The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-21

VI 0l1 u9u-1IUgEF the ndGiO0 mas Oeon
saved, to come before the people that
they thus betrayed and ask them for
their suffrage. Such impudence has
never been matched. How these crea-
lures can muster the courage to look
honest men in the face and dare to ask
them Tor their votes, in the face of the
record of the miserable old democratic
party, much less to supplicate and pray
them TO reorganize the miserable con-
cern, cannot Imagine. [Applause.l 1
trust yOu have u lunRtic aSyIunl in West
Virginia in which you will take care of
some of these miserable imbeciles,-I
daughter and eyes; we have.''l
tVt.g CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Another feature OF this concern 1 ask
your attention TO, and that is that these
fellows right in the midst of this terri
BILE convnlsion, when every man held
his breath awaiting the result of the
great battles, to know whether the ar
InleS OF the Union were victorious:
whether the Union itself survived;
whether we still had country we might
call our own and u constitution under
which we might find shelter, when they
stood In battle array from the banks OF
the Potomac to the banks of the Missis-
stppt, that grand column of heroes who
bore victory ON the points of their bay
onets, this miserable organization cali
ing itself Democratic" while the whole
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pense at the gigantic struggle, met in ma
tttonalconVention and resolved that the
war for the Union was a tsfailure;n that.
the heroes who bad gone down intE
siege OF Vicksburg had died in vain;
that the men who carried your colors
in triumph over the field of Stone river
had trinnphed in vain; the mon who
stood in the "deadly breach" on the
heights of Gettysburg, md rolled back
the legions Of treason, had shed their
blood in vain. And yet this devilish
party, after such resolve as tllnt, at
tempting to unnerYe, on the very eve of
ourgreat and final victory, the armies of
the republic, ,dnres to come before the peo-
pie, standing above the graves of those
demlgods and heroes, and asks this
people thus betrayed and linsulted to
reorganize this party and elevate it
again to powert ask again, in the
name of God and common sense and
Justice whnt fort To '.reorganize' this
rebellion again and drench this land
again with the blood of its children, and
make all men who love their country
and its flag and constitution surrender
everything, the idols of their love
everything but their trust in God and
the hope of life TO come, that their
country may not perish. Is it for this
that this party is to b.e reorganized2
@ THE PARTY OF THE COUNTRY.
This is no time to OreOrganizea parLy of
treason and traitors. we must have
q grand party, now that the war for the
Union has been fought by the wnger of
battle, and it is to he fought over by the
omnipotent ballot from tho rock bound
,coast of New England to tho golden
gates of the Pacitlc-the party OF the
ilcountry-the party of the constitution
the party of the entire republic-the
party that intends to honor by their
grand and illustrious history in the
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dead and. heroic living defenders,
[Great applause z.@....-
PROPHETIC WORDS.
o! it requires no prophet whose lips
have been touched with hallowed fire
from the lips of Omnipotence, TO know
that u people who have been saved as
we have been, who who shnlI be un-
faithful now to tie great trust confidctl
10 us, could only but perish and that
eternally. We shnll have no right to
live, nTter the sacrifice made, If we have
not virtue to maintain what has thus
been saved by so much precious blood.
God, am free to say, who lives in his
tory, has not SO before dealt with any
people MS He Inns dealt with us. No
man can point to any page Of history
in which it is recorded TINT any govern
ment over survived such n rebellion ns
this, much less come out trinmDhnnt.
challenging the admiration of the world.
cHme buck to me, spoken when stood
mere three years ago, when told YOU
that II you Were but true, sooner or
lnter victory would rest on your ban
ners; thnt the serene light of peace
again would cover this land of ours;
that law and order would be restored
and the American nation would come
out of this terrible trial more powerful
thnn ever befole, the acknowledged
champion of civil and religious liberty
for the oppressed nations OF all the
earth. That hope hHs been fully real
lied. Tho mutton is triumphant; and
to-day there is not power in the Old
World but feels it. There is not n
throne in the Old World. or des-
potism, but trembled when the
shout went across the waters: The Re-
public still lives, saved by tho virtue
and Yalor of her children! The op-
pressed of all land lifted up their
hands and shouted alond for joy. The
crowned democrat of EnrOpe Garibnl-
df, bowed his head in THANKSGIVING to
God that the Republic, the last refuge
OF afflicted humanity on earth Ihnd sur
vived this terrible ordeal.
LOOK AHEAD.
The question now is shall we simnlv
reap by our wisdom without the sacri-s
flee of blood, without hazardIng life or
nmb-by the simple exercise of n little
patriotism and Integrity, the certain
rewards placed within our grasp2-
I ventured to say that night three
years nEo, that If we were only true
70 ourselves this cause of ours must
survive, because 1t was linked to the
OmnipOtence of the Deity-because God
was on our side ;-and If We were only
true to ourselves we would come out Of
this terrible war Triumphant. say
hero to-night-and there are men here
who may bear my words with
them. If the future Of their hiStoTI, ,rfI,,
opportunity TO judge of the correctness
of my judgnent-that If the American
people are only true now to their great
opportunity-aif they stand by one
great party, simply Tor their coun-
try, casting inside ali local Jealous
les, or mere personal considerations,
looking only to the Union and
the brotherhoodo ofthe whole people. and
the maintaining intact that constitu-
ti0n thus saved, that within the next fif-
teen years our brilliant example, in
spite of all opposition of the despots to
the contrary, will draw to these shores
multitude of men who will bring with
them the productive power and solid
wealth which Will more than cover the
great debt which this people have con-
tracted In this holy war for the Union.
That. Is one of the issues involved here
to-day: whether the people will be true
to the OCCASION, fnithfu1 to this great
trust confided to their keeping,
Hi AaRAvE REsPoNsIBILIrY.
II remember Tonight the words of
those grand old men who bore the ark
ofthe covenant through, the revolution.
after God had given them the victory.
In general council, at Philadelphia, af-
ter proclaiming the Independence of
the republic, they sent out their adj
dress to the few millions who then con-
stttuted the United States Of America.