The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-05

st1tution, succeeded the Office of
President Of the United States Stand-
ing above the mangIed body of his
murdered predecessor, feeling the pull
sations OF mighty people stricken
with this strange sOrroE, he then and
there pledged himself to maintain the
integrity OF the Government and keen
inviolate the oath Of his great Office as
President of the people of the United
States to see TO it that traitors who had
drenched this land in blood and ridged
u rom ocean 70 ocean with neW-fnade
graves Of your patriot martyrs, should
occupy no place or power IN the councils
Of. the nation only 10 betray the trust.
1ou remember, my countrymen. his
plain, simple words that went home TO
the heart OF the people, and received
the approval Of every honest mind in
America, when the whole land was
draped IN mourning. They were
Treason Is a crime and must be pun
ished and made odious-n The orphan
children in this land knew that with
I out the President telling 1t TO them.
/ They knew il must be crime that rob
I bed them OF their fathers IN the endeay-
or TO maintain intact that government
/ without which there could be no such
thing as the security of families. No
man at any time since Adam woke
I upon this planet, ever saw that beauti-
] ful spectacle OF families separate and
apart safe by the hearthstones, the nur-
I sery of all that Is beautiful and good
and great in human eharscter-save
under the protecting shield of civil
I government Il needed not any ton
Z que Of President to convince any man
/ who had head to think or n heart 10
| feel, that treason that undertook to tear
down the fabric OF civil government
I and sweep away the last refuge of hu-
mainly on the earth, WAS "a crime"
and ought 10 be ''made odious." The
3 heart of the country I say responded to
I this simple sentiment. Every little
child in the land was ready to take up
the cry and repeat il Treason is a
crime and must 6e made odious"
What other words did he uffer2 That
/ traitors who had been guilty OF this
{ great crime against the nations life,
must not be trusted with power or place
I bis language was that they should be
compelled 10 take a hack seat; that
they should not be permitted to par
ficipate IN the great work of rsOrgan-
ling and restoring the disiutegrated,
destroyed, insurrectionaTy States, ex-
I tending from the banks OF the Potomac
to the banks OF the Rio Grande, and en-
brgcing an area Of territory half as
large as Continental EurOpe-large
enough at all events, TO furnish homes
Of abundance and comfort TO one hun
I dred and nfty millions Of freemen.
/ The whole country agreed with him ex-
cept those who had been engaged in the
/ foul work Of treason, and rebellion, and
murder and assassination.
I II that man had been faithful 10 those
simple worts-Words which he caught
from the mute mangled lips Of his per
ished predecessor. Abraham Lincoln
I il ne had remembered only the simple
words OF that great and good man,
which I heard him utter myself on the
steps of your capitol when he took upon
himself the oaths of his great office:
MY oath IS registered in heaven and 1
must keep il on the peril of my sOuli-
II Andrew johnson had only been thus
faithful and mindful Of the obligations
Of that oath, there IFonld have been no
occasion for this assemblage of the peo-
pie to-day. For with gratitude and
I thankfulness 70 the dead and TO the
/ living defenders ar this Republic 1 am
[ able TO say to-day that amongst the peo-
Z pie Of the United StRtes never was there
such unanimity before as there was on
the day that the pure martyr spirit OF
Abraham Lincoln went back to the
I God that gave II. Why, the LOYAL men
Of every party IN this land, in all these
great Commonwealth which extend
from the rOck-bound coast OF New Eng
land 10 the golden gates OF the Pacific
were as i've TO one in all the represeu-
tatiTs organizations both State and Ma
fional, and were as ten 10 one amongst
the great masses Of the people. There
was not anywhere upon the whole hori-
ION girdling your country round-nOt
a single clOud As large as mans hand
X was by the treachery Of Andrew
Johnson that the people were again put
IN peril. II is by the treaehery OF
Andrew Johnson that coDspiEafoFs are
renewing the work OF oTerturning and
destroying American Institutions and
the result IS that to-day in Ohio, as in
----Hra 80 ~ Z.
have reorganized that miserable party I
who throughout these four memorable /
years Of struggle for the nations life
gave all their niiuence-fthank God IL |
was but littleEgaTe all their sympathy 1
to the cause OF the rebellion, and had /
not one word Of cheer for the brave. 1
true, gallant men who stood in the line /
OF the battle from one end Of the land |
to the other, covering with their own /
persons as with wall OF ire your own |
habitations from wars desolation. The
people learned how 10 appreciate that /
party. Why, it was swept from exist /
ence- What power had il on the day 4
amongst the dead in any State OF this 1
Unionf From she far east, where the
morning sun first beams on the habit
tatiOns OF your people, looking out on
Europe, to California in the farthest
west, where the habitations of your
people look out on Asia, there was
not one solitary State crossing the whole
continent but was to all intents and
purposes exclusively in the hands Of
that great party who had saved
this Government from overthrow.
Not one. i always except from
this enumeration the side States OF
Delaware and part only of Kentucky.
But with that exception this party had
no power In any Of these tWenty-three
STATES who smoke the zyr,if-a ~,f t,,,str,si
America and IN whose hands for the
time being was lodged exclusively the
sovereignty OF the republic The ievis-
lature Of every one Of these States was
against them. The Governor OF every
one OF these States was against them.
ana II you look into the &XXIXth
Congress Of the United States, the Con-
gress then in being and stilI in being
you VIII ind in the House OF Represen-
tsitlyes the whole force Of that party ont
OF lSi haembers, consisted Of 50 persons
II you viii look into the Senate before
the treacheTy Of Andrew johnson. Won
VIII hnd the whole representative pow
er Of that organization IN the Senate was
but II persons out OF so Senator'S So
that there was no occasion for concern
IA any quarter amongst the Amerf-
can people as to the future of the
All TINT was wanting
was that Andrew johnson should I
prove faithful. Now that he has proved
iaithiess, all that = wanting is fhit the
great people who saved this governs
.nent through the terrible struggle Of
io4r years war, including those brave
soldiers who have returned TO their
homes covered with glory, in this, that
hey tmpertled everything save a trust
10 God and g hope Of a LIS 20 come to
save their country from overfhroW-aH
that Is wanting now that Andrew John
Ii