The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-09

preSs Of that party, because Of the cur
rency or tariff questions. 1haye NO OBJ
lection to those planks in the st. LouiI
platform. But my reasons are, rs
have already indicated, and will now
state further. The Democrats who pres.
me for my reasons may know
them. On the road the other day
met an old democratic triend-ohe
Of the Van Buren, county Democrats "
whom Dave Steward, in his screed ~ tne
paper thr other day, said never had any
Ain in nv Democracy after went inc
the war. Applause. Quite e1citedly
hs wanted 10 know Il It was true, the re-
nort HAT had really left the pemocr2nC
party. / answered, at is i1cL ,t ns
asked the reason for Il. told him iney
were quite plenty and sufficient, anu LIZ; ..
va bad plenty OF time l would tell MN
so,ne ~ them. Something Of what !
L"vS already stated here was hfst sad,
a ni hen | aid that the first thing ]
III H. IN the Democratic House was
sLu H .nnointment Of Fitzhugh, the Scar
sssntiat-Arms Of the Confederate Con
Sress. a. the Doorkeeper Of the House
Snd he displacement Of Union soldiers
mS mar Of them crippled in the WARMTH
The ex.nembers Of the rebel army.
fCireat applause. BE wanted to know
| h they didn't have right 70 do this. ]
answered that they had, but that / also
had u right TO disapprove and denounce 1t.
Another thing l didn't like was Ben
Hills rebel speech and It's bold uttranee
Of treason, and I didn't like the rebel
Yell in response. to It all over the South, for
/ had heard that yell before, and l knew
what n meant. Cheers.l They tell me,
the Democrats, that | am Scared OF Ben
HILL" ! don't think I am; j don't think l
was scared Of" any OF the Hills when ]
met them in the South; do not remem-
Der that | was. Great cheering.l Then
| told my friend how worse than all Of
the many bad and unblushing acts Of the
Democratic House, ] esteemed as inta-
nous the act Of appointing TO the clerk
ship OF the leading committee OF the
House the man Hambleton, who named
his son John Wilkes Booth, after the as
sassiu Of President Lincoln. Immense
cheering. This outrageous act, in
trucking to the rebel element, the nor
thern Democrats dare not diSown, and for
all know this man Is still clerk Of that
committee, The little child, so dishonor-
ed by the name and the significance Of it,
had the good sense, thank God, to die.
[Applause.l
BEN. HILLS SPEECH.
That speech OF Ben. HillIs, and the re.
cord that the Democratic party has made
in regard to il, would have been enough
ofitself to send any man who cares for his
country out OF all fellowship with it and
the party whose name and by one q
whose leading members il was made. Hill
in that speech defended Andersonyiile
and the atrocious treatment OF Union
prisoners in the Southern prison hells.
Could endorse that and still remember
my own comrades who suffered in them
more than death anil hell7 Can any
party succeed which even tacitly endorses
sentiments like thesey Hill also said in
that speech, ave went out Of the Union
hugging the Constitution, and We came
back into the Union hugging it." What
hug! [Great laughter. That was what
they went out for, not TO be rebels, but to
"hug the Constitution"-of the Union
they were trying so hard 70 destroy.
have seen them when they were doing
this "hugging." fApplause and laughter,
remember one morning in April, 1862
the first day OF the battle Of Shiloh, as the
rebel troops came bearing down upon US
that | assembled an elevation TO watch
them through field glass as they came
1t was u grand sight as they came in three
columns, with their muskeB at "right
shoulder shift"-thal form in which an
army looks its grandest, and by which il
always appears to have three times ia
actual strength. There was blaze and
shine OF glory on those advancing columns
that looked TO be the lustre and shine oil
bayonets in the sun. But l judge now,
since Hills speech, that it was not bayo.
nets they were bearing, but Constitutions
that they were carrying along and hug.
ging. [Yociierous cheering saw them
doing good deal OF hugging, these rebels
whowere not rebels, but simply "Consti.
tuition huggers.h Renewed cheering,
The boys who are here before me, who
were with me at Donelson, saw some OF
i there: Laughter, and cries by sol !:
in good many battles.nl What patriots
they were, doing 80 much for "the Con-
Of our common countryH
nRMncRE ATTIC BITTERNESS.