Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-01
Senator Morton in Chicago.

hO COuntnCtu ny ueHnlnR Iue OOuIeu- |
crate coalition, the campaign In the three |
reconciliation policy. Speaking of the |
latter, he said
Mr.. Greeley to-day has scarcely friend In |
all the South that was not connected with |
the rebellion. His friends In the South |
and let this fact have its full force upon |
your minds when you consider this question |
his friends in the South were the friends
OF the rebellion, the supporters, the authors,
and the advocates of 1t. A few OF those who
were In the rebellion in the South are upon
our side; not great many; there are honor
able exceptions here and there but the great
body are against us. Our friends in the South
to-day are made up of the loyal colored men
and of the loyal white men-men who suffer-
ed everything but death for their country
and those who are called the 'carpet-bag-
gers"-that much. abused, that much SLAM
dered description Of men.
When the war was over there was the
question of reconstruction In the South, and |
the Southern people refused TO take part in
1t. All they had to do was to accept the
terms proposed by the acts Of Congress. II
they had accepted what was then offered to
chem they would have had the government
OF their States in their own hands. But they
refused to do so, and we had to do the best
we could with such elements as we had.
And first we had the colored men, and then
we had the loyal white men Of the South,
who were denounced as scalawags. And,
next, we had to depend upon the carpet.b bag
gers, the men who had gone down there
from the North-men who had gone down
there with their families; men who had
taken capital there; men who had gone there
to make their fortunes, some OF whom had
been there during The war; men who went
there just as men go to Nebraska or to any
Territory. They migrated South on the same
Idea of personal fortune as men migrate to
any OF our Territories. Many of them
had been there as soldiers, and they
were Immediately denounced by the former
rebels at the South and by the Democratic
papers at the North as carpet-baggers.
Everybody repeated the cry. In one sense
we are all carpet-baggers. We migrate
from State to State, and from Territory to
Territory; but these men In the South-the
late rebels-joined together to drive these
men out. They said they went down there
to make their fortunes. Well, so they did.
But when we went down there we found
that the most intelligent men into whose
hands we could put any trust were those
men from the North. The men had been
there, and had remained there, and the col
ored men resorted to them, and it was found
that the men to trust were the so-called
carpet-baggers, or the white men called
"scalawags," and they were men of cour-
age and intelligence, and of capital And
these men have suffered a persecution of
which we scarcely know anything. This
was the condition of things when this re-
construction was attempted. Many were
being driven out; many were already driven
out, These men had suffered fierce and
1ntolerable persecution of which the world
now scarcely knows anything. This was
the condition upon which reconstruction
was undertaken, and large portion of those
men had been driven out; many of them
lost everything that they had; hundreds of
them had been murdered; they had been
scourged, they had suffered every punish
ment and ignominy that ostracism and
hatred could visit upon them. l hold the
Southern people to some extent less respon-
sible for this great wrong than do the lead
ers OF the Northern Democracy, that from
the very first have encouraged them. You
may take the Democratic papers all along,
and you will find that from the very first
they have denounced and have raised the
cry of persecution against those who are
called pet-baggers and scalawags. q.
And now comes the question of reconcilia-
tion. Who are to be reconciled? The men
who have been guilty of this persecution
The men who have driven out the Northern
emigrant? The men who have maintained
anarchy, and who have determined that the
situation should not be accepted / say
reconciliation will come, but something else
has got to come first. There can be NO
reconciliation, my friends, without there is
security Applause. Security for life, lib
erty and property, and wherever security is
found in the South then the people of the
North will pour down there with stream
of emigration such as has never been known
then will that current OF emigration from
Europe that now comes entirely to the North
be largely diverted to the Southern States
There must first be security; no man will &C
there from the North unless he feels that HI
is to be safe in his person, and in his family
and in his property, and that he is not tx
suffer ostracsm and persecution. And whel
that time comes-and it will come under Re
publican administration [applausel- l-whel
there is security in the South, when the Soutl
is filed up with emigrants, when school
have everywhere been established, when tn
current OF capital is setting in down there
when there shall be manufactures, and rail
ROADS, and other improvements and devel
opments, such as you have in the grea
State of Illinois, then reconciliation vii
grow up, and we will become a homogeI
GUS people. [Applause.l And those VIII
denounce carpet-baggers - and Greele
does-those who denounce all interference
on the part of Congress to give security t
life, liberty and property in the South-thos
men are the enemies of reconciliation.
am a better friend Of reconciliation tina
any such men. Reconciliation is not to
brought about by trick, by mere polit
cal maneuver, by resolutions of convention
Reconciliation is to be the outgrowth {
great facts; it is to spring from great col
dtions that are yet to be developed, an
will be developed, under Republican rule.
Tvn you, my rrrenrus, S.av =. v....s .... -.
law should be repealed, or if we should hay
President that will refuse to execute /
those outrages will begin again, and |
worse than ever. The Ku-Klux are ther
they are only suspended; they are the
with the same parties, and with undiminisl
ed numbers; their spirit has undergone 4
change in the world, and if Mr.. Greelt
should be elected and they have faith in IL
pledge, then this thing would spring III
The Goals have only smoldered under I'll
ashes. will call your attention to what l
said few days ago, in an address after h
nomination. 1t was said on the Goth of Ma
after receiving the nomination at Cincinnati
and he wrote letter of acceptance of IL
Cincinnati nomination, and that secured IL
nomination. He gave to the Ku KluX all tl
assurance that was wanted; he gave to the
the only pledge that they asked, and the
Will forgive everything also that he has ey,
said or done; they do not care what his opi
ion is on other subjects, If he will but carr
out the pledge in the letter of acceptanc
This letter of acceptance is dated May 2
1877. he says that "Subject to our const
tutional obligations to maintain equal righ
of all citizens, the civil authority should /
supreme over the military, and the ha6e
corpus should be upheld as the safegual
over the Ku-Klux law" And yet that la,
he says, "has done its work." and the la
without that would be inefficient It WI
the most vital part in it, and no one justifC
IL stronger than Mr.. Greeley. But, taking
all back, he then says that the writ of hdbe
corpus should never be sustained, and u
Ciyil Authorities Act should always rema
supreme.
But he goes on to say that: "The individ
al citizen should enjoy the largest liber
consistent with public order;" and that
here is the vital point-"there shall be
Federal subyersion of the internal policy
the several States and municipalities, b
that "each shall be left free to enforce Il
rights and promote the well being of its
habitants by such means as the Judgment
Its own people shall prescribe"
General Grant is to-day thousand tim
better friend of the Southern people al
OF Southern interests than Horace Greele
lGreat applause.l If his administratiC
shall be continued, then the foundations
peace and of reconciliation shall be lai
but If you propose now to conciliate IL
rebels of the South by saying to them, "N
will give you the government Of eve