The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-06
WHEELING VEST JULY 1865.

YA., l-l[-11!sll=lSlJ4Al a-IS
army under the conb.llof our Govern
the calls of AbrahFn Lincoln, one
Of the most hOnestand best of men
Z that has ever been iIlny nation-when
under these repeatd calls for soldiers
they came by hundeds, they came by
thousands, from te mountains and
sions and from the 6bins, and from the
Z cities md from the eSfllages-soo we.
nae had SUI such an army no nation has ever
yet been able to bost OF. Marvellous,
100, to think in whit short time we
mad a most iwendffuI and powerful
navy upon the sea- Yes; mothers gave
il .nelr sons, wives 6aye their husbands,
! tSftfftut eyes and brtyerfIil hearts saw
I tneln put on the Uniform, take the mar
tlnl step, and match away to- fight the
pattles of their cq1ntry. And by their
ta4cnleHements, uider the guidance of
thoSeno6le GenenlS, Grant, and Sher-
man, and Sheridan, md Thomas, and
tarragut, and otlpr lie rebel llionswas
| put down, and 9Si NJ ieii s 81 5iie liuss
man race had tlle,s' -I,le II iSsrt
/ the 1isItmos5Jii itGs lsilts
applause. They car this day sing the
song of liberty, awakening the echoes
/ of the hills and valleys of this. great
land.
! 1t is, indeed, then, 4 great and glori-
t Gus work which has thus been accom-
| plished for us. Whist we would not 20
over the history of the recent war, with
which you are all fs familiar as your
present speakers and many of you per-
hnpS more so, vet we think to-day With
delight Of Yicksburs, which fell on the
Fourth of July, 1868 we think of Get
| tysburg, which fell I'm the eve of the
Same FOurtltOf July 1858; we think of
| Eicksburg, of Lookout Mountain, OF
Pittsburg Landing, and Fort Donel-
son; we think !Ot the battles of
the Wilderness, and the taking of Pc
tcrsburg and the fsil OF Richmond
CApplause.l Oh, it Has glorious day
when WeitZel, with his five thousand
colOred troops march dinto the Capital
of the great Confedefacy. Applause
1t was glorious day, my friends, when
that event took place; and it was II
characteristic saying of our illustriOus
President, Abraham Lincoln, no more
in this world, when the news came to
him: "Well, snid he, 'sthey have been
wanting ColOred troops in Richmond
for long time and now they have got
ten them." daughter and applause.l
Now, it becomes us, my fellow-citi-
zens today to look at the effects of this
war and to look Mt the blessed results
which will flow toms from it. God
uniformly brings good out of evil, and
oVerrules all these revolutions and
calamities for the good of his people,
We cannot doubt that his hand has
been in this great calamity. We cam
not doubt that the hand of Jehovah has
been guiding us safely through it and
smiling on the instrumentality put,
forth for the crushing out of this great
FnNn1linT0 tIn HVacf fINfnrr
ioice in as delightful effect flowing
from it, is the influence it will have on
foreign nations. O, yes my friends,
they looked upon us with jealousy and
envy. They did not like our flourish
ing republic. They fondly hoped it
would prove a bubble and burst and
mingle with the elGBssnts. These pre-
by the mOnarchists and aristocracy OF
the old country; and when the war
broke out they were sure they were
going to prove true prophets, and that
it would soon be all over with our re-
public. Then their thrones would be
established and monarchicRl govern
mentS forever secure, the people would
clamor no more for their rights, salts
fled that republican, governments were
n failure. But, now, blessed be the
God of the nations of the enrth, Ce arc
q nd6OM! ENNc are n government this
day that neCeT, NEVER, can be over
thrownl TApplause.1 Tho foundation
was laid in the blood of our revolution
+nry fathers, and the noble superstruc-
ture hns been cemented by the blood of
the brave mon who have fallen in this
war! (Applause. And there is no
storm that can sweep across the ocean,
mo tornado from any direction, North
or South, East or Vest-tllat can ever
overthrow this grand and glorious re-
nIIhliNs n Na1 my friends il NynS fT11n
with regard to those nations, that they
were longing for our downfall, and
would have rejoiced in it, but now they
know differently and they know the
time will come when their own sys-
TENS of government will pass away
Almost three thousand years ago an
old Prophet, by the rivers of Babylon,
beheld and saw until the thrones all
over tho world were cast down. And
you may rest assured, what we have
accomplished in eonquering this rebel
lion has shaken these thrones of des-
potism-0 prelude to that coming earth
quake that will shHkc them to the
ground. For j firmly believe, as n
believer in the Bible; as n believer in
the Christian religion; as n believer in
| the rights of the human filmily-thnt
: the time will come when all the world
\ will be n network of grand and noble
republics. .a b.-f.5i.ast
But, my fellow citizens, let us not for
/ get that whilst this is true with regard
( to the monarchs and aristocrats of -Eu-
rope, it is not withiregard to the masses.
They were with us in the great and
noble struggle. They love this nation.
Many of thcm have their sons and
brothers and near friends here; and they
love the American Republic dearly. /
was wonderfully struck not longago IN
reading an account in one of our papers,
of three wounded soldiers brought into
/ the same hospitnl-one from the city of
New York, another from the city OF
Philadelphia, and the third from Scot
land. The father of the one from New
! York and the father of the other from
Philadelphia came to visit their SONS;
and while they were talking with them
there in the hospital, the boy from Scot
land looked up and said, My mother
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