The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-08


id"nt--- Int hC says about Ray
m"HI Dud Ihr PnIIudeIphtn ,onV.n-
't""i ATS" about Negroes WHI NCCrc-
tETy stanton.
The inoN table "Mnck'' OF the cincin-
natl Commercial has had another con
vorsWion with the President. From
what ha reports CONCERNING it we take
the following extracts:
THE MosEs BUSINESS
They talk great deal" said Mr..
johnson, "Rbout this 'Mn-e business,
~ 1t | had said something then that i
hRu newer said before and have Tepudi-
Hted since. The TACT is, there IL nothing
ia that speech Inconsistent with my
previous record, or with what | have
said or done since" He then drr~
from u pigeon-hule In one OF his desks
n letter published ia the Cincinnati
Gazette in the h'll OF 1864, written by
FuEny and sigued "N. =" containing
til" "Musrs" speech and Il statement OF
the attending circumstances; also, II
vOlum" OF the Globe, for iSt6, contain
ing speech made by him, in Congress,
On III" annexation OF Texas. In the
latter h" had predicted she abolition OF
slavery and the advancement of the
negro race to - condition OF happiness
and freedom, and had spoken OF u time
not fpr distant when distinctions, based
on the color Ut a mans skin, would be
unknown in this country.
VIII tho Democracy nj their meeting
to-day, make . note OF this last remark
OF Johnson's, in order to include it in
their resolutions of endorsement in
case they should pass nnyc
THE rHILAnKLrHIA CONVENTION OF
AUGUST, 1896.
The trst subject referred 10 was the
Philadelphia Convention, the recent
letter nt Nj. Raymond ON the subject,
and the comments OF the New York
HoTii thereon, The President had
read Air. KHymoud's letter ard be-
tevCd 1t To state the case fairly. He
had also read the Worlds editorial, in
which an attempt was made TO show
from Raymoud's letter that the PTcsi-
dent had acted unfairly with the Dem
ucratic party in the matter. 1.-THE idea
OF that Convention" said Mr.. john
son, WAS not 10 exclude any partV,
but To invite aud secure the co-opera-
ton OF all parties favorable to the res
torHtiOu OF the Union, and opposed TO
the extreme mon and measures which
ON the one hand, had brought about
tho war, and on the other were now at
tempting 10 change the form and char
ac;er OF the Government" lie had
said, as stated by Mr.. Raymond. that
he did not want such men as Naliau-
digham 10 go in there and take posses
sion for the purpose of proclaim
ing thS very doctrine that had
brought about the war. ''I believed
then, sud believe now, that there is a
majority in the couutTy-Snd very
large nainritS-oppnSed 10 the policy
of the Radical party; hut many who
want TO oppose that policy cannot be
made to do II by Joining the Democratic
party. They viii not make accesSions
10 the Democratic party, or fall into the
rear OF it under the leadership Of such
men as NaiiSndiEham- The October
elections in Ohio showed this. Negro
suffrage, which represented the Radical
policy, was beaten by Il. 900, and yet
General Hayes WAS elected Governor.
Well, now, u the people were as much
in favor OF the Democratic party ~
they are opposed To RSdicalisul, they
would have given $4,000 majority for
Thurman. In the Philadelphia Con-
vsntion we wanted men OF all parties