The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-06
THE CONVENTIONS!
Temporary Organization
Committees Appointed !
Speeches Of August Belmont,
and Generals Ewing
and Franklin.
the PLATFoR M !!
The National Democratic Convention a,

of the Convention, elegantly Ies'ooheo
with large American flags and decor
ated with deliberately painted escutch-
cons of all the States. The accommo-
dations for delegates are ample, and the
arrangements for the press excellent ex-
cent that the committee in charge per-
sjstently refuse admission to an accred-
tied messenger. The weather is in
'tensely hot but the hall is perfectly ven
tilated. Among the spectators are many
ladies, also Francis p. Blair, Senator
Patterson, Elk Senator Bayard, Governor
Swami, and many nen prominent III
Southern politics before the war. The
hall galleries are densely crowded, and
a great crowd outside vainly strived to
gain admittance. A strong police force
as the doors and on the street keep the
road open and preserve good order.
The Convention was called to order
at twenty minutes past twelve O'Clock
by August Belmont, Chairman OF the
National Executive Committee, who de-
livered the following:
Gentlemen Of the Contention: 1t is my
privilege to-day to welcome you here in
this Hall constructed with SO much al
tiotic taste and rendered to you by the
time-honored societies of Tammany.
welcome you to this temple erected to
the Goddess of Liberty by her staunch-
est defenders and most fervent wor-
shippers. / welcome you TO this good
city of New York, the bulwark OF
Democracy, which has rolled back the
surging waves of Radicalism, through
oil the storms of the last eight years,
and / Welcome you to your Empire
State which last fall redeemed herself
from Republican nisrule by majority
of nearly $4,000 votes, and which
claims the right to lead the vanguard OF
victory in the great battle TO be fought
next November for the preservation OF
orr institutions, laws and liberties.
1t Is a most suspicious omen that we
meet under such circumstances and sur
rounded by such associations. share
your own confident hope of the over
whelming success of the ticket and
platform which will be the result Of
Your deliberations, for it is to tie Amer
lean people that our appeal lies. Their
final judgment will be just. The Amer
lean people will no longer remain deaf
to the teachings of the past. They will
remember that it was under successive
Democratic administrations, based on
our national principles-the principles
Constitutional liberty -that our cOun-
try rose to Il prosperity and greatness
unsurpassed in the annals of history.
They will remember the days when the
North and South marched shoulder TO
shoulder together i'll tho conquest OF
Mexico, which gave our Golden Empire
on the Paciiic-Onr California and our
Oregon--now the stronghold of tri-
umphant Democracy. They Will
remember the days when peace
and plenty reigned over the whole
Union, wlien we had no national
debt to crush the energies of the
people, when tho tax gathorsr was un
known throughout this vast extent of
land; vixen the credit of the
United States stood as high in
the msney mart of the world
as that of any other, and they will
remember with wise sorrow that
with the downfall of the Democratic
party in 1861 cane that fearful war
which has brought mourning and des-
olation into every household: has cost
the loss of million of citizens, and
left us with a national debt, the Uilr-
den of which drains the resources, Grip
Piles the industry and impovcrishes
the labor of the country. They will re-
member that after the fratricidal strife
was over, when the bravery 0fOur army
and navy and the sacrifices of the peo'
pie had restored the Union aud vindi-
Gated the supremacy of the law, when
the victor and vaAQuished were equally
ready to bury the past and hold out
the hand of brotherhood and good will
across the graves of their fallen COM
rades. 1t was again the defeat OF the
Democratic candidate in 1854 which
prevented the cOnsurnmation so devout-
iy wished for by all. Instead of restOr-
ing the Southern States to their rights;
instead of trying to wipe ont the mis-
cries Of the past by Il magnanimOuS pol
lev, dictated alike by humanity and
sound craftsmanship, and so ardently
prayed for by the generous hearts of the
American people, the Radicals in Con-
gress, elected in an evil hour. have
placed the iron heel of the conqucrOr
npon the South. Austria did not dare
to fasten upon vaUqulshed Hun
gary, nor Russia impose upon con-
auered Poland, tho ruthless tyranny
now imposed by Congress upon the
Southern States. Military satraps
areY invested with dictatoriai pow
or, overriding the decisions
of the Courts and assuming
the functions of civil authorities, the
white populations are DISTINGUISHED or
forced to submit to test oaths, alike re-
voting to justice and civilization, and
a debased aud ignorant race just
emerging from servitude into power over
the destinies of that fair portion of our
common couatry. These men elected
to be legislators are not only trampling
the Constitution under their feet, but
have usurpod the functions Of the EX-
ecutive and the judiciary, and it is
impossible to Doubt, after the events of
the past few months and the circum-
stances of the impeachment trial, they
will not shrink from m attempt here
after to subvert the Senate of the Uni
ted States, which alone stood between
them and their victim, and had virtue
enough left not to allow the American
name to be utterly disgraced aud justice
to be dragged in the dust:
In order TO carry ont this nefarlous
programme, our army and navy are
kept, in a time of profound peace, on a
scale which has involved yearly ex-
penditurc of from slOO, O0o,O OO to $780,
0U0. 900, prevents the reduction of the
National debt and imposes upon our
people system of the most sx0rbitaut
aud unequal taxation, with Il vicious.
irredeemable and deprecated currency.
Aud now the same party which has
brought all these evils upon the couu-
try comes again before the American
people asking for their sutfrages, and
who has chosen for irs candidate the
General commanding Ike Armies of the
United States. Can there be any doubt
left Us to the designs of the Radicals ii
they should be able to keep their hold
on the reius of Government They in
tend Congressional usurpation of the
Government, to be enforced by tue bay
nets of a military despOtism. 1t is i'm
possible that flee and intelligent pco-
Pile can long submit to such a state of
things. They will not calmly see their
liberties subverted, the prosperity and
Sc thair nfNuntr Il