The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-04

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lnants for liberty reality and justice
led by her own loyal Unionists who are
nee from the guilt of treason. [Cheers.1
What hope in the future or what seCuri-
" had they If unpublished and unre-
.kpentent traitors were 70 be reinstated in
of one man under a Constitution they
had deliberately foresworn. The an
4 swer was alrea1y written in the blood
\ OF the murdered lOyalists of New Or
leans. They, the men of the South,
were here on the high and solemn mis-
sion of Flthe establishment of the
American Union on the broad and sure
| foundation of equal and exact Justice
to all men. CCheers.l 1t would stand
4 upon no other. They could not be so
unm indful ofsll the lessons of the past
as to be led by vagrant politicians into
another comprOmise with crime, in
stead iOf lining up from degradation
those who had been its victims. He
closed his remarks by reiteration of
the words of welcome to the city of
Philadelphia, where the holy expert
ment of a Government based on the
equality of man has been inaugurated,
and where the Government had been
administered Justly and in its purity by
that illustriOus man whose name alone
strikes every traitor dead. loud
cheeFs.l =. I. -,
PHIhADEBPuA, Sept. 1.-The follow
ing Is an abstract of the reply made by
Governor Hamilton, of Texas, to the
address of welcome delivered by Mr..
Gibbons, to-day. Governor Hamilton,
on behalf of the assembled loyalists of
the South, returned thanks for the well
come which they had received. He
said it would be an unmixed pleasure
to do So were it not that they could not
but remember the cause of their as
sembling. They had hoped that after
the triumph of the national arms, those
who had suffered so long would have
some indemnity for the past, or
they had hoped to be permitted
to return peacefully to their habita-
tons, and to renew their associations
with the friends from whom they had
SO long been parted, but the experience
| of the last twelve months had taught
them, in bitterness of heart, that the
spirit which animated the rebellion
was as rampant to-day as on the day
when the rebels first drew the sword.
/ ces,-That's SOL The prescription
of all who aided the Government was
as rampant and incorrigible at the
South, as defiant, as denunciatory, as
vindictive and as cruel as it was at any
i period during the rebellion. See-
ing this, and realizing that, so far
from being RENTED to their homes
| they We're RENTED to the same element
l which had sought their destruction and
I
Some of them who happened to be at
the national capitol deemed the time
propitious to call the Unionists of the
South to send delegates to meet and
consult together as to their own condi-
ton, and that of the country. They
believed that they saw not only danger
to themselves, but a cloud, though no
bigger than mans hand, on the verge
| of the horizon, which might ultimately
spread over the entire country. They
therefore determined TO make the call.
The question then presented itself,
Where should they meet3 They knew.
there was not q congenial spot of soil
for them in all the South. No place
where they could meet except they
braVed the fate of those who met in
convention month ago in New Or
leans. 1t had been tr1thfully said in
one of the leading Administration pa
perS that they would not have dared to
meet on Southern soil. He who utter
ed that truth did not know how iInpor-
tant 1t would be to attempt to 6lisabuse
the mind of the American people as to
that Oft repeated falsehood that the South
had returned in complete faith to its al
legiance to the government, but their
eyes turned instinctively to the city of
Philadelphia, Echeers,l where civil and
Constitutional liberty on the American
continent had its birth. They knew
here in the city of Franklin, and in
| sight of old independence Hall, they
might meet and consult with the ap--
proving smile of its citizens; if not,
where under Heaven could they 'go3
| [Voices, "no whereof They had come
assured of welcome, but that which
they had received was far beyond their
expectations. For that welcome he
returned gratified thanks in the name
of the loyal men here assembled.
1 If the loyal constituents whom they
represented of every man, woman and
child of them whether white or black,
| [Cheers. This Convention had been
called because they realized the faith
that no practical principle of adj
the late convention. They had
hoped that henceforward this Gov
eminent would be such a Govern
ment as the fathers had intended it to
be, one giving freedom to every human
being within its limits by placing on a
sure Foundation the rights of every cit
izen, but they found that they were
only to be RENTED to the tender mercy
of States which might at the will and
discretion strike down the dearest hui
man rights, " hile no projecting power
was to be found in the Governmeflt.
to bring back the people to primitive
ideas of republican liberty; to organize
4 a party or rather to enforce the orRaili-
zation OF a party devoted TO republican
liberty and to bring it back to the simple
/ platform of the unconstitutional rights of
every Citizen That WasfWhY The COM
mittee was called. They invoked the
assistance and counsel of all brethren
| everywhere throughout the United
! States. They asked the loyal deleRa-
tons that came here from the loyal
4 States to give them the hand of well
come, to help them to renew their faiths
to the government in q purer spirit
than before, and to prove to all the pres
ent cabinets and councils that the peO-
pie north and south, who were loyal to
the governing nt, would be satisfied with
nothing less than actual security or i'm
dividual equality under the constitu-
4 ton to Tall men. ECheers.1 II they
could be met in that spirit their hearts
would be with those delegations from
the loyal States. AS to, their fortunes,
they had long since been expended and
they had nothing now to give to the
| [Cheers.l They pledged never to cease
in their efforts until they could strike
hands with the people Of the North on
the broad basis Of human fights-untfl
Il they could say that wherever the
American constitution extended il COW
cred none but freedmen indeed, as
well as In name, practically as well as
theoretically. Loud cheers.1
After the conclusion of Governor
| Hamilton's speech the crowd called for
three groans for the dead dog - of the
Il White House, which was followed by a
pretty general hooting and excIama-
tions OF defision. Three cheers were
/ given for Rarson BroWnloW and Cow
ernor Hamilton.
/ Il CHARLES Gibbons then came forward
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