The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-18

favorite Of any OF the delegates; he was
not the choice of bakers dozen OF
them. 1t was said that his previous
nomination was a farce, and yet the
representatives OF 100000 OF the peo-
pie of this country came there just to
vote for Horace Greeley as their Presi
Dental candidate. What is the cause
Of this gentleman's hold upon the hearts
of these people? They know that he is
honest, that he is incorruptible. We
have not had strict honesty and incor'
ruptibilty in the Presidential chair
lately, but we are going to put them
there next November.
REAGANs SPEECH.
Ex.Confederate Postmaster General
Reagan, a tall, hearty, black whiskered,
bald headed man, with a piercing eye
and an awkward manner and decided
Southern accent. was next called upon,
and, after a somewhat lengthy discus
sion as to the oppression by local Radi'
cal government in Texas, said:
Ladies and Gentlemen-At the close
OF the war the Confederate soldiers dis
persed with but one feeling-that OF
accepting its results and securing an
early reconciliation. This you may
think was strange, but why so? ltwas
not a war OF personal hatred. ltwas a
war between neighbors and brothers on
a question involving 100000, ,OOO-a
question too big to be settled by civi
means. 1t was a war OF ideas-one side
fighting to maintain an institution
which it cherished and believed in, and
the other fighting TO maintain the in
tegrity OF the Union. There is now no
reason why we should be enemies. We
have no apologies to make for accept-
ing the Liberal Republican platform
no apologies TO make for accepting the
Liberal Republican candidate We care
nothing for Democracy or Republican.
ism. We ask only peace, re-enfran.
chisement and a closing Of our old
wounds. To US that is life and death.
COLONEL sHoRTERs SPEECH.
Colonel Shorter, Of Alabama, an ex-
Confederate colonel, who had served in
the army and the Congress Of Dixie, a
wiry, nervous man, slim OF figure and
aftluent in words, with rapid accentuaN
ton and the unmistakable dialect Of
the South, was next called upon by the
Sage, and spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentiemen-lf any one
had told me ten years ago, when was
in the Confederate Congress, standing
there as representative OF a secession
district in Alabama, that in 1872 I'd be
here, at the home OF Horace Greeley,
advocating his election to the Presi-
dencv, would have said he was a mad
man. A war has swept over the coun-
try, slavery has been abolished
and Horace Greeley-the gentleman
sitting there--did more than anybody
else 10 accomplish that result. | owned
slaves. lost all the accumulatlons o
nv lifetime by the emancipation, but
so God help me! | would lose my right
arm before | would raise voice or cast
a vote tor re-establishing them as
slaves. There is heat enough in the
dead ashes Of my country to bring forth
the phTnix of its restoration if Horace
Greeley is made President | served
in the rebel army and for four year:
tried to get my State out OF the Union
and for five years after the war ended
we tried to get back. General Grant
had visited the South and said
that the people there needed only to
know the people OF the North to har-
monize with them, and that they were
willing and anxious TO return. But
he himself refused to receive us. lie
said peace, but there was no peace.
But this old man whom we are visiting
here at his country home, against whom
we have warred all our lives, he prom
ises US peace, and he will give it TO US.
When the storm has lashed the ocean
in its fury and the waves have dashed
against the heavens in their tumult
for days after the storm Is
over, and the clouds are serene
the waves still roll and tumble .and
the ocean still murmurs in the last sub,
sidence Of its rage. So the angry
passions Of a people, after four years Of
strife, require time to return to the
normal condition Of peace and harmony.
But is not five years long enough ? The
angel OF peace is at last spreading its
wings over all this land, and the broth
ers who fought so long ago are at last
clasping hands across the bloody chasm
TOR the salvation CT the country and the
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