The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-26

said they were payable in gold, an hb
advertisements, and Secretary McCulloct
had given his opinion to the same
effect, in answer to letter of inquiry
Here he left the subject, and proceeded
to eulogize Congress and the 6. A. K
for supporting them. When the issue
was about to be made between Congress
aud the President, 100000 of the G. A
K. had offered themselves to support
the former. 1--WE thought the G. A. X
was not political organizationO He
then made an honest confession of his
negro suffrage sentiments, which we
desire our Radical friends to peruse
carefully and calmly consider. he
said negro suffrage was just and right
to the freedmen. Sin the hour of the
nations peril, 100000 of them had come
to its support, aud sared it, chow dc
you like that, white soldiersi) and now
shall we deBy them the right to vote,
with which Congress has clothed them,
for their own protectionp He said all
men were created by the same all wise
hand, and that if any honest man would
sit down, remove all previous prejudice
against the blacks and think on the
question of difference of the two races,
in the bottom of his heart he could not
help but acknowledge that the only diff
ference was in coler. He then charged
Andrew johnson with attempting to
restore the Southern States, under the
old Constitution, and added, "but Con-
gress couldn't see it, nor could we."
Mr.. Needham arose and proceeded to
disabuse the audience of some of Mr..
McGrew's errors. The crowd gathered
close to catch every word that fell from
this gentleman's lips. In order to re-
fute Mr.. McGrew's assertions about the
anarchy and lawlessness dominant in
the Southern States, he read General
Grants report to the President in De-
cember, 1865, in which he says: Coed
order prevails; the people are anxious
to he restored to their former relations
with the Union, and that certainly much
good would result from q more general
commingling of the talent and patriot
ism of the two sections, North and
South, in tho halls of Congress. He
said McGrew's speech was calculated to
keep open the wounds between the two
sections, and proved from history that
tho effort to keep people in subjection
by force of arms was futile and impes-
sible. Although Ireland has been under
the military domination of England for
700 years, to-day she was on the eve of
revolution. Peace, good. fellowship and
a true Christian spirit would do more
towards healing our troubles than all
the standing armies extant. In reply
to McGrew's statement that the Democ-
racy would repudiate the Union war
debt and pay the rebel debt, he said he
was astonished that an intelligent gen.
tleman like McGrew should make such
a statement, when he knew that the
rebel debt did not become due until
trelre months after the United States shall
hare recognised the independence Of the
Southern Confederacy. The remainder of
his speech was in keeping with the
foregoing, and when the hammer fell on
him, regret was depicted on every
countenance.
Garvey's harangue | shall not notice,
as he did not say anything argument
alive.
Brown closed the discussion, and his
pathetic appeal for the people to rally
to the support Of the Government of
eur forefathers drew tears 10 the eyes OF
the sturdy yeomanry present.
Heretofore, the Republican leaders
have evaded the negro suffrage ques-
tion, but now they are out in bold relief
for negro rnle. Fellow citizens of the
Republican party, be no longer slaves
to party, but rising above it, assume
the position of an American citizen and
strike for your country. BY the love
you bear your children, by the love You
bear your country, by the natural in.
stincts of our race, implore You to cou-
slider this matter well. The right to
vote is the right to hold Office and to sit
in the iury-bOx. The law is that man
shall DO tried by his peers-his equal.
Put the negro in the jury-box and he is
your peer. The right to hold office i'm
plies to be a rsler. What honest man
but revolts at being ruled by negro.
Consider well these things, and
Strike till the last armed foe expires,
Strike for your affairs and your fires,
Strike for the green graves of your sirsS,
God and your native land"
DEMOCRAT.