The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-16

has deposited the ballot which, fol
good or i'll, has affected his country, the
act has not stirred ripple in the phil
anthropy of the country, because it was
simply, unadulterated suffrage. Now
that the African is called to the polls
and the imbecile creature whose sknll
is thickened by centuries of his races
degradation, proceeds to "vote with his
friends" the entire "loyalty" and pro-
gress and humanity of the land is NOV
ed to its lowest depths and the prodigi-
GUS achievement is pompously styled
manhood suffrage" Loud Applause.
As Carlyle poin edly observes, you
might as well talk about doghood SUI
frage, [applause] or oxhood suffrage, or
horsehooa suffrage, or asshood suffrage,
applause as to prate about manhood
suffrage, especially when it eDfranchises
the worst and lowest of your black
men, and excludes the best ard purest OF
your white women. Just here l will
tell you what Bingham says. l see by
one of your transparencies that you un-
derstand Joe Hollis agency in the butch
cry of Mrs. Surratt, but Holt is not the
only man Who helped to murder lnno-
cence and age and helpless womanhood
| i'll the person of that unfortunate lady.
Bingham has chosen to speak of Nallan-
digham as sticking out his neck like a
crane and gibbering like Il ghost" Let
lne tell him that it is not the
ghost of Vallandigham which disturbs
his serenity. Vallandigham is still
alive, and able in the flesh to veX his
foes. Applause. 1t is the avengiag
spirit of that unhappy woman which
fits before his vision at noon-day and
glarcs across the meditations of his
guilty conscience at midnight. 1t is
the ghost of his victim that dogs his
footsteps, mocking, threatening, tor
menting and driving him to the doom
of the suicide. [Applause.l Says this
chief counsellor of Il murderous conspir-
acy, "the negro is just as fit to vote as
the tail end Of wheel l-barrow," meaning
thereby the hardworking 1rishman.
Has he not read the history of the Eme-
raid Isle' Knows he nothing of her
statesmen, her scholars and her war
riors Has he never heard of her ora
tors, carrying multitudes captive with
the resistless power of native eloquencei
Of her poets, thrilling the heart of hui
manity with their songs and immortal
izing the land of their birth and the
race from which they sprungS Must
the great and the gifted and the good
be thus insulted by ignorance or malice.
| will dismiss this unmanly reviler of
genius from further consideration, and
if he wishes to discuss the merits of the
Irishman and the African, let him pro-
duce for his negro pets a record that
will compare with that of the people he
assails.
BONDHOLDER VS.. PLOUGH-H0LDER.
| come now to speak of the finances
of the country. There is great contest
going on Just now between two classes
of our people. 1t is case of bond
holder against the plough-holder. lap
pear on the part of the plough holder
and l think 1 have got pretty, good
jury. [Laughter.l The Radicals are
in the habit of charging upon Demo
Gratis heavy responsibility for thepub-
lie debt. In one breath they say we
brought it all upon the country, and in
the next they declare that Pendleton
and Vallandigham voted against all
measures to provide men and money to
carry on the war. If we did this, how
did we help incur the debit But, my
friends, this charge of opposition to ap-
preparations to pay our armies Is totally
false. always supported proper meas
ures for such purposes, and when no
paying the soldiers. 'rw1a was s"iIH in taRSt ST
giving them their money. / wanted tJ
pay the soldier in gold, and went so far
,nt Hill For
which, through no fault of mine, failed
to become law. And in supporting
tho claims of soldiers, | was guilty of
no inconsistency. Without reference
to the purposes for which he was used
by designing men, the soldier earned
and deserved his pay. He had no agen-
cy in bringing on our troubles, he
fought upon the understanding that he
was saving the Union. 1t was not his
fault that lying politicians used him to
destroy the States and overthrow the
liberties of the people.
deny the charge that the Democrats
are responsible for either the public
debt or any other results of the
war. You all know that Pendleton
gave wise and earnest counsols
for the settlement of the difficulties of
the nation. Had those cOunselS been
followed, the debt would not now be up
on the nation, the taxpayers would not
be looking forward to beggary; the
land would not be wrapped in sack
cloth, the bitterness of mourning and
the agony of despair would not be
wringing the hearts of the stricken and
the bereaved. Widow of Monroe! was it
Democratic counsels which carried your
husband from your side, and kept him
from your sight until he was laid bloody
and lifeless at your feet Your tears
flow fast, your loneliness lis sad, and
your life is desolate, but your reprOaches
go to other doors than ours.
Mother of Monroe! Was it the per-
snasion of Democrat that coaxed your
darling boy, your pride and support,
from, beneath your roof aud beyound
the sound of your prayers, that armed
him against men of his own blood and
placed him in the ranks from which he
marched forth to eternity, and left you
forever hopeless Your affliction is
grievous to be borne, you yet totter un.
der the blow which has fallen upon you.
out you can can charge upon us no re-
sponsibility for your griefs.
Taxpayers of Monroe! your load is
heavy, your lot is hard, with its taxa
tion of energy and mortgages of proper
ty, but you would have escaped all
these evils had the Republican party
not been averse to compromise and a
settlement. Upon their shoulders must
rest the responsibility for all of disaster,
and evil and ruin that has overtaken
the people. God is omniscient and God
is just, and as He lives, He
will hold them to strict ac-
count for the nations misfortunes
and agonies. Every dollar wrung from
the hands of honest toll andawasted in a
work OF. blood; every tear with which
widowhood and ,orphanage have moist
tened the graves of the untimely dead !;
every sigh with which bereavement
whispers its woes to the winds is treas
ured up in the store-houses of Heaven to
bear witness against the great sins of
Republicanism, and God will terribly
avenge the wrongs to which they
testify.
Skeleton of Andersonville Yours is
a fearful fate. Itspeaks of the long ag-
ony of the prison house; the starvation,