The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-06
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
TO THE DAILY LNTkLLIGEN0ER
IMMENSE OUTDOOR MEETING
n IN NEW YORK CITY.

IMMENSE OUTDOOR MEETING
IN NEW YORK CITY.
Secretary Morrill, Addresses {
Great Audience In Wall Street.
New YORK, November 4,-The addrea
to be delivered in Wall street this after
noon by Secretary Morrill, has excited thI
greatest interest, and there are indication
that his audience will be one Of tho lar
gest and most influential ever collected il
this city.
The preparations for demonstration
were OF the amplest kind, but long be-
fore o'clock groups Of interested per
sons began to collect in the neighborhooc
Of the Subtreasury, and as the hour ap
pointed for the address drew near thu
crowd became more dense, and it was diff
iicult to find an unoccupied spot from
which the voice Of the speaker was likely
to be audible. A small stand for speak
crs has been erected at the west end o
the steps OF the Sub. b.Treasury. The low.
er part OF the stand is drapped in rec
cloth, relieved by gilt trimmings, above
which hang folds Of blue velvet fringst
with silver. The stand is cannopied will
National colors.
Later-A great crowd was gathered al
the Sub.Treasury to-day to hear the
speech Of Mr.. Morrill,, Secretary Of the
Treasury. The crowd reached down
Broad street almost TO Exchange Place
up Wall street almost to Broadway,
down It almost to William street, and
some distance up Nassau street, while
from almost every window in the neigh.
borhood appeared the faces Of interested
spectators, and even up thesteps Of the
buildings the great throng pressed and
surged.
Secretary Morrill, arrived at the Sub
Treasury about twenty. minutes past II,
and for some time held reception in the
room Of Sub Treasurer Hillhouse. From
half.past 12 until o'clock the crowds
in the neighborhood constantly thickened
and at / o'clock large body Of dry
goods merchants arrived, headed by
band. Soon after Secretary Morrill, and
the officers Of the meeting appeared upon
the platform, and three cheers were giyer
by the crowd. Judge Emott, Of the Com
mittee Of Seventy, and consulting coun'
sui in the early suits against the Ring
called the meeting to order, and named
Theodore Roosevelt for presiding officer
Mr.. Roosevelt, like Judge Emott, made
short address, and then introduced Sec
retary Morrill,, who was received with
loud and repeated cheering.
The following is taken from the Times
report Of the speech by Secretary Morrill,
Sixteen years ago last March, when the
party came into power in whose interest!
you are here assembled to-day, you had
no nationality. The government Of your
country was broken asunder. Seven ol
It's States were in open rebellion. They
had organized an Independent govern
ment within your jurisdiction and limits
and werO maintaining it. The credit oI
your country was below par. In other
words, l exaggerste nothing when l say
to you that among the great Nations o.
Europe this Nation Of ours had neither
nationality nor credit. What do you say
Of il to-day? All the potentates Of the
earth have sent their messengers here
with their gifts this Centennial year
They have laid them at our feet, and
and they do US honor. IR nationality il
assured. 1t ranks as a frst.class Power
among tue Nations Of the earth, and us tc
Its credit, it is second 10 no other Nation
in Europe or elsewhere. The aggregate
expenditures Of the U. S. Government
since l779, when il was inaugurated on this
spot, have been a little less than fifteen
billion Of dollars. This sum covers the
entire expenditures. You, gentlemen
and |, and all Of us, have spent within
the last sixteen years eleven billions ol
dollars Of that. There is no answer fos
such extravaganza and enormous ex'
penditures as that unless We have got
something to show for it. Well, we have
a nationality redeemed, regenerated, as
sured and reconstructed, so that now 1t il
put in harmony with The Declaration oI
Independence. That nationality meanI
equal rights; that nationality and the Gag
It's symbol, mean a shield and protection
to all men, high and low. More thar
that, you have established a National
credit at the mention Of which the eofletl
Of the Old World Ay open on their hinges
to take the lowest grade Of your bonds
It cost something to do II, l know, but il
there is man here who thinks the, ex.
penditure could have been better EN-
ployed, he had better ask me how VIC
spent that money from the time our ar
mics crossed the Potomac and entered the
rebel territory down to the close Of the
conflict OF arms. II anybody is curioui
and skeptical, or desires to oriticise the
manner in which that money was ex'
pended the next thing he had better do Ii
10 dig up the bones OF the dead patriots
who perished in Southern fields. A
solid South to-day is the hope Of tht
Democracy, the hope Of the Lost Cause
And what is the significance ofitH Let
any thinking man answer me. A voice
--"Another rebellion.al Yes, it is incip'
lent rebellion. II is incipient insurrec
tion. It tends todisorder to-day through
out the entire South. 1t disturbs pub
lie tranquility, and demands thC
President OF the United States to send ar
army to preserve peace. Let me tell you
my friends, that q Solid South is the Tro
jan horse in American politics. It's sig
nifcance Is precisely what 1t was betor'
the war Of the rebellion. The American
people have learned something, and I
larger portion Of them are not Bourbons
Itso happens that without public credi
there Is no such thing as public life. Pub
lie credit Is the life blood Of the Nation
There Is no nationality withoutit. Their,
can be no public credit without nationali
ty. Therefore these two things are til,
great political factors in public lie to
day. They are not partisan. They bo
long 10 every patriot in the land, whethel
Democrat or Republican, for they ar
the great fundamental principles Of on
Constitution.
Something has been said, some ques
tion has been raised in the city Of NeV
York, as to the comparative credit OF th,
Government in 1861 and 1866. It i
alleged that the credit OF the Govern
ment in 1861 was very nearly what II wa
in 1876. That l may be accurate ! vii
read from an able speech, an extremel!
able speech, and one so spacious that OIL
is face looks as If it were sound. Speak
ing Of the credit Of the Government
which he said had been asSailed in 1855
aYeL in 1860, under Democratic ad
ministration, the Government placed IL
FIVE per cent bonds, with ten years to run
~ ,kirtr.nnn. .hnndr radtha Of nna mar can