The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-30
BOARDING THE LION.
SHERMAN IN VIRGINIA.
His spc' oh at Pot.r'burE Last EvonlRE-Hls
Free Ballot aud Fair Count Arguments.
Prntseiion to American InduslrIss.
A Well Considered AddrSss.

PETERSBURG, vA.,. Oct. 29.-senato,
Sherman spoke here tonight in the
Academy Of Music 10 a crowded audience
Tho stage was filed with white people
while the body Of the building and
galleries were occupied by colored people
the outskirts Of the crowd being iringed
with whites. Senator Sherman was in,
trodnced by General Malone as the fore,
most statesman Of the country, to whose
warm heart and love for every State in
the Union and for the country, he borecor.
dial testimony. General Malone es.
tCemed it a great honor to have
the privilege Ct Introducing the distin.
guished Senator from Ohio to Virginia
audience. He came here, ho said, to ad-
dress the reason and not the prejudices oi
the people, and he bespoke f,r him cor
dial greeting and respectful hearing.
Senator Sherman was cordially greeted
and accorded most respectful and atten-
tive bearing, Seua!or Sherman spoke as
follows:
TIE SPEECH.
FRLLow.CITIzES: accepted with much
dilIidence the invitation to speak in the
canvass in Virginia, chiefly because fear
ed the public prints might have made a
false impression upon your minds as to
my position in the recent canvass in Ohio
that Scs neither just to me nor to the Re-
publicans OF that State. accepted it,
however, that might, face to face, show
you how unjustisthe clamor edagainst
the Republicans OF Oaio-to demonstrate
to you that what the Republican party
PROCESSES in Ohio as 10 national questions
Is the same that it protessel in Virginia,
and that the practical application OF the
principles OF the Republican party would
be Of vast benefit to the State OF Virginia,
while Democratic success would tend
more and more to harden the times and
prevent the industrial development OF
Virginia.
Not only your newspapers, but the
distinguished gentleman who is the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor OF the stats
OF Virginia, has said to you that | WAS
waving the bloody shirt while ha was
contendiug understhe union Asg. II he
meant by waving the bloJdy SHIRT that |
sought In any way !" renew the animosi-
ties Of tho war, then he was greatly mis-.
taken, for in the speech to which he refers,
and in every spe, ch made 10 Ohio, |
constantly said that the war was over and
the animUsitics Of the war should be
buried ont Of sight; that would no. hold
any confederate soldier responsible for
what he did during the war; and that all
| wished Was TO maintain and preserve
the acknowledged results II the war.
Among these claim is the rigat OF every
voter TO cast one honest vote and have 1t
counted that every Citiz n. rich and poor,
native or natural zed, whits or black,
should have equal civil aud political
righte, and that every man Of lawful age
should be allowed TO exercise his right 10
vote without distinction OF race or color
or previous condition. charge among
other things that these constitutional
rights and privileges had been
disreg4rded by the Democratic party, es-
peciaily in the Soutpern States; that at
the last election, 10 the year oil ou. Lord
| 1881, wherever the votes OIL taa golo9el
people would affect the result they were
deprived Of their franchise by one device
or other, and thus political power appor-
toned to the colorsd population was trans
ierred to and exercised by white Demo-
Gratis OF the South, SO as TO make their po-
litical power greater than other citizens,
and, by these means, Grover Cleveland
became President Of the United States in-
stead Of James G. BIain0, 1t wss upon
this declaration OF mine, made with iull
consideration and with absolute csrtAluty
Of its substantial truth, that the Demo-
cratic press, and Gen. Lee rs well, de-
clared that was raising the bloody shirt,
when the events 10 WHICH was referring
occurred last lat year, aud not in 1861 or
1866; tina. they related not " the war, but
to frauds and crimes committed long since
the war, which oyerthrew the sRnctity Of
the ballot box and upturned the founda.
ton Of Republican or Democratic govern
ment. 1t was tho war upon the ballot
box, and not the war Of the rebellion that
l arTaigned.
MEMORIES OF THE WAR.
The truth Of what said was not con-
troverted by Coy. HOadly nor Senator