The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-18

treasure to you and to the people OF ever'
nortbern State, have battsd c~oursgeouisy
.onthvard. But what has tho administra'
.;on done behind them2 We have it from
thar own lips; it is set forth in their Own
saiots and their own orders-the orders
vhichr h,ys been Issued BY the Generals IN
the field with the sanction of the adminis>
t~ration. that rebellious discomfort has trav>
eled porthWard ~ OUR armies have fought
their way to the South. TIE State OF
Missourf remained in this Union OF its
own will; there was love enough there for
the Union 10 put down resistance to the
authority of the general government at the
very onset. How is it to day, after three
vesrs of rule Of the administration at Wa'h-
iueton? You are compelled to make CON
tributions in men and money, to bold 10
the Union, by force, a State which originals
" was with us Of its own will. Look at
the condition of Kentucky, one ofthe most
glorious States in the Union, which in for
mer times gave us statesmen whose names
We love to remember-the names OF Clay
and of Crittenden, and associated with the
memory of jackson. When armed resist
.nce FIRST began, the people Of Kentucky re-
solved to stand by us. They severed the
ties Of consanguinity, they broke away from
the dearest associations of relationship; and
vou remember With what joy We hailed
such men as Wickliffe, Guthrie, and Crit
tenden, who stood by the flag and Constitu,
ton of our land. But since the government
at Washington has taken the control OF that
State in hand all has changed. The pres
ence of armies there is now required, and
those men who were with US at the outset
now come here to tell You of the injury and
insult to which they have been subjected.
Nv friends, it would bring tears into the
eyes of the strongest men in this audience
if they could listen to the recitals OF men
like Wickliffe, Guthrie, and others, when
they tell of the insults and wrongs heaped,
not upon men alone, but upon women, re.
fined women. l ask, in Gods name, in this
land Of ours, are men so lost to all sense OF
manhood, that they would tear the gentle
sister and the loving wife from their homes,
because they still cherish a love for one
VIII, may be Sighting under the flag Of the
South? Now, l care not how severely war
may be waged against men; but do protest
in the name Of all civilization; | do protest
by the love we bear to our families; l do
protest in the nam of the most sacred rela-
tionship, that to punish Q woman for an
exhibition Of true womanhood, fr clinging
with love and tenderness even to the er
ring, is a mean tyranny unparalleled in
history. (Great applause,) / met those
men, a few days since, at Chicago. Their
forms, their c~ountenances, all about them
bore the air Of true nobility; and when they
stated in the convention the wrongs and
outrages to which they had been subjected
by an ungrateful administration, an admin
istration which chung to them like fright
ened children in the early hours Of peril.
1t drew tears Into every eye, and we felt
there could be no hopes from an admins.
tration that could sink so far below the
level of manhood as to heap such insult
upon the people Of Kentucky, What has
the administration done for the Union in
its management of that great State?
But 20 q little further eastward, to the
State Of Maryland. 1t is perhaps doubt
full what course that State would have
taken if left free to act for herself. But |
ask you if for the past three years the con-
troll Of the Government, in shaping its pol
icy and its domestic relationships, has been
of . character that tended to bring that
State back to its allegiance (Cries OF
mo, nol") You know it to be true that
men of that State, who chung with patri-
otto devotion to the flag of their country,
are to day writing under the injustice Of
this Government, and cursing it from their
very hearts, because they have been thus
tramplei upon. (Cries Of That's So"
and applause Within three days, a gen.
eral who holds military control in that
State ordered the only paper there which
had put up the name Of George B. McClel'
Ian tremendous and continued cheering)
for the Presidency to be suppressed. The
people of Maryland were undertaking the
discharge of a great and solemn duty when
they entered into this Presidential canvass.
1t is their right to ~criticise the action OF
this Administration. What reason was
given-and l invite your particular atten
ton to it-what reason was given for this
action? If the paper had violated the
laws, why not bring its proprietors into
court2 Why not make some charge against
them? But the order states that there
will be popular violence. We are actually
told that, within forty miles of the Very
capital ITSELF under the shadow OF the vast
armies we have given to it, the Admins
tration cannot guarantee protection to cit
izsns in the exercise of their chartered
rights.
l~CoNTINUED TOMORROW.