The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-10-19

indebted to the government for income
tax on some hundred and Fifty or TWO
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. r..
ually, he was opposed 10 the Democratic
party because Il had outlived its iseinlt
ness, and 1t has expressed no idea
that Is not IN hostility to American
civilization. Fourteen, years ago, salu
MIR. Blaine, in the Senate | heard Senator
Hendricks, Of Indiana, Speakpn the pas.
sage OF the iron.clad oath, and when II
Was thought best to modify II, Mr.. Hen.
bricks said Il would not be necessary, be.
cause when the rebellion was over, Davis,
Iee' slidell, Mason and the rest would be
seeking their personal safety in other
lands. he arraigned the last House OF
Representatives, and said that even be:
fore the war Southern intolerance and
insolence were not 30 absolute as was dis.
played at the last session. The seventy.
rebels actually secured twenty:one out OF
the thirty.one committees Of the House,
and when Mr.. Cox, OF New York, was
spoken to about It, Uriah Heap like, he
said, "Pm glad Of It," The high.handed
outrages Of the Democracy were exempli-
fed In tho repeal of the law prohibiting
amendments to bills while in Committee
OF the Whole. In this manner they at.
tempted to tack 10 the sundry Civil Ap.
preparation bill q repeal Of the Superb.
sors law. II is an admitted fact, said he,
that John T. Hoffman was seated as Gov
ernor otNew York by fraud, and the au-
thor Of the scheme that seated him there
was said by Horace Greeley to be Samuel
J. Tilden.
Mr.. Blaine then referred to the work.
ipgs Of The Supervisors law, and said he
was certain that any Republican in New
York city would stand all day and swear
that a fall election could not be secured
in that city without It. The Democrats
said that unless that law was repealed the
sundry Appropriation bill should not
pass, but the Senate stood firm and de.
ieated them. The speaker said II was
like holding a red rag before a bull TO
state to the Democracy that they intend
cd 10 push the Southern claims through.
They will call you q liar and say that 1t is
campaign lie. The Constitution pro.
hibits the payment OF the rebel debt, and
the Democracy now want to pay for
everything that Grants and Sherman'a
armies destroyed. Why, II thiSis carried
oui, in six months the claim agentscould
bankrupt the Treasury Of the Govern.
ment. Tilden and the Democracy are
hostile to the resumption Of specie pay.
ments until the currency Is inflated and
all the rebel debt paid with It. II is like
bag, with Southern claims going out at
one end and greenbacks coming out ut the
other. Mr.. Blaine made prophecy that
when the time comes for resumption, II
it comes without trouble, the people will
not want it because they do not like lug
ging so much heavy weight around with
them. A great deal has been said about
shaking the bloody shirt. He desired to
impress one or two facts upon the
minds Of his hearers. Mississippi was
carried by the Democracy last year, and
they said II was done peaCeably; but more
lives were lost there than has been known
in election troubles from the time Of
George Washington up 10 this hour.
Since the Rebel army was disbanded more
men have been murdered in the South
for being Republicans than were lost in
the bloodiest battles Of the war The
speaker closed by referring to the fact
that the outrages in the South were not
a political question merely, but moral
and religious one, which affected the
rights OF every one.
At the conclusion Of his speech Mr.
Blaine was taken in the procession to the
Union League House, where speeches
were made from the balcony by Hon
John W. Forney, Hon. William McKin.
ley, OF Ohio, and Rufus +. shapley, Esq
Mr.. Blaine made short address, but the
crowd was SO great that twas impossible
to hear him. The League House wa.
illuminated. AT midnight rain storm
set in which dispersed the crowd.