The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-04

| States, he would favor the admission o
those representatives and the recogni
tion of the State government thus form
ed What more than this has Andrew
johnson done? Can any Republican
point out the difference between the pol
icy advocated by President johnson and
that pursued by Abraham Lincoln And
yet Mr.. johnson is called "a traitor" Dc
you call him traitor for standing upon
] the watch tower of the constitution and
proclaimiDg to the people that their lib.
erty is endangered? This he has done
in his various veto messages. Is he a
traitor for this Cries Of NE! No"]
When President Lincoln died, the preach
ers said it WAS the actof God. He was
showing zoo much mercy to the rebels;
be was too leuient; be would not put
men, women and children 10 death, and
for this clemency, God removed him.
They said that We wanted in the
Presidential chair man of iron nerve,
who would carry out the designs of the
party of great moral ideas Now they
| call the PresidenJ a tyrant aRG O traitor.
Well, if President Johnson be traitor,
the Republicans patty is responsible for
his election They elscted him, and if
! he is, as tfey 9ssers, a traitor to his
| country, they must bear the blame of his
election. With what show of consist
ency Or Of deCeucy then can they ask the
people to vote for anymore Of their nom
Inees2 (CEce1s) IEby their own ooD.
fession, thcJ have PLACED traitor in the
Presidential Chair, hon can they ask the
crt hpI -,
future? As the Germans iu the Western
Reserve of Ohio say p" If a man sheat
me once, dat is lis fault; but if he sheat
me twice, dat is my fault." These Re-
publicans cans cheat as again. Laugh
ter and applause But l deny that the
President is traitor;1 deny that he has
forsaken the constitution of the United
States or tie platform upon which he
was nominatod IL ID the radicals them
selves who have chauged.
Our limited space forbids more ex
tended report Of the eloquent gentle
mans remarks, He continued to speak
for about an hour, frequeatly interrupted
by enthusi astic and uproarious applause.
He refuted tho State suicide theory Of
the Radicals, and demonstrated that the
Southern States are still in the Union
and entitled to representation. He allU-
ded to the fact that Congress has made
no promise that the Union shall ever be
restored, and exhorted his hearers to vote
for men who would favor immediate re.
storation He referred to the heavy
taxes aud the national debt, and wanted
the Union restored in order that the
South might. be able to pay its portion
of the Indebtedness. He wanted John
ny Reb" to pay. his share and he wanted
the bonds of the government taxed
so that Johnny Rad" should
be compelled to pay his. He alluded to
the argument that the rebels would rule
the country and ridiculed the idea that
thsss people Of twenty-six powerful and
domiueered over by the people Of ten.
He referred to the high prices Of the ne
cessaries of life and showed that much
of 1t was due to the tariff imposed by the
ruu,v'.'o In Congress which had convert
ed the sand bills of New England into
the abodes OF luxury and wealth, at the
expense of the toiling and Sweating mil.
lions Of the West
Judge Lang's speech was listered to
throughout with close attention aud he
would have beer heard attentively and
with pleasure for an hour longer, buo
that, in the middle Of his argument IN
relation to the finances Of the country,
he was compelled by messages from the
German stand to go there and address
the crowd iu the German language.
HENRY s. WALKERS SPEECH.
After the cheering had subsided the
Chairman introduced MIR. Ii. s. Walker,
of Clarksburg, West Virginia, who then
addressed the meeting.
Mr.. Walker began by abiding TO the
fact that the meeting was composed OF
,he workiugmen of the community, who
had assembled to testify their inter.
est in the maintenance aud perpetuity
of constitutional liberty throughout this
land. Assuring them OF the success
which must always attend the united ef
forts of the laboring classes in demand
log security, lie or berty, and congratu-
latlng the True Boys in Blue" upon
the consistency Of their present course
ia support Of the President with their
heroic COO duct in the fed aud camp,
Mr.. w. proceeded TO discuss the action
of Congress in denying representation
70 the Southern States. Their conduct
in II rusing representation to these States
until they should give such guarantees as
would secure to the North perpetual
control Of the Government was shown to
be analogous to that of the secessionists
in demanding snch legislation as would
assure their political ascendenCy. The
South had attempted to dissolve the
Union because their demands were not
granted; Congress proposed TO sunder
the Government until their demaus were
granted, 1t was disunion on the part
of the South to seoede Ia the absence OF
the guarantees they sought IL was
disanion Ia Congress 10 divide the ma
zion until the coDditionG they imposed
were complied with. The constitution
guaranteed immediate and uncondlJlona
representation, but this instrument had
been ignored IN the action of CougreA
Mr., w. then alluded TO the Radica