The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-06
WEE uA1u AND DECORATIONS.

Cooper Institute.
The decorations consisted of a broad
trI-color encircling the hall broken at
intervals by the coat of arms OF all the
States, national flags, streamers trans
Versely intersecting the ceiling, and an
elaborate grouping Of colors in the rear
of the platform, surmounted by the
legend "UnIon and the Constitution"
At precisely IL O'Clock the Colors of
the old Fifth Regiment OF New York
State Volunteers, and the tltth Aou-
ayes were escorted into the hail. which
from the various States, the marching
music being furnished by the cornet
band which accompanied the FendIe-
ton Club from Cincinnati.
ATIsCELLANEoUs CHEERs-A DANG ERoUs
SYMPTOM.
Cheers were given for Hancock, Nc
Clellan, GRANT " Chase, and the rank
and tlle of the Union army and navy
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.
AT half past eleven the meeting was
called to order by General McQuade,
Chairman OF the National Executive
Committee, who nominated Major
General John A. Clernand OF Illinois,
for temporary chairman.
General McMahon nominated GenI
Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, but the mo-
tion was lost, and General McClernand
of Illinois, was unanimously elected.
General McClernand, upon taking
the chair, expressed his thanks in
graceful terms.
WEST VA. SPECIMEN BRICK.
General McQude proposed the fol-
lowing list of secretaries: Gen. John X.
Stock, of Maryland; General Hugh
Cameran, of Kansas; Col. o. Beirne, OF
Washington; Col. Lynch, OF New York;
Col. G. Stoddard, of Conn; Capt. Thos.
Brigham, Maine; Capt. o. G. Chase, OF
West Virginia, and private j. Halcheth
of Illinois.
PREMATURE GUsH OF HARMONY.
General Campbell, of Ohio, desired
to offer q preamble and resolutions: It
had been deemed important by the
National Convention that there should
be harmonious action between this
convention and the National Demo-
cratic Convention. There had been an
effort to make this convention appear
in a false position. There had been
some talk OF its being intended for the
purpose of dictation, and some foolish
speeches of its being mere side-show.
To put the convention right In this re-
spect he offered a preamble and reso-
luton, which express the full harmony
of the convention with the purposes
and effects of the Ntional Democratic
Convention.
After tie reading of the resolution
the point of order was raised that the
Convention had not been organized, /,
and not being organized 1t was NOV the
time to pass the resolutions proposed.
General Campbell urged the speedy
passage of the resolution In order to be
in time to be heard by the National
Convention before its final action was
taken.
General Slocum followed, suggesting
that time be allowed for the considera-
tion by the committee on resolutions,
when appointed, of the resolutions an.
nouncep by General Campbell.
The resolution was then Temporarily
withdrawn by Genral Campbell, and
upon the motion of General McQuide,
the respective delegations were req uest-
ed to name one member for each OF the
rejular standing committees. A call
of the States was thereupon made and
the committees retired.
CALL" AND THE CoNsERUENCE.
General Thomas Ewing, Jr., of Ohio,
being loudly called for made his ap-
pearance on the platform and was re-
ceiyed with cheers. He congratulated
the audience as forming the largest as
semblage of the kind ever convened in
the United States. He proposed to re-
view the history of the dominant party
from the surrender OF Lee and the ter
mination of hostilities to the present
time, When Lee had given up his
sword Johnson had capitulated the soil
of the Confederacy was being turned
by peaceful plows and not flag bearing
the stars and bars was waved. The
rebellion was utterly overthrown, its
cause irrevocably lost and even the
Northern expectation of guerrilla
Termination of the war was disappoint.
ed. The United States revenue officers
were uninterrupted in pursuing their
duties and was supplanted by gladly
welcomed peace that very year the
Southern States themselves accepted
tho abolition OF slavery. The national
Congress was then bound by all the
principles of honor, and by all its for
mer pledges then to declare the work
of putting down the rebellion at an end.
In the convention of 1864, even while
Horace Greeley was endeavortng to ar
range a dishonorable peace, the Repub-
lican party solemnly declared that the
preservation of national authority and
not the superogation of sectional
rights was the object of the war, and
for that object every man and every
dollar was obtained, and had they ad-
hered to that their lease OF power might
have been perpetual, but crazed with
power and drunken with success, they
laid aside every principle and Initiated
Southern Government formed alone ol
Northern moneyless adventures and
plantation negroes. Many of the
odious features of Congressional re-
construction might have been stom-
ached by The Southern States In their
longing desire for peace but the
Wholesale, sweeping prescription which
practically excluded every man who
was of age, of sufficient education to
hold Office could never be accepted
without the sacrifice of honor. The
amendment put forth by Congress was
rejected by the South, as Congress knew
and meant that 1t should be, and at
once the cry was raised that the South
was still rebelliOus; and by trickery
like this these radical rebels have post
poned the dawn of peace almost as long
as their Southern exemplars had done.
And then old Thaddeus Stevens, the
whipper of radicals misses and groans1,
promulgated the novel doctrine that the
Southern States were conquered. prov
iuces and their people alien enemies,
but the Convention OF 1864 denied that
dogma by nominating one of those
allen enemies, Andrew johnson, fol
Vice President, and approved the good
old reconstruction policy of Abraham
Lincoln. Then the war was still in pro
Rress, and they wanted voluntary
grants OF men and money; but when
mask; then they discovered that theiI
hideous plot was not complete; there
were still some standing guarantees Of
| the old Constitution not yet abrogated
| and of which the Southern people, like
all others, enjoyed the benefits; there
fore they invented a new hypocrisy
saving that the trainers Of the Constr
| tuition never contemplated an immense
rebellion, and therefore did not provlae
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