The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-03
Horace Grseley's Speech at Louisville, Ky.

We have had occasion heretofore to commend
the good taste, propriety and common sense o.
Horace Greeley in; making speeches during tht
pending campaign. 1t has been unusual, .wf
believe, for candidates for the Presidency te
take the stump, but there; can be no objection
to the custom where the candidate !demeans
himself so well lyas Mr. Greeley. He ison
Western tour at the present writing, and has
been making speeches all along the route. We
have selected the following from amongst his
efforts while swinging around the circle" and
would especially ask its perusal by such colored
men as may receive this number of our paper
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soil of Kentucky, ask you who are my asso-
GATES IA the great Liberal movement OF the
day to bear testimony with me to certain truths
First is it not true that We desire Govern
nent of Just and equal laws, which shall ex-
tend equal favor and equal protection to every
American citizen? Applause and cries OF
nThat,s so.) Is it not true that While we dc.
muand a repeal Of all disfranchisements, of all
prescriptions of all Americans because of the
part they bore in our late struggle, that we de.
sire that no man shall be disfranchlsed that
no man shall be prescribed; but that every every
man shall stand on, an equal platform Wild
ourselves? Is not that the fact? lCrles OF
eyes, that's soy Is it not true that we have 1
no expectations, no purpose, no Understanding
that the rebel debt shall be paid, or the rebel
soldiers pensioned, or the slaves emancipated
by the result OF the war. paid for? Is it not
true that we have no purpose, or expectation,
Misunderstanding that any of these things shall
be done. Great applause and cries OF You
are rightly Now, fellow citizens, wish to
call your attention to the aspect of this strug-
gle which has not yet been presented. There
Is no class of our citizens, no part OF the
American people, who have so real and great
an interest in the success of our GoYernment
as the colosed people of this country. Though
thew know that we all admit their rights are
perfectly secured by the Constitution, and that
no one can go back of that it is still their real
interest that their rights shall not be only ac-
corded, but that they should be fnlly accorded,
that theres shall be NO opposition, no objection TO
their enjoying just the same political and civil
rights that we do. 1t is their interests more
than yours or mine, that all contention con-
cerning black men and white men shall abso-
lutely cease; that every individual shall be
Judged and estimated according to his worth,
with no respect whatever to color or condition.
IF our Government succeeds, there is no party,
there is no considerable faction, there is really
nobody left in the field opposing or objecting TO
their standing on q common platform OF Amer!-
can nationality. (Great applause.) 1say, then 1t
is their clear interest that our Government
shall be welcomed. and ratified and approved
by the entire American people, and yet it is q
very disceuraging fact presented to us that
there is no other class SO generally and 30 Bit
terly opposing us as they are. There is no
other class as class who insist SO thoroughly
or misapprehendingly in misrepresenting us.
I say not this to excite prejudice against them.
They are ignorant, and their Ignorance is not
their own fault, though it is their and our mis-
fortune. They are misled and We are caluml-
mated in their ears. Why, l have been repeat
edly asked to contradict assertions that nave
been negro-hater Even on my way TO this
place one quadroon girl, on hearing me speak,
said al would like to stick knife into his
heart. He sold my mother into Richmond,
Va.p fLaughter.) can imagine no reason
vhy lies like that should be told. can
imagine no reason why good men and women
should not everywhere discountenance and re-
flute them. 1t is, say, a misfortune of the
colored people, misfortune of ourpeople, that
they as class are steeled against US. They
will not hear us. They do not believe US. They
are told that this movement is contrivance to
get them enslayed again, virtually if not abso-
lutely, and that all the pretensions of the Gin
cinnati platform and Baltimore Endorsement in
favor Of equal rights are frauds, are lies. If
this party succeeds, says Mr. Wendell Phillips,
you must conceal your property and take care
of your arms.
Now, fellow-citizeus, Estate these facts here,
not that would have you think any worse OF
these misguided people: state them because
want you Kentuckians to realize that lgno-
rance is public peril that you cannot well
afford to have part of your people growing
up In that dense unacquaintance with public
men and public affairs that they. can be de-
ceived and misled as this people are. You
must take care that they shall be educated, so
that they shall be too wise, too we'll informed,
to be thus nnisinformed and misguided. Eel
low-citisens, If our movement should prevail,
as trust it shall prevail, We will sweep away
all this refuse of lies in three months, we will
say to the.colored man, '"We profsr you moth
ing except the protection of the laws the
same for you as for US you have your living TO
earn as well as well as we; you will have 70
use all your abilities, all your energies all your
faculties, and make the most of them you can
The laws do not favor you, but they will
thoroughly protect you, and in three months,
if we succeed, the colored people will be 80
disabused that the same men can never deceive
them again, never again" But suppose we
fail, and we may fail? "a voice, eve are not
going to fail.") If the colored men did not
Believe that the power was against us, that the
money was against us if they did not realize
Shat the Treasury, the army, the 100,0 900 office
holders, were I'LL banded against us in force
which they believe We cannot overcome, they
certainly would not be so universally hostile to
us. Why, they think we cannot succeed and
they want to be upon the winning side; that is
part of it, but they are also deluded in regard
to our purposes. We say we are not your enc
mics. We will not be your oppressors. we
will not, though you have done US injustice.
We will try as well as we can TO have your
mistakes you have made cannot be made over
again That is where we stand. Now, fellow.
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