The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-27

J ~ SOuN6lIlOu uleL III l.nlIuuelpnluJ
composed Of whom or Southern
rebels and Northern Democratic poll
tiCiHns, with small infusion of men
who hMd acted with tho Union party.
This infusion of men from tho Union
purity was not oven enough to give
colOring to the Convention, although
they were used for that purpose. But
there were the Southern rebels. There
was Dick Taylor, who raised tho black
flag; there was Alexander II. Stephens;
there were ono hundred and forty OtIi-
GERS of the Confederate army; there
were some seventeen members of the
late rebel Congress; there woro SOmC
twCnty men who formerly belonged to
tho Senate of the United States and to
the House of Representatives, and who
had gone out in 1861, in violation of
their Onths. They were there; and who
met them from tho North? Those men
who had given aid and comfort to the
rebellion throughout the war; the mon
who belonged to tho Sons of Liberty in
Indiana; the men who had organized
the Knights of the Golden Circle; tho
mon who i'll Congress had refused to
vote another dollar or another man;
the men who declared that grcenbncls
would die upon our hands, and who
eXhorted the people not to invest their
money III United States stocks; the mon
who had done everything in their pow
or to oppose the war and mako tho re-
Those men came together to form a
new party. Tho old Democratic organ
ration, ASA party, was To be abandoned.
! Why? Because tho record OF the Dem
oCrHtiC party was black with crime. 1t
was indelibly stained with treason.
That record must be buried out of sight,
and some ptcteXt must be obtained for
forming new organization and II new
party. They came together and laid
down the Democratic organization and
formed ii new party. What did they
call it? They called it the National
Union pHrty.
You who sustained tho Government
throughout tho war; you who sent your
sons and your brothers, and your faith
erS, are designated nOwNs disunionists;
and these men who shed your blood,
who brought these disasters upon the
cOHntry, both North and South, went
there and resolved that they were the
National Union purity. They began by
stealing your name, by committing the
I crime Of larceny. [I4aughter.l AS the
! new party begins with crime, it will
end with dishOnor.
When speak of tho leaders of the
. Democratic party, l don't intend to
speak of the masses of thnt party. The
: people of all parties, the masses, intend
to do right, and IL they nrC let alone
will do right. But the leaders of the
. Democratic party led the masses of the
ReOPAS DS SNtpV IEOll one lnlUA
to another, until the Democratic party,
! as an orga nizaIiOn, became so perfectly
/ complicated with the rebellion that it
can never escape from its deep dnmna-
tiOn; and therefore the necessity OF
burytng tn" old organization and OF
fOrmingN new one.
D Now, want TO say to these old Dem
OcratS that there are Democrats in Mad
ison county who have been voting the
Democratic ticket these mnny years
J. principally because it was the Demo
cratic ticket, who have been proud oI
the name of Democrat. n mime thni
I came down TO us from other times GOV.
cred with honor and glory, and devotion
to the country. These men hated
TO abandon the old organiza-
ton, and they clung to it many
years, until it was no longer true
TO the country. l want to say to these
old men to-day that slavery of party is
= abolished. and they are now at liberty
To vote their true sentiments, and they
cannot be regarded as rencgndes and
traitors for so doing. The organization
has been broken up, and now, my
friends, you are at liberty to go aud
I vote just where you please.
Q As said before, the slavery OF party
: is abolished, and cXhOrt you to come
r out and vote rs the secret sentiments oI
= your henrt have long prompted you.
a know something of this slavery purtv,
; aud will hang upon them when they
: are Groaning in the spirit. ! myself
4 was educated in the Democratic party
q From my boyhOod l was brought up tC
; believe i'll its teEetS, and stnid in it IL
, long time after / was compelled from
. day to day and from night to night tC
= apologize and find excuses in my own
n mind for still remOiningi in il. ! know
. the difficulty ola mans turning HIM
r self loose from party in which he has
I been educated aud in which he has vo.
n ted; and now that in the course of hu-
o man events this Democratic party has
o been formally dissolved by its own
q leaders. 1t leaves the members of the
: party free to go and vote where they
, please.
:, But meant to say to you, gentle
r men, that this Philadelphia Convention
Q that formed this new party, was com.
: posed, in great part, of your enemies
r of the men that you have been fighting
o against. Soldiers realize that fact
1 There are soldiers here to-day who arc
f ns brave as any man, and who have eli.
dured everything that men can endure
n and live.
g / want you to understand that this
i new party, formed at Philndel phin, was
q composed in great part OF the men whom
1 you have been fighting. They have
o formed new party, md now want you
/ to walk into it
.
g tell you, soldiers, thnt thnt party
f will ever he Your enemy. 1t can't bt
: otherwise. They are now attempting
: to plmy the old game of II united Soutr
l and divided SOrth-tO divide the coun.
n try aud govern it. In that party, from
q the very nature OfthinSs, the Southern
r rebels will ever have the majority
: TwO-thirds of that party arc your enc.
g mics-the men against whom you
fought. They don't love you, and they
c never will lovc you. Soldiers, do you
i love the rebols?
= Here there werc loud cries "NO, no, ;
n and one man in tho crowd, who, 1t is
y said, hud formerly been drafted into The
: army, and who had ran away, cried out
q that he loved rebel soldiers much better
g than he did Union soldiers. Instantly
Il n disturbance arose, but his friends
took him away, fearing that blood
Il would be shed, aud that the good order
n hitherto preserved would be at an end
It The commOtiOn was scarcely ObservH
). bic nt tho stand, and the man was tnker
Z to town, where he was afterwnrd Sc
l. verely punished for his dislOyal con
o duct. 1t is said that he was iutOx icuteC
% while on the ground.l
o Then they love you much less, be
e cause you whipped them. To the hu
d tired of enemies they add the mOrtiticn
>, tion of defeat, and IL any man woulC
4 make you believethuC these rebels evei
If can be your friends during this genera
d tion, just tell him that he is trying t
II impose upon you.
d And, now, who compose tho North
. ern third Of this party? They are thu