The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-10


it seems that the time has arrived when
we should have peace; when the bleeding
arteries should be- tied up-(a voice,
"New Orleans.") Perhaps if you had a
word or two on the subject of New Or
leans you might understand more about
it than you do, daughter and cheers
and if YOU will 60 back-(cries for
Seward)-if You will go back and
ascertain the cause of the
riot at New Orleans, perhaps
you would not be so prompt in calling
out New Orleans" If You will take up
the riot at New Orleans and trace 1T to
its source or to its immediate cause, you
will find out who was responsible for the
blood that was shed there. If you will
take up the riot at New Orleans and
trace it back to the Radical Congress,
Great cheering and cries of Bully" J
you will find that the riot at New Or
leans was substantially planned. IfyOu
will take up the proceedings of the eau
cusses you will understand that they
then knew, (Cheers.) that csnven.
ton was to be called which was ex-
tinct by its power having expired; that
it was said and the intention was, that
a new government was to be organized,
and in the organization Of that govern
ment the intention to eDfcanchise pop
ulation called the colored- population
who had just been emancipated and at
the same time dIsfranchise white men.
Great cheers.)
When You begin 10 talk about New
Orleans confusion you ought to I'M
deIstand what you are talking about.
When you read the speeches that were
made, or take up the facts of Friday or
Saturday before that Convention you
will then find that speeches, were made
iucendiary in their character, exciting
that portion of the black population to
arm themselves, and prepare for the
shedding of blood. [Avoice, that's So
cheers.
You will also find that that Conven-
ton did assemble in violation OF law,
and the intention of that Convention
was to supersode the recognized authorl-
ties in the State government OF Loulsl'
ana, which had been recognized by the
government of the United States, and
every man engaged in that rebellion IN
that Convention with the intention OF
superseding and upturning the civil gov
ernment which had been recognized by
the government of the United States, L
say that he was traitor to the Constl-
tuition of the United States, Cheers, ]
and hence you find that another
rebellion was commenced, hav-
ing its origin in the Radical Congress.
These men were to 60 there. A govern
ment was to be organized, and the one
in Louisiana was to be superseded, set
aside and withdrawn. You may talk TO
me about New Orleans. And then the
question was to come up when they had
established their governmental ques-
ton of political power-which OF the
Two government was to be recognized.
A new government inaugurated under
the defunct Convention, set mp in viola
tion of law and without the will of the
people. Then when they had establish.
ed new government and extended uni
versal or impartial franchise, as they
called it, to this colored population, then
this radical Congress was to determine
that a government established on negro
votes was to be the government OF
Louisiana (Voices-pever, and cheers
and hurrahs for Andy.)
So much of the New Orleans riot, and
then now the cause and the origin OF
the blood that was shed, and every drop
Of blood that was shed is on their skirts,
and they are responsible for it. (Cheers. }
/ could trace this thing little closer,
but 1 will not do it here though; but
when you talk about New Orleans, and
talk about the causes anil consequences
that resulted from proceedings of that
kind, perhaps, as have been introduced
here and you have provoked questions OF
this kind, though it does not provoke
ME, | will tell you few wholesome
things that have been done by this Rad
ical Congress. Cheers.
In connection with New Orleans, and
the extension of the elective franchise, /
know that / have been traduced aud
abused | know it has come in advance
of me here as il has elsewhere; that /
have attempted to exercise power in
resisting laws that were intended TO be
forced upo n the government Yes, that
| had exercised the veto power, Bully
for YOU" that had abandoned the par
ty that elected Ime, that | was a traitor,
because exercised the veto power in at
tempting to arrest for a short time bill
that was called Freedmen's Bureau
bill. Cheers Yes, that | was
traitor, and 1 have been traduced,
have been slandered, / have been ma
ligned. have been called Judas Iscariot,
and all that. Now my countrymen,he
tonight, it is very easy to indulge in
epithets. 1t is very easy to call man
Judas and cry out traitor, but when he
is called upon to give arguments and
facts. he is very often found wanting
Judas Iscariot. Jndas, there was Ju'
dss once one of the twelve apostles oh
| yes, the twelve apostles had Christ
| "a voice and Moses too, great laugh
teri The twelve apostles had a
Christ and he never could have
had Judas unless he had had
twelve Apostles. II | have played the
Judas. who has been my Christ, was il
Thad Stevens. Was it Wendell Phillips,
was il Charles Sumner! Kisses, and
cheers Are these the men who set up
and compare themselves with the Sa-
yior of man Every bady that differs
with them in opinion and that try 10
stay and arrest their diabOlical and ne
farious policy is to be denounced as a
Judas Hurrah for Andy, cheers. In
the days when there were twelve apos
ties, and when there was Christ, when
there were Judas, men were then unbe-
levers Yes while there were un-
believers [Voice-three grOans fol-
Fletcher Yes, oh yes, unbelieyers
in Christ. Then who prosecuted, slam