SPEECH.
He began by referring to the condition OF
the country end the Importance OF the po'
litical campaign in which we are involved.
There was time to vote as we'll as. time
to fight, and as the pending Presidential
election resulted the question will be decl>
ded whether constitutional liberty shall
live or die. He referred to the fallacy by
which the party in power Identifies the adj
ministratlon with the government and Claim
ed that this was our government-the peo-
pies government-not ABRAHAM LINCoLN's
or any other individuals. He then gave a
brief review of the history of the war, com
mencing with the fall of Fort Sumter re-
ferred to the grand uprising of men of all
parties in the North to vindicate the honor
of the flag; the call for $1,000 men; the de-
feat at Bull Run; the Crittenden resolu-
ton; Cen ScoTT's recommendation Of Nc
GILLIAN to reorganize and command the
army of the United States; his appointment
by President LINCOLN and the confidence
reposed in him by the nation and the love
cherished for him in the army; the army
recognized and the capitol saved from de-.
struction. The peninsular campaign was
then referred to; the withdrawal of Nc
DowelPs corps; the refusal to send reinforce
ments; the consequent failure of the cans
paign; the removal of MCCLELLAN from