New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-31
CnrI schurz in North CaroIlna.


From the Memphis appeal of Monday we
copy the following:
New YORK, July ga Greensboro,
North Carolina, special states that Carl
Schurz made a speech there last night, in
which he said that he belonged to the anti
slavery party all his life, and if he was not
now fighting in the ranks of the Repub-
lican party, it was their fault, not his. He
advocated the congressional acts of recon
structiOn, in order to secure to negroes
their political rights. After this it became
their duty to secure political rights and
privileges to the rebels who had laid down
their arms in good faith; then it was that
the flag of amnesty was placed with the
flag of justice, and Greeley was its standard
bearer.
He said that the Democratic party for
years legislated to keep itself in power, by
corruption and fraud, and the Republican
party was doing the same now.
The Ku, Klux laws placed great power in
the hands of the administration, which was
being now used for the basest purposes.
The federal arm was being reached into the
affairs of the States, and the mails were not
even safe. He claimed that the votes of
the colOred men were corruptly controlled
by carpet-baggers, who also robbed and
plundered the South, and were counter
anced in so doing by the Republican party,
the Republican congressman, and the adj
ministration by its deputy marshals.
The Republican party was at this time
controlling the elections in the South, and
uphOlding the most atrOCiOus system of
government that ever cursed people, free
in name only. He then gave history of
the Liberal movement, maintaining that
the Cincinnati banner was that of the true
Republican party. He denied BOuUwelps
statement that the Democrats opposed emf
grafton, and said the oppressive taxation by
plundering caTpet-baggers was not an in
ducement to emigrate. lie thought it
strange that Boutwell, should advise South
erners against clasping hands across the
bloody chasm of the war, saying the heart
must be Obdurate to counsel against uniting
in harmony, friendship and peace. When
the bloody chasm was once bridged by
clasped hands, there would be no longer
any need of a Republican party. The dis
closure of the rebel plans to burn Northern
cities. was being paraded before the people
of the North to keep alive the old war. The
Republican party could not live and pros
per except by despOtism, corruption and a
revival of war animosities. 1t does not de-
serve to live.
He urged Republicans to trust rebel sol
diers, who could not afford a better evil
dence of their acceptance of the issues of
the war than that they now rallied around
the Greeley banner. He referred to the
needs of the ColOred people, and advised
them to cultivate friendly relations with
the whites, for they never could live happy
if the white man was not their friend. He
claimed that if the cOlOred vote, now COM
pace and solid, was divided between the
two political parties, both parties are eqally
interested in securing to them their rights.
In addressing the rebel soldiers present,
he said that there was full confidence felt
in them in the North, but admOnished them
that if armed bands were allowed to seOurge
citizens no matter of what color, the Lib
eral Republicans would not be able to stem
the channel of civilization, and protect
them. If there are more occurrences of dis
order take the swift and retribntive meas
Ures into your own hands, and let the fed
eral government see that Confederate sol
diers are not only able, but willing and re-
solved that life and property shall be pro
tected in your houses, your counties and in
every one of your States. He then read the
letter of Pleasanton relative to the San Do