The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-06
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.


NEW YORK, July 4.-Tammany Hall
IL admirably arranged for meeting of
the Conventions; elegantly festooned
| with large American dags and deco
rated with elaborately painted escutch-
cons of all the States. Accommoda-
lions for the delegates are ample: ar
rRngements for the press are excellent,
except that the committee in charge
persisIently refuse admission to ac-
credited messengers.
STATE OF THERMOMETERS.
| The weather is intensely hot, but the
Hall Is perfectly ventilated.
| THE OUTSIDERS.
Among the spectators ara many
| ladies; also, Francis p. Blair, Senator
Patterson, ex-senator Bayard, Gov.
| Swami, and many men prominent
| in Southern politics before the war.
The Hall galleries are densely crowd
| ed; a great strong police forco at the
doors and Oh the street keep the road
Open and preserve good order.
THE CALL TO ORDER.
The Convention was called to order
AT twenty minutes past twelve O'Clock,
by August Belmont, Chairman of the
| National Democratic Committee. who
spoke as follows:
BELMoNT's SPEECH.
Gentlemen OF the Conventlon:-lL is.
| my pFlVlleBe lO.udy " WelCOLie SOuueEe
| in this hall, constructed with SO much
| artistic taste, and rendered to you by
the time honored Society of Tammany.
| / welcome You TO this temple erected to
| the Goddess of Liberty and her
staunchest defenders, and most fervent
| worshiPpera. l welcome you to this
! good city of New York, the bulwark
Of democracy, which has rolled back
the surging waves OF radicalism
| through all The storms OF The last eight
| years, and I welcome you to your en-
pire State, which last fall redeemed
herself from Republican misrnle, by
Il majority of nearly $4,000 votes, and
| which claims the right to head the van
| guard of victory in the great battle to
| be fought ne xt November for the preser-
| vation of our institutions, laws and
| liberties. 1t is most auspicious
omen that we meet under such clrcnm-
! stances and surrounded by such asso-
| Citations. 1 share your own confident
hope OF the overwhelming success of
the ticket and platform which will be
the result OF your deliberations, for 1t
| is to the American people that our ap'
peal lies. Their final Judgment will be
Just. The American people will no
| longer remain deaf 10 the teachings of
the past. They will remember that 1t
was under successive democratic adj
mInistrations, based on. national prin-
ciples, the principles OF constitutional
liberty, that our country rose to pros
periiY and greatness unsurpassed IN
the annals of history. They will re-,
member days when the North and
South marched shoulder to shoulder to-
gether in the conquest of Mexico,
which gave our golden empire on the
Pacific, our California and our Oregon,
now the stronghold of triumphant
Democracy. They Will remember the
days when peace and plenty reigned
over tho whole Union, whe we had no
national debt to crush the energies OF
the people, when the tax gatherer was
unknown throughout the vast extent
OF the land, when the credit OF the
United States stood as high an the
money market of the word as thnL oil
any other, and they will remember with
n wise sorrow that with the downfall
| of the Democratic party i'll 1851 came
that fearful war which has brought
i mourning and desolRlion into every
household, has cost tho loss OF a million
OF citizens and left US with national
debt the burden of which drains the re-
sources, crIpples the industry, and i'm
poyerishes the labor of the country.
i They will remember that after the
fratricidal strife was ovors when the
bravery of our army and navy and the
| sacrifices of the people had restored the
| Union and indicated the supremacy of
4 the law; when the victor and van
ouished were equally ready to bury the
past and hold out the hand of brother
| hood and good will across the graves
4 of their fallen comrades, 1t was again
1 the defeat of the Democratic candidate
/ in 1864 which prevented the con-
| sumation SO devoutly wished for by all.
/ Instead of restoring the Southern States
| TO their rights; instead of trying to wipe
I out the miseries of the past by mag
unanimous policy, dictated alike by
humanity and sound craftsmanship,
tlHyF F1raUP6 f0F nv the gem
erous heart of the American people, the
Radicals in Congress, elected in evil
hour, have placed the iron heel
of the conquerer upon the South. Aus
tria did not dare TO fasten upon van
ouished Hungary, nor Russia impose
NOON conquered Poland, the ruthless
tyranny now imposed by Congress
npon the Southern States. Military
Ratraps are invested with dictatorial
power; overriding the decisions OF the
courts and assuming the functions Of
the civil authorities. The white popu-
lations are disfranchised or forced to
submit to a test oath, alike revolving TO
Justice and civilization, and debased
and ignorant race, just emerged from
servitude into power, control the des-
tinies of that fair portion of our COM
mon country. These men, elected to
he legislators, and as legislators only
trampling the Constitution under their
3 feet, have usurped the functions of the
> Executive and the Judiciary, and it is
impossible to doubt, after Ihe events OF
the last few months and the circum.
stances of the Impeachment trial, that
they will not shrink from an attempt
hereafter to subvert the Senate of the
United States, which alone stood be.
tween them and their victim and had
. virtue enough left not to allow the
? American name to be utterly disgraced
and justice. TO be dragged in the
Q dust, in order to carry this nefarious
: programme, our army and navy are
: kept in time of profound peace, on g
. scale which has involved yearly ex.
/ penditure of from one to two hundred
8 millions of dollars, prevents the re-
= duction of our national debt and inn
poses upon our people system OF tht
= most exorbitant and unequal taxation
with a vicious, irredeemable and de
nrecIated currency, and now the SAINT
party which has bought all these evils
, upon the country comes again peIor'
the American people asking for theli
suffrages and whom mas IL choset
J. for It's candidate the General com,
manding the armies OF the Onitet M
States. Can there be any donot !eit a.
the designs of the Radicals II tnel
should be able to keep their hold on I'M
reiRns OF the Government. Ihey IN
tend Congressional usurpation OF Int
> Government to be enforced by the Day
T nets of military despotism: IL IS ln
:, possible that free and intelligent peo
y pie can long submit to such a state Q
) things, and they will not calmly sup
y NIT TO see their liberties suoverteo, In