Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-04

nominated Horace Greeley. He
does not complain Of their having a
convention here. A portion of the
Democrats and rebels met at Bati-
more and resolved upon certain
things. Greeley makes no COM
plant Of them. If rebels or Demo-
Gratis meet in the South for the pur-
pose Of resolving, what is their
duty in reference to Presidential
questions, Mr.. Greeley complains
not Of them. If Republican con-
ventions meet together and nominate
a candidate for President, no COM
plant is made against them. Why?
Because it is the right Of American
citizens to meet and consult for the
benefit of themselves and the bene-
fit of the republic. Cheers.] All
citizens have that right, and / ask
you, my fellow countrymcn, has it
come to this that within ten years
of the time that the drums on the
battle field ceased to beat; the smoke
of battle ceased to rise heayenward;
the sound Of the groans of the
wounded aud dying ceased to be
heard; when the wall of the widow
has scarce died away, ifthe soldiers
of this country desired to meet to-
gether in convention for nothing but
peace and harmony and the best in
tercStS of the country, I ask YOU if
they are thus to be deprived of that
right which each one of you enjoys?
mo! mol" Cheers. Are the soldiers
who went upon the battlefield to be
deprived of the right to meet in con-
vention, and to resolve whom they
shall support, while the thieves Of
Tammany meet and resolve who
shall receive their support? ["No!
never" Cheers.
nRNuNCIATION OF UNION SOLDIERS
PRAISE FOR REBELS.
l desire to call your attention to
another paragraph of this remark
able speech. Speaking ofthe South
ern people, Greeley says: "They''
speaking of the Republicans
"want them (the Southern people)
to repent. We demanded of our
adversaries in the great civil war
that thoy surrender their arms and
60 to their homes. They surren-
dered them. We demanded that
they enfranchise the blacks, and the
blacks are enfranchised."
Now, let me call your attention
to the subterfuge resorted to by this
candidate for the presidency Of this
country. eve demanded that sla-
very be abolished, and they did
abolish it," says Mr.. Greeley. Now
there Mr.. Greeley speaks in igno.
rance or falsehood. When we de.
manded that they abolish slavery,
they did not abolish it. They op.
posed the abolition of slavery with
their votes, by their speeches, by
their armies, by force, in the strong
est way in which men can make
opposition to anything. SLAYER,
was not abolished by them at oul
demand. Slavery was abolished b,
the force of arms, [cheers], because
they rebelled against the govern
ment. Having a right to abolish
slavery, we did SO, and the peopl,
of this country ratified the lStl
article of the Constitution by vote
of the Legislatures Of the States
and no rebel or Democrat in one
solitary State voted for the 18th
amendment. Applause.] Yet Gree
ley comes before this country as :
candidate, and tells you that which
is utterly untrue. ["That's So"
He says: "We demanded enfran
chisement'-that is to say we de
manded that the colored people b.
allowed to vote. He don't say tina
they agreed to it, but he says: sane
they were enfranchised." He dar'
not say that "they" enfranchiset
them, but he tries to leave the i'm
preston upon the country tina
"they" assented to it; when ever,
man in the country knows that no
one solitary Democrat or rebel VIII,
was prominent man, ever CAV
, his consent to any such thing
["That's so."
GREELEY's RE-AvOwAL OF HIS sECEs
SION THEORY.
I desire now to call your attention
to what Greeley said in this Pitts
burg speech in reference to hi
theory of secession. He says
"Here stands one who is charge,
by them'-who does he mean b,
"them;" now, but the Republicans
with being secessionist.' Coul'
that be true, fellow-citizens? Lool
facts in the face. When Lincol
had been elected, and this con
spiracy for secession began to ad
! vocate itself, we Republicans wer
told by our own men, and told still
more by those out of tho circle
"You must back out of your Repub
, licanism; you must surrender you
opposition to the extension of sls
very or consent to great civil wal
7 This, they said, was the only alter
native of bloodshcd and devasts
ton over the whole country, or yo
shall surrender the principles o
4 which you have just carried tn
. election. l was one Of those wh
a said no; there is no such alterns
4 tive. denied that the Souther
people, the great majority of then
are against the Union" He demand
that there "shall be open, free dis
cussion before the Southern peopl
and an honest, unterrifed, uncor
strained vote. If they approve
!, if the people of the South say the
want disunion, will consent to it.
Now that is what Greeley sai'
there. He says further:
=. 81 know that they will not;
know that the Southern people, tn
4 great majority would have vote
as they actually did that winter
not for secession, but for clingin
to the Union"
Now, my countrymen, the reaso
! why refer to this speech is to ca
your attention particularly to th
! manner in which this candidate fo
. the Presidency makes statement
before the country. He saws: IF a