The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-28

the right to take that position
and to fake it with out doing any degra-
dation to the manhood OF anybody but
But suppose, SIR, that you
have IA wife and two or three or iour
little children, what right, sir, have you
10 advocate u cause like the lost
cause" or Join yourself with men seek
ing to assert IL over the State OF -Vtr-
gInia, and drag your children Into po-
sition that will bar them out from the
privileges of the common school. You
nre doing injustice to them. You are
Ignorance upon them. You
are entailing on those children con-
dltion that will keep them in ignorance
and their children and children's chill.
dren. TA voice, "Amen!" and applause
Now, to the rich mRu-and we have IA
great many rich men in this country
who have united themselves with the
party that is ashamed to publish the
Conventions-but are rich and re.
spectacle men in your midst, who call
themselves old line Wings. You find
them away down in Kannwha, Jackson
and Wood, and in every county that
have been In throughout the State.
have found some old line Wings that
arc peculiarly energetic and eager for
the purpose of building up the great
Democratic party. They are the men
that represent the wealth ofthe country.
They do not want the poor mans chill
dren to be educated at their expense,
although they won't say II. Yet they
say this Republican party is taxing us
to death and ought to be thrown out of
power, Is IL not little singular? You
can only account for it on the great
principle OF cupidity ami disappoint-
ment in not getting into office. And
these are men that taught large num-
Der OF the people of this country the
great doctrine of protection OF .Ameri.
can industry, taught them their old
Wing doctrines, and abused the Demo-
cratic party all the days OF their life
up until We established common schools
in this country. Now these gentlemen
become the champions and the leaders
of the Democratic party, and they are
going about through the country trying
10 convince everybody, 40 you ought
to belong to the Democratic party.
Now, let us go, gentlemen, and build
up the great Democratic party. l al
ways admired it for its nationality and
its greatness; and it is the only hope
now that We have TO put these Union
Republicans out of power"
My fellow citizens, democracy does
not mean accession, nor does secession
mean democracy; but the leaders of
secession, who despise democracy in
their hearts, tried to convince the peo-
pie of this country that secession and
democracy were the same. They did
it at the North. They went to old Mr..
Dickinson. What says Seymour?
Dickinson, are you going TO quit the
AbUlitionists 2" mo" says Mr.. Dick
inson, "but L am not going with the
revolutionary secession party that is
trying 10 destroy my country.n "Oh,
but that is the Democracy" 81 do not
50 understand il" says Mr.. Dickinson.
"a little boy said the other day to his
father, l'Suppose we call old Sorrels tail
Il leg, how many legs will Sorrel have?'
Why says tho old man, five legs, of
COURSE NO she WON'T says the boy.
How will you prove that, you rascalY
'Why, you seeI calling the tail IL leg
don't make it "a Leg" [Applause.l
80" says Mr.. Dickinson, ''callihg this
the great Democratic party does not
make it the Democratic party, and call
ing secession democracy does not make
1t democruCy. L go in for my country:
1 go in for the great Union party;
take that great jackson idea of demoC-
racy which meant that this Union
should be preserved" Applause,l
But hero we have a number OF Wings
in the City of Wheeling and all over
West Virginia teaching such men as
old Mr.. Dickinson, Dix and Governor
Tod what Democracy was. They have
Just come into the party within year
or two, and now they ure teaching old
Democrats in the rudiments of Democ-
racy. Like the little boy who knew
God made him, they have been made
Democrats SO recently that they know
better than the old ones what Demo
Gratis are made of. [Applause.l 1 do
not suppose that General jackson, Ben.
Smith, DIR. Patrick and u half dozen
others like them, could meet in a room
together and look in each others faces
without laughing. What do you think
they would say to each other? They
would say "Wen this is pretty kettle
of fish," They could not recognize
their past history and present position
withou. feeling that they were trying
10 perpetrate a wrong on this great sys-
tenn OF civilization and this great gov
ernment that is trying to raise up its
people and develop the resources of the
country. There they are-these old
Wings of Wheeling who have advocated
the tariffs and the encouragement OF
American industry-now leagued with
the Woods, Vallandigham, Brooks and
Eldridge, the great leaders of the free
trade party in the Democratic ranks.
These men here, owning workshops,
manufacturing establishments, that
live and live only by the protection
the Republicans are giving them
agains: foreign manufactures, to-day
are in league with the free-trade party
OF the country. [Applause.l Is It not
a strange association? l do not know
a single member of Congress belonging
to the Democratic party bnt what il
free.trader; and in their present plat
form they have the same old plank on
the subject of tariff-tariff for revenue
and incidental protection. L hear here
among the mills that they
cannot get work enough. 1 hear the
Baltimore IL Ohio Railroad is bringing
its iron from England. And yet these
men are trying to fight down our tar
here at home. They are trying to break
up our educational Aystem, shut up
our school houses, and drive out
our schoolmasters; trying to re-
the old system of the
"Lost eau So" that strangles commerce,
discourages agriculture, denies educa.
ton to the poor and destroys the liberty
of misses. There is more in this great
question than appears at first blush.
L tell you the great principles OF the
two parties are just as wide apart as
monarchy and Democracy, as mon
archical institutions and Republican
ism. They are for class Government
and for the oppression of the poor.
and of all peoples that will work for
their own elevation and enlightenment.
There is the difference.
We hear among these same men great
complaints about the expressions of
this Republican party. Expressions of
what or whom? Is anybody in this
whole North oppressed-anybody in
West Virginia oppressed2 Yes, there
is, they say. Who? Those alone who
gave aid and comfort to the Southern
rebellion. And how much are they OPP