The Lincoln County herald., 1872-09-25

PITTsBURa, September }9-horacc
and party reached this city at
o'clock this evening and will leave for Gin.
cinnati at 80 in the morning At tho
hotel he delivered the following address
Fellow citizcns-The Wise King says
there i. a time for war and time for
peace. The city of Pittsburg has re.
Gently witnessed q rehearsal OF the pomp
and pugoantry, the blazonry and circum
stance of civil war. A very large mum
Der Of men we're collected at vast ex-
penss, with the single purpose rckind-
ling the bitterness and hatred, the ami.
mostly and antipathies, the iears and ex
ultations of civil war for the advantage
Of political party. l take you to wit.
ness that the greater portion of the jour.
mails of Pittspurgh, as we'll as the orators
on this occasion, have been trying their
best to make us,
THE PEOPLE,
bate each other for the sake Of partisan
advantage. A stranger would imagine,
who was reading the journals of Pitts
burgh for the last few days, that We
were still at war, aud that their purpose
was to revive and to sxasperats the hatred
and animosity Of civil war in order to
intensity and invigorate their side of
the conflict They talk about rebels
and traitors. Fellow citizens, are we
never to be done with this? We de.
manded Of our adversaries in the great
civil war that they surrender their arms
| IN, hoi hn, hav ,ol
them. We demanded that they entran.
chse the blacks, and the blacks are en-
fraDchisrd. None but white men
NOW STAND DIsFRANCHIsED.
Wa demanded that the emancipated
slaves shall not be paid for, and that the
rebel debt shall never be paid by the
government or by the state, and they as
scented to that. So far as l can see,
every demand made on the part Of the
loyal states aud the loyal people has
been fully complied with on the part OF
those lately in rebellion
Every thing has been done that We
asked. Everything has been conceded
and still they tell US, why We want them
to repent. Have they not brought forth
words meet for repentance? Thus III
coming together iu solemn convention,
the representatives Of the Southern Ieo-
pie have given their assent to the plat
form of the Cincinnati convention, which
was tie most intense, the most compet,
Republican platform that had ever beer
presented to any national convention
whatever; all this being done, We are
told by these gentlemen who met here
all is a mockery, all this is fraud ; you
don't mean anything by it, and the cry
goes on, "rebels and traitors
Denunciation and proserip p,ion sam'
as four years ago. la the Republican
National convention, it was declared tina
this prescription should speedily cease
Four years have passed aud still it i,
maintained that there are at this day
thousands of the people of Arkansas
alone, the N ost intelligent, the most re-
sponsible people Of that state. torbtddel
to exercise the right Of suffrage, forbid
den exclusively by the party that meet
here and sh Juts for Grant and Wilson
Nobody else asks for prescription bu
them; no one else doubts, no othe
. party requires that any human bein!
should stand proeribed on our soil for
rebellion that ceased seven and hal
years ago.
People of Pittsburgh, ask you t
, take a generous part in this work G
, reconciling your countrymen to eac
, other. ask you to take the hand he'll
:, out to you by our Southern brethren i
, their adoption of the Cincinnati platform
OF those who were our enemies, as
you to grasp their hands and say broth
srs. We differed, we fought, the war
ended, let US again be fellow countryme
and forget that We have been eneme
, Friends and fellow citizens, | bid ye
good night.