The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-18

HIS Speech Mt the cooper institute,
New York City, last GohdaY I:yen.
tng.-!The Issues of the Day Discuss
ed by the late Vice President or the
United States.
An immense Union Mass Meeting
was held at Cooper Institute, in New
York, last Monday night. Hon. Ham
nibal Hamlin, Q. s, Senator. Wilson,
and other Distinguished men made
speeches. From therepott in the Ifme3
newspaper we subjoin the following
remarks made by the late Vice Presi-
dent Of the-9nitedtstafe
Mr.. Hamlin was received with great
applause, the audience rising to their
feet giving hearty cheers. He said {:
These generous plandits spring from
patriotic hearts: They are not the
the expression Of patriotic men to all
the loyal men. inaan the country. Gen.
tlemen, you have never met within
these walls or elsewhere when matters
OF Agraver import challenged your; at.
tenttons than those you have met to
cpnlsstttder tonight. We. are Just out of
q war unequaled in ancient or modern
times. You are just onGthe eve of an
election in the Empire State, in which
you are to express, SO far as that State
maybe concerned, the terms and con-
dittons upbni which Rebe1lion fsUto ibe
closed. (Cheers.) And with myself. 4.
doubt not that all Of You are earnestly
the States can be restored to the proper
relations in the Union, You, with my-.
self viii lihail with delight at Eha ear
lest hour when commerce shall as
sdmea all its relations when manufac-
lures again shall be encouraged, and
everything that shall Spring from the
prosperity ofa common country. And
brave as are our sops-apd that bravery
has been tested upon thousand Welt
fought battle-felds-there are some
things we dare not do. We dare. not
agree to any terms that shall close this
rebellion. except they be based.
upon true and commendable prin-
ciples of right liberty ana just
ice! f6heers WEI dares hot agree
to any terms that shall not satisfy
us, as reasonable men, that this terrible
struggle is never ragain to be heralded
upon the country. [Cheetsl We dare
not Agrea- to any terms that shall not
vindicate our lamented and noble Pres
tdent, who went down martyr.
[Cheers.l We dare not agree to any
terms that shall mot vindfcate 8O0,00O
noble sons who " ent down to patriotic
graves. ICheers.l And if possibly
there be any other terms and conditions
more important, In the name of the
good faith of our country, we dare not
agreP- 70 qnS terms that shall ipetrpro-
ttect nov aud forever every aIoytl u man
IN an the rebel States that stood by us,
when 1t was life and death with them
70 do it, Loud cheeripg.l These things
might have been n8accomplished long
ago, but for the completely thrown
about the subject by the Executive.
Butunhl they can be so Accomplished
and established, IF it be not until the
end of time, we cannot agree to it until
we secure these terms ana conditions.
LCheers.l Otherwise we will leave IL "a
our children and our children,s chill
d!en to battle on. ButwheH that period
otttme snail come, be It sooner or later,
we will rejoice with all others that IL
fdsnas whAt s. the conSiiioSY oe * t6s
country, what has Complicated II, and
why nave not these conditions, long ere
now, been determfned3 Ianswers it "a
only because the Executive Of the
Eonge6 to Soa. . EoheeEssl III IS 1oiiJ
because he sought. over the Legislative
Department of the Government, which
alone was the power. to tdeferSnfne the
Conditions-he sought outside eof that "a
presortbe the terms ana conditions ifpdn
which it was to be done. affirm Here
now, and ]. am as confident OF it as i
am ofany fact IEcannot know n1athe-
matieany, that had he done Just what
was duty 70 al held therebeES States
in military subj c4lIediC Congress
togethenl and submitted sgtha matter to
themfof their elibefd peGSe, and
Hqaietl and Pfospe perity5 and every thing
fldesiElhte FOR MS would this day Rave
Ieigned all over the land But Instead
OF doing that he sought TO prescribe his
terms, and his conditions, and then to
make h1nls bupettor to9the q gis1a=
tive branch ofStheI Government, and
there Is the whole SbmpllCity zoe tie
.mRtteF.. ItfEests upon the President and
5liiS SW inging round The circle when he
llas SEEN attstnp to array. the people
against their own servants, ag1fnSk that
branch of the Government Vlafehfs par-
ticulRrlY heiFf portion rnf d iAwhile hs
hasib ibeenl doing thatandJ assnmiug that
they are attempting TO coacent ntrute IS61S-
6a5 t5 iiBtFt siaiis tis isss Is been doing
that, We Fm again that he has added