The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-06

Nothing yet indicates villa certainty
who viii Be the nominee for President.
The friends of Church are suspicious
that he is being made catch-paw OF
and are preparing to meet the emerSen-
cy.
Conservative Soldiers and Sailors
- National Cenvcution.s 90
New YORK, July 4.-The National
Convention of Soldiers and Sailors as
sembled this morning in the Hall OF the
Cooper Institute. The decorations con-
sisted of q bread tri-color enc!rcling the
Hall, broken at intervals by the coats
of arms eff all the States, national flag:
depending from the capital OF each Of
the pillars, streamers transverseiy IN
tersecting the ceiling and all elaborate
grouping of colors in the rear OF the
platform surmonnted by the legend
1.-THE Union and the Constitution"
Precisely at IL o'clock the colors Of
the old Fifth Regiment OF New YORK
State Volunteers, the Fifth Zouaves
were escorted into the Hall, which rap
idly filled with delegations from the
various States, marching music being
furnished by the cornet band which ac
companied the 'Pendleton Club from
Cincinnati.
Cheers we're given for Hancock, Nc
Clellan, Grant and Chase, and cheers FOL
the rank and file of the Union army.
At half.past eleven the meeting was
called to order by General McQuade
Chairman of the National Executive
Committee, who nominated for Tempo
rary Chairman Major General John A
MeClernand, of Illinois. General Nc
Mahon nominated General Thomas
Ewing, of Ohio, but his motion was lost
and General McClernand, of Illinois
was unanimously elected. General
McClernand, upon taking the Chair
expressed his thanks in graceful terms
General McQuade proposed the fol
lowing list of secretaries: General John
X. Stack, of Maryland, General Hugh
Cameron, of Kansas, Colonel 0Brien
of Washington, Colonel Lynch, OF New
York, Colonel G. Stoddard, of Connec'
ticut, Captain Thomas Brigham, OF
Maine, Captain o. G.. Chase, Of West
Virginia aud private J. Hildreth, OF
Illinois.
General Campbell, OF Ohio, desired to
offer Il preamble aid resolution. IL
had bcen deemed important that there
should be . harmonious action between
this Convention and the National Dem
ocratic Association. There had been
an effort to make this Convention ap-
pear in false position-there had been
some talk of its being intended for The
purpose of dictation, and some foolish
speeches of it's being mere side show.
To pat the Convention right in this
respect he offered preamble and reso-
luton which express the full harmony
of the Convention with the purposes
and objects of the National Democratic
Convention. .t
After the reading Of the resolution,
the point of order was raised that the
Convention had not been organized.
Gen. Campbell urged the speedy pas
sage of the resolution in order to be in
time to be heard by the National Con-
venlion before its final action WAS ia
ken.
General Slocum followed, suggesting
that time be allowed for consideration
by the committee Oh Resolutions, when
appointed, of the resolutions announced
by Gen. Campbell.
The resolution was then temporarily
withdrawn by Gen. Campbell, and, up
on motion of Gen. McQuade, the re-
spective delegations were requested to
name one member each of the regular
Standing Committee. a call of the
States was therefore made, ans the
then retired. trrH
General Thomas Ewing, Jr., of Ohio,
being loudly called for made his appear
ance on the platform and was received
with cheers. lie congratulated the
audience Us forming The largest assem-
blagc of the kind ever convened in the
United States. He proposed to review
the history of the dominant party from
the surrender of Lee and the ternina.
ton of hostiitics To the present time.
When Lee had given up his sword and
Johnston had capitulated, the soil OF
the old confedcracy was being turned
by peaceful plOughsand not flag bear
ing the stars and bars was waved. The
rebellion was utterly overthrown, its
northern expectation of guerrilla ter
of the war was disappointed.
The United States revenue officers were
uninterruptedly pursuing their duties,
and the war was supplamted by gladly
welcomed peace. That very year the
States Themselves accepted the
abolition of slavery.
The Chairman of the committee on
Permanent Organization here anneunc-
cd General w. b. Franklin, of Connect
lieut., us the nominee for Permanent
Chairman.
General Ewing continued-The na-
tional Congress was then bound by all
the principles of honor and by all its
former pledges to declare the work of
putting down the rebellion ut an end.
In the Convention of 1861 even, while
Horace Greeley was epdeavoring to ar
range q dishonOraole peace, the Repub-
lican party sOlemnly declared that the
of the national authority
and not the superogatlon of sectional
rights was the object of the war, and
for that object every man and every
dollar were obtained. Had they ad-
hered to that their lease Of power
might have been perpetual, but crazed
with power, drunken with success,
they threw aside every principle and
Southern Government, form
ed alone of Northern moneyless adj
venturers and plantation negroes.
Many of the odious features of Con-
gressional reconstruction might have
been stomaGhed by the Southern States
in their longing desire for peace, but
the wholesale, sweeping prescription,
which practically excluded every man
who was eli age and of sufficient educa-
ton TO hold Office, could never be ac-
copied without a sacrifice of honor. The
amendment put forth by Congress was
rejected by the South, as Congress knew
and meant that it should he,
and at once the cry was raised that the
South was still rebelious, and by trick
cry like this these Radical rebels have
postponed the dawn of peace almost as
long as their Southern exemplars had
done, and then old Thaddeus Stevens,
the whipper-in of Radicals, (hisses and
groans,) promulgated the novel doctrine
that tue Southern States were conquer
ed provinces and their people alien enc
mics, but the Convention Of 1864 denied
that dogma by nominating one Of those