Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-08-30
Mr.. Greeley's Speech at Portland.

| At~ puuiS itcrPsiuu given pils bIreicy AZ
Portland, Maine, on Wednesday Of last week,
he made the following speech;
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN II Is certainly true
that throughout the course Of my life, as far
as have been connected with public affairs,
] have struggled with such capacity as God
has given me for FIRST impartial and univer-
sal liberty; second, for the unity and great
ness of our common country; third and by
no means least when the former end was att
tanned, for early and hearty reconciliation and
| peace among our countrymen. For these
| great ends have struggled, and | hope the
| issues of the third is not doubtful. thor
oughlv comprehend that no personal consider
alton has drawn together this vast assembly.
Other, higher, and Rrander considerations
have collected you around me to-day. Cheers.
| Mr.. Chairman, il is a part Of the uuwrtten
law of our country that candidate for Presi-
dent may not make speeches in vindication and
commentator Of the principles whereupon he
| Is supported. nor the measures which his cleo
| ton is intended to promote, though candi-
date for Vice President is under no such in-
hibition. ] not merely acquiesce in the
restriction, recognize and aHirm lis propriety.
The temptation to misreport and misrepresent
n candidate for the higher post Is so great, the
means Of circulating such perversions among
people who will never see word OF their
refntation are so vast, that candidate has no
moral right TO subject his friends to the perils
he mnst brave IL not invite by taking a part
in the canvass TGheers Yet there is a
truth to be uttered In behalf Of those who have
placed me before the American people 10 my
present attitude, which does them such honor
that claim the privilege Of stating u here,
and n9w.
This Is that truth No person has ever yet
made the fact that he purposed to support, or
actually did support, my nomination, whether
at Cincinnati mt Baltimore, or in the action
which resulted in sending delegates to either
Convention. the basis Of claim to office at
my hand. No one who favored my nomina-
ton before either Convention, or at either Con-
vention has sought Office at my hands either
for himself or any one else nor has any one
suggested to me that ! might strengthen
myself as candidate by promising to APP
point any one TO any important Office what
ever. Loud cheering.] In few instances,
less than dozen, am sure-certain OF the
smaller politicians have, since my double
nomination, limited to me by letter that might
increase nv chance of election by promising q
post office or some other place TO my volun-
tcer correspondents, respectively. have not
usually responded to these overtures, but |
now give a general notice that, should be
elect ! will consider the claims of those
un!imey asprants after those OF the more
modest and reticent shall have been fully salts.
fed. [Cheers.
In two or three instances have been asked
to say whether would not, Y elected conhne
my appointments to Republicans, anssvsf
these by pointing to that plank DC the Cincin-
natl platform wherein all who coneur Ia tbe
principles therein set forth are cordially In
viied to participate in their establishment and
vindication. ! never yet heard of u man who
invited his neighhors TO help him raise q
house and proceeded to kick them out Of It so
soon as the roof was fairly over head. For
my own part recognize every honest man
who approves and adheres TO the Cincinnati
platform as my political brother. and as such
fully entitled to my confidence and friendly
regard TCheers.
One other point demands word. Those
adverse TO me ask what pledges have given
TO those lately hostile to the Union to secure
their favor and support. answer: No man
or woman in all the South ever asked Of me,
whether directly or through another, any
other pledge than is given In all my acts and
words from the hour Of Lees surrender down
to this moment. No Southern man has ever
hintcd to me an expectation, hope, or wish
that the rebel debt, whether, Confederate or
State, should be assumed or paid by the Union,
and no Southern man who could be elected to
Legislature or made colonel Of militia regi-
ment ever suggested the pensioniDg OF rebel
soldiers, or any Of them, even as remoie
possibility. All who nominated me are per-
| fectly aware that ] had upheld and justified
Federal legislation TO suppress the kn-klux
conspiracy and ouirages, though had long
ago insisted so sirennously as | now do that
complete amnesty and genuine oblivion OF
the bloody, hateful past would do, more for
| the suppression and utter extinction Of such
out.ages than all the force bills and suspen-
sion of hdbeds corpus ever devised BY man.
Wrong and crime must he suppressed and
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| islatou, the policy, by which they are pre-
vented. Loud Cheering.
| From those who support me in the S0nfh
have heard but one demand--jnsiice one
| INSTRUMENTATION They wish to be hearth
" reunited aud at peace with the North, on
any terms which do ns involve surrender OF
their manhood They ask that they shall be
regarded aud treated by the Federal authorities
as citizens, not cuprits, so long as they obey
and uphold every law consistent with equity
and right. They desire a rule which, alike
for white and black, shall encourage industry
and thrift. and discourage raqaeity and villai.
n.y. They cherish joyful hope, in which l
fully concur, that between the 9th Of NOvem-
her and the 4fh of March next quite number
of the Governors and other dignitaries who, In
the abused named OK Repnblicansm and loy-
atty, have for years been pillng debis and
taxes upon their war-wasted States, will fol-
| low the wholesome example Of Bullock, Of
| Georgia. and seek The shades Of private life.
! The darker and denser those shades the better
| for themselves and for mankind. Aud the
| hope that my election may hasten this much
| desired hegiFa Of the thieying carpet-bagRers
| has reconcied 10 the necessity Of supporting
| me, many who would otherwise have hesitated
aud probably refused. [Loud cheering.
/ Fellow-citzens, the disposed and partially
exiled Tammany Ring has stolen about thirty
! millions Of dollars from the city OF New York.
That was a most gigantic robbery, and hurled
its contrivers and abcttors from power and
splendor TO impoiency and infamy but the
thieving earret-bagpers have stolen at least
thrice this amount, stolen II from the already
impoverished and needy, and they still fiaunt
their prosperous yiIlainy in the high places OF
the land, and are addressed as honorable and
excelleney. tbi0k I hear voice from thu
honest people OF all the States declaring that
this iDiquify shall be gainfu. and insolent no
longer, at farthest, than TO the 18th Of March
next. By that time these criminals will have
heard national verdict pronounced that will
cause them TO - fold their tents, like Arabs,
and silently steal away;p and that | trust,
will be the end Of their stealing at the cost oil
| Of the good name Of our country and the we'll.
being Of her people.
| PoETIe.--The following are the opening lines
Of new campaign song sung at the raising Of
Greeley and Brown flag at Bangor, Maine,
few days since. They contain truth as vel
as poetry