The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-10-12
AN OVATION IN THE WEST.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky to the
Next Prosident.-The Patriot who
Knows NO Sectional Lines. Only
Our Common Country.-Noblc
Words from an Honest Man.

Words from an Honest Man.
! From the New York Sun.l
Johnstown, on the western slope OF
the range, was the first town passed
There twelve hundred sturdy iron
workers greeted the next President
with cheers and other manifestations OF
respect, and locomotives and steam
engines sent forth their shrill whistles.
AT JoHNsTOwN.
| Eslio,r- Citizens: 1 stand before you,
one who has differed widely with most
of you, think, with regard to politics
| in the past, one who may differ from
you just as widely when occasion comes
in regard to the politics Of the future,
but who, l trust, does not differ from
| the day, ovcrruling all other duties,
overshadowing all other efforts, is the
duty of national reconciliation, of bring
| ing about a state of harmony and good
feeling between the different sections
OF our country and the different portions
of our people. That seems to be the
work. We have had war, we have
had slavery. Slavery is gone; recon-
struction is perfect. 1 say for myself,
no matter whether shall be successful
or defeated, that matters little, but
wish to have it understood that as from
the day the war ended l have urged
that lenity, mercy, forbearance, forgiv-
eness, and nlagnanimity should be the
controlling spirit of the victorious
American people, so insist from this
time onward that we who believe that
the Union ought to be, that it is found
ed in the nature of things, in the geo.
graphy, the history, the topography of
our country-that we, who believe it
to be founded in the common ancestry
and common lineage and common in
stitutions-thatw we shall labor to rebuild
the waste places Of the war, to reunite
the links which that war rudely sever
ed, and make the American people one
i'll heart, one in purpose, as they are
one in political existence. Such seems
to me the dictate of craftsmanship, of
Christianity, of humanity. 1 beg of
you to give your voices and efforts to
make that work complete. [Cheers.]
In Pittsburg, where Mr.. Greeley was
received with the greatest enthusiasm,
he said:
THE TIME FOR PEACE.
Eello,c- Citizens: Tho wise King says,
'There is a time for war and a time for
peace" Cries of "God bless you ~
The city of Pittsburg has recently wit
pagenntry, the blazonary and circum-
stance of civil war. A very large num-
Der Of men were collected at a vast ex-
pense with the single purpose ofrekind-
ling the bitterness and hatred, the ami
mosities and antipathics, the fears and
civilizations of civil war, for the advan-
tage Ofa political party. l take you to
witness that the greater portion of the
journals of Pittsburg, as well as the
orators on this occasion, have been try
ing to use the people to hate each other
for the sake of partisan advantage. A
stranger would imagine who was read
ing the newspapers for the last few days
that we were still ut war and their pur-
pose was to revive and to cxaspcratc
the hatred and aninosity OF civil war
in order to intensity and invigoratc
their side OF the conflict. They talk
about rebels and traitors. Fe]low-citi-
zens, are wencver to be done with this ?
We demand of our adversarics in the
great civil war that they surrender
their arms and 60 to their homes. They
surrendered them. We demand that
they abandoned slavery. We demand
that they enfranchisc the blacks, and
the blacks arc cnfranchised. None but
white men now stand disfranchiSc on
the soil of our country. IChecrs.l We
demand that they stipulate that the
emancipatcd slaves shall not be paid
for, and that the rebel debt shall never
be paid by the Government, or by the
State, and they assentcd to that. So
far as can see every single demand
made on the part Of the loyal States and
the loyal people has been fully COM
piled with on the part Of those lately in
rebellion. Everything has been done
that we asked; everything has been
concluded, and still they tell us, "Why,
we want them to repent" Have they
not brought forth works meet for rcpen-
tencc7 TChcers. And thus coming
together in solemn convention the re-
presentativcs of that Southern people
have given their assent to tho platform
of the Cincinnati Convention which
was the most intense, the most com
plete Republican platform that had
ever been presented by n National Con-
vention. Loud and prolonged APP
plausc.l
All this being done, we are told by
these gentlemen who met here, "All
this is mockcry, all this is fraud. You
don't mean anything by it, and the