The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-04

convened, or held a session two or three |
months after the outrage of which l tell |
you by Clayton and his board, and the
grand jury Of that court examined in these
facts and indicted Powell Clayton and his
confederates for this crime and we had a
district attorney prepared to put him
right straight through. Mr.. q. Acker-
man, appointed by Gen. Grant--as good
Republican as ever lived, was going to put
Mr.. Clayton through, and the state prison
was before him. But now, Mr.. Clayton
and his satellites walked on to Washing.
ton, and induced Gen. Grant to remove
that righteous and faithful attorney, put
one of Claytons tools in his place, and that
was the end of the whole thing--all gone
to rack and ruin. Now Mr.. Clayton goes
swimming into the United States senate,
instead of into the state prison.
| You are asked what the government
has to do about IL? will tell you. They
all back themselves right on the power at
Washington. They all cry out hurrah
for Grant! Give him two terms give
him two terms, if you like; these other
fellows are dsloyal they are one-term
men; put them out. They say turn them
out and put in these men who will stand
by Clayton and his board, and it is done.
l want you to see that this thing goes all
back on you people of the United States.
You are the sustainers of these iniquities.
If we had government in Washington
which frowned upon these evils, that gov
eminent would stop all this business in a
short time. [Applause.l The men who
are robbing South Carolina to-day would
be on dead race out of that state two
days after they had heard that another
government was about to be installed at
Washington. just as Bullock of Georgia
resigned and ran away, so these men
would all get out If they did not feel that
the mighty arm of the federal government
was outstretched for their defense. 1t is
against this iniquity that we fight The
villains who corrupt elections in Arkansas
are all shouting for Grant-shouting and
working for him, and they are gaming
immunity for their crimes.
| Fellow-citizens ] do not know what
will be the decision of the people in the
contest now before US. Everybody else is
very confident that what they wish will
! be the result. l only know that If the
people could look into those wicked gov
| ernments at the South, and see them as
they are, they would not longer be sus.
tanned by the public sentiment Of the
North. 1 know that, and l believe that
| light is creeping in. 1wo-thirds of your
journals have never told the people what
the truth is about these carpet-bag villains.
They suppress the facts, they conceal the
facts, and as a consequence the people do
not understand them. To-day they say,
What reconciliation do you want? They
say: We are reconciled what more do
you want? Now L am not reconciled to
have such robbers govern the state l
want to be reconcied. / want govern
ments that honest men can afford to be
reconcled to. plead for reconciliation.
| The Southern people have greatly sinned,
in my Judgment, and have greatly
suffered. / had friend who went to
South Carolina and spent some time there
| and then came back. De is very Jealous
Republican, and he said that he had seen
many things he did not like. He said !
saw a man there that when the secession
began, was living in Paris on an allowance
from his father of $4,000 year. He is
now clerk to a negro assessor in Charles
ton at two dollars a day, and mighty glad
to get it. Now such things do take place,
and do think that the people have suf-
fered great deal. think it is time that
a generous hand was outstretched TO aid
them. ! think it lie time the Northern
people should say: Countrymen 1T the
South, We have insisted that all the blacks
shall be enfranchised, and they have
been enfranchised Now, then,
we insist you shall all be enfranchsed
likewise. There are twenty thousand dis
ftanchised this day ia Arkansas and the
only hope of carrying that state for Grant
is to keep them disfranchised. That is
one Of their purposes-to keep them dis
franchised-and all over the state there
are such iniquities as this, l think, hiding
from the light. Now then, we want the
Northern people to say to the South, to
those who have been our enemies Let us
forget the past, let US come together on
one common platform; We wipe out all
disfranchisements, all prescriptions; stand
with us on common platform of nation
atty, equal rights, equal law for all peo-
pie, and let US all again take hold and push
forward this mighty republic on its course
Of greatness and prosperity. This is
what think the people ought to
see in this election, and make
the Southern people feel that, though
they have been very wrong that we have
forgotten all wrong and are now pre-
pared to take hold with them and to carry
forward the destinies, to promote the ad-
vance and greatness and glory of this
country as one united, maternal people.
To that end / labored, that end l seek,
and do believe that this movement-the
| Cincinnati movement of which am an
expositer and symbol before you-is cal
| culated to produce that end, TO secure
that end. am individually nothing, but
the movement was right and not mo-
the people to take care and make it sue
| passfnl TThraa Chanrc