The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-25
meeting at WASHINGTON Hall.
speeches. or Hon. horace Maynard,
6 aO6 Tennessee, Gov. stanton
and Gov. Foreman.

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the appointment. The weather in the
IeYening was of tie most unfaYoraole
character. The drenching train which
has fallen during the day held on, and
the streets were wet and sloppy.
Notwithstanding these unfayorable
conditions, and despite the fact that
Mr., Maynard's coming was wholly I'M
Iexpected, some six or. seyen hundred
people, among them a number of ladies,
assembled In Washington Hall to well
come the distinguished Tennesseean.
Mr.. Maynard was introduced In appro-
1 PIRATE terms by Hon. @. D. Hubbard
and entertained his audience with an
interesting and able argument, vindi-
eating the history, the principles and
policy of the Republican party. as the
i party of free government free labor and
progressive civilization in this country,
on :he other hand he analysed the par
ty calling itself Democratic and show
ed it to the advocate of caste, of politi-
cal inequalities, faYoring a civiliza-
ton in which there shonld be nom
laboring and non producing aristocracy
supported in idleness by a laboring
population held by them in slavery.
He showed that the fundamental idea on
which the party was founded was that
capital should own muscle; that the
educated and rich should own as chat
tells the poor; and in order to make this
relation of master and slave secure,
should keep the lsboring and produc-
ing class in ignorance. He showed
that it was this idea which
prompted the rebellion; that the men
who inaugurated and engaged In it
were all Democrats, that the men who
apologizsd for it and guve 1t
moral support in the North were
Democrats, and that these very
identical meh are the men who nom-
mated Horatio Seymour and Frank.
Blair and demand that the people
OF the United States by the election
of these men shall turn over into
the hands Of these very same rebels
calling themselves Democrats) the
Government they made such efforts TO
destroy. He compared the men, Grant
and Seymour, compared their records
and their qualities. Seymour was NOM
mated by the Confederate leaders, sim
ply that in the event of his election they
might mould him to their purposes
just as they did at New York. There
was but one argument a Southern rebel
could understand. All such ideas as
justice, magnanimity and mercy were
lost on him. he looked upon the mer-
ciful policy of the Government as an
evidence OF weakness. There was
nothing In him 70 be touched by such
a policy. But the argument Of SUI
perior force he appreciated and respect
ed most thoroughly, and that argument
was tho only one that could convince
the Southern rebels that the American
people mean the Government shall con-
tinue in the custody of its friends and
defenders.
He said It only needed such an ex-
preston at the North as would satisfy
tho rebel leaders of the hopelessness of
any further contest, to give the South
and the country Immediate peace. In
1864 the Democratic party of the North,
In the interest of the failing Confedera-
cy, made H last. effort at Chicago to bully
the Northern people into yielding the
contest and acknowledging the disco
luton of the Government. a letting
down of Nonhern sentiment was the
only hope the rebels had and that fall
ell them. The reelection OF Mr.. Lin
coin satisfied them they. were fighting
against fate, for it assured them the
courage and endurance of Northern
people were untouched.
The treRchery of the President and
the delusive hopes held out by the
Northern Demoeracy had rekindled the
hopes Sf1hese Southern rebels and re-
newed the tliseord of the Rebellion in
every Stale. Satisfy these men that
such hopes are deluslve, that the reso-
luton OF the people of the North Is un-
changed, that their courage is undated,
that they will not yield what they have
already sacrificed so much to defend,
and that the Northern Democracy is
not able to deliver the Government into
their hands as it bargained, and these
rebel leaders in tho South will
yield at once; all the connections
in The South will subside; the
leaders who foment discords will
accept the necessities of the situ-
alton, and we shall hear no more
about negro suffrage, "nigger equal-
ity," or any other of the cries they now
use as excuses for their resistance to the
re.establishment OF civil governments
based ON the political equality of all the
Southern people. The election of Grant
will truly solve the whole problem of
Southern reconstruction, settle the
question at once, and give the country
peace, and restore prosperity to South
and North alike.
In pursuance ofthis idea, Mr.. May
nard referred to his own State and its
disturbed condition for many months
back, where scarcely "a hours. passed |
without the murder OF a UnioAist land |
in allthe long catalogue of murder and
outrage. not a single one ofthe victims
was u Democracy But no sooner had
the President authorized Gen. Thomas
TO use the military force of the United
States tOpunish the offenders in Ten
nessee. than all had become quiet,
peaceful and secure. The deferential |
respect for power shown by the rebels
of Tennessee would be shown by them !
throughout the South whenever thew
were assured that the power would be
forthcomingif needed. Upon this sim
pie fact rested the solution of all our
troubles in the South. The whole issue