The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-23
Union AIeeting nt heading, PenngyI.


convention OF the people of Eastern
Pennsylvania, who are favorable to the
principle of the Republican UhiOnparty
and opposed to the policy of President
johnson, assembled in this city to-day.
Immediately upon their al rival the diff
delegates formed into line and parhded
through the city. a great majority of
those in the ranks were returned sol
diers. At half past two o'clock the
committee was called to order by Col.
/ Jordan, 6hairtnah of the Republican
Union State Central Committee. VIM.
b. Thomas, of Phila., was called upon
to preside. In consequence of the inn
mense numbers in attendance different
meetings were organized. At the larg-
est of them which was held In front of
| the residence of Geo. w. IanmaI1. ESQ
Hon. Lewis w. Hall, Speaker of the
State Senate, addressed the crowd. He
declared the issue to be whether trait
/ ors or thoseVaho had upheld hegovern-
ment in the late perilous crisis should
control the country in the future-300,
600 loyal men had died and a debt of
| four thousand millions of dollars had
been created that the nation might
live. The present political contest in
Volved exactly the same question at is
sue during the war, whether treason
was not q crime to be odious and pun
1shed. If, however, the issue in
true one, and If the plea of upholding
white mans government, it was in
tended that the loyal blacks who had
helped the Government, were to be de-
pr1ved of their rights, then he (the
speaker) wished it to be understood
that in question between loyal blacks
/ and dlsloyal whites he was for the for
mer. BE then demanded that there
should be security for the future. He
| reviewed the record of the democracy
as made up in the speeches and doings
of the best exponent, the President,
and the democratic candidate for the
lGubernatiOnal chair, and contrasted
theirrecord with the mil itary services of
General Geary. ~ - fsi-i8sE
Mr.. J. w. Forney, of Pa, upon being
introduced said that there was one
question which might be 8prOpounded
to every mans heart, without fear of
the answer, to wit: Would any man or
woman, had he or she the power, re-
store the institution of slavery7 He
referred to the people of the free States
for he thought there could be no ques-
ton that the we'll organized friends of
that institution We're intoxicated with
the hope of being able to restore 1t. He
then contrasted the changed condition
of the political sentiments of our own
day with that which existed before the
war, that the march of freedom was
ever onward; the consequence of
the abolition of slavery none could
compute, while its financial results
were alike incalculable. One of these
results was the opening of the Southern
country to the people of the whole
country, for which Blessing the nation
was indebted to the Valor, of her soldiers
and to the courage and sagacity of her
statesman. The speaker reviewed at
length the political history of the times
euloglzing the loyalty and devotion of
an oppressed race and critiCising the
course of President johnson, whom he
charged with having deserted the Union
men of the South, and made himself
subserVient to every demand OF the
at which the meeting was held, the
speeches were delivered by Col. Frank
Jordan, Gen. Fisher of Lancaster, Col.
Albright of Carbon, Gen. Geary, Capt.
Tower, .Thos. 3. Cochran and others.
In the evening large and imposing
day proceedings.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-The follow
ing resolutions were adopted at the
great Union mass meeting at Reading
to-day: ss,
ResoEved, That we give praise and
thanks'to Almighty God in that he has
youchsafed to us full and COM
plete victory over those who sought,
during four long years of bloody war,
TO destroy this last altar of the rights of
man upon which to base free institu-
Hons; that the black, and loathsome
stainof slavery which classed as among
the dark and heather nations of the
earth, has at last been blotted out, and
In all our land no man can say to his
fellow man "thou art mine."
RESOLVED, That we owe a debt of last
ing gratitude to the Union soldiers and
sailors for their Valor and prowess in
putting down the slaVeho1 iers' wicked
rNIsa f1ase,H -,
their wives and orphans protection,
support and patronage whenever it is
incur power TO give them.
Re80Lged, That In the joint resolution
which passed the Congress of the Uni
ted STATES by atwo-thirds vote, propos-
sing amendments to the Constitution,
we recognize the only safe palladium of
the principles for which we sacrificed
four hundred thousand lives of our
best blood and three thousand millions
of our treasure; that in the same spirit
which actunted our forefathers to pro-
claim the Declaration of Independence
in 1776, we most heartily endorse the
first section of the amendment declar-
ing that all persons born within the
United States shall be citizens thereof;
as q means also of future protection as
well as present fairness and equality. we
are in favor of; said section which pro-
vides for equalizing representation in
Congress aud in the electoral college.
we declare our aYowed hostility now
and forever against the admission OF
States late intrebellion upon basis of
representa- which gives to the South
sixty per cent. more power in Congress
and in the electoral college than an
equal number of white people in the
North; while the third section, exclude
lug all perjured rebels from eligibility
70 office, meets our hearty and unqualf-
fed approval.
RESOLVED, That the true interest and
purpose of the policy laid down by An
drew johnson, the man made Presi-
dent by J. Wilkes Booth, is to resurrect
from oblivion and disgrace the Demo-
cratic party which, for its reasonable
course during the war, was consigned
to- the. tomb of everlasting sin, and
shame and we believe that the success
of said policy would turn back the
wheels OF progress generation in our
country's march to greatness and to
glory! a ia sli1s i,s#It a
ResotUed, That in Major General
John w. Geary, the standard bearer of
the Republican party OF Pennsylvania
we have combined the true principles
OF the soldier and statesman, the hero
of many battles, and defender of civil
liberties whenever and wherever he
has been called to govern. hsl:e}
ReS0tUed, That Andrew G.. Curtin.
the good and loyal Governor of PENN
sylvania, has earned the noble title of
the s'soldiers' friend;' and in retiring
from gubernatorial duties he takes
with him the entire ConfideuC8i and eS-
tenn of every patriot in the State.
ReSoLved, That Henry j. Raymond,
who was make Chairman of the Nation
Al Republican Executive Committee, byi
the Nftional Onion Convention of 1871