Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-14


put down the kuklux, although in both he but
did his duty 10 his country, and executed the
will of the people. Not TO you or me. Their
speech and their presses are filled with ex-
pressions of hatred to us. Not to the colored
men Of the south, not to the loyal emigrant
from the north. For them they have the ku-
klux khan. Not even to Mr.. Sumner The
Richmond Enquirer has declared, since MIR.
Summers letter, that the people of the south
despiSe Charles Sumner as they despise Cutfee.
They may be reconciled to Horace Greeley, the
man who believed in the right Of secession un-
der the constitution, the man who was for pay
ing for the slaves, the man who bailed JEFF
Davis. the man who is for leaving the civil
rights Of the colored man to be determined by
the dominant race.
We offered them reconciliation in 1850. They
had only to submit quietly to an election under
the constitution, by majority of the American
people. We offered them reconciliation in 1868.
They had only to let men live in peace in their
dwellings. They now impose, MS a condition
of reconciliation, that we shall let them select
our candidate for the presidency.
Will you tell me why any person who really
favorS reconciliation at the south should not
vote for Gen. Grant?
One other consideration strikes me pretty
forcibly. If the rebels of the south are recon-
ciled 10 the colored men; if the feelings which
prompted them to buy and sell and scourge the
colored men have passed away and given place
TO love and kindness, why have not the coiored
men of the south, who live and work by their
side, found it out? How happens it that they
hear Of it first from Mr.. Sumner, and don't be-
lieve it at thatp
Mr.. Sumner commends to you reconciliation
Let him show a little willingness to be recon-
ciled to President Grant. He can overlook the
four years of bloody war, the death of half a
million of his countrymen, the attempt on the
life of the republic, the holding millions of
his countrymeu in slavery on the part
of men who still justify and boast
of their exploits, but he cannot for
give the maintaining Baez against hostilites
tromH ayti during negotiation and the aban-
doned attempt TO annex St. Domingo. He can
write letter TO aid the election of Zebulon
Vance to the United States senate who wanted
TO I'LL hell so full of Yankees that their feet
would stick out of the windows and who never
has reDented Of the utterance, but he cannot
forgive President Grant for detailing couple of
boys from the army to aid him as clerks at the
White house. He can forgive the ATTEMPT TO de-
stroy the Union, the benignant mother of us all,
but he cannot forgive the man who saved it, if
he has put few of his kinsmen into office. And
this is reconciliation.
This nomination was not made for reconcilia-
ton by either convention. Two parties went to
| Cincinnati. One, honest and jealous enthusiasts,
seeking purer governmnnt than either affords
These returned baffled and disguised to renew
their support Of Gen. Grant. The others, repre-
scented by the Blairs and Gratz Brown of Mis-
Pennsylvania, led and managed the meeting.
They chose their candidate not for reform not for
| reconciliation, but as man who could be the
tool of managing politicians.
1t is not so taken by the democrats They
take it as pill or an emetic. Graft Brown in
in his letter of acceptance, declares that neither
party has changed its principles. Beck of Ken
lucky, leading member of the house, declares
il he is correctly reported, that they take Gree.
ley only as means OF overthrowing Grant.
ho ,Ar1l I,
paper OF the south, gives MIR. Summers letter,
rejects his claim Of reconciliation with contempt,
and says that 1.-THE south deSpiSe Charles Sum-
ner as they despise Cuffee." | read you from
the speech of Representative Golladay OF Ten
nessee, when he says that Greeley will do what
Senter did in Tennessee. Remember that Sen
ter's election in Tennessee deprived $50 900 chill
dren of public schools.
"Conr7 ressmau E. J. Golladay of Tennessee
supports Greeley for the presidency, and has
been telling his constituents why. We quote a
few sentences from his his speech. He told his
hearers that Greeley would do for the demo-
cratic party what Gratz Brown did in Missouri,
Senter in Tennessee, and Walker in Virginia
In accepting Greeley, the democracy had not
abandoned their principles, and, in adopting
their platform, they had not ignored their record
in the past. They recognized the thirteenth
fourteenth and fifteenth constitutional amend.
mentS as an existing fact, in the same sense
that we recognize that Cain killed Abel and
that Judas betrayed Christ. The democracy
did not believe they were just, or constitution.
ally accepted. He said Greeley best suited the
south OF any man in the nation. He had done
more, and was willing to do more, for her than
any other man could. Greeley, at the outset of
the war, was in favor of letting the hayward
sisters depart in peace and afterward went,
single-hauded and alone, to meet our commits
sioners in Canada to treat for peace Not q
democrat in the north dared go with him,
or manifested any desire to go. He was
then in favor of paying the south foy her slaves
and | believe he is still. He went on jeff Da-
Wis bond, while not northern democrat so
| much as lifted finger for his release. He i'm
| medately advocated universal amnesty, and
| opposed the execution Of any southern man for
| treason. he had denounced in bitterest terms
the carpet baggerS and called them the plum
derers of the south. Heis one OF us"
MIR. Sumner complained of the senate that
they violated parliamentary courtesy in not
giving an investigation which he moved to a
committee of his friends, saying that they put
out the child to a nurse who cared not for it.
| But he is now for putting out the new born
| babe OF liberty to nurse who would stranggle
| It.
The keynote of his whole movement is the re-
| newa of the old exploded doctrine of state
| rights. The words may vary but the tone is al
ways the same. Sometimes the song is mo
| Capitalization" which means that the nation
shall not protect loyal lives when the states fail
| DOLtlllleo IL Is uONu WIFI CuTpSl-UdHSGTS,
| which means that the constitutional rights OF
citizens to dwell where they choose in the whole
| country shall not be respected.
Two hands stretch out TO you. One slthe
nand Of the southern loyalist, a true, honest
hand, never raised in hatred even against his bit
terest foe. The other stained with blood stretches
over a chasm filed with the blood itself has
| shed. While the hand stretches oyer the chasm
| the voice utterS nothing but threats and curses
l am afraid the man who stretches his hand
| over the chasm may possibly drag us into it,
| Mr.. Sumner compares the republican party TO q
| liie-boat, which swims upon every wave. The
| life-boat, indeed, may be saved. The crew itsel
| may not perish. | for one would not like to put
| to sea in a storm even in life boat with Horace
| Greeley, as his friends describe him, for cap
| tain, and Brown for second officer, to succeed
| to the helm | think even q liie-boat in some
peril when a pirate ship is seeking to run hei
down. A pirate is never more dangerous than
| when she h0istS false cOlors. But suppose the
| boat and the crew survive, what becomes of the
| lives which the boat has put forth to save
| While the men on board are quarreng, theil
| sinking brethren perish.
| Fellow citizens, how can you hesitate? Is
there anything in lhe republican record which
| any republican would blot out? Is there any
| thing in the democratic record which anv honcs
democrat would not wish to blot out? How
| can you hesitate between the two candidates
| Greeley would have let the south go Gram
| would have conquered them. Greeley en-
| encouraged the rebellion; Grant destroyed it
| Greeley would have paid the slave owners from
| the national treasury; Grant would educate the
| freedmen. Greeley, more than any one man
| in the country is responsible for Bull Run
| Grant for Donelson, Henry, Vicksburg, Apo
| matoX, Greeley would leave the colored man
half slave, dssuade him from asserting his
own constitutional right, and recognize dom.
inant race, as still existing under the constitu'
ton; Grant would enforce for him those civil
rights which every citizen ought to have. Gree
| ley would denounce centralism and return &c
the old mischievous doctrine of state rights
Grant would protect human rights by the
strongest eXertion of the national power
Greeley's friends are every rebel, every opponent
of the war, every Tammany democrat, every
man who is soured and dissatis6ed Grants
the entire army of freedom, who have won her
victories, by sea and land, in war and in peace.
1t is a great thing to change the administra.
| ton Of the government. New issues new ques
| tons, and new dangers, constan ty, must arise
| TO which party will you trust the republic?
have not spoken Of your business interests
| What, in your Judgment, will become of them
| in the hands oil tie democrats, with nothing but
| Horace Greeley for n restraint Nothing but
| financial disaster can be the result. You must
| expect legislation, hostile to all your interests
| capital must live under different laws; work
men must seek new occupations; our growing
| cities and towns must lose their stimulus
| Hatreds will survive and discords again spring
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