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

Inc speaker cOnLinuetl lnA6 ne cDulu
not see how any one can look without
commingled anger and disgust upon
the process of Congressional recon-
struetion. Ten of the United States
barred OF all their rights; the hungry
markets OF the world closed TO the pro-
ducts of the Southern fields sugar rot
ting in the cane the Mississippi piung-
ing over broken lsvees, and the boorish
plantation negroes pampered with de-
lusive hope, sitting in mockeries oil the
Convention.
He said that radicals argued that
such acts were needed to prevent DEM
ocrstic accession to power and conse-
quent reputation of the National debt.
but he thanked God that the National
power still was safe, and no repudia-
tion would be attempted, although If
anything were calculated 10 drive Yot-
ers to that alternative, 1t would be the
spectacle of all the National bondhol-
ders docking to one party and advo-
eating all kinds OF outrages under the
bug bear cry of "Dowu with repudla-
ton.
He continued that it lay with tn
Democratic Convention the duty of
saying what shall be the policy of the
next years, and who shall be its ex-
ponents, and to say wwhetheF they
shall be victorious in living issues, or
bestow on dead Issues two millions OF
men who were IN our recent armies.
OF these 500 600 have died during and
snce the war, aud there are now
l. .5OO, 900 soldiers living OF those voters.
This Convention represents at least
one-halt, and of that halt or more, are
of SO strong for conviction, that they
will.vOte for any DemOcraliclcAndlda
that has yet been named. LCheers
But the other halt he declared might
be lost or won to the Democratic party,
as the nomination might be wise or
otherwise. He did not doubt the wis
dom of the Tammany Convention, nor
that they would nominate standard
bearer, who whether he was or was not
a soldier in the recent war was without
doubt an advocate OF law. Applause
The issues of the present crisis were
not in any respect the issues for which
they lately fought. no one man VINO
laid down his life for negro suI-
fraCe, and the other radical
dogmas The Democratic psrty IS now
the only party which adheres to the
Constitution and the laws, and in the
path that 1t now treads can be dis
cerned the foot prints OF washington
of Jefferson, of Clay and Of Webster,
and while it Keeps their track it can be
followed with pride and with unfalter-
ing purpose. [Applause.l
At the conclusion OF General Ewing's
address the band struck up the air
"Rally round the flag" the chorus be-
ing sung by the audience.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATIONS.
The Committee on Permanent Or
ganization then reported the following
list OF regular officers: For permanent
Chairman, Major General William p.
Franklin, of Connecticut. States
Vice Presidents and Secretaries-Maine
Major d. X. Hastings, Colonel III. u.
Staples; New Hampshire, General NJ.
T. DOnhoe, Cogporell; Massachusetts,
General Luther Stephenson, Major III.
G. Waymouth; Connecticut, Colonel l..
G. Kingberry, Captain II. l.. Lehlutter;
Rhode Island. General j. G. Hazard,
Colonel T. Ford Brom: New York,
General ]. w. Blanchard, Colonel j. G.
Bronson; District Columbia, Colonel p.
II. Allabach, Colonel James r. Oberne;
California, General j. w. Denver, no
secretary; South Carolina, Lieutenant
s. Meday, no secretary; West Virginia,
DIR. r. A. Vance, Captain o. g. Chase;
Iowa, General J. NJ. Tuttle, Lieutenant
r. II. Eddy; New Mexico, General II.
B. Mitchell, Captain G. w. Cook 1lli-
nois, Colonel r. a. schwartz, P1YaIe
j. a. HiIdreth; Missouri, General j. s.
Fullerton; Colonel S. NJ. Jurell. Michi-
gan, Major j. w. Nixth, Major Foster
Pratt; kentucky. Major III. White.
Colonel w. @. Starr; Florida, Colonel
j. @. McKibben, no secretary; Miscon-
SIM GeneFal Ms houtBoueLSB L1touIeh
ant G. W. Bird; Tennessee, General
Theodore Tronevnicht; Lieutenant d.
Walker; Alabama, Colonel A. Ed
wards, Colonel Butler: Arkansas Cap
tain G. Z. Cameron, Captain William
McMechen; Minnesota, Major j. q.
Rhodes, Major George A. Oxlie; Indi-
ana, General John Love, Colonel II. 8.
Grove; Dakota, General }. B. s. Todd,
no secretary; New Jersey, General
Theodore Ruunion, Liutenant J. j.
Crapin; Nebraska, Colonel John Pan
pett, Captain C. B. Smith; PennsylVa-
mia, General Pleasant, Colonel J. +.
Linton: Kansas, Colonel g. II. Eng
A. Wiley, Captain ]. r. Santmeyer;
Maryland, Major Leopold Blumen-
berg, Major A. G. Williams; Lonisi-
ana, General j. b. Steadman, Captain
r. S. Dennis; Texas, General Horace
Walden.
This list OF officers was elected by
acclamation. General franklin was
escorted to the chair amid cheers.
THE oHAIRMAN's SPEECH.
General McCIernand introduced Gen
eral Franklin as a favorite of the
volunteers. Yells and cheers
General Franklin thanked the Con-
yentiou, and aIiuding to his want of
civil experiences hoped no very difficult
questions of order would arise. He
said secret military organizations were
fustly looked on with distrust; they
were dangerous. Soldiers had no right
to use their positions as political
mower. What, then, were they doing In
forming an organization of soldiers.
The frat was not a secret organization,
but there was a secret organization
thorouRhly organized throughout the
West, and probably the South, the
Grand army of the Republic, organized
for political purposes, and opposed to
time fly at each others throats and thus
deIuge the country with blood. To de-
clare that Conservatives would enter
into such organizations was one pur-
pose, to show the country that the Chi
cago Soldiers and Sailors Convention,
SO called, did moi represent them. The
Radical party pretended to be the
friend OF the soldiers, but the Radical
Senate rejected the soldiers nomina-
ton. He instRnced the cases OF Gem
erals Mcclellan, Slocum, and others.
No less than 1000 soldiers and sailors
had been nominated to the Senate and
have been rejected. The Conservative
soldiers felt certain things had been
settled by the war. They had felt con-
clliatory towards their former Oppo-
nents. The Radicals had been ami
mated with enmity and hate; and Judg-
ing the future by the past the only
hope for peace was in the success OF
the Conservative party. They must be
prepared to make sacrifices Tor peace.
What thew asked of the Convention was
| a man whom the soldiers and sailors
could without sacrifice OF principle sup
port. ,t,..