Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-25

FeoocsoAOA OA b2AC Otl4Cl, lUI Ouc WOu4u
submit; l said, to the disunionists, You
claim to be the South. |
deny that the great mass of
the people living in the Southern States
desire to break up this great glorious
Union. Now TASK you to let us come
before the people, discuss the question, tell
them that the Union is as it is, aid what it
does for them as well as for us, and let
them decide by their votes, when there has
been no blood shed, whether they would
stay with us or 60 away, and l viii respect
their decision. I said then what believed
to be true, and say now after looking it
all over, that between the peril Of
losing the Union in q bloody
civil war, and losing the Union by the vote
of the Southern people, the former peril
was very much the greater. That l do be-
lieve; but never proposed, never imagined,
that now after all the question was settled
and the fight was over, we would go back
and submit the question whether 1t was to
be Southern Confederacy or not. That
has all passed away. There is no more a
disunion party. A few individuals are
stolid and obstinate and perverse. / would
desire in no wise to aggravate theirl bitter
feeling. l will trust to time
10 soothe them. But do not believe, do
not imagine, that one State or twenty
States have any legal, moral or constitu-
tional right to dissolve this union. [Great
applause Men who are now fighting me
did say they had such Alright; they said so
then, and on the side of slavery they made
greater advances toward the South than
ever made on the side Of liberty. But do
insist that all questions about disunion are
now as dead as the question of American
dependence on the British Crown. Cheers
They have all gone away and he who now
undertakes to tell you that people are try
ing to dissolve the union, or that want to
let them go, simply dares not meet the real
issues before the country. CCries of that's
so, and cheers.l BE is trying by falsehood
and representation to prejudice and
mislead you. With regard to the great
questions of the day, these questions con-
corning reconciliation, we are one people
and shall ever more remain one people.
Shall we be harmonious people? Shall
ours be union cemented only by bayo-
nets, or shall it be union of hearts and
hopes and hands? / am for the latter
union. (Applause.) l am for not to exult
over victories won In the last war. / am
here not TO meet one particle of prejudice
or triumph. i do not propose to do any,
thing that shall make the Southern people
feel bitterly that the union between us is
one of exultation on our part and humilia-
ton on theirs. l think he is not patriot
who would try to intensity the bitterness
and soreness that those who fought against
us must feel in view of their great defeat.
Theirs Is a lost cause, but they are not lost
people, for they belong to us. They are our
brethren. They have come back to us under
comp1lsion, if you say so, but l wish to
change that compulson into saffection, for
that is statesmanship. [Great applause
That work am seeking as far as l can do
so. Fellow-citizens of Ohio, since the day
left home l have made great many little
speeches like this, but no man has heard
from me one word implying disrespect or
DISBURSEMENT for that eminent public citi-
zen and public servant the President of the
United States. No word from me has thrown
disparagement ION his public ssrviees, or his
honor, or his high Office. | am among you
citizen speaking to citizens Of the United
States on things that concern your well
being and mine, because they concern the
welfare and greatness of our common coun-
try. Ibeseech you so to act in the struggle
now upon us, so to vote, that your acts and
your votes will tend to bind up the wounds
| of our country. l beseech you so to
| act and speak and live that your
victory shall be fearless victory,
that no one shall feel humbled because of
| your triumph, but that no man shall be
| tranlpled under your on-rushing feet. So,
| friends, in the hope and trust that Ohio,
Hike Indiana aud Pennsylvania, wal pro
nounce on the Sth of October for genu-
inc peace, bid you farewell.
| At Kenton
Mr.. Greeley spoke at some length of the
one term principle.
At Tiffin
he said: The gentlemen who most es-
pecially opposed the Cincinnati movement
at first resolved that my nomination was
very funny. So they commenced to laugh
They laughed as loud and heartily as they
could, as though they had never heard any
thing more droll in their lives than that 6
man who was neither lawyer or soldier
or General, should be nominated for thai
high position. Well, months have passed
by and now we find almos
the whole Cabinet on the STUMP
electioneering. Every one but one, think
is now speaking. You have never heard o
that before. You never knew atime wheI
the great officers of the Cover nment unan
imously forsook their posts and for month!
went from State to State TO beat a private
citizen as candidate for the Presidency
Then you see the mighty power
of Office, more than has been ex
pended by all the parties that have
divided the country from Washington;
time to this year, is now heaped upon on
side to carry the candidates of the admins
ton in for another four years. l do not sa,
they will not succeed, but do say that thi
tremendous combination of power and O
wealth, of cash money in hand, indicate
alarm and apprehension, indicates per
fection of consciousness that tn
matter is not funny a bit, not bit
[Laughter.l l am only humble man an
pretend to have no great claims, but th
sentiment l represent is this: That W
shall cease to be enemies and live unde
one flag; that we shall no more rake up tht
hardest stories we can tell of each other
and try to forget our quarrels and remem
ber that we are brethren.
At Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, o., Sept. 14.-Horac
Greeley and party arrived here this eVenin:
at 9:20 from Sandusky. They we're receiy
ed at the depot by the Greedy clubs of tn
city and escorted to the Monumental Park
where Mr.. Greeley and Gov. Walker, 0
Virginia, addressed large and enthusiast
meeting. Mr.. Greeley spoke as follows:
Fellow Citizens: Idesire at this time an
from this place to address a few earnes
words to the advance guard Of libert,
| and old time Abolitionism of the Wester
reserve. desire to ask them in all SINGER
ity, Brethren of other days, do you rejoic
or do you regret that the Democratic part
has abandoned all hostility to equal right
for men of every color? Do you rejoice a
/ that [cries Of Yes we dol or do you regie
, it? For my part, fellow citizens, do mos
/ heartily rejoice in it. find in that fact a
earnest of better day for on
! country. l rejoice in it a
the drying up of the fountain {
: all bitterness. rejoice in it as opening
new era of peace and harmony for the lon
, distracted people of this country. Oh, bu
/ they say to me, "You are candidate
you rejoice in it because it seems to aid @
, to promote your prospects Of an election.
r Well, fellow-citizens, L try myself; trie
most earnestly four years ago, to have tn
/ Democratic party take the step it has MOI
! taken. then desired that it should nom
nate Chief Justice Chase as its candi