The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-25

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generously, manly, rs God mas honesty 5o!
made me man. want you 70 "nuGi
stand that occupy asort OF Tree ngRI
position. Coming to you in that gatG, l
want 10 say to you honestly the SCUM IS
done with you. (Cheers.) may De
wrong, but II so, am honestly wrong; !
do NOT believe am wrong; know am
right Applause. go ahead Inc
south is done with you. Why Poor,
miserable coward. Do you think those
brave men who for four years stood the
dangers of the camp and field will ever as.
soci1tc with you? applause. They
ought not tor You know they will not,
and that is the reason you are not going
10 take them in. You tickle their ears
because you want to play on human pas
sions. You want TO secure the sympathles
Of those who do vote to keep out nose
who do not. You say this is White
mans Government" you black-llvered
creature, (cheers,) in which negroes and
rebels have no part. daughter and up
plausc.) / beg your pardon"-"6lack-
| iiycrcd." never Intentionally speak dis.
respectfully of anybody. withdraw that
part of What said. But gentlemen, you
DECEIVED us, and that is IL fact have u
right to speak OF without being offensive.
And how did YOU deceive us? You said,
gentlemen OF the South, go It upon the
State sovereignty platform and we will
stand by you, and the cohorts and leglons
of northern Republicans shall pass over
our dead bodies before they reach your
homes. What does history say! You
gentlemen are answerable for our destruc-
lion, You let them pass over the dead
bodies of your principles. You reached
our homes. You devastated and su6iu.
gated us. You took our lives and destroy
ed us while we were fighting for the very
principle of State sovereignty that you
advocated, and which you pretend again
to advocate to-day. Now, | tell you, you
deceived us in not going with us, and the
soldier OF the South knows 1t and he will
never join you again. or course every
rebel who now remains a Republican did
not fight for State sovereignty notions,
but those who have gone to the Demo-
cratic ranks have shown themselves again
State sovereignty men. What did we
fight for? The trouble between us was,
tile South claimed the States of the South
had right to dictate 10 the Federal Gov
ernment in so far rs we had reserved
rights. We believed in State sovereignty
that States had right to dictate the mode
and measure Of redress. The Union party
denied that proposition, and said every
man owed his allegiance to his country
Now, my iellow.citiZens, we fought it out
on that platform, and on that lost 1t, and
now these Democrats who find themselves
out of power, want TO revive that old queS-
ton on which they lost Now, ltell you,
rs an honest man, we won't go with
YOU any more in reviving these State sover-
eighty notions. (ApplauSe) What would
have become of State sovereignty If you
had succeeded y We returned to our ale
glance as honorable men to our whole
country. Now when We return home we
find it necessary to put the 18th Amend
ment in the Constitution, to secure his
right to every black man, and it Is done.
| Two years ago, when came before the
people some of my Republican friends
knew my views on this question, and
were u little ticklish about letting inc
come before the people with the whole
truth in my mouth. told them II could
not do that would keep my mouth clos
cd, and l advocated the 18th Amendment
then. Now, having advocated it then
when there were not very many in our re.
gion to stand by me in that position novel
US it was, gentlemen, we have unfolded
that leaf.
Now the question presented to us is,
shall we stand still or shall we 90 forward
AS my position was somewhat novel At
that time you must excuse me il shall
be somewhat novel again. Gentlemen,
all parties that have opposed the progress
of the ballot have gone down. Why is
Virginia divided to-day? Because she
had fought the extension of the franchise.
You know which party triumphed. The
Democratic party have Contcnded against
the enlargement of the ballot to the pcO-
pie and have gone down under that posi-.
ton. But yesterday imperial France said
liberty was always tree so long as the bal
lot was open to the people. John Bright
sits in the English Cabinet to-day because
he was IL liberal. Thirty years ago John
Bright was hardly respected in England
because he took advanced views OF things
because he was o liberal. John Bright
has not changed, but John Bright has
brought the ideas of England up to John
Bright and she is frccr and greater than
she was before
Now, my fellow citizens, upon our re.
turn home it was wise in you to restrain
from lis the ballot. We did not know the
true situation. Many of US were inilamed
by passions that time only could cure,
The question that now comes up is, has
not time cured those passions and restored
reason to us? If the cause which induced
the arrest of the ballot from us has been
removed, is not itwisG now to restore that
ballot to us? eyes it is" )7 You must re-
member, my Republican friends, that you
are governed by great natural laws. The
philosophy of human life is backwards
and forwards. Nothing stands still. A
state of stagnatiOn Is state of life that
prcCedes the "sere and yellow leaf that
points to winter and death. We cannot
stand still on these great propositions.
We must unfold them. Has the time
come when in your wisdom and Judgment
the ballot should be restored and the prin-
ciplcs you are developing, OF manhood
suffrage, should be extended to the former
rebels? In my judgment it has. Now,
remember, you must either go backwards
or forwards. You cannot stand still. o!
the voters of the country the two parties
arc now pretty well defined. You have
recruited from the ranks Of our cOlOred
brethren. Will you put yourself in SYM
pathy with the popular voice or will You
arrest it. Heretofore you have h9 grand
success, because you had put yourself In
sympathy with the popular voice. And
you have put yourself in sympathy with
that voice because 1t was right. Those
who were in the rebellion in my judgment
are now prepared for the ballot If you