The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-07
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large audience In Detroit on Thursday
evening, in defense Of the GonRres.
sional plan of reconstruction and in
refutation of the charges which have
been brought against the representa-
tiyes OF the nation, After saying that
there were two questions before the
American people the reconstruction OF
the nation on q truly repub blican plan,
and proposition TO take back rebels
without proper safeg guards Ahe exposed
the worse than ineficiency of the Ad=
mfnistfatibn scheme. He said - : "a
4 call this a rebel plan, because tits
insisted upon by Alexander ii. Steph-
ems and Robert IE. Lee. II i call ia reb-
elplani beca use over itevery rebel Gem
era1 who faced our men on the field OF
battle, and every rebel Cong FRESHMAN
clap their hands. call 1t a rebel plan
because every bushwhacker and guar-
r1lla Is In ecstaey over this plan Of re-
construction. But there are others
who oppose our PLAN There are those
who call it arabol lition plan. Every one
otthesemend den ounce the1 last Congrsss.
Ifsl lolee that they do. daughter Cicero
SAID truly that q nation, that LOST its lib
erty was worse than one that lost it
| Tithopt d struggle, Upon this plan,
this Union plan of reconstruction. we
Iought and won our glortous victory in
Indiana In october last, and upon this
plan you will. fight and win that yicto-
ry next Tuesday. ECheers.1 / consent
tono planoGreconstructi When the
tornado of oftreason swept over that, land
there were some men who refused In
bow the knee to BaaI. Prisons yaWned
before them, tortures were inflicted, vet
they succumbed not. and nwhen this
oand1tu who called themselves the Con-
1 49,
passed resolutions that every man who
did not give mp his rights and fight for
that country should be bound, hisprop
erty cont1scated; and himself put 10
death. These men, when they could
no longerremain, fled to. the emountains
onment, welcome death thitselE-wes stand
| by the Stars and Stripes to the last
drop of our Blood" [Cheers.1 God
Dless these noble and faithful men.
lLCheers. And now when by. the mis-
conduct of the President, treason is
again triumphant, when these traitors
pear sway IN the cabinet and every il1i-
portant office, whenS you read Of the
massacre at New Orleans, may my
tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
n 1,de6ert them. Il Loud, cheefsjlfi,An
say that these CitizensshRll come back
TO this Union clad in new robes, and
those Union men shall be rev arded for
their fidelity by being advanced to the
front seats, while the hIS traftors
shall be placed far back in \ the
rear on stools of penitance. TIoud
| cheers. In every catnpaipn our
opponents have always enteaVofei to
give us some nickname. Do Won re-
member those beautiful epithets Of two
years ago2 They called us then IS Black
Repub blicans;' ~ Negro Worshippefs., -
The orator then referFedFto the virtues
Of the late Mr. Iincoln, and spoke of
the cto@ning victory OF November,
1884, WI hlch' gave freed dom to the slaves
he said, i thank God there liyes moi
one man from the Atlantic To the Pa
ciflc who can call any man naster.ta1Id
the other call him slave, TCheers.l No
man can go to the poor slave and saw
to him, "Ihat wifevhicb Won call ,zoIiy
own is not yours, tor Won as we'll as
she are my property y, a writer once
said that VIII flberfor6e, when he ascend
ed to the throne of God, held in his hand
the shacktes which had bound, tflotIg
sands of his fellow men. FBut when.
Abraham Lincoln assembled to tie
throne OF. God he took with him the
shackles which. had bound FfouTs mill
lions of his fellow men. Hei said thew
are all free. CCheers, Il thank cod
that no man, no 1ordlY slaveho lder. can
approach .theI crouching mother who
clasps to her bosom the child That cod
has given her, and say to her. GTfv
sold on the auction block like the beast
Of the field. ."f That time. hanks to ;onr
noble late President, has passed away.
CCheers.1 Theit mouths were full Of
revilings. They now saw they never
were in favor. OF slavery. Administras
ti0nS may. pass away. the PrhsIIIRfit
may turn his back upon his partTia and