The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-20
LORENZO.
His Discourse at the Court
House Last Night.
Like the "aon. A. w. s." a
Rather Tame Affair.


ing around the city for the past
week, and finally Int last night In
front of the Court House and ad
dressed an assemblage Of listeners prob
ably as large as the number who attended
the speech of Mr.. Fl. >. Walker several
nights ago at the same spot. Attel an
introduction By A. W. Campbell, Esq +.
of the hteliigenesr, and an appeal rom
that gentleman for the company to
remain quiet, the honorable member
of Congress began. The first labor of
the orator of the evening was to make a
feeble effort to convince his hearers that
the tidal wave of "a had subsidized, and
that all the elections held of late resulted
in large Republican gains. The crowd,
somehow, didn't enthuse over this glor :
ops news. and from the blank amazement
on many faces at the fairy stories OF the
speaker, they were not prepared to bolt
it down without salt, particularly those
who lost heavily on the results.
His next hold was the abuse
of the Democratic party, running over
what he called its record for tie past
twenty five years-the last ii!teen oil
which II has had no national record
and declared finally that sixty.tive
Rebel major generals, coioneis'
captains, sc, were members OF
the last Congress-he didn't
mention what the the other 227 mem
bers of the House from the North and
West proposed to do-were ready and
anxious to turn over the government to
the Confederacy. But where that con-
Germ is holding forth he did not say. The
gentleman remarks were replete with
declarations and accusations, but in all
cases he Jailed to back them up BY argu-
ments. Where there was an effort he
perverted the premises. For instance,
he declared it was stated in the st. Louis
platform, "To reform the credit
of the government" He desired TO know
what reform was necessary when the
national credit to-day was equal To
the credit of sny nation on earth,
Now the real definition and the one
that the people understand by the words
"to reform the credit" and want is
the Legitimate transfer Ct the
enormous revenues Ct the government,
TO which the speaker referred as
derived from whisky and tobacco, to the
United States treasury, instead of the
pockets of the myriad of collectors and
corrupt rings that go UNPUBLISHED. Mr..
DANFoRD attempted 10 work upon
the mind; of our working men by
the assertion that only two Democrats
outside of Pennsylvania voted for the
passage Of what is known rs the Morris
son fl ee tariff bill, and would have LETT
the impression that Col. Ben. Wilson of
our own District had voted for IT.,
but for the fact that some
thinking gentleman in the crowd
had the good discernment to ask "lf Col.
Ben voted for the blll?" This direct
question forced MIR. Danford to acknow.-
edge that Mr.. Wilson was sick and
absent at the time, and therefore did not
vote for 1t, though he believed
that If he had been in his
seat he undoubtedly would. Col.
Wilson can answer that question
himself, and undoubtedly will.
Though Mr.. Danford declared that
every Democratic member outside of
Pennsylvania, except. two, voted for the
bill, he did not state that with n
Democratic majority Of near Y two.
thirds of the House, how the
bill never passed. The speaker
next reverted to the "bloody shirt - and
commenced by saying that he did not in
tend to refer to that lnsanguinary gar
nent but for moment, and in a mild
war, but the sentence had
hardly escaped his lips before
he launched forth in TRADE against the
South that for bitterness and hate has not
been equaled during the campaign. The
bad taste, not to say bungling manage
ment, of the leaders of the RAIDS in this
vicinity, in thus harping on the
solid South, the Rebel claims and the
Confederscy revived, was something
prodigious especially in the face of the
recent emphatic and severe rebuke that
the waving of that garment received at
our recent election. The gentleman
spoke for nearly two hours in this strain,
striving to work upon the passions of
his hearers by melting fear and hatred
against part of the nation, because they
choose to vote as they wish, and desire
peace and prosperity in preference to
carpet baggsrs, mlsrule and a wholesale
plumber of their property.
Mr.. Campbell closed the meeting with
an annex to the bloody shirt as waved
by Dantord, and declaration that the
Democrats were always troublesome.
Just so, Archie, as was demonstrated on
the 10th INST. in this State. There's the
whole milk in the cocosnut. As long as
the Democrats are not troublesome, its
supremacy lovely for the RAIDS. The
editor of the hteiiigencer closed his re-
marks by some very discreet and gentle
,,o-I, an Tho hnpasty and integrity of