The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-07

barrier that has been erected to protect
the country from a renewal of the re-
bellion or the laceomplshment without
of the purposes for which the rebellion
was raised. No irreversable guaranty
would then stand between us and the
fepuCifation of the public debt or the
assumption Of the rebel debt; between
us and the reinstatement of the me-
0roes, or compensation for them
Sy me Government; between us and
widows and orphans of dead and to
crippled Union soldiers, or the pensions
ing of the Confederate soldiers and SOL
diers' widows. If the negroes are al
lowed to remain in a condition. OF nom-
inal freedom, they would be at once
dIstranchfsed, and the South, Whlch
has heretofore had three-htthB repre-
sentation for her black population,
would then have full representation for
her whole population, black and white.
The result would be that one white
man in South Carolina would have as
much political power in Congress as
one and a half white men in West Yir-
ginia, and the South would have
twelve more members in the lower
House of Congress than before the re-
bellIon-Which would be the added
representation for the other two-hfths
OF the black population. In other
words, she would send up thirty MEM
not one of whom would have voice
in the election OF any of those thirty
members.
Mr.. Wiley said in concluding that
he had lately visited other parts of the
State and he assured his hearers that
in the mountain counties the fires OF
loyalty were brightly burning. The
mountain homes of West Virginia
would echo the glorious greeting that
comes swelling across from the YER
mont hills-the Green Mountain boys
of the North side of our glorious Con-
federacy. They out In the interior
would like to hear good account from
commercial and manufacturing city,
flour State. Why should not Wheeling
stand firm in this our Goantry's Crisis3
All her pecuniary interests are invol-
we'd. Let the greenback theory succeed
and the result wonld be that
Institute speech. No Language could
describe the disasters that would fol-
low. Mr.. Pendleton'h had depicted them
in his speeches in 1862, and Mr.. Sey-
mour just before his nomination. Let
us not be cramped by our old Whigand
Democratic proclivfties. Things arc
changed Let us remember we have
had rebellion in this land and the
borders of our political country have
been enlarged and modified. There has
been an upheaval of society. God, in
his providence has baptised this reVo-
luton, as Hedoes all great revolutions,
in blood, and has upheaved society to
higher plane and a different atmos-
phere; and we are prepared now, If we
are equal to the occasion, if we compre-
bend, as we ought, the great indications
Providence, to take a longer, u wider,
n higher and a grander sweep. Human
ity has been elevated. Christian civil
lization is to take a new start and to
soar above in "A higher and holier at
mosphere. And this is the great dis
tinction between the parties: The Re-
publican party has acknowledged the
Indications of Providence in a course
animated by new spirit infused by
this great revolution into the great heart
of humanity, and is marching on to n
higher degree of civilization and n
Erander development of equal rights
and equal justice before the law and
before the world, while the Democrats
are down creeping and grovelling in
the valleys below, to see If they cannot
find some splinter of the old Democratic
platform to stand upon. .5H5l asles
Before the meeting was called to or
der theroll-book of the Club was open
ed and over one hundred persons sign
ed their names to become members of
the Club.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Willey's
speech, the Glee Club, under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Francis a. Britt, sang the
song entitled Grant our Hero" in a
very pleasing manner, after which the
meeting adjourned with three cheers
for Grant o01 NoIFa~