Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-28

So, friends, We re resolved not merely |
that we shall be united in geography, thas
there shall be one Government from Texas
to Maine and to Oregon, but that there shall
be one willing, joyful, cordial, united peo-
pie; applause not pinned together oy
BAY oneis, not stricken down and held pros,
trate by force, but ell Of them, Nortn anu
South, East aud WestrejoiciDg that 'ney are
American, and that one hsg covers 'ne~
all, one law rules them all, that one 0ounuJ
embraces and enfolds them all Applause
Tha,a "a no NOR. doubts at last that all
-, ~ "a va propose. We can't hate each
- So,aver We cannot keep rAking up
~ .,or;s. of Apdersouville, Salisbury and
I,hbv Prison to make the people hostile in
h.art 10 those who live below the Ohio river.
We shall learn at last, we shall come At last
10 be one people. Why not nov?
Seven years ago the last shot was fred.
Seven years and more ago the last Coined
crate Gag was surrendered or furled; ard
still We 90 on holdins Conventions, Military
Conventions, to emphasize and Aggrandize
he triumph Of q part over another part.
| rejoice in that coming triumph OF The
whole nstion, whom the people OF the South
shall say to the people OF the North 1--WE
rejoios that our country was DOT divided;
that our mistaken efforts to have Southern
CoudsderAcy we're defeated. We fad, a.
Last we fad, 1t was our destiny aud bless
| ing to be q part of the great American peo-
pie" 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 iha, the great chain was lifted from
their neoks; the shSckles we're broken
which bound their limbs When four millions
Of American people we're liberAred and
made citizens Of the country where they had
formerly been slaves. They will yet realize
that Virginia aud the CsrolinAs and Geor-
giA ,hall be richer aud nobler, freer III d
purer than they would have been so long as
e part OF their people we're held in bondsge.
| They will reAlizs that what was their weak
ness has, through emancipation, become
,heir strength aud they will rejoice that
nothing ncw remsius to mar the unity or
cloud the destiny Of our country and their
country.
So their fellow.ciSizeos, having asked OF
them TO surrender secession and abandon
slavery, 10 enfrsnchiss their coored fellow
oitiz.us, did everything reasonable aud pre-
per 10 make our triumph perfect. Now, We
say, aud they say, let hatred aud bitttrnessi
let contempt aud Jealousy perish forever
4 Applause
Lei US forget that we have fought. Let
us remsm Der only that We hAv- made
peace. Let Us say that there shall be nc
degradation, no people over whom We trl
umph Oar triumph is their triumph
. Our triumph is the uplifting Of every one OF
: the common platform of American ibers
D and Americ, "a uAtionslIty. Our uiumPh II
10, the triumph OF a s,c,i"u; It is not th'
triuu pa Of = race il is not the triumph Of i
: lsss; Il is the triumph OF the American pes
{ pie, casting off the shEckles tia bound som'
. presently, aud ali ultimately, breaking dowr
: wall or psrliton that sepsrated us, go Of
- to make Us all in life, in heart aud IN pur
70 pose, the one people Of the great American
, Republic
+ Fellow -eitjz sns, TO this work Of rsconeiiin
ton dedicate myself. For this purpose
would not feel it ~a' triumph for me to be-
chosen vour President, If any part Of the
I American people should have right to Zee
p that my triumph was their degradation.
! believe the triumph OF the Liberal cause VII
be the triumph of the States that Vote
> against it applause that there Is not 8
county 10 the UoIon which will not be better
worth living in snd more valuable because
we have 20 acted, so appealed, 50 been re-
sponded TO BY the American people, tba
there are 20 lorg-r lines of separation sDc
alienation to DIVIDE US. To this end ! have
! struggled since the last cannon shot Wal
fred in the war Of secession aud dISuuiOn
: Cries of That's So.
b To this end ! have hoped aud Sspired
, This end seems TO he not far distant.
D People Of Ohio, entreat YOU so to act, 81
u 70 speak. 80 TO vote, that evtry ore sha'
IL ell, on the eye Jag OF the S.h OF mex
month that he hss taken mantul part 10
!, ward the reconciliation Of the whole Auer
d can people TO their Government and towar
I the up-building. toward the perfection, III
Il rounding out Of this American Republics
e Naiionality. PROLONGED cheers