New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-31
MIR. Greeley at GalvestOn.

We copy from the Galveston Bulletin an
abstract of the speech of Mr.. Greeley at
Galveston Saturday evening:
He commenced by saying that Texas had
a bad name in the North and she did not
deserve it. Years ago this was the case
Texas had bad men in it. Now New York
CITY can distance her in the race, and excel
her in numbers of bad men. He believed
the North did not credit the statements
made against her. He knew that the col
ored people complained a few years ago
that the whites treateo them unkindly.
This has passed away. They are now
treated well, and Texas is more quiet than
New York, and has less violence exhibited
in her daily affairs, and he will so speak
and write and tell the people what he knows
to be the truth on this point, which is so
little understood at the North.
He then touched upon the prospect of
Texas for the future. Said no State in the
Union was gaining in population as Texas
because Of the press telling her advantages;
she is drawing from all the older Southern
States, and her prosperity is assured. He
wanted the North to understand the South
and the South to understand the North:
then all will be we'll He said that the
North is misrepresented by the journals OF
the South, and hence misunderstood.
the war, and for some time rehearsed the
cause of the same; said that the South de-
termined to carry on a war before MIR. Lin
colin was President. He discussed the ques-
ton of slavery and its evil tendencies.
He referred to the fact that the man
who made the first move IN Con-
gress, Mr.. Jefferson, to put stop to the
extension of slavery was Southern man.
He never knew time when the North
did admit tbat sla lnEfItlI-
ton belonging to the South with which the
North had nothing to do, and that all the
North asked was that it be not extended to
the territories belonging alike to the North;
charged the leaders of the rebellion with
aiding, Intentionally, in the election of Mr..
Lincoln in order to bring on the war; said
the people of the South were opposed to the
war, but were forced into it. He said the
States can not be held together with bayo-
nets, and that the great mass of the people
are now opposed to such attempts. He
claimed that the Union is blessing to the
South as well as the North. He had al
ways worked for peace, and would do so
again. He denied that the North wanted
war, but said the South was determined to
have it, and if the North had backed to the
north pole, the South would have pushed
them off for war.
He was glad no one had been hung for
sination of Mr.. Lincoln, and charged it as
the act of an assassin and not the desire or
wish of the Southern people, and said that
act reused the feeling Of the North, and
hence less leniency has been shown the con-
federates than had that deed never been
done. He complimented the Southern peO
pie for the manly manner IN which they
made war, that they did it nObly and not as
assassins. Said Johnson's proclamation
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Lincoln was false, but it aroused the people
and did harm He was not condemned for
going bail for Jefferson Davis, but that he
did not do il for Davis so much as for the
Southern people who sympathized with Mr..
Davis. Said the North is now willing to
let by-gones be by-gones, and he said that
universal amnesty must come, and he be-
lieved it would be before the end of this
Congress.
He was opposed to restricting the people
from choosing their representatives. None
are DISTINGUISHED, and meme should be pro-
hibited from holding office. He said Dem
ocrats are endeavoring TO keep the colored
people from their rights, such as riding in
street cars, etc. He thinks it small thing
to act thus. He claimed that intelligence
and integrity are the basis of elevation and
success, and the cOlored race should have
equal chances in the race. He was not OPP
posed TO mixed schools; he had gone to
school where colored children went, and
was not injured; urged the education OF all
alike, and if the negro is inferior it will be
seen. We need no law to float cork or sink
lead. He thought the laws of God might
be enacted in some places to benefit.
He contended that corrupt legislation
was caused by the ignorance of the people.
This was the nearest allusion to our Legisla- |
ture, and we thought the crowd felt what !
very ignorant people we must be, judged |
from that standpoint.
He touched upon protection, and classed |
i as essential to Texas, saying thousand |
factories would double the price of all pro-
ducts.
He closed in beautiful appeal to the |
people to cultivate love for the country, |
,he government and the Union, and amid |
4 round of applause babe the crowd adieu. |
He was listened to throughout with the |
Utmost attention.