The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-10-25
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MY fellow citizens, the State of Vir
gina has adopted this policy. That
State which furnished the states
men and illustrious warriors who
were the foremost in the struggle fol
our independence; that State which
gave to us q long line Of illustrious
PRESIDENTS; that State which in our I'm
fortunate war, after guiding the councils
OF the nation for so many years, fur
alshed the heroes and statesmen of the
Southern Confederacy; that State which
not even Radical reconstruction could
subject to scallawag or a carpet bag
ger; that State which was cleft in twain
10y the Radical Congress to add to its
power by duplicating it's Representa-.
tlves in the Senate, in order to Cypress
the South, and which the wise sons OF
Virginia have erected into two fortress.
es for the defense of the country.
Shall the Democracy Of the South fail
to follow the counsels Of the Old Do
mlnion? Why we have taken hold of
an example in Missouri. Tramneled
with election laws and disfranchised,
we have risen and rent the bonds which
bound us, and believe the State of
Missouri will at the next Presidential
election give a larger majority than
any other State for the candidate OF the
Democratic party.
The men Of foreign birth who have
come here are neither Of the North nor
of the South; they are not identified
with any one section OF our country in
the sense in which those who are native
born are identified with the particular
section in which they were born; they
came and are made citizens OF the
whole country, and all parts OF it, and
while upon the question which recently
divided us they sided with the North,
Git is natural that they should do so,
because naturally they looked upon this
country as one and undivisible,) and
now with the same sentiment in their
hearts, they cannot see why one section
of the country should be subjected to
the other In my judgment these are
the men TO whom we have to look in
the coming struggle. They have come
from countries where despotism is prac.
ticed and they know its badges and
signs better than we do, who have never
known them. They know the subtle
manner in which tyranny will make its
approach, and already recognizing it in
the leading men, the ablest representa-.
tive OF our adopted citizens is now pro-
claiming his hostility to Grant and his
administration, declaring in the face OF
the world that he has taken his depart.
ure and burned his ships. | do not
think that any one will fail to recognize
the description. Ispeak of my colleague
in the Senate, Carl. Schurz. He it was,
my fellow citizens, who led the entire
German element of the State OF Mis-
souri, to break down the DISTINGUISHING
clause of our constitution, and arrayed
his fellow countrymen as one man
against the administration; and despi5-
ing the offices Of Grant, desp;sing his
patronage and power, resolved to pre-.
serve that free love which America had
given to him and his countrymen.
Now my fellow citizens the Germans
in Missouri although Republicans
almost to a man, have always voted
against DISTINGUISHING those who were
opposed to them during the war. They
needed no instruction on that point
from anybody, and they resolutely main
tanned the doctrine that neither Con-
gress nor the States could by bill Of
attainder deprive the men Of the right
Of suffrage. They maintained that
position in the last contest through
which we passed in Missouri; they hold
it good against the Establishments and
threats of the administration; they
stand firmly and squarely to-day, sol
idly to the last man, against all disfran-
chisement and for universal amnesty;
they are opposed to this Ku-Klnx legis-
lation, loud applause, against the sus-
pension oi the writ OF habeas corpus,
and, III my judgement, If the Demo
cratic party will now, instead Of the
adoption OF any "new departure, put
forward a man As the candidate OF the
,artv, or accept one who may be put
forward 10y others, who is sound upon
these principles, he will receive the
support of the entire German vote IN
the United States, numbering, as have
been informed, from 100000 to 10000
men.