The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-21
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an unflinching determination to fulfil
all the duties that rest upon us, to se
cure justice to the soldier who fought
our battles, justice to the Southern
[applausel imperilled his life and tor.
tune for Justice to the colored race and
to whom we have promised true and
eternal Justice; Justice to the national
creditor who has staked his credit. { Ap.
plause, great and prolonged.l Let us
faithfully strive to restore the honor oi
the Government, to crush corruption
cries of good, inside of the party just
as well as outside of the party, lap
plause and cheers,l and to place the
| public service of the country in the
hands of honest, true and capable men.
| CApplause.l Let us with one unshaken
purpose work out the manifest logic of
the results already gained for liberty
acknowledge, that the mission of the
Republican party Will not be needed
until the great truth, proclaimed in
the Declaration OF Independence in
the fullest meaning of the term, have
become living reality. lApplause.l
Yes, let US be true to our history. be
true to ourselves and fear nothing. No
step backward-onwardi is the watch
word. Let us see again the banner of
progress, OF liberty, of equal rights,
and national faith nailed to the very
top OF the mast. And / say to you
spurn the idea that the American peo-
pie could ever so far forget themselves
as to throw their destinies into the
hands of men who, but yesterday,
sought to destroy the Republic, and
who, to-day, stand ready to dishonorit.
loud and continued applause. az
Mr.. Smithers, of Delaware, to COM
plete the preliminary organization,
moved that the following gentlemen be
elected temporary Secretaries: John r.
Cowan, Ohio; Luther Caldwell. New
| York; and Frank 8. Richards, Tonnes
see. Agreed to.
On motion, Il was ordered that the
Secretary call the roll OF the States,
and that each delegation respectively
shall name one gentleman, and that
those thus named constitute Com
mittee on Credentials.
Mr.. Smithers said, as 1 understand
there are two States, Maryland and
California, in which the delegations are
contested. suggest that these States
be omitted and their claims be decided
by the Committee on Credentials.
When the Secretary called California
and the delegation named Gen. p. Il.
Conner, Mr.. Smithers said, there seems
to be some misunderstanding. un-
oerstand that the States in which the
delegations were contested were to be
omitted.
Mr.. Sears, of California, said, AS a
gentleman has mentioned the State
which 1 in part represent, 1 wish to
deny that there is any contest whatever
in regard to the State of California. 1t
is true, sir, that there is II man here
who has been before the Executive
claiming to contest our seat, but sir,
there Is one man only.
General Van Brandt, of Rhode Is
Ior n n FaninE nF nF6nr a 1afH
this matter should be referred to the
Committee on Credentials.
Mr.. Sears, of California, asked two
minutes to make an explanation We
do not desire to bring this contest up
here, but the gentleman has forced it
upon us. The man who here contests
our seats voted a Copperhead ticket at
the last election in California; (hear,
hear,) he and one or two others met in
a back room and selected delegates to
attend this Convention. They have no
party; they have had no primary cleo
tion; they had no Conventions; they had
nothing; and believe in my humble
Judgment that he comes here, and that that
his passage is paid by Democratic
money. to keep up this division in our
State. We are Eere representing the
Union and Republican party of Cali
fornia. We polled forty thousand votes
in that State at the last election, lap
plausel and the sinking, craving
split which this man represents, only
polled two thousand, and out of that
two thousand, in our last Convention
they could not find in all the State OF
California any man who would accept
this position which he occupies. They
selected men who had formerly lived in
California. Two of them are in your
city, and came into our rooms last
night and repudiated the entire pro-
ceeding, and said they were for us. We
ask this Convention to give us our
seats, as they of right belong to us, and
not cast a stain upon us and raise this
man to the dignity of a contestant.
[Laughter and applause.l cannot un-
derstand why the committee has recog-
niZed him in the slightest degree, lun
less it is, crawling copperhead, like
the serpent did Eve, he has deceived
them with his oily tongue. daughter
and applause Now, sir, there is no
contest in California, and / have done.
1 simply ask this Convention not to
dignity him or the little squad to which
he belongs, and cast stain upon US by
compelling US to go before this Com
mittee on Credentials with contest
when there is none.
b, r. Nickerson, of California, con-
testant-I wish to ask whether this
Convention is prepared to hear In open
Convention the question, when we are
prepared to submit It, where wesup-
pose it belongs, namely, to the Com
mittee on Credentials,
Several delegates urged that this de-
bate was out of. place; that the case
should go the Committee on Creden-
tials, and 1t was so referred.
The Secretary proceeded with the eau
of the States, but omitted such OF the
States as are unrepresented in Congress
A delegate made the point OF order
that the States were to be called alpha
betically.
are doing.
The Observation-Disclosures, Alabama
and Georgia have not been called.
Why are they not called when harmon-
izing the wishes of the ConyentionY
The President-The call of the Ma
tional Convention did notinclude those
States; they were not invited to be rep
resented here. It was to be lett 10 the
Convention, when assembled, 10 de-
eide upon what their standing Is.
The Delegate-The point of order
make is that the order of the ConVen-
ton to call the States In their alpna-
betical order is not complied with. we
would like to know why the names OF
Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia nave
not thus far been calledr
Another delegate moved that all the
Southern States be called, which was
A delegate-As Colorado is only out
by the veto of Andrew Johnson ana
as she will undoubtedly be In In IlIne
for the presidential election, move
Colorado be called for a delegate, Ever
since the close OF the war the Congress
of the. United States has practically
controlled the Southern States as Ter
ritories. Upon that basis the whoie
theory of demonstration rests. II u IS
mt, constitutional then they have been