The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-06
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cane, the Mississippi ,pluHging, oyer
broken levecs aud the boorish planta-
ton negroes, pampered with deiusive
hope. sitting in inockeries of Conven-
tions. He said that Radicals argued
that such acts we're needed to prevent
Democratic admission to power and
consequent Reputation of the NatioIal
debt, but nc thanked God that the 7na-
tional power still was safe and no repn
diation would lie attempted, although
if anything were calculated to drive
voters to that alternative it would be
the spectacle of all the national
bondholders fockiDg to one party and
advocating all kinds of outrages under
the one cry Of "Down with repudia-
tione' av
He continued that it lay with the
Democratic Convention the duty of say
ing what shall be the policy of the next
four years, and who shall be its expo
peHts, and to say whether they shall be
victorious on living issues or beaten on
dead issues. Two million of men were
in our recent armies. of those 100000
have died during and since the war,
and there are now 1,500 900 soldiers liv-
ing. OF those voters this Convention
represents at least one half, and ofthat
half, one half OF more are of so strong
conviction that they will vote for any
Democratic candidate that has yet been
named. [Cheers.l But the other half,
he declared, might be lost or won to
the Democratic party, as the nomina-
tons might be wise or otherwise.
He did not doubt the wis
dom of the Tapmany Con-
yention, nor that they would
nominate o standard bearer who,
whether he was or was not soldier IN
the recent war, was, without doubt, an
advocate of law. Applause The
issues of the present crisis were not in
any respect the issues for which they
lately fought. No one man who died
in defence of the national flag laid down
his life for negro suffrage and the other
Radical dogmas. The Democratic party
is now the only party which adheres to
the Constitution and the law, and III
the path that it now treads can be dis
cerned the footprints of Washington,
of jefferson, of Clay and of Webster,
and while it keeps their track it can be
followed with pride and with unfalter-
ing purpose. Applause.
At the conclusion of General
Ewing's address the band struck up the
air "Rally round the flag" the chorus
being sang by the audience.
The committee OH Permanent Organ
ization then reported the following
list of regular officers: Perment Chair
man, Major General w. p. Franklin, of
Connecticut. Vice Presidents aud Sec
retaries-Maine, Major ID. Il. Hasting,
Colonel ii. q. Staples; New Hampshire,
General NJ. T. Denhoe, Captain COggs-
well; Massachusetts,, General Luther
Stephenson, Major ii. &. Weymouth;
Connecticut, Colonel Il. g. Kingsbury,
Captain II. l.. Ledbetter; Rhode Island,
General J. G. Hazard, Colonel T. Ford
Brown; New York, General j.. W.
Blanchard, Colonel j. C.. Bronson;
District of Columbia, Colonel
P. Hallabach, Col. John II. Osborne;
California, Gen. j. w. Denver, no Sec
rotary; South Carolina, Lieut.. S. Me-
day, no Secretary; West Virginia, DIR.
X. A. Vance, Capt. o. G. Chase; Iowa,
Gen. J. NJ. futile, Lieut.. X. III. Eddy;
New Mexico, Gen. X. b. Mitchell, Capt.
J. w. Cook; Illinois, Capt. r. A.
Schartz, Private J. II. Hildreth; Misseu-
ri, Gen. J. S. Fullerton, Col. S. NJ. jew
eli; Michigan, Maj. j. w. Nixon, Maj.
Foster Pratt; Kentucky, Maj. w. IL.
White, Col. w. &. Starr; Florida, Col.
j. c.. McKibbon, no Secretary; Wiscon-
sin, Gen. NJ. Montgomery, Lieut.. g. w.
Bird; Tennessee, Gen. Theo. Tranev-
nicht, Lieut.. ID. Walker; Alabama,
Col. A. Edwards, Col. Butler; Arkansas,
Capt. C. l.. Cameron, Capt. VIM. McMa-
hon; Minnesota, Major j. c. Rhodes,
Major George A. Clarke; Indiana, Cen
eral John Love, Col. ii. S. Grove; Dako-
Ia, General J. Il. S. Todd, no secretary;
New Jersey, General Thee. Runnion,
Lieut.. Col. j. j. Crapin; Nebraska, Col.
John Panyell, Capt. G. b. Smith; Penn
sylvania, General Peasants, Col. j. L.
Linton; Kansas, Col. G. III. English, DR..
j. ii. NJ. Savage; Ohio, General A. Wiley,
Capt. J. X. Santmeyer; Maryland, Major
Leopold Blumenberg, Major A. G. Will
liams; Louisiana, General j. b. Steed
man, Capt. X. S. Dennis: Texas, General
Horace Maiden.
This list of officers was elected by
reclamation.
General Franklin was escorted to the
chair amid cheers.
Gcucral McClernand introduced Gen
eral Franklin as q favorite of the vol
unteers. Yells and cheers
General Franklin thanked the Con-
vention, and, abiding to his want of
civil experience, hoped that no very
difficult questions of order would arise.
Secret military organizations were just
ly looked OH with distrust-they were
dangerous. Soldiers had 10 right to
use their positions as political power.
What then were they doing in forming
an organization of soldiers, First, this
was not n secret organization, but there
was secret organization thoroughly
organized throughout the West, and
probably the South, the Grand Army of
the Republic; it was organized for po-
litical purposes, and opposed to il was
another, and these two might at any
time fly ut each others threats aud
thus deluge the country with blood.
To declare that Conservatives would
not enter into such organizations was
our purpose, and to show the country
that the Chicago Soldiers and Sailors
Convention, so called did not represent
them.
The Radical party pretended to be
friends of the soldiers, but the Radical
Senate rejected the soldiers nomina-
tiOns. He ihstanced the cases of Gen
erals Mcclellan, Slocum and others; no
less than 1000 soldiers and sailors had
been nominated to the Senate and been
rejected. The Conservative soldiers
felt certain that things had been set
tied by the war-they had felt concilia
tory toward their former opponents
The Radicals had been animated with
enmty and hate, and, judging the fu.
ture by the past, the only hope for
peace was in the success of the COnser
vative party. They must be prepared
to make sacrifices for peace. What they
asked of the Convention was man
whom the soldiers and sailors could,
without sacrifice of principle, support.
The Secretary here announced that
the names for Vermont should be Colo
mel +. +. Cole and Colonel Kennedy.
a resolution was then offered that all
resolutions be referred to the commit
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