The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-28
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cOnnlctS are Oh our Urensts, ohu VI oui
backs. Laughter.
To our old-time brethren of the South,
q word or two to you: l am one
of the men, surely, that needs
no apology to look my Southern
brethren in the eye, and expect him 70 be-.
ieyeth 1 speak to him with no forkod
tongue [Cheers.] No political battle
was ever So hot in the clouds Of obliquity
and storm and danger; never came so
low or black over the heads OF the DE.
mocracy, with whom have worked and
toiIsd for years. By constitutional
rights and guarantees of our oppressed
Southern brother, Loud cheers l
ask my Southern brethren, who knew me,
and whom know, do not in this hour
of the National Council, in this hour OF
national preparation for the great con,
Aict against the Radical foe, as was well
said BY the distinguished gentleman
from New York, by the pirate flag of the
bloody shirt arrayed against you men, do
not, in thisI hour, leave us in the north
west, wounded and helpless, to be
scslped and murdered upon the field OF
battle.
We have no personal anlmosities to
crafty; we have no personal aims to sub
serve. If there is one man whe can get
more votes than another, were my own
brother a candidate, l would be for that
other man. The times are too serious;
the issues too mighty for a personal
thought to intervene. Three times in the
LAST too We, r, We in the northwest have
charged the enemies lines under the
lead of the gallant Democracy
of New York. 1t 1t ha'
10 be so again, we will dress in par
ade, and even if it is forlorn hope We
will fight it like men. Loud cheers.
Say, then, there are no heart burnings;
there are 40 animosities to crafty the
men of this Convention. 1t was no pur
pose OF mine to speak here. feel like
spologizing for it, but your voice sent me
here. Let us purify our hearts for this
great work that is before us, and when the
sun goes down upon the finished business
of this Convention, pray almighty God
that it may be so ordered that in No
vember your country will stand redeem
ed and enfranchised in all the rights of
q free people from the tyrannical band
that has crushed and oppressed us.
My fellow citizens, thanking you with
a grateful heart over and over again,
will not detain you any longer. Gro
on, 60 on 1t would be unseemly and
improper Tor me to hold this body OF
men any longer together, and thanking
you with heartfelt gratitude tor this
demonstration, take my leave. Loud
and continued applause
Loud calls were made for Sunset Cox,
and in response of that the gentleman
climbed TO the rostrum, where his appear
ance was greeted with cheers.
mr.. Cox Addressed the Assenblage
as Follows:
1t is very hard to follow Daniel w.
voorhees, in speech without you have
his size and his voice. Laughter /
come fresh from Washington. l have
been sent here by my constituents
in New York City to represent their
thoughts and views to the same extent in
this Convention. 1t was urgent in many
ways that should be at my post Of duty
When l left Washington there was al
attempt on the part OF several to bring
the House into collision That COLI
sion concerned the appropriation bills OF
the government 1t is matter that this
Convention must meet, and desire to
speak about that most emphstically, it l
can, before the Convention, or
at least before sope of the
delegates. We have passed
over twelve appropriation bills; they
we're before the Senate last Saturday; all
of them we have cut down. The Republi-
cans estimate the reduction at $64 600 600
TCheers and cries of "Stick to it," Aye!
we will stick to it. Laughter and ap.
plause.1 Let the thunder of this Con-
vention follow the electric telegraph, and
let this Convention say to Congress, BE
Grm and stand by it, and the S64,OOO,OOO
of excess of the Republicans estimates
will be reduced to S400OO,0O0 above
the appropriation OF last year, to which
we have reduced the twelve appropria-
ton bills, and the people will see why it
is that prohigacy, robbery, Kingdom. and
all the rake belly brood of ragged rascal
dom has been loose in this country
since the war. [Cheers.] They com
plain of us that we have made nvestiga
lions. Well, we have Investigated every
thing and everywhere. 1t is the careful
study OF an industrious Congress, but
they say it is an ex. Confederate Congress,
laughter, and therefore il should not be
honest, and find out that rogues
because, perchance one of the gal
liant men who fought at Charlottesville
or some other place on the Confederate,
side during the long trouble. They say
that such men should not prosecute the
post traders on our border. Laughter
and applause They say that because OF
their inOrdinate expenditures we will cut
down the army. Well, we might do
without the army until after the Novem-
Der election; we'll we might make an sp-
preparation for the army OR the next
December session. They say We will
break up the navy. Well what does
our navy do; protect our commerce, a
commerce which has been ruined by bad
taxations and worse tariffs. Applause]
l think the navy might rest while.
Good. But what else would We stop;
the Indian Bureau Laughter and ap,
plause Spotted Tail, and Crazy Horse,
they might be let loose on the plains.
Let them 60, if they will step their raids.
Turn the border men loose and they
would end these contractors wars
very soon Applause But we
might stop the internal revenue system
while. Well. l would like to make the
crooked parties straight [laughter] right
here in St. LOUIS. l think you have hso
some experience in relation TO crookef
whisky, at least [laughterl and the word
went out "let no guilty man escape
daughter and applause. And the
result is discarded ex.Secretsry
of the Treasury and guilt reigns now
all through that department. l think
it might have rest for while Laugh
ter and cheers There are those rings
IN Washington, and God knows l would
like to have the Washington ring and
all of the rings exiled as far ss the rings
of Saturn itself. (Cheers. No harm
would be done by such honest exile.
What the people in this Convention
should say to the representatives is, to be