Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-25
POLITICAL.
Mr.. Greeley's Tour Through Ohio.
Stirring Speeches at Sundry Points.

Stirring Speeches at Sundry Points.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 14.-On reaching
Hamilton, to-day, Mr.. Greeley spoke to the
assembled crowds as.follows:
Men Of Ohio, / bear you joyful greetings
from the people of Indiana. (Applause.)
have looked into their clear eyes. : have
seen the light of heaven reflected from their
honest faces, and tell you that as well as
l can read men, have read them and feel
assured that on the night Of the Sth of
October next they will send forth a majes-
tic voice on the side OF national reeoncilia-
ton. (Great applause.) The great Lib
eral wave now sweeping over the country,
destined to efface all distinction of race
and all past bitterness and Ito wipe
out all this, will scarcely find
anywhere a heartier response
than from that people. Last night not
less than $4,000 of them met us at Indian
apolis to say that SO far as their State was
concerned they spoke in no epuivoical voice.
They are with you, they are for you, Libe-
rails of Ohio and all other States, in declar-
ing that strife having ceased, hatred shall
cease, prescription shall cease, disfranchise-
ment shall cease, and the whole American
people united under one flag, and animated
by one. patriotic impulse, shall march for
ward once more on that career of gFeas-
ness and prosperity planned aud pre-
pared for them by our revolutionary
fathers. [Applause.l Those fathers, when
we were but thirteen little States scattered
along the Atlantic border, as though pro-
pheticany, called themselves the Continen-
tai army. The Continental army-that
70 vuhiah foI1Ohf thu hat nf
| the Revolution through. Our country
then covered but narrow stripof the At
lantic seaboard. Yet in spirit and aspira-
| ton the American eagle looked over across
this whole broad land and said: "This is
tered by the people who acknowledge my
ascendency." So, friends, we are re-
solved not merely that we shall be
united in geography, that there shall be
one government from Texas TO Maine and
to Oregon, but that there shall be one will
ing joyful, cordial, united people, (applause,)
not penned together by bayonets, not
stricken down and held prostrate by force,
but all of them, North and South, East and
West, rejoicing that they are Americans
and that one flag covers them ALI one law
rules them all, that one country embraces
anu Su1Otlo Ll1CA kdppIduSCJ
is no more doubt fat last that all must be
as we propose. We cannot hate each
other forever. We cannot keep raking up
stories of Andersonville, Salisbury, and
Libby prison, to make this people hostile
in heart to those who live below 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
IL aok
| Confederate flag was surrendered or furied,
and still we go on holding conventions,
military conventions, TO emphasize and
! aggrandize the triumph of q part over
another part. | rejoice in that coming tri-
umph of the whole nation, when the peo-
pie of the South shall say to the people of
| The North, ave rejoice that our country
was net divided, that our mistaken effort
| to have aSouthern Confederaey was defeat
| ed; we find, at last we find it was our des-
tiny and our blessing to be part of the
great American people," So the South will
/ say. The time shall be when the States
South of the Ohio shall rejoice as heartily,
as you can rejoice, that slavery has passed
away forever. They will feel that the
great chain was lifted from their
necks, the shackles were broken
/ WHICH llIlDS, NWh0u
four million of American people were hber-
ated and made citizens of this country
| where they had formerly been made slaves.
They will yet realize that Virginia and the
! Carolnas and Georgia shall be richer sn1
| nobler, freer and purer, than they would
| been so long as part of their people were
he'd in bondage. They will realize that
| what was their weakness has through
emancipation become their strength, and
| they will rejoice that nothing now remains
to mar the unity or cloud the destiny of oW
country, and their country. So their
fellow-citizens having asked Of them to sur
render secession and abandon slavery, to
enfranchise their colored fellow-citizens,
they did everything reasonable and proper
to make our triumph perfect. Now we
say, and they say, let hatred and bitterness,
let contention and jealousy perish forever.
(Applause.) Let us forget that we have
fought; let us only remember that We have
made peace. Let US say that there shall be
no degradation, no people over whom we
triumph Our triumph is their triumph. Our
triumph is the uplifting of every one to the
common platform of American liberty and
American nationality. Our triumph is not
the triumph of section. 1t is not the
triumph of a race. 1t is not the triumph
of class. 1t is the triumph of the Amel-
lean people, casting off the shackles that
bound some presently, and all ultimately,
breaking down a wall of partition that Sc
narrated us. Go on to make US all in life,
in heart and in purpose the people; the one
people of the great American Republic. Eel
iow-citizens, to this work of reconciliation
/ dedicate myself and for this purpose. l
l ~ fool n W q frnp1Oh for IN
be chosen your President, if any part of the
American people should have right to feel
that my triumph was their degradation,
believe the triumph of the Liberal cause
will be the triumph of the States that vote
against it-(words lost in applause;)
that there is no county in the Union which
will not be better worth living in and more
valuable because we have acted s
so appealed, so been suspended to by the
American people. But there are no longer
lines Of separation and alienation to divide
US. Te this end l have struggled since the
last cannon shot was fired in the war oi
secession and disuuion. lCries of That's
so I To this end have hoped and aspiced
This end seems to be not far distant
People of Ohio, / entreat you so to act, 81
to speak, so to vote, that everyone stIal
feel on the evening of the 8th of next
month that he has taken manful part 10
ward the reconciliation of the whole Ameri
can people to their Government, and TOWARD
the up-building, toward the perfection, the
rounding out of this American Republican
nationality. prolonged cheers.)
At Dayton.
Mr.. Greeley spoke as follows:
Fellow citizens of Dayton-I have bu
few moments which can be spared me Il
address you and l entreat you to maintain
perfect silence in order that at least few
of you can hear me. Thus far since lef
home have spoken for my country, he
unity and her peace. l have said very few
words for myself. On this Occa
sion l propose to notice on
or two of the calumnies which have beel
, aimed at me. take up the Dayton Jour
l nal of this morning. find myself ther
credited with saying at Vicksburg last yea
t that, hope the time will come when sol
diers that fought with Lee and Johnston
j will occupy as proud position in tn
| hearts of the American people as the sol
diers who fought with Grant and Sherman
No such words as these escaped my lips
No such thought as that ever entered
(Cheers.) What l did say, speaking Q
q that war-w&sted heart broken peopl
e is this: That l trusted the da
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