The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-21
MIR. RICHARDSON FOLLOWS WITH ms
l. IL PIECE.

PIECE.
Mr.. Richardson was then introduced,
and entertained his hearers for about
an hour and a quarter. We have heard
Mr.. Richardson speak many times and
never heard him speak to so little nd
vantage to himself; he seemed ut a loss
for AN issue upon which to plant HIM
self fairly and squarely. Solow has the
stock in trade of the modern Democrat
ic party run that there is scarcely n
point upon which they can make a
stand, or an issue upon which they can
successfully rally. Wedid not wonder,
therefore, TINT Mr.. Richardson dwelt
largely and long upon our position in
the eyes of the world, the glory of the
American people and the glorious priv
ilege of American citizenship. All that
he said in this part OF his speech pleased
us much; we believe in 1t, and even
thought him eloquent us he warmed up
with his subject. The country had been
restored to its original position; its con-
stitution stood intact, and our nation
atty was fixed as the rock of ages. Here
Mr.. Richardson's elOquence ended; he
was beginning to tread on dangerous
ground, and he must leave it lest he in
VOlVe the party, whose champion he
there stood, i'll ineXtricable difficulty.
He could not claim that the modern
Democratic party had done much to-
speeches of the great modern Demo-
cratic leaders were too fresh in the MEM
cries of his hearers; their refusal to give
n man or a dollar is too well known,
and has been too irrefutably proved for
him to draw heavily upon their war
record AS a supporting cordial in the
present election; he could not even hive
the poor privilege of claiming that the
war had ended under the admin
istratiOn of n man who had even once
belonged to the Democratic party when
1t occupied n very different posi-
ton from the present bastard
affair that has been trying to lay hold
of the coat tails of some respectable in
diVidual who might be induced to con-
Ter respectnbility upon it by acknOwl-
edging any relationship with it, because
it is yet too fresh in the memory of
men under whose administration and
under whit party domination this
monstrous rebellion was crushed. The
most he could claim was that some of
the great generals of the war had been
Democrats. We could not see that there
was much consolation for the reorgan-
lied Democracy in that fact as not one
of those great generals would deign To
own any connection with the miserable
latter day affair. Mr.. Richardson
might have enumerated as the genuine
type of the recognized Democracy the
national question upon which Mr..
Richardson touched WINS in deliv-
ering himself on Mr.. Lincoln's
proclamation OF emancipation. He
did not believe in it then and did not
now. He believed it would have
been better to have left the slaves in the
hands of their masters to take care of
them, rather than to be upon the hands
OF the Federal G government. Mr.. II. for
gets that hegovernmentis feeding thou
sands on thousands more of the white
rebels than 1t is of the negro population.
Neither could Mr.. II. see that n hundred
Thousand negroes with muskets in their
hands added any thing to the military
strength of the government.
Mr.. Richardson on tho test oath ques-
ton said that he believed that it should
not BIO regarded by any supervisor or
judge of election. In replyto n uuesS
tion of Mr.. Tichnell as to who Was to
be the judge of the cOnStitutionality of
the law, he replied that any man ocOu-
plying any official position had the right
to say whether the law WIS constitil-
tional or not. ''la s f1e
Mr.. Richardson dwelt a little on the
speech of Mr.. Bingham Mt the court
house on Thursday evening, but was
careful to state that he was only speak.
ing from hearsay; that he had not at
tended the meeting and could not Vouch
for the truth of 1t; that he had been i'm
formed that Mr.. Bingham denounced
with bitterness and profanity all the
resolutions of the convention which
met at Triad6lphia and nominated him
self and Mr.. Garrison. As the speech
appears in this mornings issue we will
let It demonstrate the malicious false
hood of Mr.. Richardson's informant,
Mr.. r. here closed his remarks and
soon nothing but the shadow OF the big
meeting remained.