The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-20

/ it," l might cite the teachings OF iheir
papers, or the utterances OF their ora
tors, the acts of their party in its or
ganized form-for they have given me
innumerAble acts to cite,-but | viii
not waste your time tonight In doing
so. You are all conversant with these
things. / have mentioned these few
facts to refresh your memories and set
them to work to search out and look up
the nfamous-fearfully infamous, re-
cord of this Democratic EarLy, made
during the progress of the war,
This party to-day presents itself TO
you and in the name of Democracy
asks the sutfrages of the people OF
. Ohio-asks that the freemen of the
State who have sacrificed so much to
maintain the Union against the war
waged by the Southern wing of the
Democratic party, and sympaIhized In
by the Northern wing, shall elevate
this party to power-that the "boyS in
blue" denounced as "Lincoln's Hire
lings," during the progress of the war,
shall now put into power this parry that
was then continually stabbing them in
the back and welding its whole power
TO prevent their achieving q successful
issue in the contest.
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
shall not dwell long upon the other
party engaged In this contest. Young
in wears a giant fresh from the people
J born in the wrongs and infamies that
sprung out of the efforts TO nationaliZe
! slavery by the repeal OF the Missouri
Compromise, the Republican party in
the thirteenth year OF its existence has
record in your midst of which every
man who belongs to 1t ought TO be
proud-a record that will give ii a name
upon the pages of history for all COM
ing time. Elevated 10 power in the
contest of 1880, with divided and sepa-
rated nation, with seven States OF the
Union organized into Southern Con
federacy and marching with its hostile
forces against your government-wlth
an empty treasury destroyed pubic
credit-it has b-ought the government
through the territic.war then threatened,
and brought victory 10 the banner oI
the free. 1t has wiped out the infamous
crime of human slavery ana IN lts
brief career it has given liberty to every
} man in the land; and to-day, thank
God the foot of no slave desecrates the
soil OF happy, free America! [Applanse.l
1t has given civil liberty to every man
: in all this broad land. No matter how
humble, no matter how poor, no mhtIeT
how ignorant, under the beniticent rule
) OF thisl Republican party the power oi
the government is thrown around him
for his protection, and he is the peer OF
every other man in the land. II has
: given force and vitality 10 that pro-
| vision OF your Constitution, that says
the citizens of each State shall have all
; the rights, privileges, and immunitles
} of citizens of the several States. Under
: Democratic rule no man could go from
) Ohio into a Southern State and express
his views as to the wrongs OF slavery
> except at theperil of his neck, All over
: the Southern States the preachers fthe
, word OF God, who in the enunciatton OF
I the truth of the scriptures, proclaimed
: against the infamy of slavery, were
mobbed, were executed for their lemerl-
I
Infamous system of bondage was hush
+ ed by the power ofthe mob. But to-day
r under the rule of this Republican par
t ty, Mr., Stevens and Mr.. Sumner can
( 90 down into South Carolina, and into
! Alabama, and into Louisiana, and talk
I about the infamy of slavery with the
same freedom that Hancy and Keitt and
| Toombs, under Democratic rule, could
] go up into old Fanuel Hall and talk
about the divinity Of slavery. II has
\ made your government free in fact AS
I well as in name. II has given liberty
: To every child OF The republic, aud
J guarantees TO him his rights.
With such glorious record this
3 party to-day is embalmed in the hearts
: of the loyal men of this country, and
1 every loyal man sees to-day that It's
e mission is not yet fulfilled. We nave
j made the Government Tree in fact. We
I have yet the proud privilege to make IL
: republican in fact as well as in form.
: Thus much with reference to the par
: ties engaged in the contest before them
a RECONSTRUCTION.
4 The one great question that claims
= the attention of the people of Ohio aud
] of every State in this great nation, and
D The one great question that will con-
Y Linue TO claim the attention of every
/. man i'll the Union until II is disposed
= of, Is II restoration OF the Southern
9 States to their practical relation to the
/ Union. AT the time these States under
e took to rebel from the General Govern
: meut, the Republican party took the
r broad position thatno State had right
!. to secede from the Union. Noman has
T. u right TO lake the life of fellow man.
g II is violation of the law OF God and
= of man; and yet men do take the lives
1 of their fellow men,. No man has a
Z, right to despoil you of your property.
e Its violation of his moral obiiga.
a ton as man, violation of the law OF
Q God and OF the law ofthe land; and yet
= every day men do despoil their neigh
e bors, and deprive them of their proper
: ty. shall not stop now TO discuss the
: question whether these States did Sc.
81 cede from the Union or not. We hold
? the position they had no right to do il.
| They undertook to do 1t. They passed
o ordinances of secession, organized a
a government hostile TO the Goyernment
9 OF the United States; and every man
ell elected to positions WITHIN the lltnltS oil
i these States took an oath to support the
i Confederate States Constitution. The
: position shall take tonight is that
: when these States passed their Ordi-
e nanceB of secession and established a
n government down in the South, they
: abandoned all government in allie
1 glance with the Constitution of the
! United States, all government recog-
( niZing the Constitution and laws of The
? United States, as of any binding force
j. over them; and they were in fact with
8 nized by the Constitution and laws OF
i the United States as q legitimate gov
2 ernment. When the war closed this
: was their condition, so recognized by
v the President oflthe United States in
v disappointment of military governors,
: and so recognized by every statesman
: in the land. This being the case, then
: the question recurs. how shall they be
3 provided with governments. When
! Andrew johnson, as President OF the
I United States, appointed his military
governors he assured them heir govern
, ments would be temporary, and that
I they would only have control until
such time as civil governments
r should be organized thai should be
recognized as legitimate by the Con-
3 gress of the United States. Mr.. Seward
In his instructions to the Governor oil
I Florida took the same position. You
s will bear IN mind, he says, the Govern
: ments you establish in the Southern
States are temporary and that Ithey
will be of no binding force until they
4 are ratified by the action of Congress.
!, Alter the appointment of the military
8 governors, the difficulty originated be.
t tween the President and the Repub.
c lican party in the fact that the Presi-
[ dant 1ndartOOk tn make these GOV6Fl-