The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-10-10


been conceded, and still they tell MS We
want them to repent. Have they not
brought forth works meet forrepentance,
in thus coming together in solemn
Convention, the representatives. OF the
Southern people, and giving their As-
sent to the platform of the Cincinnati
Convention, which was them intense,
most complete Republican platform that
had ever been presented by any Nation
nj Convention whatever. All this being
done, we are told by these gentlemen
who met here, "All this is mockery.
This is fraud. You don't mean anything
by it, and the cry goes on, "Rebels and
| traitors" "Rebels and traitors" de-
nunciation and prescription, the same Ns
ever. -Four years ago i'll the Republl-
can National Convention, it was declar-
ed that this prescription should cease.
Nobody else asks for prescription
but then no one doubts, no other
party requires that any human
being should stand prescribed on
our soil for rebellion that ceased
seven and half years ago.
Four years have passed, and still it is
maintained that there are at this day
thousands Of people in Arkansas alone
prescribed. The most intelligent-tho
most responsible people of that State
are forbidden to exercise the right Of
uilragc-forbiddcn exclusively by
the party that meets here and
shouts for Grant and Wilson.
Those of us who stood for it are equally
denounced if we do not happonto agree
with them in our present politics. Here
stands ono who is charged by them with
being scccssionist. Could that be
true, fcllow-ctzcns? Look facts in the
face. When Lincoln had been elected,
and this conspiracy for secession began
to advocate itself, we Republicans in
order to further aud further separate
and divide the hearts of the American
people from each other, they hold cS-
scntial to their triumph that Hatred
should continue; that dlstruSt, suspl-
cion, and alienation should continue.
Do what you will, do what you may,
thcy are determined not to be satisfied.
Now, fcllow-citi2cns, it is not enough
that those who fought against the Union
wcro told by our own men, and told still
moro by those out of the circle, "Iou
must back out ofyour Rcpubllcanlsm,yo you
must surrender your opposition to the
extension of slavery, or consent to a
great civil war" This, they said, was
only the alternative. Bloodshcd and de-
vastation over the whole country, or
you shall surrender principles on which
yOu have Just carried the election. !
was one of those who said, "No, there
is no such altcrnativcn denied that
the Southern people, the great miH0rliY
of them, were against the Union. l de
mand that there shall be open, free dis
Gu 5sion before the Southern people. If,
after an honest, unterriiied, uncon-
strained vote, if they prove and the
people Of the South say they want dis
union, | will consent tOit. | knowthey
will not. | know thai ihc Southern
people, that the majority would have
voted as they actually did that winter,
not for secession, but for cllnglnS to
the Union, and now, to-day, if the ma
tiou were to be imperilled and there
were Just two modes of saving it, to
trust to the chances Of civil war. or the
chance of II free, fair vote Of the South
crn people, would very greatly prefer
to take the latter chance, rather than
the former. Fellow citizens, they do
greatly misunderstood and malign tins
American people when they assumed that
in cold blood, before there had been any
clash of arms the people in the South
any more than the people III the North,
desired disunion. In its origin, the great
masses Of those who consented to the Sc
ccsgon movement meant nothing by 1t but
to back down the North, and make us con
sent to the extension Of slavery That
was their purpose, and that purpose | dId
my best to defeat Well, the war Is ended.
! think it ought to he ended, We had
great and terrible a blood y and destructive
civil war. Our success was perfect. nc
defeat Of the adversary was more complct"
than any defeat recorded in history. They
have suffered much. They have conceded
all. Caunot we afford to be emagnanmouS
at least They see, fellow citizens, they see
that the Southern people may vote. Some
Of them may but the instant they vote
the cry is raised, " See how these fellows
vote. They cry you must vote the other
way" Is that an election, or is It only the
| fashion Of war in another aspect?
FcIlow-citi1cns, YOU belong to one OF the
rrcat hives Of American industry.
plead here for peace aud reconciliation;
for the interests, especially, of this busy,
prosperous, energetic people. How J nav"
sympathizcd with Pittsburgh have
rcioiccd in her prosperity; how l have
wondered and admired her magnificent
growth, you surely do know. No place on
the continent has been dcarcr to me than
Pittsburgh. There has been no spot IN
whose prosperity ! hsye more heartily re-
ioccd, and this is because | believe her
prosperity was firmly linked and bound to,
gcthcr with the prosperity and growth OF
our whole country. Now, | appeal to her
business men, appeal to her merchants,
| appcal to her manufacturers to stop
this war. 1t has gone on long enough
you cannot afford to teach part OF your
country to hate you, to feel that your sue.
cess, your greatness, is identical WIN Ineir
humiliation. People of Pittsburgh a'E
YOU to take generous part IN thls "GrN "
reconciIng your country men 10 eaGI o'II
er. | ask you to take the hand neli ou'
IN Won bv our Southern brethren III thCir
,d1ption of the Cincinnati plattorm-by
those who were our enemies. ask YOU to
rrasp that hand aud say, Brethren,
We fought; we differed the war Is
ended: let us again he fellow countrymen,
and forget that we have been enemies.
Friends and tcllow-citi1ens, | bid you good
night.
LITTLE MARY AND HER MoTHER.-