The Cairo daily bulletin., 1872-09-26
THE CAIRO DAILY BULLETIN THURSDAY SEPTEMBER &c. 1872

vered and loved by millions of his country.
men, and will be for generations to come.
What matters 1t whether he filed one
office or another, or no office? The Office
does not make the man 1t Is men like
this that glorify and dignity offices. Well,
our friend passed away the generation OF
which he was one passed.away, and there
hatred and strife and violence and dis
sun of the American republic had fore.
ever gone down. Despots exulted, aristo-
Gratis exulted. Well, there" they
said, "you SEQ what comes
of your free institutions.
They are played ou.. Witness your
great model republic" Well, years
passed on. There were reverses; there
were disasters, but there was still the
faithful American heart, and after time
ell came round the union was restored
the old flag was triumphant, and the peo-
pie, the American people, were brought
together. Well, from that hour l said
Now let us try to be friends again; yes,
better friends than We were before. We
have fought, but the cause Of the trouble
has passed away slavery is dead; there
10 no more ress on why VIC should fight; let
| Us try to be hereafter countrymen, and love
and honor each other. So Ia that spirit,
with that purpose, labored on for some
years, scorned by many, misunderstood
by Others, called a renegade, and honest
people believing that l had absolutely
turEed my back on all the principles, all
the ideas Of my better life. think they
were mistaken, my friends l think new
circumstances, new conditions, new du-
ties presented themselves, for in the new
republic, that renovated republic. which
has been founded on the overthrow Of the
confederacy, that these are different obi-
cations, different duties from those which
were current thirty years ago. / tried to
forget, and TO cause Others to forget the
passages in which there was only bitter
ness, and nothing of profit to either Sec
tion, or TO any class of people. tried to
make my countrymcn remember only
what shall be, what must be, in that bet
ter future, which am certain is opening
upon this people-that future Of concord
and peace, of mutual reliance and sympa-
thy which was not known in the old
time. Why, many times was told, it-
teen and twenty years ago, you
can come down to the south and
nobody. will hurt you. i said
Why should anybody hurt me? There
was never moment wished Ill to the
south, and never sought to do them harm.
Why should you tell me ! will be pro-
tested in the south. / have never been
there because my duties did not call me
there, but l feel certain always that no
gentleman of the south would lay harsh
hand upon me, and I don't believe they
will let blackguards do it. They were
talking as If it were charity to let me pass
through. That has passed away, fellow
citizens. You may have been one Of the
most effective confederate soldiers in the
late struggle, and you may travel all over
the country, and i think no one except a
very low, vulgar person will offer you any
insult. I Travelled to the furthest part of
the south, Texas. last year, and l was
everywhere well received. ! think every
northern man who went south minding
his own business and giving nobody cause
for offense, was treated, not, so well per-
haps, as l was, but his person and prop
erty were just rs sacredly respected as
mine were. Now, then, we have opened
up n new country. There was q time
when that could not be so. There was a
time when 1t was not so that every north
ern man, whatever his principles, could
travel through the south. Now they can
do 80, and ! am glad o: it. II does not
seem we have come to time when we
may say let all that has made alienation
between US perish. Let US think no more
Of our triumphs in the late struggle. Let
US rejoice together that these triumphs
have tended to produce good to the whole
American people. There is liberty at the
south and at the north prejudice and pas
sion, We must try to make the whole peo-
pie feel that the American name is dear TO u
all, that ever in our struggles we Were
friends. We did not tear and rend each
other we did not destroy prisoners. !
do not mean to say that some prisoners
were not unjustly treated, but really be-
lieve the people on both sides meant to
tre,t them with humanity so far as they
could do so, and whore cruelties took
place they were not understood to be i'm.
posed BY the great body Of the people
north or south. Now, them let US take a
new departure. Let us all resolve that
we shall be nearer to each other next year
than this. Applause.] lam demanding
universal amnesty. Why? People say
there are not many, only three or four
hundred, dsfranchised. Let there be fra
ternity in the South and North. Why
shOulu we call together muitltudes OF
soldiers exulting over victories won in
the last struggle, and then to rake up all
the evil II has done in that struggle as
though they were characteristic of the
people. There were actually men ia the
North who believed when Lincoln WAS
assassinated that the Southern people, ms
people, rejoiced in that assassination, as
/ am sure 1t was not so. But here is black,
bloody deed done, and the whole people
suffered for it. 1t was for long time
impossible to make large portion of that
class believe that that assassination was
not the work of the whole confederate
people. There was injustice done them
through prejudices and through passion.
We must try to dispel that prejudice and
that passion.
At this moment tho train came along
and Mr.. Greeley concluded rs follows
But see that the time has come for me
to desist, and therefore close, trusting tha,
all of you will be better Americans, bet.
ter lovers of our country and our country
Q men now and evermore.
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