The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-28


toward the reconciliation of the whole |
American people to their government, and |
toward the upbuilding, toward the perfec-
ton, the rounding out of the American re-
publican nationality. Prolonged cheers
Inc following is Mr.. Greeley's speech |
at Dayton:
fELLoW-CITIzENs OF DAYTON II have |
but few moments which can be spared to
address you, and l 'intreat you TO main |
tam perfect silence in order that at least n
few of you can hear me. Thus far since
l left home have spoken for my country,
her unity and her peace. have said very
few words for myself On this occasion l
propose TO notice one or two of the calum-
MES which have been aimed Mt me. Take
up the Dayton journal of this morning.
| find myself there credited with saying
ut Vicksburg last year that ] hoped the
time will soon come when the soldiers that
fought with Lee and Johnson will occupy
as proud n position in the hearts of the
American people as the soldiers who
fought with Grant and Sherman. No such
words as these ever escaped my lips. No
such thought as that ever entered my
heart. Cheers What did say-speak-
ing of that war-wasted, heart-broken peo-
pie is this that trusted the day would
come when the sojierly qualities and mill
tary genius of Lee and Stonewall Jack
son would be regarded as part of the her.
itage of the American people. LCheers.]
That they would be spoken of us Ameri-
can soldiers who, though in cause which
think a bad cause, illustrates the mill
tsry capacity, the genius, the energy of
the American people. For, after all, fell
| low-citizens, they were our mistaken
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ferries of "that's SO ", our bravely but fa-
tally erring eountrymen. They are dead,
and are now our dead countrymen. l did
say that if any man grudges that little
word of consolation to that heart-broken
people, let him vote against me. \
voice" we don't erudge it,
| One word more felow-citizens. At
| Pittsburg, last Thursday evening, | saw
fit TO explain the condition and crcum-
stances under which | was induced in the
winter of ls6O-'6, to propose that, in
preference to giving up the territories TO
slavery on the one hand, and the country
| to war and desolation on the other, | for
one would submit. / said, to the dis
unionists "You claim to be the south.
l deny that the great mass of people llv-
| ing in the southern states desire to break
| up this great, glorious union. Now | ask
you to let us come before this people, dis
cuss the question, tell them what the
union is as it is, and what it does for them
as well as for US, and let them decide by
their votes, when there has been no blood
shed, whether they would stay with us or
go away, and / will respect their de-
csion.' said then what / believ ed to
be the truth, and | say now, after looking
it all over, that between Ie peril Of losing
the union in bloody civil war and losing
the union by the vote of the southern
people, the former peril was very much
the greater. That | do believe, but |
never proposed, never imagined that now
after all the questions were settled and
| fight was over, we would go back and
submit the question whether it was to be
u southern confederacy or not. That has
all passed away. There is no more dis.
union party. a few individuals are stolid
and obstinate, aud perverse. would de-
sire IN no wise to aggravate their bitter
feeling. i will trust to time to soothe
them, but d9 not believe, do not imagine,
that one state or twenty states have any
legal moral or constitutional right to dis
solve this union. Great applaase.l Men
who are now lighting me did say they had
such right. They said so then and on
advances toward the .o,itb tban sver
made ON the side of liber,v bnt I do ins,s,
that all questions abont disnninn ara now
"a dead as the oues,ion ~ Amarioo, do.
nendence an the Rri,;.b orown rChaors 7
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eemeI.eu ohis W payohels' or shaii IL DC
a u''o' y. hearts ana hopes ana hahas
"'l iof ane 'a''er union applause
a", noie' nol W e1u'' over victories won
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w ho' propose W 10 uhytn'hg that shali
,n ".. .no sou'n'ih peop'e iee' o''leriy
. .ias s.,o "i'on oot"eth Us - one Vi eSu!'"-
non o'' our part ana humli'@'ioh on theirs
'H'.h ne Is no' patriot VINO "ouId Try
" .h.tn'iy Tue bitterness ana soreness
sna' ms "ao iougnt against Us must
.oe' ~ view Vi their great aeleat' liners
Is d los. cause oul 'hey are not lost peo-
| P'' io' 'hcy oeionS " VS. lhey are our