The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-20
From the Cincinnati Enquirerj !
Key-Note of the Campaign.
GREAT SPEECH OF Z
HON. GEO. q. PENDLETON,
At Grafton, West Virginia,
On Thursday, July 10th, lsSs
INTRODUCTORY.


Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN 1t
will be impossible for me to make my,
self heard in this immense audience
unless you keep quiet; and | shall ask
that while l am speaking You will allow
me to proceed without interruption.
thank you, gentlemen, for the very cor
dial reception you have just given me,
The Chairman of your State Executive
Committee, who invited me to attend
your meeting to-day, told me that had
no truer friends in the Union than
would meet here in West Virginia. You
have proven his statement true. came
obedient to your bidding. | desired to
see you; to make your personal ac-
quaintance, and to return to you my
thanks for the warm and constant sup.
port of your delegates to the National
Convention. | came to show you that
no personal disappointment fingers in
nv breast or dampens for an instant
the ardor of my efforts for the success
of cur party; that far above all personal
considerations | rate the success of the
principles in which | believe, and that
whoever shall bear the flag on which
those principles are inscribed, / shall be
found close by his side, in the thickest
of the fight, to cheer him with my voice
and to aid him with my arm. Ire
mendous applause. l came to urge
upon you, Democrats and Republicans
alike, to trample under foot every pre-
possession, and prejudice, and passion,
if it were as dear as life itself, and,
rising to the height of this great strug-
ole, to remember that we have only q
little life to give and noble, esduring
government to save.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE PARTY OF
LIBERTY AND PROGRESS.
lam a party man, l avew it, but not,
trust, in any narrow or sectarlau
sense. | am attached from conviction
to the principles of the Democratic par
ty. | have studied its history from the
foundation of the Government. In the
States | have found it to be the party
of liberty and progress. In the Fed
eral Government have found it to be
the exponent of that fundamental prin-
ciple of the Constitution that "all pow
ers which are not granted are reserved y
/ IL has been the consistent opponent oil
consolidation in the one system, and o,
excessive administration III the :other
1t has been at once the firm supporter
of the rights of the States and OF the
lust powers of the Federal Government
In every vicissitude of our history 1T has
appeared to direct us with its wisdom
and to extricate us by its courage, and
TODAY il stands as it did in 1898 and
1899, under the guidance of Mr.. JET
ferson, pointing us the path of safety
which is now, as it was thcn-the Con
stitutisn-the path of fraternal har
mony and peace.
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION THE SYM
boil OF A RESTORED UNION.
The Convention which sat in New
York was an august assembly. 1t was
the true council of our party. 1t em
braced our best, and purest, and wlses
men. The roll of the States was called
and not one was without representa-
tive. The roll of the districts was
called, and not one was missing. The
doctrine of State suicide was not r0cog
nized. The dissolution of the Unior
was not acknowledged. Every State
was invited to be present, and every
State accepted the invitation. Every
State selected such citizens as she chose
and thus 1t happened North Carolina
and South Carolina, and Georgia, ant
Virginia, sat as in the days of the Kew
iolution, in fraternal council with Mas
sachusetts, and New York, and Pennsyl
vania, and New Jersey; and that Hamp
ton. and Preston, and Forrest, sat sld'
by side with Steedman and Morgan. Th'
Convention was the sign, and the sym
boil, and the prophecy OF a restored
Union and harmonious people. 1t ros'
to the dignity of it's high duty. Th'
ewes of the world were upon its pro
ceedings-greater than the Holy ALI
ance, which subjugated peoples and dl
yided empires, it's mission was to EN-
franchise the people of our own race
to restore the Union of our States; an'
TO maintain the institutions OF civil lib
erty. For the first time in their nls
tory, the American people realized tina
free government was in danger, an,
that the fate of the Republic trembleo
in the balance. They had been taugh
To believe that freedom was indigenou
70 our soil, and, shutting their eyes t
the teachings VI al h'''0'S =
their eyes to the facts connected VIII
our Revolution. they had huggeu l
themselves the delusion that whateve
the storm of faction, or passion, or rev
olutionary feryor, liberty at least wa
safe. They had awakened frem I'd
dream. As they sent Representative
Ia the Convention, they charged them
as the Dictator of old was charged: use
TO it that no detriment happens to I'd
, Republic"
THE PLATFORM.
Re unanimous vete they adopted q dt
cIaration- of principles-"fdelity to tn
Constitutions" fidelity to the Union;
"6delity to the rights of States;" "hde
ity to the rights of the citizens" "hde
5 ity to the principles of civil liberty
"6delity to that policy in matters
finance and taxation, which, by psyin
| the public debt in legal-tender notes
. will lift from the shoulders of labor tn
burthens which oppress it, and by ligh'
ening the measure of taxation VIII s.
cure it the just rewards of a cheerit
g and contented industry" [Applause'
a THE NOMINEES.
8 And the assertion of these principle
T was also. by O unanimous vote, contide
r to one who is worthy of the trust, b
4 his age and experience, and intellee
and cultivation; by his honesty, his p'
& triotism and his unsullied reputation
ID By the possession of every virtue who
ID adorns a public or private life, Hor'
+ tic Seymour stands the first OF state
"a men; and his explicit declaration ths
~ he approves every line of those resolI