The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-21
Grant and Peace.
Remarks by Hon. Benjamin
Stanton. -.
The Greenback Humbug
80 in a Nutshell.


ofthe campaign thus far. Tho immense
chamber was literally damned from
stage TO entrance. A large number OF
ladies were present and eVinced the
wnrmesr interest in the proceedings.
An hour before the assemb-ase gather
ed the cannon on Wheeling hill began
To boom forth the spent up joy of the
loyal people of the city over the signal
victories of Vermont aud Maine. Blaz-
ing beacons on the hilltOps, visible in all
paris of the ity,,added to the feeling,
which the reverberalions OF artillery
aroused, AS soon as it became dark u
brilliant display of rockets and roman.
candles sent up from the vicinity
of the hall added TO the general
coInmotion which brought together
great crowds OF spectators and filled the
hall 10 It's utmost capacity by half-Past
geven O'Clock. Vaas' band added its
harmonious strains to the attractions
of the occasion. A few minutes before
the appearance of the orator of the
evening, the audience becoming impa-
tent for entertainment, called for a
song. The Central Grant and oolfax
Club responded by singing "Grant
shall be President" to the air - Ring,
Ring the Bell;" which was received
(particulnrly the chorus I" Grant shall
be Presldent,") with ringing applause.
At precisely half-past seven, Capt.
Henry Wallace, the President of the
Central Grant and COlfax Club, intro
duced in few appropriate and sug-
gostive remarks the orator orthe even
Ing, Hon. John s. Carlile. late %. s.
Senator from Virginia. air. Carlile
came forward amid "a round of. applause
and spoke rs follows:
LADIES AND GESTLENES-Seyersl years
have passed away since had the pleasure
of meeting with so many citizens Of
1 Wheeling and its vicinity as see before
me this evening. We all remember-wt
never can forget the scenes that surround
ed us, us we'll as our fellow. citizens from
one end of tho country to the other
when first had the pleasure of address
lug the people in this very building.
That was in the Spring of 1851 The
i summer before was the year of q Presi'
dental election, just eight years ago. In
that election there were several candi-
dates before the people. The Wings had
a party the Democrats had two parties
and tho Republicans had a party. All
that day Republicanism had a very slight
hold in this part of the country; and
the man that voted for Lincoln in, that
year of 80 was q marked man at the
| time he cast his ballot. did
not vote for him myself; and most
4 of you, j presume, did not. But still
those of you who were Union men Ia
bored with me after his inauguration To
maintain the integrity of our common
country and preserve the glorious inner
itance bequeathed to US by our Reyolu.
tionary siras. During that contest
charged on the Breckenridge wing ofthe
i Democratic party the purposes which
they afterwards disclosed and which CON
firmed the truth of my charges.
charged that their determination was to
rule or ruin. / afterwards, in the Con.
vention of Virginin which passed the
ordinance of secession, reiterated that
lCharge-that the cause for which they
were prccipitating us into war was not
the cause which they attempted to assign,
i but it was the determination on the part
/ of that element of the Democratic party
to rule this country or destroy it if in
/ their power. --i
Now, fellow citizens, am not here to-
night to make you u party speech. The
bitterness of party feeling,-asI cannot
help but see it as j pass through
your streets and along your walks
4 -satisfies me that it is the part
Of the good man, il he can, TO
throw oil upon the troubled waters. F, j
am no partisan myself. II has been
twelye years since made party speech.
HE first speech / ever shade to you, and
the last, was in the interest of our com.
| mon country, and not as q partisan. /
opposed, it is true, the election of Mr..
breckenridge, and L opposed secession,
not that the one was an avowed party
theory and the other q party candidate,
but because ] saw that through the infiu-
euce of party they were endeAyoring to
i drag up every man who was proud of his
party name and make him an accessory
| in the deeds and crimes they intended to
perpetrate. L therefore shall not address
you as partisan. leave the party slo-
gan to be sounded by the parties aud
party editors and by aspiring party politi-
clans. Ifthere were nothing at stake but
mere party, / would not be here Tonight
It has been now four years since 1 voted
and near four years until a day or two ago
1 since / have attempted to make politi-
4 cal address. had thought that the war
Il 0GAub sONGEf b1lAt tue 0Oulu Auu tuuo6 woo
4 sympathized with the South had in good
faith accepted the situation, and that in
the future as it had been in the past, prior
to the war, the only division between par.
ties would be upon Governmental and
administrative policy. l did not expect
that so soon after their arms had been
laid down and the armies of the Confed.
eracy subdued, the very men who had
for four years been warning against their
country, would at the very first Presiden.
tial election after the cessation of that
war, come before you and claim the
right to govern the country they had
sought to destroy. (Cheers.) The war
being over, the rebel wing of the Demo-
CRITIC party had a character to make be-
fore they ought to ask the suffrages of a
loyal and law-abiding people. Zap.
plause.)
And now to the Conservative Demo.
erat, to the Union Democrat, to the Doug.
las Democrat, would say that hope TO
be able to satisfy him at least that even IL
had been a party man ] am guilty of no
violation of party faith in opposing the
NeW York nominations 1t Is difficult
LOT me to reconcile the consistency of
mat Union Democrat who supports these
nominations. If you were sincere, as
doubtless you were, IN resisting tie ultra
Y eAenent OF your party in its nftefnnta N