Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-21
Horace Greeley's Travels.
His Speech at PiItsburg-ReceptIOn Mt
Cincinnati, and Speech at the EXPOSE
ton.


PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 19-Horace Greeley
and party reached this city at seven o'clock this
evening, and leaves for Cincinnati at 80 A. M,
Mr.. Greeley was met at the depot by Il torch
light procession, and escorted to the ST. Charles
hotel, where he delivered the following address :
FeliOlC Citizens, The wise king saws there is
time for war and time for peace. The city
of Pittsburg has recently witnessed a rehearsal
of the pomp and pageantry, the blazoury and
circumstance of civil war. A very large num-
Der of men were collected here at a vast expense
with the single purpose of reminding the bitter.
ness, the hatred, the anmosities the antipathies,
the fears and calculations Of civil war Tor the
advantage of political party. | take you to
witness that the greater portion Of the Journals
OF Pttsburg, as well as the orators on the occa-
sion, have been trying their best to make us, the
people, to hate each other for the sake of parti-
san advantage. A stranger would imagine,
who was reading the journals of Plttsburg for
the last lew days, that we were Still at war, and
that our purpose was to revive and exasperate
the hatred and ammosity of civil war i'll order
to intensity and inV9Orate their side of the
cOnhlct. The talk about rebels and traitors
fellow citizens, are we never to be dOue with
this? We demanded of our adversaries in
the great civil war, that they surrender
their arms and go to their homes. They sur
rendered them. We demanded that they en-.
franchise the blacks, and the blacks are enfran-
chised. No one but white men stand dsfran-
chiSed on the soil Of our country. We demanded
that they stpulate that the emancpated slaves
shall not be paid for, and that the rebel debt
shall never be paid by the government or states.
They assented to that. So far as | can see, every
single demand made on the part of the loyal
people has been fully complied with on the part
of those lately in rebellion. Everything has
been done that we asked; everything has been
conceded, and sill they tell us, "Why, we want
tIiprta
works meet for repentence7 and thus coming TO-
gether in solemn convention the representatives
Of the southern people have given their assent
to the platform OF the Cincinnati convention,
which was the most intense, the most complete
republican platform that ever has been pre-
scented by any national convention whatever.
All this being done, we are told by these gentle
men who met here, CAN this is mOckery; all this
is fraud You do not mean ANYTHING by it,"
and the cry goes on, "Rebels and tTaitorS" de-
nunciation and prescription, the same as
ever. Four years ago in the republican
national convention 1t was declared that the
prescription would speedily cease. Four years
have passed and still it is maintained that there
are this day thousands Of people in Arkansas
alone, probably the most intelligent and respon-
sible people of that state, forbidden to exercise
the right of STANDARDIZATION exclusively by
the party that meets here and shouts for Grant
and Wilson. Nobody else asked for prescription
Jul lncu. NJ utucf parry requires tlaE' any
human being should stand prescribed on our
soil for a rebellion that ceased seven and half
years ago; no party, no men of any party but
this, the very party that held a great military
parade this week, in order to further and farther
separate ana Divide the heart OF the American
people from each other. They hold essential to
their triumph that hatred, distruSt, suspicion
and alienation should continue. Dc what Won
will and do what you may they areildetermined
not to be satisfied Now, fellow citizens, is il
not enough tnar those who fought against the
union should be prOscribed2 Those of us who
stood for 1t are continually denounced if we do
not happen to agree with them in our present
politics. Here stands one who is charged by
them OF being secessiOnst Could that be
true, fellow citizens} Look facts in the
face. When Lincoln had been elected and
this conspiracy for secession began TO advocate
itself, we republicans were told by our
own men and told still more by those out
of the circle You mast surrender your opposi-
ton to the extension OF slavery or consent to
a great civil war. This they said, was the only
bloodshed and devastation over the
whole country, or you shall surrender the prin-
ciples on which you have Just carried the cleo
ton | was one Of those who said, no, there is
no such alternative. ! denied that the southern
people, the great majority of them, were against
the Union. | demanded that there should be
open, free discussion before the southern peo-
Mo and an honest unterrihad unconstraiued
&c
vote, and if they approve, if the people Of the
south say they want disunion, will consent TO
if; know they will not. know the southern
people, the great majority of them, would have
voted as they actually did that winter, not for
secession, but for clinging to the Union, and
now to-day, If the nation were TO be imperiled
and there were Just two modes Of saving ito
trust to the chances Of civil war or to the
chances Of a free, fair vote Of the southern
people, | would very greatly prefer
to take the latter chance rather than the
former for, fellow citizens, they do greatly
misunderstood and malgn the American people
when they assume that in cold blood, before
there had been any clash Of arms, the people in
the south, any more than people in the north,
desired disuniOn. In its inception, in its origin
tie great masses of those who consented to this
secession movement meant nothing by it but to
back down the north, and make us consent to
to the extension Of slavery. That was their
purpose, and that purpose | did my best to resist
and defeat. Well, the war is ended, and think
1t ought to be. We had great, terrible, a
destructive and bloody war. Our success was
perfect. The defeat of the adversary was more
complete than any defeat recorded in history,
They have suffered much and they have con-
coded all, Cannot we afford TO he magnani,
mous3 AT least, they say 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, "Iou must vote
the other way" Is that an election? II is only
the fashion Of war in another aspect.
yellow citizens: You belong to one Of the
great hives of American industry. plead for
peace and reconciliation for the interests especi-
ally of this busy, prosperous, energetic people.
How have sympathZed with pittsburg, how
have rcjoiced in her prosperity; how | have
wondered at and admired her magnificent
growth, you surely do know. No place on this
continent has been dearer to me than Pittsburg.
There has been o spot in whose prosperity !
have more heartily reioiced, and this because I
believed her prosperity was firmly linked and
bound together with the prosperity aud growth
Of ppr whole COUNTRY, Now appeal to her
business men appeal TO her merchants; APP
peal 10 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 s cess, your greatness, is identi-
cal with their humiliation. People of pttsburg,
] ask you to take generous part in this work
OF recouclllng your countrymen to each other.
| ask you to take the hand held out to you by