The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-08
THE CAMPAIGN.

hesty-The Mngnnntmity oil the Govern
ment-The Bugbenr About Nepotism and
Gin-Thking.
Greeley has lately been traversing the
country, on Pullman cars, at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, aud shouting out from
the end of the platform, "The great need Of
this country is amnestyl What we need is
amnesty" Laug hterl. He has shouted
himself hoarser than am in impressing that
ldea-"we need amnesty" upon the people.
Now, gentlemen, my friend Gen. Logan
lcries of Logan! Logan!l who | am glad to
see here lcries OF "Three cheers for Gen.
Logan" which were givenl, and myself
have been in tAe amnesty business in Con-
gress, and we know something bout il. Gen.
tlemen, you may search the records of hi
tory, ancient, medieval or modern, and do
not believe you will fnd'any instance of
such generosity as IN snation has manifested
towards its rebels. [Cheers. Why, gentle
men, just think of it-and no State has
great cause TO think of il than Illinois
just think OF the four long, weary years of
war, and the countess treasures that were
swept out of existence forever, and the still
more precious lives that fill $4,000 bloody
but honored graves. Against you there
were more than a million of men in arms,
and behind them more than three millions
Of men as aiders and abetters in the treason.
That war closed, and there has not been one
single life exacted as a forfeit. There khas
not been one single dollar of property be-
longing to rebel taken from him. And
when have stated that have not told the
half, because this day, gentlemen, intelli-
gent as this audience is, l doubt, unless your
attention has been especially called to it, if
any one here could tell how many, or rather
how few, there are in the whole United States
that have not been restored to as full rights
under the laws as you yourselves enjoy.
This very hour there are not to exceed, in
the length and breadth Of this whole coun-
try, more than 2s5 men under political dsa-
bilites; and that disability is merely depriv-
ing them of holding Office, but does not de-
prive them of voting. Such leniency, say
again, can nowhere be found. For but yes
terday at the close of the Franco Prussian
war, IN a single city, revolt was organized
against the temporary government OF Theirs,
and Ia that revolt, n single city, against
temporary government, there have been 3d.
600 men sent 10 transportation, more than
hundred sent TO the guillotine, and double
that number still IN prison awaiting their
trial. And we, with this Incompatible re-
bellion, so large that this does not furnish
anti to million, have not eXacted single
dollar forfeit nor single life. Cheers
And yet Mr.. Greeley makes an issue on these
2-j men. | am ready TO meet him on that
issue. CHEERS. The Republican party has
stripped the disabilities from every one OF
these, and have gone so far that at this hour,
If the House of Representatives was open,
yoa would find the seats of twenty-five
members filled by men who were officers IN
the rebellion, commanding companies, regl-
,nents, or rgades.
Voce-They've no right there.
Speaker Blaine-We won't discuss that
here. We are discussing the case OF these
2S5 men. These go who violated their par
ticular oath as Senators and Representatives;
they ere the men who violated their oaths as
officers in our army, who deserted their 20
sitions on the distant frontier, and, under
circumstances of peculiar atrocity, joined
the rebellion; they are the men who de-
sert our ships on foreign shores; they are
the men who left cabinet positions, VINO re-
signed from the Federal judiciary and soiled
their ermine; and, finally, they are the men
who, trusted in diplomatic stations, brought
their Government into shame by joining the
rebellion. Cheers, And these men con-
stitute the class that makes up the 2Sj. But
as Mr.. Greeley ia SO urgent, let us not GIs-
cuss these men as a class, but take one or
two individuals. Let us take one at least,
Nh Jacob Thompson, who was Secretary of
the Interior under Buchanan, the man with
whom Mr.. Greeley hObnobbed at Niagara IN
1854, when Generals Grant, Sherman, Logan
aud others were al the front. Mr.. Greeley
thought he would obtain peace, and was
ready to pay $500 100000 for the slaves; but
wEile Mr.. Greeley was hurryng to and iro
or this errand of peace, Jake Thompson had
no idea whatever OF such negotiations. lie
was iooNng Mr.. Greeley. HIS object ana MS
PURPOSE was far different from that supposed.
We know now, by letter in his own hand
writing, over his own signature, just what
Eewas there for. He was there for az OBJ
iect OF inconceivable wckcdness; an 90 eci
tor which ! have no language 10 express
He vas organizing conspiracies to burn the
cities of the North in the night time. He
had q credit of 100000 IN thu banks OF
Toronto and Montreal, with which to organ
lie bands of desperate men, and these men
were TO burn, as ! say, the cities of the North
and to involve 10 a terrible destruction every
considerable town from Ban or to Omaha
Your own city was one especially marked
FOX destruction, and Thompson tells Us JUS
,yvhy ne did not succeed. There was GER
tain Greek FIRE, combustble which had
been highly recommended, which did no
ignite quite as rapidly as it was wanted; did
not burn over such a large circle as 1t should
and didn't work according to the pattern
And then, again, he says, there were so many
Lincoln hirelings that ne could not DO It
These Lincoln nirellngs, ! suppose, were
Government detectives, and honest watch
men who were interfering with this Demo
cratic doctrine OF self government. Chs rs,
And this man, in his inconceivable wicked
ress, organizing rebellion, organizing to Sc
or FIRE cities which would involve n help
less destruction tae old and the young, tn,
innocent babes, women and childron-thi
mar, say, whose wickedness have no Ian
guage to descr! bel don't know how to des
iguate it have often thought and sale
that I, if l could gather together all the vii
famous and vndIctive language that Mr.
Greeley had said about the Democrats
party and put them into one sentence, ant
apply them to Jake Thompson, could il
some faint way describe his character
IsAouts OF Laughter and applause.
And now Mr.. Greeley sol ;mnly tells u
that one Of the great objects which thi
party of reconciliation mas is to bring sucl
scoundrels back where they can be endowe
with the privilege Of holding office, as yo
or or any other American citizen. Ia hi
letter OF acceptance Of the Baltimore nomi
nation, Mr.. Greeley says that he does nc
urge this policy particularly on account G
the few who are DISTINGUISHED, but becaus
some part of the American citizens, so lon
as these men are under disabilities, are dc
prived of the privilege of voting for then
Renewed laughter and applause.
Now, are you out here in Chicago n.
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