The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-22
Mr.. GreeIey's Portland Speech.
THE BEST YET.
Apples Of Gold in Pictures Of Silver"
PonrLAND, ME. August Is, 1872

with such capacity as God has given me
\ for
First, Impartial ard universal liberty.
! Second, For the Union and greatness of
/ our common country.
Third, And by no means the least. when
/ the former end was attained for the hearty
and early reconciliation and peace among
our countrymen.
For these great ends have I struggled.
and hope that the issue OF the third is not
4 doubtful. | thoroughly comprehend that
| no personal consideration has drawn this
vast assembly together; other higher and
grander considerations have collected you
around me to-day.
! 1t Is part of the unWritten law of our
! country that candidate tor the Presidency
! may not speak in Vindlcation and common
dation of the principles whereupon he is
supported in the measure which his election
1 is intended TO promote, though a candidate
/ tor the Vice Presidency il under no such
/ Inhibition.
not merely acquiesce in the restriction.
| but L recognize and affirm the proprety of
such restriction. The temptation to miSin-
| terpret and misrepresent candidate for
/ the higher posts is so great, the means of
circulating such perversions among people
| who never see word of their refutation
| are so vast. that a candidate has nn moral
/ right to subject his friends to the perils he
must brave, if not invited, By taking part
in the canvass. Yet there is
A TRUTH TO BE UTTERED
in the behalf of those who have placed me
| before the American people in my present
| attitude, which does them such honor that
| claim the privilege of stating 1t here
! This is that truth. No person has ever yet
made the fact known that he proposed TO
| support my nomination, whether at Cincin-
natl, at Baltimore, or in the action which
resulted in the sending of delegates to either
| Convention, as the basis of claim for an
| Office at my hands.
No one who favored my nomination be-
| fore either convention or at either conVen-
| ton has sought an office at my hands, eth
| er for himself or for any one else. Nor has
any one suggested to me that might
| strengthen myself as candidate by prom
! ising to appoint any one else. Nor has any
one suggested to me that ght strengthen
myself as a candidate by promising to
appoint any one To any important Office
whatever. In very many instances, less
| than dozen of the small-fry of politicians
have, since my double nomination, claimed
that | might increase my chances OF elec
ton by promising post-otlice or some such
office TO my voluntary correspondents re-
SpectiVely.
| have not usually responded to these
Overtures; but l now give general notice
that, should | be elected, will consider the
claims of these untimely aspirants, after
those of the more modest and reticent shall
have been fully satisfied. Applause.
In two or three instances | have been
asked to say whether | would or would not
II SISClShs COuEHC III appointments "
Republicans, | answer these by pointing
to the plank in the Cincinnati platforms
wherein
ALL WHO CONCUR IN THE PRINCIPLES THERE
IN SET FORTH
are cordially invited to participate in their
establishment and vndication. | never yet
heard Ola man VIII invited his neighbors to
help him raise house and prepared to kick
them out OF 1t as soon as the roof was fairly
over his head For my own part | recog-
niZe every honest man who approves and
adheres TO the Cincinnati platform as
MY POLITICAL BROTHER,
and as such fully entitled to my confidence
and friendly regard.
One other point deserves a word. Those
adverse to me ask what pledge | have Civ
to those lately hostile to the Union to Sc
cure their favor and support, / answer. no
man or woman in the South ever asked me
directly or through another any other
pledge than is given in all my acts and
words from the hour OF Lees surrender
down to this moment.
NO SOUTHERN MAN
ever limited to me as expectation, hope or
wish, that the rebel debt, whether Confederate
or State, should be assumed or paid by the
Union. No Southern man who could be
elected TO a Legislature, or made colonel !
Of a military regiment, ever suggested the |
pcnSIOnln1 OF All the reDel SOLDIERS. or any !
of them, even as a remote possibility. All !
who nominated me were perfectly aware |
that | upheld and justified Federal legisla- |
ton to suppress Ku- kluX conspiracies aud |
outrages, though l had long ago insisted as |
strenuously as l now do, that
COMPLETE AMNESTY AND GENERAL oBLIv-
ION OF THE BLOODY HATEFUL PAST
would do more for the suppression and ut
ter extinction of such outrages than all the /
force bills and suspensions of habeas corpus |
ever devised by man. Wrong and crime |
must be suppressed and punished, but far
wiser and nobler is the legislatiOn-the pei
icy by which they are prevented. Frsm
those who support me in the South,
HAVE HEARD But ONE DEMAND-JusTIcR:
BUT ONE DEsIRE-RECoNCILIATIo
They wish to be heartily reunited and at
peace with the North, on any terms which |
do not involve the surrender OF their man
hood. They ask that they should be regard |
ed and treated by the Federal authorities
As CITIZENS, AND NOT AS cULPRIre,
so long as they obey and uphold every law
consistent with equality and right They
desire rule which alike tor
WHITE AND BLACK,
shall encourage industry and thrift, and
discourage rapacity and villainy. They
cherish joyful hope, in which / fully con-
cur, that between the 9TH of November and
the 4th of March next, quite a mum Der Of
governors and other dignitaries, who in the
abused name of Republicanism and loyalty
have been for years piling debts and taxes
upon these war wasted States, will follow
the Wholesome example of Bullock, of Geor-
gid, and seek the shades of private life.
The darker and deeper those shades the bet
ter for themselves and for mankind The
hope that my election may hasten the much
desired
HEGIRA OF THIEyING CARPEr-BAGGERs ;
has reconciled to the necessity of support ,
ing me many who would otherwise have
hesitated and probably refused
Fellow-citiZens, the deposed and partially I
axlled Iammany ring hes stolen about 500 (
100000 from the city of New York That :
was a most gigantic robbery, and hurled its !
contrivers and abettOrs from power and I
'plendor to impotency and infamy. The )
.hIeVlng carpet-baggerS have stolen three n
lines that amount. at least-haye stolen il ! n
needy, and they still haunt this prosperous b
Tillainy in the highest places Of the land v
md are addressed as "Honorable" and 1
'Excellency." tApplause.l think 1 hear i
voice from the honest people of all the ii
J ates declaring that their iniquity shall be v
,ainful and insolent no longer at the far Il
hest than the 4th of March next. II
by that time national verdict will be K
pronounced that will cause them to o.
Fold their tents, like the Arabs X
And as silently steal away" a.
nd l trust will be the end of their stealing u
the cost of the good name of our country u
nd well being of her people. Z.
at the conclusion of his speech Mr. Gree d
y sat down amid storm of cheers. OF
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