The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-19

,ay SICK and wounded on their cots and
Dayoneted them as they lay there! Now
me man who commanded this force. nv
whose permission, nay more, by whose
order-tor he commended Col. Chalmers
Tor what he did on that occasion in an or
der afterwards issued-the man who was
me head scoundrel aud devil and fiend in
all Misunderstanding with more cruelty
tnan ever sayages INDUCED in, all the
rules and lawsof war and every prompt
ing OF humanity, was N. B. FORREST, q
prominent man in that Convention,
making. ticket for you and me to vote
for, and platform by which we are ex.
pected to swear. Are you, soldiers,
Teady$to do that? CCries of mo /
NeverW Take another case. Who has
not heard of
ANDERsoSyILLE?
There may be those here who have ex.
perienced something of that horror. /
have scarcely in all this season addressed
a crowd where one or more, and often
many, were not at hand who bad there
either suffered imprisonment themselves
or who did not mourn for husbands or
brothers or fathers that had died in that
hellish place. Do you recollect what we
hear and know of Andersonyllle? Do
you remember how $4,000 of our brave
boys, taken captive in battle, were penned
up within space of a few acres of ground,
and great portion of that mere swamp,
through which little muddy stream tor.
tured and trickled its way, affording them
the only means of assuaging their thirst
under that burning southern sky? Do
you recollect how they were starved there
how they came after a while to be
ragged and naked-how they grovelled
and burrowed IN the filthy soil to protect
them from the chilly nights-how they
famished, ard sickened, and died, and
lay upon the ground to be carried out
morning after morning as if they were but
the carcasses of dogs, not the bodies of
men who had committed no other
crime than that of fighting for the
old flag and their country? Do you re.
member how many of those poor fellows
would crawl upon the ground, emaciated,
worn to skeletons by sickness, disease,
and starvation and with their skinny fin.
gers attempt to dig in that swamp ground
for few bitter roots to exc out for lit
tie while the miserable existence left to
them by their fendish keepers? And that
sometimes q poor boy, after dirty crust,
perhaps, which his mother would not
have thrown to dog, crawling too
near what they called the dead line,"
had bullet put through him by some
internal rebel set as guard over him,
who received furlough as a reward for
having killed one or more ofthe "damned
Yankees?n Now our people in the loyal
States heard of that. Their hearts were
not only saddened but moved to work as
far as they might to prevent and alleviate
the terrible sufferings of their loved ones;
and the good people in the loyal States,
good and patriotic men and women
women, God bless them! for all of them
were ready ever to do for the soldier
Sanitary Commissions, Christian Com
missions, united their efforts aud got to-
gether stores of clothing and food, put
them in boxes and sent them down to
that prison at AndersonYille to be dealt
out to abate something of the suffering
and distress Of our poor fellows there.
Those store were consigned to q man by
the name of Deitz, who had charge of the
prison; and the damned scoundrel-for
he was no less wild cheers -sold those
stores on speculation and pocketed the
proceeds That man was Chairman and
spokesman of the Florida delegation in
the New York Convention, to make
ticket for us to vote for and platform
for us to stand on. Applause. And
cratic party SO orgauized-so brought to
that condition of taking openly the posi-
ton the South and their friends were as
sorting by rebellion, trying now to gain
by cunning what they could not accom-
plish by force. That is sample of the
composition of that Convention.
THE PATENT ADJUSTABLE DEMOCRACY.
Gen. Schenck then referred to the var
ious persons of various antecedents and
principles who were before the Conven-
ton and to the uncertainty that existed
not only with the public generally, but
among tho Democracy and in the
about what kind of
men would be nominated and
what kind of platform they would be
made to stand on-whether it was to be
a greenback man on greenback plat
form, or the same on bond platform;
whether it would be q bond man, on
bond platform, or the same on a green
back platform; whether it would be an
or Southern aristocrati
whether Union soldier, or person
whose sole merit was hostility to to the
Government in its efforts to put down the
rebellion; and the Democrats of the
country did not know till the fourth day
of the Convention which of these anti
podes in men and politics they would have
to vote for. Nor did they feel quite sure
now, for now the Democratic leaders were
talking about reversing the engine, and
his Democratic friends might yet have to
vote for Chase, and march to the air of
i'John Browns body lies m0uldering in
the grave" They should be careful not
to say bad things about eminent Republi-
cans, Mr.. Chase in particular, until their
masters in New York determined who and
what they were to vote for.
What does this state of facts mean :?
continued the speaker. Simply that the
Democratic party, rs now organized, has
no principles at all, [applauseJ and was
ready for anything or anybody, so only
they might hope to win. You did not
know until that Convention decided for
you what the principles of your condi.
dates were to be or what tune you would
have to sing during the campaign. And
therein it is we have an eminent advantage
over you. We know that the Union
party, made up of war Democrats and
Republicans-madeu up of all men who for
Getting party differences rallied round the
old Gag and sought to sustain the Govern
ment against the attempt to overthrow 1t,
was the party that fought all through the
war until it accomplished the putting
down of the rebellion, and is the same
partv which as 1 said at the outset is now
engaged in keeping that rebellion down.
[Applause.l
THE CANDIDATES.
The Convention selected Seymour as
their candidate for the Presidency. Why?
Were they not as ready to take Pendleton
or Chase if it had been thought politici
and.T have already shown you the broad
49, - I,at,cSo,, 4hair y,nsitions and