Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-18

State feel In consequence Of this action
and especially that we feel to you, men o
New York, for We are aware that our can
didats-for we came to Baltimore instruct
ed by our constituents to present him al
our rcandidate-had formidable aud mosl
worthy competitor, before the convention
id one of your most eminent and distin
ttnguished citizens. Applause Fortu.
nate was it that the coIntTy had two such
men as Daniel s. Dickinson and Andrew
johnson from which to select candidates
for even the second Office in our gift. Zap.
plause.l Johnson snd ickinson-Dickin.
son and JOHNSON; one of whom stood In
the citadel doing battle, keeping watch aud
ward over our liberties, RhilB the other
bad stood in the fore front of the battle, 10
the face OF the enemy-Who had hung the
banner upon the outer walls. Il Great ap.
plause. hear some nice, sWeetIy scented,
aromatic gentleman, afrai1 of something
unpleasant getting between the wind and
bis Nobility, saying, and putting it forth IN
tue columns OF. his newspaper by way of
dtsparagement aud deriSion of this distin.
guished man, "He won't do ct all-great
dishouor to our nation-he is a boorish
tailor from the bsckWoods." TLauehter.1 I
If Governor Johnson's friends refer to
his early occupation and to the place of his
residence as matter Of merit, and by the
arts Of the dsmRgogue, claim popular "a.
Vor upon them, that is one thing; and
when his enemies seek to use this circum.
stance to his disparagement, and TO bring
him into odium and derision, is quite an
other; [applaase;l and would suggest that
this nice and refined, cultivated and Gle.
CANT student Of history refer to old Ben.
Franklin's blae stockings at the Court of
versailles, Aughter,l that he don't lose
sight OF old John Adams, the schoolmaoter
who wasn't good enough to marry the
minister's daughter, aud that he also re-
member the taunts and the jeers that used
to be thrown out sgainst Andrew jackson,
"Old Hickory" what was said respecting
his want of education and his humble ori.
gin, and the rather dubious and question.
able occupations in his early career. Zap.
plause.) These are ell American citizens,
reared undes your Constitution and free
Government which makes some of us, at
least, know what We say and mean what
We say, whsn we declare this to be the
best government that the world has ever
seen-a goHerument in which the son of
the humblett peasant of Ireland or Alba.
mia may be oy the came force of his God.
given talents and by cultivation superad.
ed, rise to aposition beside the most noble,
the most bonored aud the most useful.
Applause. A Government like that is
indeed worth fighting for. Those private
matters. which go to make up the home
life OF men,. have very little to do with
their htnesS or unitness for places of high
popular trust. l might refer TO him, in
he way of gossip, as kind husband aud
IN iudulgent father-As q temperate, studi. |
ous, and most Industrious mau-but 1t is
lot for the possession or the lack OF these
lnAlitieR that We select our great msu; "a |
many historical instances will demon.
Itrate. .... 81,
refer to his public career after he came
% reside in our oAu State, at the place at
which he was living when the war broke |
'ut, and where his home is now. Almost
Is soon as he was consitutionally eligible
% Office, bis fellow -citiEens of the county
% which he lived selected him from the shop
board to represent them in our Legislature.
Session after session was he thus employed,
becoming prominent and leading man in |
he State. He was distinguished leader
of the Democratic party; was an uudis.
member of the Whig party. II
vas my business to study his weakness;
i was my misfortune, in company with my
party associates, sometimes to feel his
strength. [Applause.l From the Legisla.
ture he was transferred 70 the halls of
Congress, as you have been told, where be
represented his district for ten years, Ieav-
lug it in the Spring of 1853. Four years
BY two successive elections,
he was the Governor of the State OF Ten.
nessee. Following that, he took his seat
In the Senate OF the United States in the
year 1857, and held 1t at the time the war
nR nd fnn
quent to that date. Gentlemen Governor
johnson is an educated statesman; he grad
uated at the best schools of sLstesm anship
that our country knows-our State Legis.
latures, the halls of the House of Repre-
sentatiVes, and the floor of the American
Senate. Loud Applause Always sue.
cessful, never defeated, elevated to no office
except through the suffrages of the people
he belongs TO that class upon whom, both
in private and in public affairs, 1t is always
safe to rely. a.
While member of our State Legisla.
ture, the question of redistricting the State
came before us, and he introduced q pro-
position to redistrict it upon what Is called
q white or free basis-thRt is to say, to
take the political power and distribute on
the basis of the white population, irrespec.
tive of the number of slaves, giving the
political power to the n.slaVeholdiug,
rather than to the slaveholding portion of
the State. [Great applause.l For this,
as You will see if you will look back to
the newspapers of that time, he was de-
uouncsd by his companions as being
untrue to the South, if not, in fact, Q
down right Abolitionist. When he en-.
tered Congress, he introduced aud advocat.
ed for period of more than ten years flor
his advocacy continued after he left Con.
gress) the measure known as the Home.
stead Bill; aud whatever merit there may
be in that policy, 1t is due to that states
man to say that he inaugurated and origi-
mated It in the House Of Representatives.
[Greatlapplause.1 Itwas afterwards adopt
cd by one of the great political parties ol
the country, and has now been adopted as
the settled policy Of the land. Bat 1t ID
not Of these things, autecedent to the year
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