The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-22
speech OF the Hon. Horace Nay
nard, the Patriot Orator Of
East Tennessee.
The People Fully Aroused TO the
Duties of the Hour.

= Oh 14O0Es
THE Union meeting at the co1ri
House last night was great success
The building WAS crowded from floor q
gallery, and many persons were unable
10 get within hearing distance OF the
speaker in the outer hall. A number
Of ladies were present. The appear
anes OF Mr.. Maynard In the house nj
eight O'Clock was the signal for hear.
II ontburst Of welcome from the yasi
audience that had gathered to hear him
speak. As soon as quiet could be OBJ
taIned Mr.. John R. Hubbard moved
that Henry Wallace, Esq, be called tG
Tie chair and Captain Carlin appointed
Secretary. Both nominations were en-
Enthusiastically endorsed by the meeting
AT the request OF the chairman A. w.
Campbell introduced AIR. Maynard to
the audience In a few words Of refer
ence to his prominent and now histori-
cal connection with the Union cause
and with the admission OF West yIr-
ginia rs a State into the Union. After
this introduction and the subsistence of
new outbarst of welcome, Mr.. May
narl rose and spoke as follows:
LADIEs:-u Is meet and proper, on
your appearance at this opport1ue mo-
menf; that should say word of greet
ing to YOU for to you are due pur first
lives, our youth offerings ON every CO
CasiOn OF greater or less Importance.
Mr.. CtaiTHldH and Fellow CftlseIls on
West Yfrgfafd 81 purposeh by the bless
ing OF God 70 address you Tonight on
! public matters of present concern. We
haTe arrived at new epoch. We have
reached a new chapter In the history OF
the world. Old things have passed
away. Old ideas old manners and old
men. The guns of Fort Sumter were
the clock strokes that told the begin
ming Of Q new era ON the dial plate of
time, We have seen that those expe-
dients and that policy that was adapt
ed TO the long inteFspaee of history
when all went on smoothly and quiet
IL has been singulhriy out of place in
a time OF storm OF high commotion.
The men adapted to that quiet, easy
going time-men OF policy, plausible
mens adroit cunning but withal weak,
feeble OF purpose without CON lotions,
without faith, were found wholly
wanting and Incompetent in tho day
that you needed strong men,-menl
feeling u high purpose and firm COM
spiction and accordingly when the
storm OF war broke OUT they dfsap-
peared rs lnereil esslys pttilessly rs
the frogs OF the pool are squefehedi
beneath the iioofs OF the horses when
the waters redden with blood. We
have commenced on new time, ON n
new order or events new questions;
and the old fofinnlas, old records, the
old plans and ehelGles VIII be found TO-
be wholly unsnited to this new, more
trying, more advanced and onward
period. and the sooner We come 10 nm
def3rtud tint fact, and act upon II, the
better Tor Us all Appiause.1 They
who innugurated the terrible rey0ln.
ton throngh which we have passed
were wont 20 say very hnently and
3baei ward '--s saying that + attributed
sometimes 10 Napoleon. sometimes, i
believe. 70 AiachiaVellf. and sometimes
TO TsIieyFand. Probably they may all
haze said tia general q observation that
occurred % man y ol,sery ers looking on
the conrse Of great public events.
While II = not true that revolutions
do not 20 backward III indeed human
affairs can be said TO 90 backward al
all any more than the waters OF your
streams ctn 70 back 70 the sprinRs-
they very seldom go forward in the ii-
.rection thnt they contemplated when
they SET them in motion. And this
of that fact. Had the men who COM
nenced this strife, who raised a par
rieidal hand against their country, been
gifted With power 70 forecast and fore
see the attitude in which they would
be placed. now II rs close, I think very
few OF them would have been found 70 /
have engaged IN m enterpriee SO dis
astrnuss 50 foolish and so wicked. One /
OF their own number, he who nfter-
wards was Vice President OF what /
called itself the Southern Confederaes
The gave them q word OF ndfnonftion
that hive thought strange many
times they did not heed. he SAYS those
who inaugurate revolutfons-he said
that, mark you, ut the beginning
.ifher who inaugnrnte revolutions are ]
seldom the men who bring them 70 Il
conclusion. How trne, how wonder I
fuily true and striking as applicable to !
the present time.
or attempt 10 do so by a review OF the
events Of the past five years, profitable
as such "A rcvieW cannot fail 70 be, how
often socyer we may choose TO make n.
VIII simply call your attention 10
Two prominent results, TWO things that
have been Nroushtsout, and wrought
out IN such a way That the people of
the country are obliged in some nlea-
sure 70 deal with them. The flrst is,
that during the progress OF the war Ia j
Ihe course OF its advance. 10 some way I
growing ont OF IL, never 10 have hap
pened but Tor the WAT, We End within 4
The limits OF the United STATES four I
millions or black men once slaves. but
now frcs-freed BY the action of the I
government and by the fat OF theioyal +
people OF the government They must /
De dealt WITH They must be provided I
for and taken care Of. That IS one re-
epit- Another somewhat different, yet
not altogether unlike il, we have near
y IS many men OF another
ruce-mcu Who stand before /
the EoTernme1t in the attitude
OF subdue1r oFerpoUered, coerced. de-
iested, suhluguted rebels rApplnuse-1 4
They TOO have 20 b. looked amer. taken /
care or provided for, 1-Gcod" and
laughfer.l and upon rs the loyal mill I
lions OF The land who fought fhfa var
Tor the. government and fought II 10
success depends the disposal or these
{ no important interests II do mol
the temper OF the times we
lireln. the purposes OF the American /
people. think they have arrived ia I
Iheir Own mind at Two general PROPOSE
liuu1 without having carried then out
into nractic4l detail The ono Is th1l
lha frccdom which the nation Inns or
dained for the negro. shall be made q 1
geueraIt real. practical freedom aru not /
an iilueIou-s1sr he shall be permitted /
10 enjoy lbs liberty, in that large. cath Z
olic sense la which il Is defined by the /
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