Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-10

over our common nationality. No outcasts,
no aliens, none prescribed; and then, united
support the honor, and unity, and the pros
perity of this great Republic. [Applause.] l
plead for Reconciliation perfect and complete.
stand for amnesty so thorough that no man
| shall be left outside of its circle. I desire to
| see every American recalled to loyalty by be-
| ing asked to stand equally with us on COM
mon platform of American Nationality ZAP
| plause.1 Fellow citizens, we were promised
this four years ago in the Republican national
platform. 1t has not been conceded to us.
We must take it. We have asked for it long
| enough; now let the people say, 1--WE viii
have it" [Applause.l In several States-in
Virginia, in Missouri, in West Virginia-the
people have been asked, ''Will you have every
| man enfranchlsed, no man proscribed?" ?" and
they have answered, "Yes! yes no proscrlp-
4 ton; universal amnesty" The whole people
! will so answer if the question can be fairly
presented. I have put the question. rep
| resent the affirmative of that question, and
| call on the people 30 to vote that no man shall
doubt that the American people demand uni
versal amnesty, and the restoration of every
withheld right to every American born, or
naturalized, on our soil. .1' '.'' 90
| People of Indiana, know your generous
hearts are with me. I believe your votes will
| testify that your hearts are sound ard true
| believe that you cannot be bought; know
| that you cannot be bullied and feel that
when your verdict shall be pronounced it will
thrill the hearts of the friends Of reconcilia-
| ton from one end of the country to the
! other. I know you and trust you. Your
| hearts beat responsive to mine. Make it sure
that there shall be no ambiguity in your YER
| dict, and nothing to mar its completeness.
| Prolonged cheering.1
| mr. aRKELEY's SPEECH AT HAMILTON.
MEN OF ONO L bear you joyful greetings
| from the people of Indiana. lApplause.1 I
| have looked into their clear eyes. I have
| seen the light of heaven reflected from their
honest faces. I tell you that as well as can
| read men, have read them, and feel assured
| that on the night of the 9Th of October next
| they will send forth a majestic voice on the
| side of national reconciliation. [Great ap-
| plause.1 The great Liberal wave now sweep
ing over the country is destined to efface all
I distinction- of race. and all past bitterness,
and to all this you will scarcely find anywhere
a heartier response than that from the people
| of Indiana. Last night not less than fifty
thousand of them met us at Indianapolis. So
far as their State is concerned they speak in
are for you Liberals of Ohio, and of all other
States, in claiming that, strife having ceased,
hatred shall cease. prescription shall cease,
disfranchisement shall cease, and that the
whole american people united under one flag
and animated by one patriotic impulse shall
march forward once more on that career of
| greatness and prosperity planned and pre-
pared for them by our revolutionary fathers
[Applause.1 These fathers, when we were
but thirteen little States scattered along the
Atlantic border, prophetically called them
mental army was the army which fought the
battle of the Revolution, though our country
then covered but a narrow strip OF the Allan
| tic seaboard. Yet, in spirit and aspiration,
the American eagle looked over across this
whole broad land, and said, '' This is all mine
This shall all be planted and watered by the
people who acknowledge my ascendancy."
So friends, we are resolved not merely that
we shall be united in geography-that there
shall be one Government from Texas to
Maine, and to Oregon-but that there shall be
one willing, iSyful cordial united - people
nets, not stricken down and held prostrate by
force, but all of them, North and South, East
and West, rejoicing that they are Americans,
rules them all that one country embraces
and enfolds them Applause We cannot
| hate each other forever. We cannot keep
raking up stories of Andersonville, Salisbury,
and Libby Prison, to make this people hostile
in heart to those who live below the Ohio
river. We shall learn at last; we shall come,
at last, to be one people Why not now
Seven years ago the last shot was fired !;
seven years and more ago the last Confeder-
| ate flag was surrendered; and still we go on
holding conventions military conventions
to emphasize and aggrandize the triumph of
part over another part. rejoice in that
coming triumph of the whole nation, when
the people of the South shall say to the peo-
pie of the North: 'We rejoice that our
| efforts to have Southern Confe6eracy were
defeatad. We find at last that it was our des-
tiny and our blessing to be part of the great
| American people," So the South will say.
The time shall be when the States south of
the Ohio shall rejoice, yearly, as you rejoice,
that slavery has passed away forever. They
will feel that the great chain was lifted from
their necks and broken which bound their
limbs, when 10000 of American people
were liberated and made citizens of this
country, where they had formerly been slaves.
Carolinas and Georgia shall be richer and
nobler,, freer and purer, than they would
have been SO long as part of their people
were held in bondage They will realize that
; what was their loss through emancipation
has become their strength, and they will re-
joice that nothing now remains to mar the
, unity or cloud the destiny of our country,
7 and their country. So then, their fellow
: citizens having asked them to surrender seces-
sion and abandon slavery, to enfranchise their
colored fellow citizens, they did everything
! reasonable and proper to make our triumph
, perfect. Now we say, and they say, let hatred
2 and bitterness, let contention and jealousy
] perish forever. [Applause Let us forget
! that we have fought. Let us remember only
. | that we have made peace. Let us say that
y | there shall be no degradation, no people ovel
? | whom we triumph. Our triumph is their trt
. umph. Our triumph is tho uplifting of every
: | one on the common platform of American
y liberty and American nationality. Our tri
: | umph is not the triumph of a section, it il
: not the triumph of q race, it is not the tn
r umph of class; it is the triumph OF th'
American people. 1t is the casting of o
shackles that bound some presently, and al
: ultimately, breaking down a wall or partition
J that separated us, which makes us in life, il
|
= people of the great American Republic. Eel
y y low citizens, to this work of reconciliation
= dedicate myself. I would not feel that it wa
II a triumph for me to be chosen your Presi
- dent if any part of the American peopl
% should have right to feel that my triumph
= was their degradation. believe that tn
q triumph of the Liberal cause will be the tr
y umph of theStates that vote against it. lAE
= plause.1 believe that there is no count
= in the Union which will not be better wort
living in, more valuable, because we have s
e acted, and that thore are no longer lines {
a separation and alienation to divide us.
a. ~ this end 1 have struggled Since the last car
o. non-shot was fred in the war of secessio
r, and disunion. [Cries of "That's SO:
10 this end have hoped and aspired. This en-
- seems to be not far distant. People of Obi
=. l entreat you SO to act, SO to speak, so
- = vote, that every one shall feel, on the evel
y ing of the 5th of next March, that
=, has taken a manful part toward tt
- -, reconciliation of the whole American peop
~ to their Government, and toward the u
W " building, toward the, perfection, the roun
20 20 ing out, of this American republican natio
;s ality. prolonged cheersl.
REMARKS OF MIR. GREELEY AT CLEVELAND.
or FELLow-CITIzENs: 1 desire at this tim
n and from this place, to address few earne
et words to the advance guard of liberty and G
g | AINolitIopiafa of fha WaatarD R9aerY6,