The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-29

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heads of the North are against US. 4
portion of the old fashioned Democracy,
II small portion thnI has deserted ull the
landmarks of that glorious party of the
early history of our country, has
rnuSed itself, am sorry to say, under
the lead OF those who are the encmtes
OF this country. On our side we have
tho glorious army of the Republic and
tho navy of tho Republic, headed by
Grant on tho one hand, and by thnt sea-
lion, Admiral FHrragut, on tho other.
General Grant has given you his plat
form. "lt Is an insult" he says, "to
ask an American soldier to vote for
man like ClymCr," and Admiral Eurrn-
gut huS tho same hostility to the enc
mics OF his country and tho snnlO deVO-
ton to its friends and its flag that he
had when showing himself greater than
any of tho naval heroes of England or
Franco, he ran tho batteries of tho Mis-
siSippi below New Orleans and at Fort
Hudson, and RgRin when no lnshcd
| himself to the mast of his wooden Ves-
sci against tho iron -ClHds and tho stony
tortresses of the enemy at Mobile.
You have seen in the beautiful city OF
Pittsburgh tho soldiers of tho Republic
| assembled by their representatives,
uniting With one voice and with one
heart in favor of tho cause of the
country us it Is presented by the
representatives of the people at this
| time. Who has lott us? And echo
| here who has LEFT us? H0re aud there
! man. Wherever ho has, here aud
there, he is making preparations to
| come back to the party no has deserted.
The first political convention that l
ever attended In my life was in 1910,
when commenced my political ca
reer. As IL citizen of Massachusetts, l
attended Democratic convention ut
Springfield i'll that State. We there
heard the voice of Maine, as we have
heard ii this Year, but not under the
! same circumstances. The Democracy,
confident of its cause, made vigorous
and valiant fight for tho supremacy in
that year. The fight hero iii Pennsyl-
VHnia remember perfectly we'll. by
| u nlajOt Otity of three. or four, or five hun
dred, they were defeated in the October
campaign of that year. 1t was not
lhen the voice of Maine calling upon
the enemy to disperSe or to surrender
his tlng, as he does now. Among the
delegates from my State was Il poor
nHn addicted to hnrd cider, confident
of his principles, but unsteady in his
underpinningS from having purtuken
J too much of tho hoSpitaliticS of our OPP
/ ponents. Coming home over the green
meadows of the Connecticut, on the old
/ fashioned stage coach on n morning not
unlike this, except as regards the pros
! pect; this Democratic brother Slipped
from the coach down into the valley
/ beneath. We wero then too short
of numbers to lose anybody. So
\ wediSmOunted and lifted our friend up
on to the coach. Again the driver
cracked his whip aud over we rolled
upon the green sward of that unsur-
passed valley, unless it be the Susque-
! hanna or the beautiful valleys between
! your mountains here. BY and by, said
this hard; cider delegate, "Driver: that
/ was II bad turn over" "Oh, no." said
D l,n IrfN '
What" says the delegate, 1--WE didn't
turn overt" why, if 1 had known
| that, d-n me If I'd got out" Now,
there are few of our friends that have
slipped of the Union coach, but they
supposed that the Union Republican
coach had met with an OverLurn. II
they had not supposed that they would
| not have got out, and having ascertain.
ed their mistake, they are making their
way back again to the old camp and
! the old flag. 1t is not wise to reject a
! brother, or friend, because he has
our camp and under tho roof OF our
! wigwauI, to the warmth of our hearts,
| 10 the prosperity and freedom Of our
| country, all our recuSant, all our hard
cider, coach jumping friends, as soon
AS they are ready to return. And with
the same generous spirit-a spirit that
| the American people alone have eXhib-
| tied towards conquered domestic enc
| mies-we will receive our rebel oppo-
nentS when they have given to us sat
F. isfactoTy assurances that they are no
| longer our enemies, bur the friends of
liberty and the Government.
l am sorry to say the world does not
grow better. The men l thought dam
| SerouS political enemies in 1910, used
| TO TeHHle themselves on hard cider and
| lived in log cabins. never understood
exactly the reason of that policy until
heard Ofn distinguished judge who
was charged with taking too much
beer, aud being asked to account
| for his excessive libations, in that
| excellent pOtutiOn which you make
here. "Well." said the Judge, al
find it necessary to bring my
self TO the level of my Associate
Judges, and SO the great leaders of 1910
took this course to make all things
level. But hard cider don't answer
now. see by the trnuspareucies in
that magnificent torchlight procession
the other night, too frequent evidences
that whisky is the drink of 1866 on tho
part of the symPathiZers of the rebels.
and said, Why do tht y take whisky?
Certainly 1t is not necessary for them to
| bring their intelligence down to the
| level of that of the American people
but "a young lady who stood by inc sug-
Rested very wisely that il was necessary
to deaden The conscience. And that is
L
the same procession iu II few minutes
| after, when read ON another transpar-
enCy that " tho grOans of the damned
are fearful" We have then, fellow
citizens, the assurances not only that
our enemies arc beaten, but that our
own ranks are unIhinued, except by
Phere and there n dcSCrter, who, having
discovered the error of his course, is
making his way back precisely ns an
enemy of this country, who, having
allied himself t0 the rebel cause aud
left his own land, the land where his
fathers fought and died, steps upon IL
foreign shore and gets n sight Of the
stars and stripes" waving aud floating
in the azure mir of heaven, and then the
American spirit returns to him, and he
thinks it is necessary to have n friend
In his Government and u protection in
his flag, and so we shall find Just as
soon as u few of the sOphistrieS of this
day have been dispelled, that all the
American people without exception,
East and West, North and South, will
be ready to hail with joy tho day when
the flag Of our country shall cover one
people, united for ono purpose and one
destiny.
That is the prospect OF tho American
Government, and the unrestricted, un-
restrained liberty of all its people.
Fellow citizens, the issue before us in
this canvass is more simple than any
that hns ever before been presented TO
the people OF this country. a child can
comprehend il, and wayfarlhg man
though fool may read and understand
its truth. 1t Is simply whether tho peO.
pie or enemies OF this COupLry arc on
titled to It's government. II is simply
whether the rebels shall make laws for
u.s., or whether the loyal men, soldiers,
sailors and citizens, shall be invested
with TINT fhiUlQRt FunC1iOn nVeF Cyivnr