The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-05
The PeOple win NOT ReSDOnd,

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There Is painful rumor naoat 10 the
air that the Democratic meeting called at
steubenville last Saturday to inauguratO
Tilden( or "wah") was fEzlO. Tho Bel.
mont county meeting was also total col.
lapse, owing 1.-THE St. ClairSville Ga,etLe
saysl to the "terrifc snow storm" The
BellAire Democracy, however, held a 10.
cal meeting Of their own, and redeemed
the whole business. This they did be.
cause according to the GaIsiiel they are
"in earnest in their opposition to the
high handed doingd Of the Radical con.
spirators."
"They don't wait for any committee to
tell them when TO move On the enemy's
works, but they Just get right down to
business at once and they mean II too"
Before adiourning the meeting passed
the following mild "wah" resolution:
"That We denounce the 'bull.dozinR' at.
titude assumed by President Grant and
the leaders Of the Republican party In
organizing State Legislatures, and aus.
tanning the action Of Infamous Returning
Boards at the late elections by armed
soldiers, rs revolutionary, and that we
rely upon the representatives Of the peo.
pie in the Congress OF the United States
to preserve our constitutional rights, and
We do hereby pledge ourselves TO stand
hrm in maintaining such rights under
any and all circumstances"
The Dellaire meeting wound up the
amussments Of the evening by appointing
!ist Of delegates 10 the State Conven-
tion to BE- held at Columbus on the Sth.
The Belmont county Democratic Com
nlittee lin the absence Of a meeting Of
the party, AZ appointed at st. Clairsville)
slac appointed a,Eist Of delegates. For
the edilioation Of all these ultramariue
neighbors of ours we snbjOin the fol.
lowing Washington dispatch to yester-
days Cincinnati Commercial
Congressman who have returned from
their vacation at home have been indus
triously interviewed to-day with refer
ence 10 the war feeling amongst the
people in the States. They report that
they have found no heligrrent aspira.
tions iRdulced in by anybody except
buumCrs, who couldn't bc brought into
fight with four-ox team. They found
n large portion OF the Democrats Of the
North were disposed to regard the plans
Of their leaders as looking only to Il new
rebellion, 10 be put down precisely as any
other rebellion would be--hy an uprising
OF the people, without regard to party
affiliations.
In Ohio it seems that the Democratic
State Central Committee have industri.
OuSly drummed the State to secure an
OutpOurimg OF the masses on the 9th inst,
Letters have been written 10 every Dem.
ocrat Of local prominence in every town.
ship pasking him to attend the Conven.
tion, and il that should be impossible to
send hiA views to the committee by letter.
Many Of the reports received we're
cOuCheI in such terms OF severe Condem
nation Of the wicked Vaccinations OF
their party that it is reasonably certain
they will not be read 10 the convention
in loud tone OF voice by the able secre'
tary, whoever he may be.
The prospects is that all the loaiers
and bnmmers who can raise the money
to pay their expenses will be on hand at
these conventions to give noisy siguili.
cancc to the proclamStions Of the adVen.
tnrers in hroadcloath who will have in
custody the dogs Of war; but the bone
and sinew will he conspicuous by alb.
sence. Congressman also report that the
giving fFlOrida and South Carolina by
the Democrats has had a powerful effect
on the minds Of the people, who begin to
to see that their claim TO Louisiana is
off the same piece.