The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-20

their own lips; it is set forth in their owr
edicts and their own orders-the orders
which have been issued by the Generals in
the field with the sanction of the admins
tration, that rebelhous discomfort has trav>
eled northward as our armies have fought
their way to the South. Tie State ol
Missouri remained in this Union OF its
own will; there was love enough there, for
the Union to put down resistance to the
authority of the general government at the
'very onset. How is it to day, after three
years of rule of the administration at Wa h
ington? You are compelled to make con-
tributions in men and money, to hold in
the Union, by force, State which originals
ly was with us of its own will. Lock at
the condition of Kentucky, one of the 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
ance first began, the people of Kentucky re-
solved to stand by US. They. severed the
ties ofconsanguinity; they broke away from
the dearest associations Of relationship; and
you remember with what joy we hailed
such men as Wickliffe, Guthrie, and Crit
tenden, who stood by the flag and Constitu>
tion 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.
Ny 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 love for one
VIII, may be fighting under the flag of the
South? Now, 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 | do
protest in the name of the most sacred rela-
tionship, that to punish woman for an
exhibition of true womanhood, f)r clinging
with love and tenderness even to the er
ring, is a mean tyranny unparalleled in
history. (Great applause.) / met those
men, few days since, at Chicago. Their
forms, their countenances, 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 clung to them like fright
ened children in he,~eary hours Of peril.
It 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
i Is management of that great State?
But 60 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
No. nop') You know it to be true that
men of that State, who clung with patri-
otic devotion to the flag of their country,
are to day writhing 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"
aud applause Within three days, gen
eral who holds military control in that
State ordered the only paper there which
had put up the name Of George B. McCleh
Ian tremendous and continued cheering
for the Presidency to be suppressed. The
people of Maryland were undertaking the
discharge of 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
J given-and l invite your particular atten
ton to it-what reason was given for this
action2 If the paper had violated the
laws, why not bring its proprietors into
court? Why not make some charge against
them9 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
trstion cannot guarantee protection to cit
| iz,us in the exercise of their chartered
rights.
When your delegates met at Chicago for
the purpose of placing presidential ticket
in nomination, an order was issued by an
other general, land it has not been dis,
avowed, } that the people # Ohio, Illinois
and Ind'ana-States that placed Mr.. Lin
coin in the presidential chair; that gave him
overwhelming majorities-should not be
permitted to purchase powder, shot, am
munition, or arms of any description. And
thus you are told by another order that, a:
I said, while our armies are battling south
ward, rel ellious discomfort is travelling
northward, until it has reached the lakes
and in three great States of this Union tn:
Administration has lost confidence in the
people-aye, and the people have lost CON
tidence in it. Great applause. | will
%: follow this subject further, but l i'm
plore each man within the sound of my
voice to Jay the map Of our country be ore
4 hin, than tn take the edicts of generals and