Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-09-04
GREELEY MAKES A SPEECH.

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large delegations OF The people. His
travels have been continued ovation.
At Portland, Maine, last week, he
made a speech which will ring from
one end Of tho Union to the other
1t is his first political speech of the
campaign, and is full of sound sense !;
+ Mr.. oaEELEY's SPEECH.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 1t is Ger.
tainly true that throughout the course
Of my life, as far as ! have been con,
nccted with public affairs, | have
struggled with such capacity as God
has given me for, first, impartial and
univdrsAl liberty; second, for the
uni iAsw nd greatness of our common
lconhny; third, and BY no means least,
when the former end was attained for
early and hearty reconciliation aud
peace among our countrymen. For
these great ends ] have struggled, and
| hope the Issue of the third is not
doubtful. | thoroughly comprehend
that no personal consideration has
drawn together this vast assembly
Other, higher, and grander considera-
tions have collected you around me
to day. [Cheers.]
Mr.. Chairman, it is part Of the
unwritten law of our country that q
candidate for President may not make
speeches in vindication and commen.
dation of the principles whereupon he
is supported, nor the measures which
his election is intended to promote,
though a candidate for vice. president
is under no such inhibition. / not
merely aeqpicsce in the restriction, |
recognize and affirm its propriety.-
The temptation to misrcport and mis-
represent q candidate for the higher
post is SO great, the means of circula-
ting such pcrversions among people
who will never see word Of their
refutaiion are so vast, that candi-
date has no moral right to subject his
friends to the pcrils he must brave, il
not invite, by taking a part in the
canvass [Chcers.l Yet there is o
truth to be uttered in hehalfof those
who have placed me before the Amer.
lean people in my present attitude
which does them such honor that
claim the privilege of stating it here
aud now.
This is that truth: No person has
ever yet made the fact that he pur
posed to support, or actually did sup
port my nomination, whether at Gin
cnnati, at Baltimore, or in the action
/ which resulted in sending delegates tC
other conventions, the basis OF claim
to office at my hands. No one whC
favored my nomination before either
convention, or at either convention
has sought Office at my hands, either
for himself or any one else; nor hal
any one suggested to me that nigh
strengthen myself as candidate by
promising to appoint any one to any
7 important Office whatever Lout
cheers In very few instances
less than dozen, am sure-certaiI
! of the smaller fry OF politicians have
since my double nomination, hinted t,
I me by letter that | might increase my
t chance of election by promising post
Office or some other place to my vol
Q unteer correspondents respectively
Q | have not usually responded to thes'
I ovortures, but i now give genera
+. notice that, should be elected, vii
! consider the claims of these untimcly
:. aspirants after those Of the moro mod
@ est and retcent shall have been fully
c satisfied Loud cheers.
$ In two or three instances | hav
}. been asked to say whether would o
i would not, if elected, confne my ap
n pointments TO republicans. | answe
G these by pointing to that plank Of tn
}. Cincinnati platform wherein all VIII
u concur in tho principles therein Sc
" forth are cordially invited TO partici
pate in their establishment and vindi
cation. never yet heard of a ma
who invited his neighbors to help hin
!, ! raise house and proceeded to kicl
u them out of it as soon as the roof wa
= fairyover his head. For my ow
= part recognize every honest ma
u who approves and adheres to the Cir
! cinnati platform as my political brotl
|, er, and as such fully entitled to m
y confidence and friendly regard
a Cheers
!, One other point demands wore
y !; Thos, adverse to me ask what pleI
. % ges have given to those lately ho'
: tile t3 the Union to secure their fave
~ and support. answer: "No man G
woman in all tho south ever asked
y =, me, whether directly or throug
y !, another, any other pledge than is gi'
y en- mall my acts and words from th
y y houro of Lees surrender down 10 th
" moment. No southern man has eve
y limited to me an expectation, hope {
y y wish that the rebel debt, whether col
~ ~ edcratc or state, should be assume
- ~ or paid by the union, and no souther
y man who could be elected to lcgisl
u y ture or made colonel of milit
n regiment ever suggested the pension
," ing OF rebel soldiers or any of then
even as a remote possibility" A
" y, who nominated me are perfectly awai
81 81 that | had upheld and justified fedor
=. legislation TO suppress the ku.klu
~ conspiracy and outrages, though | ha
~ long ago insisted as strenuously as
n' now do that complete amnesty and
genuine oblivion OF the bloody, hat
~ iul past would do more for the sn
20 10 preston and utter extinction of sue
w outrages than all the force bills NJ
y suspension of habeas corpus ever d
ee ss visod by man. Wrong and crime mu
w be suppressed and punished, but 4
wiser and nobler is the legislation, u
u u policy by which they are prcvente
=, Loud cheering
ri From those who support mo in q
- south have heard but one demal
Lc Justice; ono dcsire-rcoonclia,io
nm They wish to be heartily reunited al
on at peace with tho north, on any teri
which do not involve surrender
al their manhood. They ask that tn
~ shall DO regarded aud treated by I
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