The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-22
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A Brother of Gen. Lee AInkes a speech
In favor OF AssassInatIon-..--Th
StarSRnd Stripes Dragged tnthe
Dirt by ex-ConGedeFate Sol.
dIers---HoW the Rebel
Speakers Talk, &c..
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Good Company
MooREF1ELD, Hardy County,
September 10, 1868.
Editors IHtelti0enccr
have been expecting to see, for some
time, an account of the great meeting
and barbecue which came off at this
place on the 10th day of August last.
and, therefore, have concluded to give
your readers brief but true statement
of what was said and done at that
magnificent Constitutional ConYen-
ton. Posters had been sent out in eve
~ direction, and flaming handbills
stared you in the face at every public
corner and blacksmith shop within
fifty miles of the meeting, and il had
been Rdverstis j in nearly every Demo-
cratic paper in the State. Alter all this
effort, and the promise of the unregen-
Grated that VallandiRham, Sandy Stu
art, j. b. Baldwin, Charles Carter Lee
and other equally prominent unwashed
would address the Conservative and
Democratic masses, a-.mixed crowd of
about 1000, composed of both sexes
and all ages, and of all shades of color.
gathered at and near the stand. The
band played the " Bonnie Blue Flag"
which was greeted with warm applause.
After which William G. Brown, candt-
date for Congress for this district, pro
oh fr,laN E1nH Old Tlnnnfn
ion, the mother of States and ofstates-
men; which was responded TO with
three old fashioned Confederate yells.
He then proposed three cheers for West
Virginia, the youngest daughter of the
Old Dominion. This was responded to
Cant go that;o "ain't no such State;"
"Bhe's bastard" &C. He then deIiV.
cred himself OF a labored speech of one
and half hours, in which he abused
every body but the. rebels; said the Yam
KEGS wereg great money makers; that they
could make money any, place. North,
South, East, or West, and fairly electrt.
fed the crowd by informing them that
''a Yankee would steal anything, even
the shirts of the backs of the niggers."
This was responded to by the old rebel
yell and cries OF "Thats so" and
"Good." He hoped that old Thdd. had
gone where all the good niggers go. He
patches from Valandigham, Baldwin,
and others, in which they made all
sorts of excuses for not being present.
Tom Ewing, Jr., was the next speak
er, who occupied about two hours get.
ting of in an excellent manner the
same old old speech, delivered by him
in New York and other places. He
was followed by D. d. Johnson and
Chas. Carter Lse, brother of Robert
e. Lee. Lee sneered at the term loyal.
Told the people to have.a little patience
and all would come out we'll. That the
North would help them out in this cleo
ton. He said that If this election did
not bring relief, then they must cali on
The dagger of BTWtLs. At the close of
Lees harangue 1t was announced that
there would BIO speaking in the Court
House in the evening, and the crowd
then dispersed. Large numbers of
those who participated in the meeting
wore the confederate badge, to viii: Red
white and red. After the crowd had
left the ground some ex-cOnfederate
soldiers got the large United States flag
which hung over the speakers stand,
and which had been borrowed at Cum
berland for the occasion, and taking
hold of the corners mounted their
horses and dragged 1t through the mud
and dirt of the town of Mooretield,
and then not being content with
this iDdignity to the flag against
which they had waged war for
nearly four years, they ran their
horses over 1t, trampled 1t in the mud
and thus almost completed its destruc-
ton. AT the court house in the even
ing gathered the noisest crowd that
ever saw for its size. They were adj
dressed by two speakers from Cumber-
land, Maryland. The last one named
Resley commenced by saying that il
had been said that the war had settled
u
forever. This he denied. he said, that
war was simply a question of brute
force and couldn't ''settle principle"
Principles were questions of right and
wrong and war had nothing to do with
them. He then proceeded to prove that
secession was constitutional, and coer-
cion unconstitutional, called Lincoln
Fort Sumpter with supplies, in order
that the flag might be fred on and thus
fire the northern heart, called Lincoln
a perjured scoundrel. Asked old per-
jured Lincoln to come up from his
grave and show him, If he could where
oftTditoTS, said Lincoln'S brutal SoLdieT,y
were the traitors, said, "I have no
doubt there are many brave confeder-
ate soldiers in the room. Boys you
need have no fears OF your being hung,
not hair of your head will be touched.
why QOn'L bdT. CHuSe Try tfeStueHL
Davis. He knows very we'll that If the
question ever comes before the court
they will be bound to find secession CON-
and coercion unconstitution-
al, and that they were the traitors to-
the constitution, We tDiU get the potUeT'
some day, and tDhen IOe do this question
tViI be decided. When tHe get the PoiDeT
some of LtncoLil'S murdeTers falsely cal
led soldiers tUtLt be strung up" He
was vociferously cheered during his
whole speech, and cries were made of
"Give 1t to them"-"l here amt but two
in the house, and I know them''-
"That's So" &c. would have been
glad If Tom Ewing, Jr.. had heard that
speech. You see Tom was one OF
"Lincoln's brutal soldiery." 1 would
like to see how he would take the
prospect of being strung up when his
party gets into power. Since the meet
ing have often heard Tom spoken of
contemptuously-as a galvanized Yam
kee-a man who had turned his coat to
get office-not to be trusted, &c. BE
had better try his ammunition in some
other quarter, than among the Rebels
of West Virginia. UNION.