The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-25
GREELEY in OHIO.
Speech at Hamilton..Reco onclIIatIon
the Theme..The Philosopher In.
dulges in q Little Spread Eagle.

ings from the people OF Indiana. Jap
plause. l have looked into their clear
eyes. | have seen the light oil heaven re-
Elected from their honest faces, and / 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 majestic voice on the
side OF national reconciliation. Great
applause The great Liberal wave now
sweeping over the country destined 10
etiace all distinctions Of race and all past
bitterne 8, and TO wipe out all this, will
scarcely find anywhere heartier response
than from Ohio. That people last night,
not less than fifty thousand Of them, met
US at Indianapolis to say that so far as
their State was concerned, they speak In
no CquivoCal voice. They are with you,
they are Tor you, Liberals ol Ohio and of
all other States, in declaring that strife
having ceased hatred shall cease, pro-
scription shall cease, disfranchisement
shall cease, and the whole American peo.
pie united under ono flag and animated by
one patriotic impulse shall march forward
once more on that career Of greatness aud
prosperity planned and prepared for them
by our revolutionary fathers. Applause.
Those fathers whom we were but thirteen
little States scattered along the Atlantic
border as though practically, called Them
selves the "Continentals" The ContiLen.
tai army was the army which fought the
battle Of the Revolution. Though our
country then covered but a narrow strip
of the Atlantic 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 waterCd by tho people who acknow-
ledge my ascendancy 30 friends we,are
resolved, not merely that we shall
be united in geography, that there shall
be one government from Texas to Maine,
and 10 Oregon, but that there shall be
one willing, joyful, cordial united people,
Applause not pinned together by bay.
Onets, not stricken down and held pros.
trate by force, but all OF them, North aud
South, East and west, rejoicing that they
are Americans, and one tiag covers them
all, one law rules them all, one country
embrtc Is and entoldst them ALL [Applsu Q ]
There is no more doubt that at last all
must be as weprOpose. We can not hate
each other forever; we can not keep r0k-
ing up stories Of Andersonville, Salisbury
and Libby prisons to make this people
hostile In heart to those who live south OF
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 Confederate flag was surrendered
or iurled, and still we 20 on holding
Conventions, Military Conventions, to
emphasize and aggrandize the triumph of
a part over another part. | rejoice
in that coming triumph Of the
whole nation, when the people of the
South shall say to the people Of the North,
We rejoice that our country was not di.
vided, that our mistaken efforts to have
Southern Coniederacy were defeated
We find at last that it was our destiny
and our blessing TO be part OF the great
American people" So the South will
say. The time shall be when the States
north Of the Ohio shall rejoice purely as
you can rejoice that slavery has passed
away forever. They will feel that the
great chain was lifted from their necks,
the shackels were broken which bound
their limbs, when 100000 OF American
people were liberated and made citizens
Of this country, where they had formerly
been slaves. They will yet realize that
Virginia aud the Carolinas and Georgia
shall be richer aud nobler, frcer 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 weakness has, through emanci
patton, become their strength, and they
will rejoice that nothing now remains TO
mar the unity or cloud the destiny OF our
country and their country. So then,
fellow citizens, having asked oil them to
surrender secession and abandon slavery,
to enfranchise their colored fellow citi.
zens, and done everything reasonable
and proper to make our triumph
perfect, now we say, and they say, let
hatred and bitterness, let contentious and
jealousy, perish forever. Applause
Let US forget that we have fought-let us
remember only that we have made peace.
Let US say there shall be no degradation
mo people over whom we triumph. Our
triumph Is their triumph. Our triumph
is the uplifting oil every one on the com.
mon platforms Of American liberty and
American nationality. Our triumph is
not the triumph Of q section, 1t is not the
triumph Of race; Il Is not the triumph
OF class. II Is the triumph Of the
American people casting of the shsckels
that bound some presently and oil ulu.
mately, breaking down wall or partition
that separated US. Let us go on to make
US all in, life, In heart, in purpose the peo.
pie, the one people OF the great Ameri.
can Republic.
Fellow citizens, to this work of recon.
cilIation l dedicate myself. l would not
ieel 1t was triumph for me to be chosen
your President If any part Of the Ameri.
can people should have right 10 feel that
my triumph was their degradation. 1be.
lleve tho triumph OF the Liberal cause
will be the triumph of the States that
vote against it. (Applause.) That there
is no country in the Union which will not
be better worth living 10, and more yalu-
able because we have SO acted; so appeal.
ed and been responded to by the Ameri.
can people. That there are no
longer lines of separation and
alienation to divide Us. To this end
have struggled since the last cannon shot
was fired 10 tho war Of secession and dis,
union. [Cries Of "That's so."l To this
end have hoped and AspIrcd. This end
seems to be not far distant.
People oil Ohio, eutreat you SO TO act,
so 10 speak, SO to vote, that every one
shall feel on tho evening Of the 9Th oI
next month that he has taken q manful
part towards the reconciliation of the
whole American people TO their govern.
ment and towards the upholding, towards
the perfection, the rounding out Of this
American Republican nationality. PRO
longCd cheers, s
The following Is Mr.. GFeCley's speech
at Dayton:
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