The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-14

A Model speech from an Irish Repubii'
can.
HIRpRa,s ERpRY. August 10.

HARPRR'S FERRY, August H..
Editors IntaIlIEeRner.,
At meeting OF Republicans held at
Slower college, Harper's Ferry, August
organized, composed Of officers and stu:
dents o. the college, as well as citizens Of
the town, irrespective OF color: Joseph
Barry, an Irishman, unsolicited President,
and William D. Wilson, q man Of color,
was chosen Secretary. The following ad.
dress from the President was adopted and
entered on the minutes:
"FRLLow ClTlZENs-1 thank you for the
compliment paid me tonight. While
feeling proud Of the confidence placed In
me also feel timid as to my ability TO
conduct properly the varied duties that
will deyolye on me as President OF your
club. And, yet, humble as my capacity Is
/ can see great deal Of propriety In your
selection. | recognize in the Republican
marty of this country the embodi-
ment OF all the advancement yet at.
famed by man in the science OF
government, and the nearest approach
Vet made to the absolute equality which
/ can not help thinking was intended
for the whole human family by the Great
Father otall, who emphatically proclaimed,
himself, that he was no respecter otpersons.
Who, then, can more forcibly typity the
great struggle for liberty than native oil
land that Tor hundreds Of years has groan'
ed beneath the iron yoke Of the oppressor,
and that has been rescued within the last
six months, by your own happy and free
country, from one OF the periodical famnes
directly caused by the misgovernment OF
her rulers. And what selection could you
have made for Secretary that would be
more in keeping with the great underlying
idea OF liberty for all than that OF Mr..
Wilson, who has risen within lew years
from the condition of an Ignorant slave 70
that of free man and scholar, through
the influence Of the Republican party, and
Of Slower College, its legitimate offspring?
1t auRurs well for the great cause OF hui
manity when, even in village club, the
fair.skinned, blue.eyed Celt from a storm
swept isle OF the north Atlantic, and the
dusky son OF the parChed Sahara, stimuli
taneously feel the great yearning Tor uni
yersal brotherhood, and grasp each other
| by the hand in pledge Of fidelity to the
great principle that underlies our govern
ment and the Christian Religion. l anl
enthusiastic enough to see in the daily
increasing determination OF races in this
country, the dawn Of the great millennium
and jubilee of the nation, and watch \
the more eagerly for the well.toundeC
hope that "my own loved island of sor
rows" may at last partake Of the freedom
so long sighed for, and so long denied b.
an inscrutable Providence.
1t is true that most Of us preferred Johr
Sherman for the Presidency, and that oul
disappointment was great at the decision
OF the Chicago Convention. We, however
bow to the will OF the party as expressed
by that convention, and though We. car
mot, at present, have the man Of onl
choice, We will heartily rally round the
banner Of the true man who carries thu
colors OF the Republican party, and hav
inc implicit confidence in the justice o
our cause and the fidelity Of our leaders
we will labor indeiatigably for the election
OF Garfield and Arthur.