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

| free schools throughout your noun
tains; make them blossom like the
rose; make your population intelligent
| develop the resources of your State
invite emigrants from other States 10
come with their enterprise, and with
| their capital, and with their intelli-
gence let them aid you in building up
State here that will one day be the
Switzerland OF America, and where
liberty will fud a refuge when it has
been driven from the cities and the
plains throughout all the residue of the
land. [Applausel
Hon. VIM. Z. Stevenson, OF Valley
Farms, Wood county, Republican can
didate for Governor of this State, then
followed in heightened and eloquent
address, In which he endeavOred to
show that the material, intellectual and
Virginia depended upon its destinies
being controlled by the Republican
party. The government of the Old Do
minion gave them heavy taxes and al
most universal ignorance. Under the
Republican government of the State
they had built a thousand new school
houses, and yet taxes were lower than
under the old regime. The taxes which
the Democratic party claimed were such
terrible burden were a myth. Not u
farmer in the country paid single dol
| lar OF taxes to the Federal Government,
neither on their land, theirstock, nor
their income ; and yet the party who
| claimed that they were the friends OF
the down-trodden farmers and mechan-
les, in the platform adopted at New
York, would tax every foot OF land and
every dollars worth ofstock. The pres
ent system oftaxation for revenue, tax
es Injuries only. The Democratic plat
form would tax labor and the products
of honest toll. They have decided on
ral fa%y nt
property according to its real value.
The speaker then dwelt at length
upon the Grafton Democratic Conven-
yenlion, the preponderance of the rebel
element that composed it, and upon the
unfounded assertion of its charges,
based, as he believed upon misinforma-
tion.
The assertion of Mr.. Oakley johnson
that the State Legislature had removed
all penalties from the registering boards
and given it almost irresponsible
power, was pronounced untrue; and
The intimation that Democrats were
disfranchised simply because they
would not vote the Republican ticket,
was simple fiction, without Il word of
truth in 1t.
Mr.. Stevenson is a fluent and very
effective speaker. His speech, replete
with argument and humor, made an
excellent impression upon the crowded
audience who listened to it,
Chief Justice Salmon p. Chase, who
arrived here last evening, presided, to-
day, at the opening of the United States
Court for the District of West Virginia.
In his charge TO the grand jury he re-
ferred to the fourteenth article of the
Constitution, recently adopted, as being
valid, and entitled to support. He said
that in order to suppress the rebellion
1t was necessary TO create a large pub
lie debt, and that debt must be paid.
Under the fourteenth article the faith
of tie nation was pledged to pay 1t.
The Chief Justice therefore charged the
Jury that it was their duty TO see that
the revenue laws, providing for the
payment of that debt, should be strictly
enforced, and that the burden of the
public debt should, as far as possible,
be equally distributed among the peo-
pie, and not paid by few.
1t Is understood here that the Chief
Justice has expressed himself as deci-
dedly in favor of the election of Grant
and ColfuX.