New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-22
WHAT MR.. GREELEY WANTS.


| me, without anybody making u riot ICheers.
| If rebel comes here and wants to talk, ! will
help him to get a hearing, for it is his right
Should Gen. Lee or Alexander Stephens come here
and want to speak, we would say: eve do moi
care what you did; you have the right to come
| here and speak. If our people want to hear you
they will hear you, and if anybody wants to stay
away he shall" Laughter and applausesl We
| have no such rights in the South. When oul
friends in the South undertook to hold eonyen
ton there, the National Intelligencer told them
'Gou cannot hold convention in the South, and
TO day, If Gen. Coehrane or your humble servant
were to go down South and undertake to speak in
any Of the rebel Cities they would stop to hear
what we had to say, but would simply kill us.
Laughter and applause.] That spirit has got to
be rooted out. 1t is not sectional-it is internal.
lLong continued applause1 This must be land
of liberty and of law, of equal rights and equal
/ privileges, from one end to the other. On that
line intend, and trust you all intend, to fight it
out to the end. Three cheers for Mr.. Greeley,]
When Mr. Greeley says she wants to
see the time come, etc., we presume that he
is sincere in his declaration-for Mr.. Greeley
has the reputation of being sincere man
and that he will be glad to learn that the time
has actually come, for which his radical and
philanthropic friend so intensely longs. Nor
do we doubt that he would really do as he
says, and strive to obtain hearing in New
York for General Lee, or Mr.. Stephens, should
either of those gentlemen ever desire to ad-
dress New York audience but, the ugly
memories Of Fort Lafayette and the Ludlow
Estreet Jail, which cluster around the recent
history of the great metropolis are not sugges-
tive of unlimited freedom of speech in that
latitude. We rather incline to the belief that
there are some cities in the North, say Boston
and Philadelphia for instance, or indianapolis
and Pittsburg, to make the point little
palmer, In which the ssrebels'' for whom Mr.
Greeley expresses SO magnanimous consid-
Grafton, would have considerable difficulty in
Igetting through with anything they might
IhaYe to say. One Andrew Johnson, President
| of the United States, and never hitherto ae-
cused of being a s'rebeI, and only g rebel
now according to that peculiar style of defni-
ton that imputes Righteousness and treason
to everybody who does not approve Of radical
projects-eyen Andrew johnson had so much
difficulty in making few remarks in those
cities that he might as well have been pro-
hibited from talking by municipal law.
However, we have no wish to carry our
point by dint of recrimination, or force of
comparison. We wish to speak solely for
ourselves; and, speaking for ourselves, we
beg leave to assure Mr. Greeley that he is
very much mistaken when he declares that
if he should "come down South and under
take to speak in any of the rebel cities, ;"
he would not be listened to- but would,
simply, be killed. Why in this very city,
which is popularly supposed at the North to
be the home of intolerance, Judge Heistand
has spoken and spoken to crowds of negroes:
so has Michael Hahn; SO has r. King Cutler:
and SO have various other radical sympa-
thizers; and nobody dreamed of molestin9
them.l Hahn's wounds were not received by
him while speaking at public meeting, and
phantom knives pursued Mr.. Durant, only
when that gentleman had retired into the OBJ
security of his own conscience. There has
been no time, during the last year when it
would not have been perfectly safe for any
oody to address any sort Of public meeting
n New Orleans, and discuss political
luestions-and we may say the same
hing of all the other cities in the South.
i men like Heistand and Hahn-men
% extremely Objectionable to the com
nunlty men who had been identified
NTH all the tyrannies of Butler and Banks,
nd with regime which must be forever in
amous in the history Of the State-=~if men
Ike these could speak without fear and with
ut molestation, what need for Mr.. Greeley to
ear? That gentleman is known to US, in
ubiic capacity, only as a political opponent 1
ersonally there is no resentment against him
! the South. We do not like his views, it is
ne we do not think that he acts justly to {
5 IN publishing all the absurd stories that he Z
N find, lkening us to Camanche sayages !
nd accusing US of an irrepressible and in '
bloodttthirstiness, but do like what we S
ave heard of the purity Of his private char /
oter, OF his freedom from personal vindictiye- ]
ess, and Of his generosity to the needy. We t
re charitable enough to believe that he is ,
GOD man morally and socially although he {
one Of the ablest and most persistent of !
" political adyersaries. Why then should {
g want to kill him If hewould like to test
IS own theories on this point, let him
we New Orleans q trial. We will guarantee
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