The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-07
DEMOCRACY.
TIE GRAND Pow-wow.
The saohems stin in Council.


rangements on Fourteenth street were
inadequate this morning to keep back
the surging crowd which so blocked up
the Passage to Tammany Hall that the
delegates and reporters had much diff
| iculty in entering. Owing TO this
cause it was half past ten before the
delegates were generally in their seats.
The Convention was called to order
by the temporary Chairman, at quarter
before eleven.
Prayer was offered by Rev. William
Quinn, of New York.
The reading of the journal of Satur-
day was dispensed with.
Mr.. Richardson, of Illinois, presented
a series of resolutions, which were re-
ferred without reading.
General Morgan, of Ohio, moved that
the delegation from the Workingmen's
Convention be invited to seats on the
floor. Agreed to.
Mr.. Clymer, OF Pennsylvania, from
the Committee on Permanent Organi-
cation, reported as follows:
For President, Hon. Horatio Sey-
mour, OF New York, (gteAt cheering,) }
and one Vice President and Secretary
from each State. It was also recon-
meuded that the rules of the Demo-
cratic Convention of 1854 be adopted
Mr.. Mackin, of Ohio, moved the
adoption of the report and discharge Of
a delegate from Florida inquired
whether, on the adoption of this
report the two-thirds rule on ballotting
for Presidential candidates would re-
quire for nomination two-thirds of
the entire Convention or two-thirds of
the vote to be cast In the electoral col
lege.
Tho chair put the question on the nc.
ceptance of the report and discharge Of
the committee, which was decided in
the affirmative, and the committee dis
charged.
Mr.. Murphy, OF New York, from the
Committee on Resolutions, asked per-
mission to sit during the session of the
Convention. Agreed.
The chair appointed Mr.. Bigler of
Pennsylvania, and Hammond ofSonth
Carolina, a committee to conduct the
permanent President to the chair.
MIR. sEYMoUR's SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Convention:-I
thank you for the honor you have done
me in making me your presiding OIL
Ger. This Convention is made up of Il
large number of delegates from all
parts OF our land. To great degree
| we are strangers to each other, and
view the subjects which agitate our
country from different stand.points.
We cannot at once learn each others
mode of thought, or grasp all the ideas
which bear upon the minds of others.
| Yet our session must be brief and we
are forced to act without delay upon
questions of deep import to our coun.
try 10 maintain order, to restore all ex-
hibition of passions, to drive out of our
minds all unknown suspicious, is at
this time great duty. rely upon
your sense of this duty and not upon
my own ability to sustain me in the
position in which / am placed by you.
Men never met under greater responsi-
bilities than those which now weigh
upon us. 1t is not mere party tri-
| umph we seek; we are trying to
save our country from the daagers
which oYerhanE it. We wish to lift of
| the perpleXities and shackIes which,
in the shape of bad laws and of crush
| ing taxation, now pAralize the business
and labor of our land. We hope, too,
that we can give order, prosperity and
| happiuess to the sections of our coun-
try which suffer SO deeply to-day in
their homes and in all tho fields of their
! industry from the unhappy events of
the last eight yeari. trust our actions
will show that we are governed by ear
nest purposes to help all classes of our
| citizens, avoinidg harsh invectives
| against men. We should keep the pub
| lie mind fixed upon the questions
which must now be met ana solved.
Lei us leave the past to the
calm Judgment of the future, and
con front the perils OF the day, we are
forced to meet the assertions in the res
olutions put forth by the late Republi-
can Convention. 1 aver there ia not in
this body one man who has 1t In his
heart to excite so much angry feeling
against the Republican party as must
be stirred up in the minds OF those
who read these acclamattons in the
light of recent events and in view of
the condition of our country. In The
first place they congratulate the per-
plexed man of business, the burthened
tax payer, and the laborer whose hours
| O f toll are heightened out by the grow
| ing costs of the necessaries of life, up
policy which has brought all these evils
tpon them by the cost OF its military
6espotism and the corruption of its
bureau. Again, in one resolution they
denounce all forms of rePudiatton as
a national crime. Then why did they
put upon the statute books OF the ma
tion the laws which invite the citizens
who borrow coin to force their creditor
take debased paper, and thus wrong
| him out of large share of his claims,
| in violation of the most solemn COM
pactP If reputation 1s national
crime, 1t is a crime to invite the citizens
OF this country TO repudtate their indi-
vidual promises. Was it not crime
to force the creditors of this and other
States to take a currency at times worth
no more than forty cents on The dollar
| in repayment for the sterling coin they
gave to build roads and canals which
Weld such ample returns OF wealth
and property. Again, they say 1t is dne
| TO the laborers or the nation that taxa
tion should be equalized. Then why
did they make taxation unequal be-.
yond the injustice of making one class
pav for another the shares of the costs
| of schools, of roads and of the local
| laws which protected their lives and
property. 1t was an unWise and hurt
ful thing, it sunk the credit of the
countryGas usurious terms are always
hnrtfIlI to the borrower. They also de-
clare that the policy to diminish our
burden of debt is TO SO improve our
credit THAI capitalists will seek to loan
US money at lower rates OF interest
than we now pay and must continue to
pay so long as repudiation Is threaten
ed or suspected. Then why have they
used full 100000, 600 OF the taxes
drawn from the people of this country
TO uphold despotic military authority
and to crush out the life of States,
when, IL this money had been used to
pay our debts, capitalists would now
seek no lend US money at lower rates
OF interest, But for this covert repudt-
alton our national credit would not be
| tainted in the markets of the world.
Again, they declare that of all who
were faithful in the trials of the late
war, there were none entitled to more
especial honor than the brave soldiers
and seamen who endured the hard
ships of campaign and crnise and Inn
periled their lives in the service ofthelr
country. The bounties and pensions
provided by the laws for these brave
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