The Portland daily press., 1872-09-21

been no spot Ia whose prosperity have more
heartily rcjoced, and this because ] believed
her prosperity was firmly linked and bound to-
gether with the prosperity and growth of our
whole country. Now appeal to her business
men, appeal to her merchants, appeal to
her manufacturers to stop this war 1t has gone
ON long enough. You cannot afford to teach
part OF your country to hate you, to feel that
your success. your greatness is identical with
the + humiliation. 41a
People OF Pittsburg, l ask you to take a gen.
erous part in this work of reconciling your
countrymen to each other. ask YOU to take
the hand held out to you by our Southern
brethren IN the adoption of the Cincinnati plat
form by those who were our enemies 1 urge
you to grasp them and say, Brothers we diff
Tered, we fought; the war is ended; let us again
be fellow countrynen and forget that we have
been enemies" Friends and fellow citizens |
bid you good night.
Horace Greeley nj Columbus.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept 2O.-Horace Greeley
arrived here at 10 o'clock this morning and was
greeted by large crowd and on being intro
duced spoke about five minutes saying: That
1t is more than seven years since the close of
the civil war and, it seemed no moro than
reasonable that its attendant prescriptions and
evils should cease; that there was now no good
reason why the American people should hate
one another on account of their participation in
the war. We deny that any should be proscrib-
ed because of that war. The opposition say
that this class are few; wei say no, sir; there
are thousands of this class among the citizens
of Arkansas alone. General Sigel, seven years
ago, wrote from South Carolina that the prn-
cpal reason that reconstruction was failure
was because men of property were prescribed
and not allowed to vote, while the poorer and
Ignorant classes could vote away their property.
Mr. Greeley closed by saying, "Let there be no
prescription, but let us all, white or black,
unite to build up our own country" (Cheers.)
lie was obliged to bring his remarks to an alb
rupt conclusion on account of the noise made
by preparations of trains about to depart.
Greeley at Cinncinnali.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 20.-Herace Greeley ar
rived at Little Miami depot at 800 this after
noon in charge of the Reception Committee
consisting of the Boards of Aldermen and
Conncilmen from this city, who met him at the
village of Morrow. At the depot he was met
by the Common Council in carriages. Mr..
Greeley was placed with Mayor Davis in the
leading carriage drawn by four horses and pre-
coded by band. There was large crowd
at the depot and Mr.. Greeley was received with
cheers. Along the line of march to the Bur-
nett House which was crowded on both sides
with people the demonstrations were hearty
and enthusiastic, but did not assume political
shape. But few banners were hung out on the
line of march. The reception was as the guest
of the city and as distinguished visitor to the
Industrial Exposition. At the Burnett House
the jam of people was very great, large details
OF police beng necessary to clear the streets.
After Mr. Greeley had little time for rest he
was escorted to the Exposition hall, thej streets
along the line Of march being thonged with
people. The reception at the Exposition took
place in the Commissioners room. There. a few
ladies', the Commissioners. the Mayor and men,
bers of the City Council met to receive him. A
reception speech in behalf of the Exposition
Commissioners was made by A. I. Gorham the
President, and in behalf of the city by Mayor
Davis. Mr.: Greeley responded as follows:
H. C." ON ike Labor Question. e..
moi
ment to that industrial corporation which
seems to me, even though distant and difficult,
nevertheless inevitable. STRIKES for higher wages
strikes for shorter days, l0ckOuts, trade
unions, all suggest to me the radical vice of our
mode of determining the workman's compensa-
ton. He should be manifestly paid in proper
ton to the value or excellence of his product
He is oftener paid in proportion to the time he
manages to consume in creating or fashioning
IT. Hence eye services dawdling and the pro-
duetion of fabrics and wares that look well but
fail to wear or do service well. This cannot
always endure
You need not tell me that any essential change
is difficult for know already that all gem
uine reforms are only achieved through suffer
ing and sacrifice, and after repeated failures.
You do not brighten me by asserting that COOP
erative industry involves complicated and
troublesome account keeping, for know that
despotism is the simplest form of government,
and slavery requires less reckoning and bar
gaining than any system of free labor. Do
not ask me just how co cooperation is to be re-
duced to practice for | cannot tell. There will
be experiments, mistakes and failures, in the
early stages of reform. l fOreSee that rogues
and charaetons will seize upon it in the hope of
thereby promoting their own selfish ends
clearly see all this, but l think I discern
brighter vista stretching away beyond it.
Now that the Republican theory has been
fully applied to the government and proved
success, after making, all due allowance for
drawbacks, l believe the application to industry
is only question of time that the workers who
make clothes or shoes, or whatever else that
may minister to human sustcnance and COM
fort, win learn how to do this as partners rather
than MISUNDERSTANDING equitably and wholly
the proceeds, instead of accepting a share of
them as wages Years, if not ages, may yet be
required to the safeguard whereby the co-opera-
ton of workers alone may be rendered practi-
cable, beneficial and secure; and yet feel as
sured that the day will come on which he who
wants house built in Cincinnati will apply to
corporation of practical builders, organized
like any bank or railroad company, bargain
with the agent of the corporation, as he now
does with a master-builder or firm, and have
his work done at least as well and reasonably
as now, while the stipulated price VIII be who'll
ly and fairly apportloned among those who have
If you ask where is the capital to be had, I
point to the hundreds of millions now deposit
ed in savings banks, whereof at least two -thirds
belong to the workingmen and women, and say
there it is" The depositors recareful, saw
ing and thrifty people, who will not risk their
scanty boards in rash experiments, as indeed
they should not but whenever it shall have
been demonstrated that they may as safely in
vest in cooperative undertakings as lend to
those by whom the laboring classes are hired
and paid, there will be No lack of capital for
such investment, even though the rich should
supply hone of it. After the delivery of this
address Mr.. Greeley went through the Exposi-
ton halls, followed by many curious visitors.
Another specch-HOrace Rises to Explain
and Takes the Back Track.
CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 20.-Mr. Greeley, in
an address tonight, said his remarks in Pitts
burg had been misinterpreted or perverted into
an expression of a present belief, q present
conviction that any State has right to dissolve
this Union at its own pleasure. Fellow-citi-
zens, L utterly repudIate and condemn that
sentiment. L do not believe that one State or
ten States, or that even majority of all the I
States, has legal or constitutional right to
dissolve our Union. That Union is founded on
a Constitution which is charter of Govern
ment, and not mere league. 1t does not Gre
ate league merely, nor a cOnfederacy, but a
nation under Government of limited and de-
fined powers but of unlimited duration. I
believe the Union is not only destined to be,
but was intended to be perpetual; and l believe
that our great civil war, if there ever was any
reasonable doubt as to the nature of that Union,
has settled the doubt forever. That slavery is
dead, and that the nation abides forever, is the
sum and substance of the verdict pronounced
through the issues of our great contest. There
is no longer question, there can never again
arise question as to the perpetuity of the
Union. ..--~.. 81.