The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-19
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The Republican Meetings a, RairTiew
and new acknowledgements py
nessrs. sturgis and Hubbard.

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Hon. Geo. @. sturgiss addressed th
citizens OF our county on Monday, at th
Court House, and for nearly two houi
held the individual attention OF larg
and respectable audience. Many Demo
Gratis were present and expressed thei
admiration OF the calm aud dignifed man
ner in which our candidate for Goyerno
discussed the interests Of West Virgins
and the general issues OF the cOminl
Presidential contest.
He was followed. by the Hon. O. D
Hubbard for an hour, who did good ser
vice in illustrating the solid South, ant
the tariff question. AT night the SAINT
gentleman addressed an enthusiastic as
sembly Of Republicans and Democrats a
the Turn Hall in New Cumberland. oyel
100 ladies gave countenance to the gooc
cause by their presence, and q well filled
house gave inspiration to the speakers o.
the evening.
The brass band OF New Cumberland
were present TO enliven the meeting by
some patriotic airs as the large audience
filed into the Hall. al
Mr.. Sturgiss fully sustained his repn-
tation as o calm, deliberate and forcible
reasoner, and Tor over two hours the as
sembly were held as II by magic by the
discussion Of questions entering into this
canvass.
Any attempt to give his speech would
be failure on the part OF your correspon-
dent, and might be unjust towards our
candidate, who has long and arduous
canvass before him. His points were well
chosen. He traced the two civilizations
that people this nationi the one from
Jamestown, Va, teaching GLASS distino-
ton and an aristocracy OF wealth and fam.
ilyiwhich bore fruitage In the term +. +.
VS. in Virginia, aud the advocacy OF sla.
very in all the land south OF Mason and
Dixon's line; while that from New En-
gland taught the equality Of all men before
the law, and reared, side by side, the
school house and the church as the forest
fell before them.
He conceded that the Democratic party
had, at one time, been the party OF the PEG.
pie, the champion OF liberty and OF equal
rights, but captured by the slavery aristo.
craey, i'll had BECOME first conservative, and
finally the advocate oil slavery In all the
laws enacted to fortify and perpetuate that
institution. Under It's administration the
fugitive slave law had been enacted, max
ing slave catchers OF citizens in all this
broad land, and doing violence TO the con-
science OF almost every man in the free
States, Undsr its administrstlon bad
been enunciated the doctrine that SLAVERY
was the normal condition OF our terri.
tories" and it was sought TO be forced
upon Kansas and other new States in the
West until the northern sentiment was
solidiled into the declaration that freedom
was the normal condition Of men, when
the great Republican party sprang into
existence and made tho splendid cam
paign OF 1855 and the triumph Of 1850.
Mr.. Sturgess showed conclusively from
the Code OF Virginia that the legislation
OF the South was for the protection Of
slavery aud In the interest Of slave arts.
tocracY, and cited the laws eRempting
slaves under twelve years from taxation,
while pvery dollar Of the poor man Of
what Is now West Virginia was taxed to
its full value. He cited the law imposing
penalties and imprisonment upon any
one teaching the black man, either slave
or free, to read, and that refused 10 main;
tain freq schools lest the "poor white
trash,P as the arlstotoerapy delighted to
call the poor man who toilel with his
hands, should by their mingling with the
bond man inpitein hin longing Tor educa'
ton and liberty, I,
In detail, he showedby facts and figures
how immigration and capital turned away
from our State because OF our supposed
connection with proscriptive solid South,
and appealed to yotpFs tp disabNse the
public mind in this respect, by striking
IRON the roll Of Southern States the name
of West Virginia, and by . revolution by
the ballot, at the coming election, place
her where she rightly belongs, among the
great progressive States OF the North:
Then may we expect our coal field, equal
in extent to that Of Pennsylvania, to bring
US the rich retprns which our neIghbors
have reaped, so that no longer shall we
mine but the one.fourteenth OF the coal
that Pennsylvania digs from the bills and
the mountains, but excel her in mineral
wealth. Then furnaces and iron mills
shall spring into life over all our hills and
along all the valleys.
Continue under Bourbon rulo, aud see
the great stream OF immigration flowing
on to the West, or identify our State with
the progressive ideas OF the North, and
receive our due share OF the men and the
wealth now pouring into this country from
across the ocean, and stay the exodus oil
our best citizens, who now seek home
for themselves and their children under
more Conganial Institutions,
THE TARIFF. t...
Mr.. sturgiss handled the question Of the
tariff with master hand, and showed to
every candid mind that the great firebrick
interest OF this county was identified with
the iron interests OF the country, and
must rise or fall with It. He showed by
statistics that we sold in this community
yearly s85,000,000 OF potters wares,
and OF that amount we made but
SIS, 100000 at home; that all that was
needed to give US the whole oil that large
trade was the continuation for o few years
OF the tariff now In existence, and that a
tariff for revenue, only, would close every
workshop OF this industry in year, or
reduce our laborers in these potteries 10
the starvation prices Of the Old World.
His appeal To young men TO cast their
first vote right was grand and effective.
Mr.. Sturgiss tells no anecdotes to tickle
the audience, and yet for two hours he
held the audience with the skill oil q mas
ter hand. az
His delineation OF General Garfield was
good and was loudly applauded, and his
explanation Of the report that had been
circulated in this county, that he had been
In the rebel army and had once trained
with the Democracy, gave him an oppoor.
tunity to introduce a little private his.
tory. He said that he came TO our State
some twenty years since when very
Young man, and that he had, he was sorry
10 confess, in his boyhood, been indls'
Greet enough to edit Democratic paper.
His assurance, however, that he had
heartily repented Of his youthful folly,
and that there was no danger Of his falling
again into that sin, put his audience into
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