The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-07

to meet the exactionsP The time was
when we could not only write the
European to share with us the national
blessings of our great country; but
more than this, we could tell those who
fed from oppression that we lived
under a government of laws admins
tered by the judiciary, which kept the
bayonet and the sword in due subordi-
nation. We could point to a written
Constitution, which not only marked
out the powers of the government, but.
with anxious care, secured to the hum
person, and of conscience. Is immi-
grafton encouraged by trampling the
Constitution in the dust, treating with
contempt and shackling the Ju-
dietary, insulting the Executive,
and give all the world to under
stand that the great guarantee
OF political and civil rights are de-
stroyed. But the browning Indictment
against the follies of crimes of those in
power Is these words: That we recog-
nize the great principles handed down
in the Declaration of Independence as
the true foundation of democratic gov
eminent, and we hail with gladness
every effort towards making these prin.
ciples living reality on every inch OF
American soil, If within the limits of
the State of this Union. And If an
American citizen, sLung by sense OF
his wrong, should publicly and truth
fully denounoe the men in power be-
cause in the very language of this
Declaration of Independence they have
erected a multitude of offices, and sent
hither swsrms of officers to harrasS our
people and cnt out their subsistence, he
would, In all human probability, be
dragged to prison. Or II, in the inde.
pendent language of our fathers, he
should exclaim, they have affected to
render the military independent or su-
perier TO the civil power; they have
abolished the free system of English
laws aud established herein an arbi-
trary goyernmentj for the ofiense of AS
sertiug these principles he would be
tried and punished by military tri-
bunal. Having declared that the prin-
ciples of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence should be made a living reality
on every inch of American soil, they
have put in the nomination "A military
chieitain who stands at the head of that
system of despotism that brushes be-
meath 1t the greatest principles OF the
Declaration of Independence. To-day
in some of the States IL is held by mill
tary orders to be crime to speak out
the indignation and contempt which
burn within the bosoms OF patriotic
men. II tomorrow military order
should be put forth in that State where
the ashes of Washington are entOmbed
that 1t be an offense to declare that the
military should ever be subordinate to
the civil authority; TO speak the senti-
ments that it was a disgrace to our
country to let hordes of officials eat up
the substance of the people: he who ut
tered these words would be dragged to
prison from the very grave where lies
the remains OF the author of the DeClar-
alton of Independence. From this out
rage there should be no appeals to the
nut N.It g..
the Presidency has accepted position
which makes the rights and liberties of
large share of our people dependent on
his will, In view of these things can
there be one man in this Convention
who can let a personal ambition, a
passion, a prejudice, turn him aside
one hairs breadth in his efforts 10 wipe
out the wrongs and intrages which dis
grace our country? Can there be one
man whose heart is SO dead to all that
is great and noble in the patriotism but
thht he will gladly sacrifice all other
things for the sake of his coontry, its
liberty and its greRtness2 Can we suf-
fer any prejudices growing out OF past
differences of opinion TO hinder us
uniting now with all who will act
with us to save our country? We meet
to-day to see what measures can be
taken to avert the dangers which
threaten our country, and TO save 1t
from the evils and nurthens resulting
from bad government and unwise
counsels. thank God that the strife
of States has ceased, and tn once more
in the great conventions of our party
we can call through the whole roll of
States and find men to answer for each,
and time events in the great cycle have
brought us to this spot to renew and ret
inaugerate the constitutional govern
ment, which nearly SO years ago was
inauserated in this city. 1t was here
that Geo. Washington, the first Presi-
dent sworn to preserve, protect and de-
fend the Constitution of these United
States, and here this day we as solemn
ly ourselves swear to uphold the rights
and liberties of the American people.
Then, as now, great war which had
desolated our land had ceased. Then,
as now, there was in every patriotic
breast a longing for the blessings of
good government for the protection
of the laws and for the sentiments OF
of paternal regard and affection among
the inhabitants ofall the States OF this
Union. When our Government, in
1889, was inaugurated in this city there
was glad professions of men and those
manifestations of great joy which
people show when they feel that an
event has happened which is to give
lasting blessings to the land. To-day,
in this same spirit, this vast assemblage
thronged with men who have come
from the utmost borders of our conti-
nent, they are filled with the hope that
we are about, by our actions and our
policy, to bring back the blessings OF
good government. 1t Is among the
happiest events which inspires us now
that those who fought bravely In our
late civil war are foremost in their de-
mands that their shall be peace in our
land. The possessions of hate and
malice may linger in meaner breasts,
but we find ourselves upheld In our
generous purposes by those who
showed true courage and manhood In
battle. In the spirit, then, of George
Washington and the patriots OF the
revolution, let US take the steps to re-
inaugurate our Government, to start IL
once again on its course to greatness
and prosperity. May Almighty God
give us the wisdom to carry out our
purposes-to give every State of our
Union the blessings of peace, good or
der and fraternal affection.
Mr.. Seymour closed amid great
cheering.
VICE PRESIDENTS AND SECRETARIES.
The Vice Presidents are named first:
Alabama, Reuben Chapman, VIM. A.
Lowe; Arkansas, B. Turner, Jno. w.
Wright; California, Hon. a. n. Rose,
NJ. j. Gillett: Connecticut, n. ID. Mitch
ell, Geo. D. Hastings; Delaware, g. w.
Cummins, O. W.Wright; Florida. Thos.
Randall, g. 81. Smith; Georgia, Hon.A.
r. Wright, VIM. A. Reid; Illinois, d.
NJ. Woodson, w. T. Dowdelli Indiana,
Jas. A. Craven, w. r. BOWles; Iowa,
W. McClintock, p. II. Bowogsnet;
Kansas, a. j. Meade, Isaac Sharp;
Kentucky, Lucius Desha, Hart Gibson;
louisiana, Louis st. Martin, j. 81. KEN
naFd. Maina TSaan Reed. j. A.TFuB.