The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-07
General Cor ut LittIeton.
WErzEL COUNTY,
October fsth 1870

Editors OF the Register:
According to announcement, General
Nathan Golf addressed some one hun,
bred and seventy-fve Of the citizens OIL
We,zel county on yesterday, the 9Th
instant, in this little stronghold Of
Democracy More than one-half the
number Of those in attendance were
and are Democrats. / never saw the
General before, and from the extrava-
CANT description given me by some OF
his very warm admirers, | was expect.
ing to hear a speech forcible and bril-
liant. If the General endeavored to
accommodate himself to the intellectual
capacity Of his audience he has most
as>uredly failed If he repeated the
speech he has delivered elsewhere, he
is now, think, persuaded that the
same thing does not please every COM
munity.
The speech from beginning to end was
r0r. Once only speaking on constitu-
tional and financial issues. He was so
weak in argument so confused in the
arrangement of ideas, that'the audience
grew very weary. Referring to that
part of hIs speech after tue meeting.
Mr. Browne, State Senator from this
district, unsolicited, declared the speech
Il very weak one-a failure. Mr.. Hub
bard who accompanied the General,
made to the writer an admission Of
nearly the same import, at the same
time, excusing General Golf on the plea
of youth and inexperience.
The General charges the Democratic
party with being the authors of the re-
bellion, and insists on it that the Re
publican party alone, in Senate and
field, trampled it out. States rights is
secession and political heresy. Every
act OF the Republican party, Congress
sional or otherwise, must be upheld, and
until they are safely secured, there can
be no peace. To prove Republicanism
right, he compares the United States
Constitution with that OF the defunct
Confederacy. +.
He defends all the late amendments
as being voted for and established by
nearly the unanimous consent OF the
people-as legally so as was the tenth
article of the Constitution, which he
designates "a similar amendment" "A
Democratic victory will be a dismem.
herment of the country (Wonder if it
will burst himself.
lie appeals to the boys IN blue, the
flag OF the nation, the lovers of the
dead, &c, to those present who bore
that flag through smoke and flame.
[ Here a soldier friend of the General S,
Tom Wilson, full freighted with red eve,
grew horribly excited and was in for a
renewal of the war. To pacify the
gallant sodger," the General had him
brought up TO the corner beside him
self The Democratic party are in
for a Reputation Of the debt, for the
subversion Of every principle of those
amendments and Of every law made and
passed for the last ten years
lie apostrophizes the army and Tom
Wilson roarS out excitedly, by -
that's me- Some few Democrats are
honest, the rest are ignorant and go
aStray, and Tom Wilson exclaims,
That's so, Gineral.
The financial difficulties he tries to
explain, and no one understands him.
Some shrewd fellow says: The General
don't understand himself: excitement is
diving slowly. John Wilson tries to
dodge from the Corner and wet his
whistle with another nip The govern
ment is justified in exempting bonds
from taxation, by the exhibition of a
Confederate bond. The General tries
TO be witty and sarcastic, but he fails
and he fizzles.
The Homestead and other bills he
hastily adverts to, in vindication Of his
party, and concludes by challenging
any man in the Democratic party, here
or elsewhere, to point out any act of
the Republican party, in or out Of
Congress; that was not for the perpet-
nitv Of our national liberty and the
rights and dignity of the whole people.
Such is a true synopsis Of General
COTS speech. Mr.. Hubbard followed.
1t is requested by many here that the
General will discuss the following:
Greeley favors universal amnesty and
universal freedom-does General Golf?
Greeley condemns the West Virginia
system of Observation-Disclosures General
Golf? President Grant and the Wheel
ing MtelHgeaccr thought discrimination,
on account of participation in the rebel
lion, should cascades General Golf
think 90
The General has not made single
convert here on the contrary, he has
lost three or four adherents. The
crowd quietly dispersed, Tom Wilson
for home. filled with JOY at being for
an hour even the close companion Of a
live General An escort of Cameron
gentlemen, VINO accompanied General
Cot. returned early (before the Gen
erals speech was halt through on the
home bound train, cursing the apathy
of the people who, they declare, can
scarcely be deemed worthy Of the lib
erty they now so bountifully enjoy. g
God save the Republic. Yours,
JUSIus.