The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-21
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The Issues of the Hour Flo.
quently Reviewed.
The National Finances.
THBtTgENNDlENCIEs IEt n Q OF THE TIMES.
Modern Democracy Dissected
Eloquent Vindication of No
BILE Principles.
Address of Hon. John q. Bing-
ham, at the Court House in
Wheeling, on Thursday
a. s' Evening Last.
Eloquent V1ndioation of No
bic Principles.
Specially Reported for The intelligence.

Specially Reported for The IntelfOe,eer.
Mr.. Bingham was introduced by Hon.
c. d. Hubbard, Chairman of the meet
ing, who said:
FELLow-C CITIZENS At a time when
West Virginia needed friends and our
own citizens HYere in deep anxiety and
suspense as, to. whether She would be
admitted among the sisterhood of States,
there was one m0niwho stood forth pre-
eminently her friend and advocate;
and who by his ts,counsel and earnest ef-
1ortS eontr1butd largely to the hand
some majority by which this State was
admitted amongt the States of the Union.
That man is present with us tonight,
and have the pleasure of introducing
to you the Honorable John A. BinE-
ham, of Ohio.
Judge Bingham coming forward was
received with enthusiastic applause,
which having subsidized, he said:
MY FELLow-C CITIZENS OF WEST vIR-
aINIA:- appear before you this even
ing, grateful in common with tho mil
lions who dwell between the two oceans,
to the dead and to the living defenders
of the Republic, who, under God, have
saved us nation.
Three years ago, when I had tho honor
of standing amongst you and of adj
dressing thousands Of my fellow lciti-
zcnS in defense of our common country.
our common nationality, our common
constitution und our common destiny,
the Continent rocked beneath the earth
quake tread of million of men in
arms against the nations life. Since
that day the clouds have lifted from
hundreds of stricken fields of battle.
The whole ldnd has been ridged over
with the graves of patriots who made
death, even in the agony of battle,
beautiful by the sacrifice of themselves
for their country! And lit has been
made manifest to us all that the repub-
lie, by the virtue and Vnlor of her chill
dren, and BY. the favor of that infinite
Being who rules the 'dcstinies of nn-
tions-who walked with our fathers
through the night and storm and dark
ness of seven years war-still lives;
and we trust in God Is toiliVe immortal
among the nations. tApplause.1
THEPREsEECEo PARTISAN CONTEST.
America hasbeen tried in the furnace.
She has thus far been saved by the
vnlOr of her children; and the only
question that remains for trial before
tho people of this great land is, whether
the republic, saved by. the sacrifice of
so much precious blood, will be saved
in the future by the virtue of her people.
That is all the question there is among
us. holdihin to be n 1emngogue who
undertakes TO say, at this day, in the
presence of NIL That has happened in
these lust four yearS-that is still fresh
int the memory ofevery man and woman
and child in the republic there
is any contest in America any longer
between mere political Organizations.
1t Is as true us that you live and that
live, that the only question before the
people of the several States of this Union
Is whether the great republic shall, by
the Om0iOOtPTcpt0f- flfESi I1a1lnt il1a ouI-
mitted in the hereafter to the Keeping of
the friends of the Government, or to the
keeping of its enemies. Its not ques-
ton between n democratic party and a
republican party. tits not d question
between o. whig or u political American
organization. It is y question simply
between the friends of the Government
onrthe one hand, and its enemies upon
the other. W - s'-7l3- s-'si'
DETERMINATIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY. 70
1see that there is an organization in
this young Commonwealth of West
Virginia-the youngest of the sister
hood of the commonwealths save one
Ia party similar to that which infesls
every other commonwealth lin this
country, calling itself g eDeWtoerdtic !"
Mnhomet might as we'll call himself a
Christianl fLaughter1 i learn that
this orguniZ0tion-and / learn it from
their own platform = have resolved,
Somewhere here in West Virginia, that
it has become evident, in view of the
transactions of the last four years that
The organization t!f the Democratic party
Is tlleedfht. The reorganizatio ion of the
Democratic party % Wen, 81 thnnlS
thee, jew, for teaching me that word. .
ELaughter.l 1t has been dissolved, has
It'll Yes, IL perished with the rebellion.
It went down when Sheridan and
Richmond MT the head of their Victori.
ous legtons. IApplause.l And it is
necessary to sreoFganize'a It'll The par-
ty, that conspired against the nations
life; the party that attempted to rend
the seamless garment of the Union
ty that elected that miserable
old white-headed sinner with his
crooked neck and crooked eyes and
crooked soul, ,[applhIIse, to be their
chief; [app1huse, who, when he ascend
ed the 9cliait of the chief magfstfacy Of
the republic the chair TINT had been
filed once by the stainless and peerless
Washington, that had been filed after.
wards by jefferson and Madison, and
Jackson and Adams and took upon
his soul the oath prescribed by the con-
stitutf0n of your country; the oath, that
chain of adamant which binds the con-
science of man to the throne of eternal
truth and 1ushces the oath ~hich bound
him to maintain and protect and defend
the; he;constitution the day of trial
came; when South Carolina was mus
'tefihg her legfons to strike at the white
breast of your mother country; when
Georgia was in convention lotting trea-
son against the country; when Missts-
Bippi, A1Rbamal and Florida, and Texas,
and Louisiana were following the same
example, that oath, the chaih Of ada
mont ftiry, IA III inst In the hrf bfaa tn