The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-09-26

fellow-citizens, that the Southern peo-
pie may vote. Some of them may
but the instant they vote the cry is
raised, aSee how these fellows vote"
They cry, "You must vote the other
way" Is that an election? 1t is only
the fashion ofwar in another aspect.
Fellow-citizens, you belong to one
of the greatest hives of American in
dustry. I plead here for peace and
reconciliation-for the interest, espe-
clallY, of this busy, prosperous, ener-
getic people. How 1 have sympathi-
zed with. Pittsburshi How I have
reioiced in her prosperity How /
have wondered and admired her mag
nifeeat growth. You surely do
know. No place on this continent
has been dearerto me than Pittsburgh.
There has been no spot in whose pros
perity i have more heartily rejoieed,
and this is; becapse: I believed her
prosperityi was n firmly linked. and
bound together with the prosperity
and growth of our whole country.v
II; Now Iappeal TO her bussnesss men,
I appeal to her merchants, / appeal TO
her manufacturers, to, stop this war.
It has gone on long enough. You can
not afford TO teach part of yenr conn
ItrY to hate you-.to feel that yonr sue
cess, your greatness, is identical with
their humiliation s1na.g fo Jed
People OF Pittsburgh, I ask youto
take q generous part In this work
of reconciliation. You are country
men to each other. ask you to take
the hand held out to you by our
Southern brethren in the adoption of
the Cincinnati platform by those who
were our enemies.9 4 ask you to grasp
THAT hand and say, "Brothers, we diff
ifered, we fought the war is ended
| Ief sas again be tfellow-countrymen,
pahd forget that we have been enc
miles," Friends and fellow-citizens,
i bid you good night. u ass ei'i&e
After his speech Mr.. Greeley quiet
lly slid outthe back way from the st.
Charles Hotel, and made his way to
the depot. and, in an hour after, was
again on his way west. at Coshocton
Newark, Columbus, London, Xenia,
Morrow, and other places on the
route the people had turned out in
immehse numbers to greet him, and
at each place he made brief speeches.
He arrived at Cincinnati at 2 40 pm.
and was me at the depot by q large
eonconrse of people, At i've o'clock
he, visited the great Exposition, where
hetwas introduced to the assemblage
-byvMr. Keck, and addresses Of well
come were delivered by Mayor Cos
horn and Mayor Davis, to, which Mr..
Greeley responded, In q very happy
and Iappropriatcspeech, in which there
were no ailusions to political subjects.
= At nine O'Clock in the evening he
was -seFenaded at the Barnet oHouse,
and after being introduced. by Mr..
Keck, Mr.. Greeley addressed the vast
pfhrong Of people who had turned ont
ON the occasion fas, follows::ls 70 ssIls'5
iGff1zEas OF Ono: il ana here a
guest, at the Invitation Of the Common
Council of Cincinnati. 1T is their de-
sire. as it was my wish, that a should,
while their guest, abstain from any re-
marks which might seem to- serve a
partisan purpose. And should have
chosen, had been left at liberty, SO
TO speak, that none of any party could
possibly have taken objection But
there has been made an attack upon
me sinee9p came here which Z will
trust to the hospitality and generosity
OF 1tg sateEtaineFs t9 enable me to re-
70 Last evening, 1t Pittsburgh, in the
course of some off-hand remarks to a
@x.As 80 III
TO explain the cifcumstanees-the ex-
Extraordinarily unprecedented cireum-
staIiees-undef9 which I was impelled,
In the winter of lS60s6l, to- offer in
good faith to submit tbs whole aaes-
ton of Union and disunieA to a free,
fair and uneonstrained vote of the
gouthStif peapfe, after due delibera-
tion aud discussion, 1T was my be-
lief then, and is still my belief, that if
that people had been allowed such
free and fair opportunity, they would
have decided, !as you have decided,
that the Union should be maintained.
Cheers. Vi.ae3 l59ia. zig. -
Those remarks which 1 made last
evening have been nisrepresented-
have been, II think, perverted into an
expression of present belief, present
completion, that any State has q right
To- dissolve this Union at its own
pleasure, Fellow Citizens, I utterly
repudiate and condemn that sentiment
fGheers. Il do not believe that one
State, or that ten States, lor even q ma
Jofity Ofealf the States, ahas2s @ right to
tlissolve the Union. 3fCheefs.I That
UnionJis founded i0n g. Constitution
which is1a charter, or 9goBerAmentl-
not a mere league Itidoes not con-
template a confederacy merely, but a
UHions not q government of limited
and defined powers, but of unlimited
dnEatis4. u bslieVe{ that the Union
was not only destined, but ,Was fpted-
ed, TO be perpetual.o i believe our
great civil war-if there ever, was any
Reasonable doubt as to the nature of
fiiat pnion4-has seftleA that doubt
forever fcheers1 that slavery is dead,
md that the Union ahides foreYer.ia
Such is the sum and substance of
the verdict pronounced through the
issues OF our great contest. There is
no longef. q question, there can never
again arise the question as to the per-
! uetnitY Of the pnien, The apple Of
Hiscora, the only thing that eYeF made
any American hostile to his own
country and Constitution, has utteify
persisted. Henceforth the Americsl
Union abides fOrevef,, grounded on
the affections. on the necessities, And
in the fervent devotion of the whole
Amerlean people, Iftbere eyer agafn
shall arise that question in this Union,
it will be presented, not from the
Southern section OF this country. But
no such question will again arise +As
perpetual as the hills, as solid as the
everlasting rocks, the Union of the
States abides, and must abide forever.
[Cheers.] One sentiment, one desire,
snimates the american heart, and that
is, that the FnioH Of the States must
ana shall be preserved. tCheers.
Now, my fellow -citizens, if l may
be allowed, let me say q few words
more generally, with regard to your
position. YOnr tastes and Your nros-