The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-10-11
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT.
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An Eloquent PIE. 20. Peace Ind Reo-' -
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FELLow-CiTZESs: The wise king says:
There is time for war and time for
peace.n Fnc city Of Pittsburgh has recently
witnessed rehearsal OF the pon1p and
paeeantry. the blazonry and the circumstance
Of civil war. very large number OF men
were celbsseod Of vsst exponse. with thecivil
purpose u rekindling the bitterness and
hatred, the animosity and antipathies the
fears and Civilizations Of civil war for the
advantage Of political party: take you to
with ess that the greater portion Of the jour
mails Of Pittsburgh, as we'll as the orators on
this occasion, have been trying their best to
make us, the people, hate each other for par
Ham advantage. A stSsuges would imagine,
who was reading the journals OF Pittsburgh
fee the hast few days, that we we're still ct
- exasperate the hatred and snimcsity Of
eidl war in order to intensity and nvigorate
their side Of the conflict. They talk about
'.rebels and traitorurl Feilow-citizens, are
we never to be done with this !? We demand
ed OF our adversaries in the great war
that they cnfranchise the blacks, and the
blacks are now enffAnchised. None but
white men now stand disfranchnsd on thesoil
OF our country. We demanded that they
stipulate that the emsnsipated slaves shall
not be paid for, and that the rebel debt shall
never be paid bythe General Government or
by the State, and they assented to that. So
Tar as can see, every demand made on the
been complied with by those lately in rebel
lion. Everything has been done that we
asked. Everything has been considered, and
still they ten us we want them to repent.
Have they not brought forth works meet for
repentance? And thus coming together in
Southern people have gwen their assent to
the platform Of the Cincinnati Convention,
which was the most intense most complete
republican platform that had ever been pre-
scented by any national convention whatever.
All this being done, we are told by these gen.
tlemen who met here, All this is mockery.
This 10 fraud lou don't mean anything by
it," and the CRY goes on, "rebes and trait
ora" "rebels and traitors" denunciation,
prescription the same as ever. Four years
ago, in the Republican National Convention,
it was declared that this prescription should
speedily cease. Four years have passed, and
sill it is maintained that there are this dav
thousands Of people Of Arkansas alone pro-
hibted the most intelligent, the most respoI-
sible people Of that State forbidden to exer-
else the right If suffrage, forbidden exclusive
| IL by the party that meets here aud shouts for
Grant and Wilson. Nobody else asks for
prescription but them. No other party re-
quires that any human being should stand
| prescribed on our soil for a rebellion that
ceased seven and half years ago. No party,
no men of any party, doubt this. That very
party held . great military parade this
week, in order to further and further separate
and divide the hearts OF the American people
from each other. They hold essential to
their triumph that hatred should con-
tipue; that dstrlst, suspicion, and aena-
ton should continue. Do what you will. do
what You nv, hey are determined not to be
satisfied. -
Now. fellow-citixens, 1t 10 not enough thu
those who fought against the Union should
be prescribed. Those Of M who stood for 1t
are equally denounced II we do not happen to
agree with them IN our present politics. Here
stands one who is charged by them with be-
ing . secessionist. Could that be true, fellow
| citlzene7 Look the facts in the face. When
Lincoln had been elected and this conspiracy
for secession began to advocate itself, we Re.
publicans we're told by our own men, and told
still more by those out Of the circle, You
must back out OF your Republicanism you
must surrender your opposition to the extern
sion Of slavery or consent to . great civil
war" This, they said, was the only Aterna-
-bloodshed and devastation over the
whole country, or you shall surrender the
principles on which you have just carried the
election ! was one of those who said mo !;
there is no such alternative" denied that
the Southern people. the great majority Of
them, were against the Union. demanded that
| there should be open, free discussion before the
Southern people; an honest, unterri6ed, and
unconstrained vote. II they proved that the
people Of the South wanted dsunion,
would consent to 1t. knew thcy would not.
knew that the Southern people, that the great
majority, would have voted as they actually
! did that winter, not for secession but fvr
cnging to the Union. And now, to-day, il
the nation were to be imperiled and there
we're Just two modes of saving it. to trust 70
the chances Of civil war or chances of free.
fair vote Of the Southern people, would
very greatly pref sf to take the latter chance
rather than tho former, for, fellow-citizens,
they do greatly misunderstood and malign
this American people when they assume that
in cold blood. before there had been any clash
of arms, the people in the South any moro
that the people in the North, desire disunion.
In its origin the great masses Of those who
consented to the secession movement meant
nothing by it but to back down the North and
make us consent to the extension Of slavery.
That was their purpose, and that purpose
did my best to defeat. .ni- tIl
Well, the war is ended. think il ought to
be ended. We had aigreat and terrible, Z
bloody, . destructive civil war. Our success
was perfect. The defeat of the adversary was
more complete than any defeat recorded in
history. They suffered much. They have
conceded eli. Cannot we afford to be magnani-
mous7 At least they say, fellow-citizens, that
the Southern people mag vote. Some Of
them may. but the instant they vote the cry is
raised, "See how these fellows vote.' They
Il cry, "You must vote the other way" Is that
an election It is only the fashion OF war in
another aspect.
Fellow-citlzens, you belong to one Of the
great hives OF American industry. plead
here for peace and Cancellation, and for thu
interests, especially, Of this busy, prosperous
} with Pittsburgh! How have rejoiced in hel
: prosperity! How have wondered at and ad
J inired her magnificent growth, you surely d.
4 know No place on the continent has beef
y dearer to me than Pittsburgh. There has beel
! no. spot, in whose prosperity have NOR
heartily rejoiced and this is because i believes
together with the prosperity and growth o
our whole country. Now appeal to her busi
E ness. men; appeal to her merchants ap
Y peaito her manufacturers, to stop this war
: h has gone on long enough You canno