The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-15
GREELEY.
HI. Views on th. Prss,S. ..nt,sl uonts.t.

His Views on the Presid sntIeI Contest.
The intelligence and wortn OF BROOKLYN filled
the Academy of Music id that city last night,
and demonstrated oeyCnd cavtl that the citizens
OF the City OF Churches are TOR Grant and Colf4x:
fol the payment OF every dellar OF the national
debt; and tor perpetual preservation OF the
Union, freed from The slime and venom of Cop
perhead,sm Inside the Aca1emy OF Music every
seat Was occupied, aud notwithstanding the
great warmth OF the night, the people fingered
and listened until the last speaker had closed
h. remarks.
In his speech Horace Greeley said:-He would
draw attention OF the audience to the candidates
and the platforms OF the two opposing parties.
Aud first be would allude to the circumstances
attending the two conventions. The Chicago
Convention was united in principle and unauI.
mo Is in It's Ch DICE OF candidates. There was no
nomination by that convention, but simply
recogn, ton of the TACT that the people demanded
that the General who was their leader In war
should be their leader also in peace. Zap
plause.) The republican party was not party
Of the North or the South, the East or the
West but party OF the loyal people of the
whole country. (Applause.) ON the other
hand when the Democratic Convention met
YOU saw the sec ionalism which they charge
against us. There was an Eastern party
and Western party, Northern
party and Southern party. Well,
they have made the best nomination possible TO
rcpre,ent their party (laughterI. and now we
have General Grant and aoratio Seymour as the
repre- sentarlves OF the Two parties. In the Tam.
army, most of the Rebel Generals, the Speaker
OF their Congress, and most OF The leading re-
presentatves of secession. (Aoplause.) Did
they cone there to say that they we're sorry for
secession? did not hear it. (Laughter) On
the other hand l. General Grant You know him
well. need not rehearse his career. They say
Grant can't make a speech. We'll, if Aora.Io
Seymour had never made speech he would
get good many more votes than he will get.
daughter and applanse.) In all Seymours
speeches whore did he ever make remark
that the rebel army would not have cheered from
beginning 10 end? l never heard of it. 40
plause.] Ia his first speech in Tweddle Hail, IN
Albany, he SAID it was just as wrong to put down
rebellion as to begin it, and he never took any
other position during the war. to my knowledge.
[ApplaUse.l In Tammany Hall he taun ingly
asked:-"Where are the victories you promised
us?" He did not know that Grant even NJ that
moment was winning a vlCorY, and that Lee
was being driven from Pennsylvania. All his
speeches during the war were but a triumphant
song in sympathy with those who were oppo,.
iug the Union armies. Even in his order motto
ing the deNth Of General Wadsworth, he in.
serted Al implied tauut to ReOu olicans by saw
ing that General Wadsworth was a man who
had the courage 10 go into the field and
fight for his opinions" This was the way Gov.
Seymour sustained the wa'. He opposed the
draft and was constantly complaining that too
many men were taken tom New York and not
enough taken from Newtngland. Then, too.
look at the opposing primo piles OF the Uo par
ties. The Democratic platform conta aims no
IL
no word that would crate har,hlY on rebels
ear, no word in symOathy with the loyal black
men of the South. The speaker next reviewed
the posti, of the Democratic platform on the
national debt. It was, he said, virtual rcpudIa-
ton. This was the Pendlpton plank inserted i'm
the platform; it could not be Seymours, for he
had spoken contrary to it. The Republican plat
form says that the true way to tighten the burden
of the debt is TO treat the creditor so well thst
every body will want TO lend us money! Even il
we could by, trick shuttle off our debt in the
other wav, how would we be situated in case
we should want money hereafter? The debt
could be reduced $50 000, 900 or more aunuaIly
by letting the bouoholders see that we are le.
termined 10 be honest (Appause.) Thus it
is that in this as in other things, honesty is the
best policy. Bv taking an honest course ia the
last war with Englahd, our Government raised
its credit, and got a reputation which was of
some account TO us afterwards. Again the
taking money out OF one pocket to put in
another | rejoice to belong to that party that
saws that honesty shall be maintained (Ap.
plause.) urged men day after day during the
war to put their money into Govern.
ment bonds, and told them these b Ipds
would be paid in gold Or its equivalent.
Should. they not be so paid, SHOULD
ieel that had been party to a swindle and
tick. Now as 10 reconstruction. 1t is claimed
by our opponents that the Repels by merely
laying down thetr arms should Immediately
take their old places in the Government. in
o'h,r words, having been beaten in the game
OF rebellion, theV should come right back an Id
govern those who caused the rebellion to be a
failure. We, on the contrary, believe it was the
right and the duty OF Congress to prescribe
terms on which Rebel States shall be restored
to the Union. President johnson took this
ground by requiring the Rebel States to aboiIs sb
slavery, repudiale the r. bel deot, etc Mr..
Greeley proceeded at considerable leugth TO
rehearse the action OF Congress in the work
OF reconstruction. 1t was not revenge. NOT
punishment tnat the Republican party wished.
ont simply this: loyal men in the South
whatever might be their condition, should be
allowed as much voice IN the restored States as
Re bels. (Applause.) II, as soon as The Rebel
lion ended. we mad said te the R4bels:-"Pherc
take your States and 90 as you please; tread
under loot your former slaves; disfranc6ise ali
the blacks of the SOUTH" had we done this we
would have reDudiated our just obligations to
the loyal men OF the south. just as we would re.
pudlate the national debt by paying it off in a
different currency from that stipulated when
the bonds were issued. No. this would never
do. (Applause.) The Republican party stands
on the basis OF justice aud loyalty and strict
adherence to all its obligations. On this plat
form he would say, in conclusion, he believed
they would triumph, and on the 4th of March
next would inaugurate General Graut and
Schuyler ColfaX as President aud Vice. President
oi the United States. prolonged applause.)