The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-27

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their ieet when they dared TO atternp
% make that nag the winding sheet 9
tne world, best hopei when they dare,
70 Euloe their traitorous hands to tn
nauons heart, that they might plune
me dagger into dt and dafroy 1t forever
s an Wnen all over this land the faith
Iul people rallied by their Presiden
and rallied by their country, took ul
the sword to save the land that IN
sword OF treason had doomed to de
struclon-then every act committed b,
4 me 'admlntstratton,E every policy b
Which they sought to strike down tina
MAIN power OF treason was ,denounce,
from one end ofthls country to the 9th
er as usurpation. And when the wa
was over; when the work of reconstruc
tiop was to be accomplished; when /
was TO be determined whether thesl
States should pass back again into tn
hands and under the power of the very
men who had used the power and a1
thoritY of these States against Iis nj
through the rebellion to consolidatl
their confederacy, to hurl their armies
against the armies of the Union-wher
we, and we alone of all the parties o,
the land, stood In the gap and said
loyalty shall govern what loyalty pre-,
served, again we heard the cry usurpR.
ton, usurpation.I glory in this usur.
patton (Applause.) fffFEF
speech: 81 trust that when this cleo.
ton shall have Terminated it shall be
the judgment of the United States that
the Intention of the trainers of our Con.
stitution shall be carried ont, and that
the power shall, In such degree, be
divided between the great political or
ganlzaGons as that they can hold each
other in check, and that II shall neither
be in the power of the Republican or Of
the Democrats party to plunge our
country into the evils of civil war, even
II they could find Is in their hearts to
do thing so unwise, SO wicked and so
unpatrlotic." He wants a division of
the. Republican party and the Demo-
cratic party from plunging our country
into the evils of civil war. 1t is not
needed. Governor Seymour. EAps
plause. No man In the Republican
party ever plunged the country into the
horrors of anarchy and carnage and
desoIRtion of civillWar. No Repnbli-
can ever fired upon that nag. MORE
publican ever drew his rifle with deadly
intentRtthe heart ofthat hag. Not one
NOT one. ECheers. l. told you I came
only with u shield TO vindicate my
party, bat 1 thank God that Of all the
men who have eyer voted the Republi-
can Ticket, that ever stood upon our
platform, thar ever breathed our gprin-
ciples, not one solitary one Ct them ever
lifted his hands against that flag. And
you are going TO elect a Democratic
President, Governor Seymour says, to
keep these rebels from involving the
country in manslRughter. I tell you,
what the people aregoing to do. They
are going TO elect Grant as President TO
prevent those men from ever daring TO
lift their hands against the Government
again. [Great applause, SIknow well
you cannot have indemnify for the past.
You cannot go down to those hundred
battle fields and restore our, dead SOL
diers to life. No1hcann0t go 10 the
widow who has lost her husband,
deRrer TO her than all else shot down
by rebel bullet and clothe him With
life again-to life and to the oy of her
years. You cannot restore
to those among our orphans, made so
by rebel bullets the fathers that train
sd them in the pains of-usefulness and
virtue, but L tell You one thing you can
do, you canuhRye security forlthe fu-
ture, and the people intend to have that
by eIeGlinR the destroyer of the rebel.
lion as their President. :, -
I+wilEtell you oEanother us uEpaiio Ion.
There was a Convention which met at
this dislinR 1tshed citizen
Of the7yUnited States, Governor Sey-
Inour was President. Il was in the
very midst of this war, In the. very
crisis of the natiouls agony when your
soldiers were dying iDs the trenches,
lying In the camp; dy ing Of disease on
heir march, decimaled by rebel bullets,
lying with their young hearts, the |
blood flowing from their veins, muir
iered by traitors, for their devotion 70
the flag, In the very midst OF that,
" hen, the fate of the natibn's lie and
death hung trembling insthe balance,
when it would bes decided in q short
twelVs months whether we would have
he country live or whether the coun-
try WAS to bs destroyed, that CQnveh-
lion, with Governor Seymour in the
IhRir, proclaimed aloud that the war
was d failure, and hung out the white |
dag of surrender and demanded q ces-i
,atfon of hostillties, and our usuFpa-
ion then was that we dared TO strike
down that platform and all who stood |
On 1t aud say in spite of that the coun- |
Try shall live, the war 10 not a fahure5
he rebellion shall be puzzled, we accept
no terms but lucondiIional surrender.
-Great applause.l That was one usur-
patton, and the people are going TO be
guilty against such another one at this
coming November. lCheers-l .esf
/ said to you few moments ago that
there was not single man In all our
hosts who eyer raised his hand or raised
his rifle against that flag, but there
were. three hundred Thousand Of the
brRvest and-the best who are day
in patriot graves not one of
them murdered by q. RepuDlieanl not
one of them shot down by Republic
can, not one of them whose young life
was given for his country by the dead
ly rifle of a Republican. How were
they killed They were killed by the
very men who are going to vote for this
man as President Of the United States;
Why were they killed7 They were
hoNNla fiaIH
who forgot their u legiances to their
country dared to raise the rifle and
draw The bead upon il that the bullet
might speed to their hearts, and there
by the country might be weakened.R-
Issthere a man here who fought nm
der the banner of the Union who is
going to vote that uckeI3 If there IL,
Iet.me say a word, 70 him In kindness
and friendship. When you 90 to the
baIlot-box and drop int,hat ballot, by
which you and the other millions of
our country rule this land and control
It's destjnies, you are going to drop II,
in side by side, If not in actual prox-
Unity, yet in spirit, in principle and
in soul, with the men who on the bat
tie. field sought TO kill You for your adj
hesion To the, flag. Sensation. + II
three hundred thousand more could
have been murdered by the rebels, this
might have been destroyed. IL
isnot the fault OF ths man who drops
his ballot In with you; IL is not the
fault of Wade Hampton; Il Is not the
fault of Forrest and other Generals,
Wise and others, who are going TO vote
with you; it Is not their fault that Yop
are LIVING to- day. They drew the lead
upon you: they aimed at your, heart,
because you were faithful TO the ale
glance which they themselves repudi-
ated. Code providence Turned aside
that ballot; but " the men with whom
You are going to vote could have led
the way, you would have been bleed,