The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-21
s,eyensOn Paid In his Own
Coin bnt Denies the
Tender"
..rne Patient Watch and vigil Long
of him who Treasures up II wrong"
Radicals Disguised; Demo-
crafts JubiIant.
Brooke County Good for One
Hundred Majority.
discussion Between Hon. J. j. Davis
aud General Goh: and Governor
stc,eusOn and ii. ~. walker Esq.

Nearly one month ago We pnbli~he
the announcement that Hon. John j.
Davis, Democratic candidate tor Con
rrrss. would address the people OF
Brooke county on Tuesday, September
9uth being the first dav ofthe court at
that place. subsequently it was an
n,unced in the M'eiL;gsncer that Genera
coil and Governor Stevenson would
al-1 speak at the same time and place
Mr.. Henry ). Walker, being in this city
consented to accompany Mr., Davis and
also address the people OF Brooke
The several announcements brought
ro.r;her large concour.e Of the peo-
rlr To hear the discussion OF the pOlit-
zeal ISSUES Of the day The Democratic
committee considering that they bad
the first right to the occupancy OF the
Court House, proposed to the Radicals
a air and equitable division Of time
After considerable parley and dispute,
the following order OF speaking was
agreed upon. Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Goff,
Mr. Walker and Governor Stevenson
we're each to speak one hour in the order
named, after which Mr.. Walker was to
conclude the discussion by speech Of
thirty minutes duration, aud Attorney
General Caldwell was TO follow in a
speech as long as he pleased and the
people were disposed to listen.
The meeting was organized by the
election of J. w. White, Esq, As
Chairman on behalf OF the Democracy
and Rev. David IIervey on behalf OF
the Radicals. At twenty minutes past
one o'clock Hon. John J. Davis was
Introduced
MR.. DAVIS SrEECH.
lie said that the questions now be
for the people were not OF merely per-
-onal importance to the candidates tor
Office: they involved the very ex-
iscence of orr republican form
Of government The Republican
party has been in power during
the past ten years and is therefore
Justly held responsible Tor whatever
evils may now exist in our national at
iairs. For even the dissolution OF the
Union which the Republican party de
clared in 1861 that the war then begin
ming was 20 be waged to maintain, that
PARTY is fully responsible. Disregard
ins the solemn pledge made 10y the
American Congress, the Constitution
va violated and the Union as it exist
ei in the time of our tOreiatherS has
been DESTROYED. They pledged them
selves to support the Constitution as 1t
was inl7S9 and not as it is III 1870.
Had they declared then the purpose
which has since been fully revealed 10y
accomplished facts, not corporal :
guard could have been found IN West
Virginia to take up arms in aid OF the
Radical design, They have leglslated
States ont Of the Union at will, and
have essentially changed the form OF
government established by our anceS-
tors
Only two wears ago they declared that
they were not in favor OF negro suffrage
hut they have not only now forced this
odou> measure upon an unwilling peo-
pie but, in so doing, they have sub
y"rtei the government a. completely
and etfectualv as il could have been
accomplished bv force of arms. The
intent of hostile armies is open, undis-
gIised and easily understood, but the en-
aciments of legislation are more dan
gerOns because more insldlous ana more
difficult to guard against.
Mr. Davis then proceeded to show
wherein the Fifteenth Amendment was
material subversion Of the orlglnai
Constitution and the form OF govern
ment erected under it, in that 1t took
from the several States the control over
the elective franchise within their re
spective limits and bestows it upon the
Federal Government; power whicn
the States never consented to rellnqhisn
and which the Federal Government
ought not to hold. This amendment
has been ratified under the bayonet and
not by the freely expressed vii! OF th'
people.
He then alluded to the inconsistencl
of the Radical party in West Virglnl'
in bestowng the suffrage upon 1000 o.
5000 negroes while they sought to per
petuate the disfrauchisement OF 2O,OO,
or 5000 men of their own race anC
color; and argued that the sole reasor
for this distinction 10 to be found in tn