The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-07

iSes. Applause was IL HUI
TO force the creditors of this and other
States to take currency ut times worth
no more than 40 cents on the dollar, In
re payment for the sterling COIN tney
gave to build roads and canals, which
Weld such ample returns OF wealth and
prosperity, [ApPlause:
or of the nation that taxation should be
ennalized Then why did they make
the taxation unequal' Beyond the in
iustice of making one class of citizens
nav for another the shares of the costs
of schools, of roads, of the local laws
which protected their lives and proper
ty, it was an unwise and hurtful thing.
[Cheers.1 It sunk the credit Of the
country, as usurlous terms are always
hurtful to the credit of the borrower
They also declare the best policy to d.
minish orr burden of debt is to so I'M.
prove our credit that capitalists VIII
seek to loan us money at lower
rates than we now pay, anu
must still continue TO pay so
long as reputation Is threatened or
suspected. Then why have they USED
full five hundred millions of tho taxes
drawn from the people OF this country
to uphhold a despotic military authorl-
ty and to crush ont the life OF the
States. when if this money had been
used to pay our debts the capitalists
would now seek to lend us money at
lower rates of interest. But for this
covert Reputation our national credit
would not he tainted in the markets OF
the world. Applause.
- Again, they declare of all who were
faithful in the trials of the late wal
there were none entitled to more es-
pecial honor than the brave soldiers aud
seamen who endured the hardships OF
the campaign and the cruise, and iml-
periled their lives in the service of their
country; the bounties and pensions
provided by the laws for these brave
defenders of the nation was an. obliga-
ton never to be forgotten; the widows
and orphans of the gallant dead are
the wards of the people, sacred
trust bequeathed to the nations
care; have these sacred trusts been
performed They pay to the manned
man, to the widow or the orphan, q car
rency whichs they have sunk one
quarter below its rightful value by
their policy of hate, of waste aud OF
military despotism, and the pittance
paid to wounded soldiers had been
pinched down twenty-five per cent.
below the value of that coin which he
had right to expect. Loud cheering.
Is there no covert reputation in this
[Applause.l
Again, they say that foreign immigra-
ton, which in the past has added so
much to the wealth, development and
resources and increase of power to this
republic, the asylum of The oppressed of
all nations, should be fostered aud en-
couraged by liberal and just policy.
Is this foreign immigration fostered by
policy which, in mockery of the laws
of justice was passed, declaring eight
hours to be legal days labor, by the
cost of the Government and of swarms
of officials. which so swells the costs OF
living that men must toll on to meet its
exaction! LCheers.]
The time was when we could not
only invite the Europeans to share with
us the national blessings of our great
country, but more than this we could
tell those who fled from oppression that
we lived under q government of laws
administered by the Judiciary, which
kept the bayonet and the sword in due
subOrdinatioN. Cheers. We could
point to written constitution, which
not only marked out the powers of the
Government, but with anxious care sc.
cured to the hunblest man the right OF
of Of iat, m
Is immigration encouraged by tramp
ling theA Constitution in the dust
treating with contempt and Stacking
the Judiciary, insulting the Executive
and giving all the world to under
stand that the great guarantees
of political and civil rights are destroy
ed. Great applause. But the crewning
indictment against the follies and crime!
of those in power is in these words
That we recognize the great principles
handed down in the Declaration of In
dependence rs the true foundation o.
Democratic government, and we hal
with gladncSs every effort toward:
making these principles n living reality
on every inch of American soil. i
within the limits of ten States of thi:
Union any American citizen is stung hy
! a sense OF his wrongs,She should public
ly and truthfully deuounce the men in
power, because in the language Of this
Declaration of Independent ;e, they have
erected n multitude of offices and sent
hither swarms of officers to harrass oul
people and cat out their subsistence
he would, in all human probability, be
dragged to a prison, or, if in the indig
nant language of our fathers, he should
exclaim: they have affected to render
the military Independent or superior L
the civil power, they have abolished
the free system of English laws ant
established herein an arbitrary govern
ment, for the offence of asserting thes,
principles he would be tried and pun
ished by military tribunal. Great
cheering.
Having declared that the principles
of the Declaration of Independence
should be made living reality ON every
inch of American soil, they put int
nomination military chieftain wht
stands at the head of that system o
despotism that crashes beneath its fee
the greatest principles of the Declare
ton of Independence. Cheers. To-day
in some States, it is held by military
orders To be crime to speak out the
Indignation and contempt which burr
within the bosoms Of patriotic men.
tomorrow military order should bt
put forth in that State where the ashe'
of Washington are cntOmbed that il be
an offence to declare that the mil
itary should ever be subordinat,
to the civil authority, to speak the sen
timent that it was disgrace to oul
country to let hordes of officials eat uI
the substance ,of the people, he who
uttered those words would be dragged
to prison from the very grave wher,
lies the remains of the author of the
Declaration of Independence. Lone
cheering From this outrage Their,
shonld be no appeals to the Courts, ant
the Republican candidate for the Pres
idency has accepted a position which
make the rights of and liberties of :
largo share of our people dependent OF
his will. [Applause.
In view of these things, can there bt
! one man in this Convention who can
let 4 personal ambition, n passion or ;
prcjudice turn him aside one hair,
| -, LIZ, nina Ont . ia.