The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-21

share in the government of this coun-
try a majority of the people of each of
the States should give evidence of their
earnest and cheerful loyalty, not by
such speeches as are so common. They
submitted the issue TO the arbitrament
OF war, but are theyYilling to stand by
and fight for the flag of the country
against all enemies at home or abroai9
The danger now is in too much pre-
cipitation. Let us rather make haste
slowly, and we can then hope that the
foundations of our Government, when
mus reconstructed on basis of indis-
Rutable loyalty, will be as eternal as
the stars. [APplause.l
IN President johnson I have I'M
shaken confidence. cannot forget
tLiiI IN the Senate mt the opening OF the
rebellion, he was the only Southern
member who denounced IL and lis orr
Slnators, and that he was faithful
among The faithless.
Nor do forget that when. OF, his way
from the Capital to his home, insulted
tthough he was at many railroad sta
lions, he never faltered in his devotion
to the Union. Nor can / forget his
speech when Military Governor OF Ten
neSsee, to mass meeting of colnred
men at Nashville, in which he declared
that all men should have IA fair start.
ana an equal chance in the race of life,
and let him succeed who has the most
merit.
You will remember his speech to the
Golored regiment of the District OF Co
lumbia, when he repudiated that storco-
typed declaration that this is a white
mans country alone, and insisted that
II was theirs also. You remember,
also, his remarks to the South Carolina
delegation, that the only right system
was to protect all men, both while and
black, and il they got the general priu-
ciple right, details and collateraIs would
follow. We all remember, too, his ear
nest dispatches to these Southern Com
yentions, and that he has signed the
denth-warrant of every one who has
been convicted of conspiracy.
The great Union organization of the
country carried it successfully, aided
by our heroic defenders, through the
perilous crisis of the past four years.
Our beloved martyred President leaned
upon II in the darkest hours. II stood
by the national cause unflinchinglv. II
voted down the Chicago platform which
declared the war tobc a failure, and which
demanded IL cessation of hostilitiee.
The people have placed the whole pow
or of tho Government i'll its hands, en-
ecutive, Legislative and judicial. and re-
assured it by the brilliant victories of
this Fall, Let us emulate the example
of its friends in all the States.
Let us study unity in the light Of du-
ty, and / believe the executive and leg
islative departments of the Govern
ment, when they compare views to-
gether, will cordially cooperate in this
great work before us all, and so act
that the foundations of our Mon.
wisely and periodically RECONSTRUCTED,
shall be eternal as tho ages. With
hearty acceptance by the South OF the
new situation, rejoice to believe. nm
der II system of paid free labor, and res
pecting the rights of freemen, it will 20
forward in a career of prosperity, wealth
and progress unparalleled in it's pre-
vious history.
1t has more genial cline than wc
have in the colder North; wide range
of productions; for it has cotton, To-
bacco, rice and sugar, which command
such high prices now in the markets of
the world; and has bOundless water
power, almost entirely unimnroved,
Rid now of the shiftless system Of slave
labor, it will, with its loins girded anew,
rival us in the race of prosperity
In conclusion, 1 can but echo the
words of our departed President, in his
last inaugural, ON the steps of the Cap
itol: with malace toward none. with
charity for all, but with 1irmncss in the
right, as God gives us to see the right,
and all will be WELL"
The address was cheercd throughout,
and at its conclusion many in the
crowd rushed forward to congratulatc
the speaker, while the band PLAYED ma
triOtic airs. a