The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-04-16
Mr.. TrumbnlI and his New York
Speech.

4AosthosS hA0SAuSb VI buo 4Sth lunts "A
On old line Republican, naturally felt n
little solicitude In view Of this first grounI
swell OF the "Liberals." My anxiety ha
given place to unutterable disgust for th
whole business. WIN youallow mea lii
lie space, In the interest of fair play I,
record my Impressions Oh that meeting
and especially Of Trumbulls speech. Dur
Ing the Atlanta campaign, In compan,
with Capt Bradley ofthe 9th Ohio Bat
tery,a brave and efficient officer, 4 'passet
two days at the. front while ,"the boys il
blue drove Forrest beautifully. IEverl
now and again the Rebs would turn upol
US and blaze away with a "jack ass bat
tery.ph These guns, are short ,an(
big tnouthed, making "a great Iioisl
which kept some. Of the crowd rather Tin
easy. I begged the 1Captain to turn Lii
HParrotsS on them and blow them from
the bushes, but the more they banged tht
more he laughed, saying: "Let then
alone, they kitten Of their own men 4
one they hurt Of ours," So I can say ,o
Trumbulls speech. Conkling, the Presi
dent, came into tho meeting big with tht
announcement: 1--WE are honored t0
night by the presence Of two Of the mos
distinguished statesmen Of tho Republic
[great applause one Of them was born ID
New England, the other Graded on tht
Rhine" Amazing Wonderful event !
Like Paddy's epitapllto his children:
"HerO lie my two little babies dear.
0nR'a In Ireland and tththnf'a haFh ~
The President, proceeds. "They ,coms
here not to discuss dead issues, but the
living issues Of the hour And then comes
the declaration Of principles endorsed with
tremendous cheers: First, AL men
should do as they pleased" All right, but
who said they shouldn't
Second-"0flcers OF the government
should attend 10 their duties as the Law
defines themn Right again-Query-
Hadn't Messrs. Trumbnll aDd Schurz bet.
ter stay at Washington and attend tothe
duties for which they were elected-as the
claw defines them?9 rather than running
IN haste to New York to assail the Gov.
{ ThirdJ"We believe the triumph Of
Republican principles is Of paramount
impor rtance.m Every honest man believes
Trumbull & Co. have amost
way OF maniiesting their
faith in this announcement. ~, ar4;. !.
FouIth-That Jthe success Of these
principles don't depend on any one indi.
vidual." Well, who said it did? Princi-
ples are eternal; men like Trumbull and
Andy Johnson are, perhaps, mortal.
! Fifh-"Webelieve in civil service re;
form" So does President Grant, and the
whole Republican party. And we know
Of. no more potent reason why there
should be a stringent service reform
than the revelations recently made in
TrumbulI's case in the Senate, with his
103 applications for place. Lyman, "You
know how It is yourself" This Is all
there Is III the "declaratlon."I All very
good, Republican doctrine, insugurated by
the party and executed by the President.
Next comes Truhihull's speech on the
Alive issues" and devotcs nearly one hall
his speech TO Fremonts campaign, the
war-and lots OF things discussed at every
cross road for the last ten years-and
proceeds 10 endorse this strictly Republi-
can principle-"the debt madel by the
war Is sacred"-and the rebel debt isn't
worth continental, that the bounties and
pensions must be paid our soldiers. Well,
why get up a LibeIal movement and run
of to New York to announce this
time.honored plank in every Repub-
lican platEorms Who ever questioned
this but the copperheads North
and their rebel friends South, in
whose service you are virtually to-day,
Mr.. Trumbull. But croakers must growl
and so we have Mr.. Grants administra-
tiOu nrraigned. because some States arc
demoralized. ] hesitate not TO say Dir.
Trumbull, that the course Gratz Brown,
Senator Shurz, and yourself are pursuing
has been the cause Of more trouble in the
South than all the "carpet bsggers" that
ever went into them. We lost Missouri
aud Tennessee in this Way-and you
would II you could carry the Union back
bodily to the fond embrace Of the copper
head party. You are to-day laboring viz.
tually In that interest. You further fault
the administration because 1t will not lend
itself unreservedly 10 ouniyerSal amnesty
There are but lew to-day disfranchised,
JEFF. Davis, Alex. Stephens, Bob.
Toombs. and men Of like kidney
and they have again and again
declared they would spit upon you and
your amnesty, Mr.. Trumbull. But you
say again: 1.-THE reasons these disabilities
are continued are mercenary and poliLi-
cal, that adventures keep out ofoffice in
the Southern States leading men, (mean-
ing doubtless JEFF. Davis; Bob lFoombs,
etc, men Of large experience" Wade
Hampton, Forrest, and Winder at. Belle
Isle and Libby) You say, Although
they were traitors during the war, they
were not there's and pl0nderers." Jim
Floyd, Jake Thompson and Toucy, where
are you; shades of'Wheatland, what say
you? Say, what did you call yourselves
when you dismantled Northern forts and
gutted its armories, emptied its post
offices, and sent It's navy In aid of re-
bellion-without authority Of law taking
forcible possession of Government proper
ty, and when! the fortunes .otswar threw
our soldiers within your grasp, you took
from them their all even, their lives, BY
asystem Of internal cruelty that would
make hell blush. What do you call this
Mr.. Trumbull2 The world defines It dia
bolical theft and plundering; and Its in
stigators murderers and tiends. a..
In a square contest for villainy, thu
devilswouId screw his, tail to the mostyir
tuous ofthem all, as Achampion. " Ther
comes an effort to impress US with dread
full @usurpationn a horrible "violationo o
law" in President Grant in retaining o
his private secretary military officer
You are, indeed, laboringhar d, Mr.. Trum
bull, but allthereis Of this is sthatFecent in
vestigations reveals the actthatthese mel
simply draw their pay as military officer
and not as civilians, "just this and nothing
more" We have no use for these flienil
the,field..-'We otdismissp pthemin,ju
tice, and byemploying them thustwe saw
tho eXncnsea Of an extra officer ThiA