The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-25
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Editors InteEIt9eHeeT: 81
Although the rain has poured down
in torrents nearly all day. yet one OF
the most enthusiastic meetings ever
held in this part of the State was held
here by the Republicans to-day. Some
Travelled twenty-five or thirty miles
through rain and mud to be present:
They remembered that rain ana mud
did not prevent Grant from rmaIenlng
on TO victory at Doneison, nlckspnrg
and Appomattox, and determined that
nothiuR shall prevent him from win
ming that last, great and browning vic
tory in November next, Old men, as
we'll as young, came out to swell the
ranks of the grand old party of the
Union, and give their influence and
voice for Grant, Colfax and Peace. By
ten o'clock In the morning there were
no less than four hundred voters of the
county. collected in town, with some
hundred or more from Richie and Ty-
Ter. At abouE half-past ten O'Clock A.
n, the crowd poured into the Court
House, where Governor Foreman adj
dressed them for something more than
three hours in one of the ableSt speeches
we have heard during the campaign.
He was very plain and convincing in
his arguments upon all the issues, and
spoke with telling effect, as was eYinced
by frequent and hearty applause by the
crowd. 1t was expected that the Hon.
J. s. Carlile would follow the Governor,
but on account of the morning train
from Parkersburg being detained until
late In the afternoon by an accident on
the road West of this place, he was
Obliged TO pass on and leave us, in order
TO meet an appointment at Weston to-
morrow.
At the close of Governor BoremAn's
speech the crowd gathered around a
n ~ hfnf1
had previously been prepared and
raised amid cheers and the widest ex-
element. a beautiful flag was then
run up, bearing the thirty seven stars
-embIems of Reunited country,
saved by Grant. Immediately above
the flag, fastened to the pole by means
of perpendicular frame, was cam
vass, seven feet by six feet, bearing
mottos. On one side, inscribed in let
tiers large enough to be read at the dis.
lance OF half mile, Is "Grant, Colfax
aud Peace" On the opposite side is a
life size figure of the Goddess of Liberty
holding in her hands q scroll, on which
Is inscribed Surrender" and immedi-
ateIy below, "Appomattox 1866 Ballot
Box 1851 The painting was execu-
ted by Mr.. Thos. j. Cousin of this town:
1t is executed in various colors, and
bears very artistic appearance
The meeting has been a great success,
and Indicates that old Doddridge will.
wheel into line at the tune of about 200
for "Grant, Coliax and Reed."
There have been in town day, under
circumstances, not far from
i've hundred voters, and most of these
from our own county. We may safely
say that had the weather been favofa-
BILE, there would have been, at least,
double that number. On the 18th inst,
when the Democracy was addressed by
Mr.. Thurman, the Democrats estimated
that they had a crowd of about seven
hundred. But It was an observable
fact, that not more than three hundred
ofthem were legal voters, the remain
der being women and children, or dis
and it is generally con-
coded that majority of all these were
from adjoining counties. i was intend
ing to give you a few quotations from
Mr.. ThurmRn's speech at this place,
but this communication is already too
long, and will reserve for future let
ter. Yours for peace,