The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-23
Address of The national democratic
Committee.
NEW YoRR Octohar oi' Ieee

AutAEesb OF inc National Democratic
Committee. -5s
NEW York, October 81, 1868.
FELLOW CITIZENS: st is a great priv
ilege and duty. to address YOU on the
eve OF the great battle which we are to
night, and which is to decide whether
the government of this Republic Is 10.
remain four years more in the hands of
the Radical party, or whether, by an
energetic, united and last effort Won will
Wrest the power from its grasp and give
to US, under Democratic Conservatives
administration, a government based
| upon principles of Justice, economy
and constitutional liberty. The issues
ofthe present campaign are self. evfdent;
they appealto the intelligence and pa
trlotlsm OF every voter in the most un-
mistakable terms; they have been dis
cussed by distinguished orators of our
party since the nomination of our can
didate. What the democratic party in
tend to do If placed in power by your
SURFACES, is to restore peace and union
70 our country; to give to the people of
| the South the rights to which they are
entitled under the Constitution, and
by which alone we can bring back
prosperity and quiet to that distracted
seclon; to reduce materiallyiour military
and naval establishments, kept up now
on an Immense scale and at enormous
cost; tolntroduce into every department
Vi GAS GONeEuul6nL Iue 6tFlcIeSJ eCOQOs
my, andto develope by an equitable sys-
tenn OF imports and taxation the grow.
ing resources of our country, and thus
place the Federal finances on a stable
and solid footing, and to pavethe way
to gradual and safe return to specie
payment. We are charged by the Rad
tcal party-the party of violence and
usurpation, which, for the last four
years, to prolong its existence, has set
at naught the Constitution and the
| fundamental principles of our govern
meut-that we intend revolution and
defiance of the established laws. The
accusation is unfounded and absurd; it
| cannot be entertained for moment by
any intelligent voter who has the most
super hcial knowledge of the history of
his country. The Democratic party can
proudly point to every page OF its re-
cord, 1t has never violated single OBJ
| legation of the fundamental compact by
which these United States entered into
the family of nations-lts wRtchword
in peace as in war has been and will
always be, the Union, the Constitution,
| the laws, and no man or any set of men,
however high they might be placed by
the suffrage of their fellow citizens can
ever expect to receive the support of
this great conservative party in any
revolutionary attempt against the es-
tabllshed laws. The ballot. box and
the supreme will OF the American peo-
pie are the only means of redress to
| which Welook. Fellow Democrats, you
are fighting for a good and righteous
cause; you have for your leader tried
| statesman, a patriot, who stood by the
Union in its darkest hour; man equal
ly beloved for purity ofprtvate charac-
| ter, as honored for his public virtues.
Opposed to you are the men who have
subverted the structure of their own
system of representative self.govern-
ment indicated to the world by more
than half a century of prosperity
and greatness; the men who have
Increased our enormous debt by
prof1igacy and corruption unparal.
led; the men who in two sue
their incompetency to diminish our
burdens by economy or apportion them
with equality; the men who have dis
tributed burdens that press with ex-
cessive weight upon the labor and In
dustry ofthe country by making poor
men poorer; opposed to your are the
men who have denied for eight years
of peace, and will continue to deny,
until your votes arrest them, seIf-gov-
eminent to the people of ten States; the
men who have taken away the power
of the Chief Magistrate to ensure
faithful execution of the laws or COM
mand the army and navy of the Unit
ed States; the men who did the worst
to expel the President from the White
. House for obeying faithfully the be-
nests OF your SupEen6- ldHS Lu6 uleu
who being conscious of their crimes
dreaded to have the Supreme Court de-
clare their quality, and therefore alb
rIdged its Jurisdiction, and silenced its
voice; the men who have usurped and
are grasping and welding powers not
possessed day by any monarch
l among civilized nations. Against
Q these men and all their despotic pur-
I poses which General Grant would be
as powerless 10 hinder as he whom
they elected four years ago has been;
against these men, their crimes in the
past, and their nefarious designs in the
future, you are soon, 70, make one final
and determined onslaught. Four years
B ago we failed to expel them from pow
er, although we predicted then as we
now predict, their incompetencyt to give
the people peace-declarlng then, as we
now declare the revolutionary pur.
poses of their most active leaders
who ruled the party as they
would rule the country with despotit
sway; but these four years have justt-
fed our warning. Our predictions arr
I their enactments now. What we feared
: they have done, the revolution hai
, made steady progress once, and nov
we call every patriot to join our ranks
J. If the people will now rise in theil
majesty and might they can save theil
instItution and rebuild them: If:theJ
are supine and regardless of their sa
cred interests so much in the last foul
years has been accomplished, and 81
much in the next four years may easi
liz be accomplished no obstacle then re
manning, that revolution will become
fixed fact, the structure of our Govern
g ment will have been completely re
modeled-it may be a GoYernmen
still-it will no longer be your repre-
y sentative selfgovernment. For Ihi
3 fnal struggle, then, fellow Democrat
Of the Upiied States;Tlet rs invigofat
levery muscle and nerve every hear
The time is short, the foe Is stubborn
and desperate. Our victory would b
The death blow to the Republican par
ty; It could have been held together b.
no other nomination, It cannot surviy
your successful assault; one victory
enough. Your triumph in Novembe
Will finally re.establish the Union an
), Constitution for another generation c
men; 1t will restore peace and good OF
der to the South, prosperity to III
North, and wise and frugal rule
both. The great prize is worthy {
Z lyour most strenuous endeayor.
Our ranks are unbroken, our courag
unabated. Once moro to the breach
and this time victory.
For the Democratic National CoIn
mittee.
Ha AUausT BKLMoNT, Chairman.