The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-05
PIeasants County.

Peasants County. l1-vs-
Boreman and other distinguish
Pakers will speak at Beech Run,
ants county, next Friday, and at
ary's on Saturday. We hope our
is will turn out in force.
raj blair Mt 1he Mcclure House
Saturday.
wagon and a brass band went
d the streets after dinner Satur-
informing the people that General
would speak from the balcony of
Mcclure House at 3 o'clock.
neral Blair, be it known, is the
ocratic candidate for the Vice
idency. The announcement drew
Their considerable crowd in FROM
be hotel, and promptly at the hour
General appeared on the balcony
We in company with several of the
t prominent opponents of his ante
ants and of the Union ca2se to be
nd in the city. We imagine that
first sight OF their candidate must
e taken the unterrifed slightly
ok. The tumbled condition of his
r. the fierceness of his moustache,
infiamed look of his face, while it
okened in some respects represen-
We and congenial man, must never
less have chilled their ardor just a
lie. So much was this the case that
Seymour man was moved to say
. has a hard face" meaning the Vice
esidential candidate's countenance.
The last time General Blair spoke in
city was before the Republican
ate Convention in May, 1860, at the
ne when the Democratic organ in this
" denounced the holding of such a
Invention as Dissertation of Virginia
4iI, and as an occurrence that should
)t be permitted. The men who were
tominent In backing up the General
b Saturday at that time felt his pres
hce to be a sort of an outrage on this
Immunity. Who has changed2 Those
llenP Not much. Their sympathies
he no more in sympathy with Frank
blair's antecedents than they were on
he occasion referred to. Gould all
lands go back to that day they would
70 found just where they were then.
Neither is 1t Franks war record that
.ttracts their favor and support. Not
bit of it. What is 1t, then2 1t is his
3roadhead letter-the letter in which
le lays down a revolutionary pro-
,ramme by which to coerce Congress
nto compliance with the ideas and pol
cy of the Southern rebels and their
Northern sympathizers. That letter
Blair to his present position,
md by virtue of that position his sur
were of the character seen
IN Saturday last.
As TO the General's speech, it can
hardly be called one, and our wonder
vas that of the man who said:
"If so soon I'm done for,
WhRtWRS begun ior7"
n fact, we thought him only cleverly
lnder way, when he suddenly quit.
After so much tin pan fuss to gather an
It was a kind OF an outrage
o send SO many home hungry, for we
hink Franks brief harangue, no more
han his personal appearance, entirely
the curiosity of the brethren.
An outline of his remarks will be found
n our local columns. The burden of
lis soul, SO far as lie exhibited 1t, was
he dIsfranohised condition of the rebels
md their aiders and abettors. he SEEM
d to feel indignant that the men who
lad spent four years in endeavoring TO
Iestroy the government were restrained
rom voting into power in such States
s West Virginia and Missouri, repre-
entatives OF the "lost cause" BE
wants men who endorse his Broad
ead letter to make our laws. He
would restore to power the men who
Considered his former speech here in
$50 about as much of an outrage on
heir rights as the registration laws of
o-day.
A true Milesian is said never to be
so much at peace as when at war;"
nd so it is with the Blair family-the
pestilential Blair family" as Brick
Democratic newspaper styl-
d 1t before the nomination OF Frank.
he family since the days when the old
nau published the brutal" Globe,
q 1t has been called, have been
loted for their assaultinE dispo-
quarrelsomeness their
rule or ruin" proclivities-and
rank has been especially noted for his
old and reckless political schemes at
(. Louis-for his "entente cordidLe"
18th Fremont, and subsequent quarrel,
and in a general way, for a high hand.
i and hot blooded career from his
outh up. He probably carries his
characteristics in his face with becom-
lg fidelity. Those who saw him
aturday can perhaps satisfactorily ac-
punt for his having written that revo-
ltionary Brodhead letter. 1t is fair
uestion whether his flying speeches
round the country are not making
lore votes for Grant and Colfax than
,r Seymour and Blair.
A PARTIAL list of the speakers on the
side in Pennsylvanta dur
ng the next ten days includes the fol-
owing: Senators Wilson, Cragin and
PATTERSON of New Hampshire, Repre-
Dawes, Lawrence, Cake,
dercur, Stevens of New Hampshire,
Ella and Banks, several new candidates
or Congress in Pennsylvania, Hon.
Edward Mcpherson, Colonel John w.
Hon. Horace Greeley, Mayor
of Philadelphia, Generals