The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-19
TN Mprr,xa SATURDAY NIaHr.-

The Democratic meeting at the Court
House, on Saturday night, was one Of
hes largest and most enthusiastic. ever
held there.
p The meeting was called to order by
N. Reilly. Esq, and on his motion Jo-
seph II. Pendleton was called to preside.
Lewis Jourdan was elected Secretary.
Mr.. Penaleton, on taking the chair,
delivered 9 brief but eloquent speech in
favor of the Democratic ticket and the
new, Constitution, urging every man
present TO do his duty in the present
campaign and show boilers that they
could expect no favor at the hands Of
the sturdy Democracy. He then in-
troduced General S. F. Carey, of Ohio.
General Carey's speech was one Of
those that could only be reported by a
man of stone. Its eloquence, wit, many
happy hits, inveetive and groupings Of
facts, would so move a man with q
heart in him that he would forget all
else but the speaker and his argument.
1t was enthusiastically applauded. At
some points the vast audience rose as
one man and made the old Court
House walls ring again as cheer after
cheer went up from lusty Democratic
throats.
He advised every man within the
sound Of his voice to vote for the new
Constitution, as il was one most excel
lent in its provisions, and calculated to
protect tue working man and men Of
ANAL means in all their dearest rights.
1t provides, he said, for the education
of the children of the poor, thus pro-
viding forever for educated labor, and
consequently for the future prosperity
OF the State. Vote, be said, for Cam
den and the new Constitution. A Dem
ocratic victory in this State next Thurs
day ensures West Virginia for Greeley
in November, and will be worth ten
thousand votes to your brethren in Ohio
and Indiana at their elections.
His denuncistions of the rascal>
ity and frauds of the Grant adj
ministration were terrible, and his
exposition Of his rascality clear and
convincing. The Republican party
boasts that Grant has paid S300,VO0,-
OCO of the Federal debt during the past
fou. years" Grant has paid ii! Well
We are much Obliged to Mr. Grant, and
hope he will pay the rest OF it. But i'll
order that Grant might pay that $780,
900 600 OF debt, said the speaker. my
fellow citizens, there has been taken
from your pockets $4,000, DOC, 600
Three thousand millions OF money COL
lected and only ten per cent OF it rid
on the Federal debt.
After showing that men who, some
Of them on being elected to Congress
had to borrow money enough to pay
their way to Washington, were enabled
in two years to count their wealth by
millions. Mr.. Carey spoke of the mag
namity" of the Republican party as de-
clared in their platform, and explained
how that the war, which was war
for the perpetuity Of the Union, after
Mr.. Lincoln's death, was by the Radi-
Gals, under the lead ofThaddeus Stevens,
termed a war that had resulted in the
conquest of the South, and that the
doctrine held by Mr.. Lincoln that a
State could not secede was Immediately
after his death repudisted, and the doc
trine that the Southern States had
seeded and that they should be treated
az conquered provinces was adopted by
the party. This was done that they
might show their "magnamity" in
squeezing the last dollar and last drop
of blood out of the people Of the South
ern States.
There are hard.headed Barbour Dem
ocrats, said Gen. Carey, who hold that
the emancipation proclamation was I'M
constitutional, that the Thirteenth, Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments are
unconstitutional, and am told you have
fellow OF this sort running Tor Con-
gress in this district against my talented,
studious, gallant friend, Ben. Wilson,
and that he will be supported by Repub-
licans. These fellows claim that
slavery is not dead, because they say,
the means used for its extinction were
not constitutional. Whether constitu-
tionally killed or not, the fact remains
thai it does not exist in the length and
breadth of the land. These men say
they cannot vote for Greeley. They
cannot vote for anyone who does not
agree in their narrow and contracted
views, their retrogressive and anti.pro-
gressive ideas They forget or DO not
know that times are changing and men
changing with them, and that men to-
day live longer in sixty years than
Methuseleh did in all the many years
he lived on the earth.
General Carey's speech had glori.
GUS effect here. He found his way TO
the hearts and minds,of his hearers, and
when he proposed to stop they shouted
to him to 90 on, they would stay until
midnight to hear him. lie spoke for two
hours and half, and not man Of that
densely packed crowd thought of being
tired or leaving the building.
Mr.. Carey closed his speech about ten
o'clock, and Hon. Samuel Woods, OF
Barbour county, then spoke in advoca.
cy of the adoption OF the new Constitu-
ton. Owing to the lsteness OF the hour
q large portion Of the audience LEFT the
Court House during the delivery of Mr..
Woods remarks, though considerable
number remained until the close, which
was after eleven o'clock. Mr.. Woods
made very clear and plain statement
OF the principal respects in which the
new Constitution differs from that now
in force, and answered in a very forcible
and satisfactory manner the several OBJ
jectious that have been urged against
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