The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-30
GREELEY'S SPEECH Ar PORTIAyD.

NAShlGA'o SHEECH AT PORTLAND,
How lac Proposes 10 Conduct IN. Al
minassrafiOn - Thfevfng G5Over1or,
Advised 30 Retire 90 Private Life
The following is a full report of the
interesting speech made by Horace
Greely at his reception at Portland ON
the 18th:
he had struggled throughout his life
for, first, impartial and universal lib
erty second, the unity and greatness of
our commerce and country third, by
no means least, when the former
end was attained, for early hearty re-
conciliation and peace among our
countrymen. He recognized the pro-
priety of a candidate for tie Presi-
dency making no speeches, vet there
is a truth to be uttered in behalf of
those who have placed me before the
American people in the present atti-
| tude, which does them such honor,
| that I claim the privilege of stating it
here Now this is that truth-nO per-
son has ever yet made known the fact
! that he proposed to support, or actually
| did support my nomination whether at
| Cincinnati or Baltimore, or any action
which resulted in sending delegates
| to either convention on the basis OF
claim for office; no one who favored
my nomination before either cOnVen-
I
either himself or through any one elsei
nor has any one suggested to me that
/ might strengthen myself as candI-
date by promising to appoint any one
TO any important Office whatever. In
a few instances, l am certain, some OF
the smaller fry of politicians have,
since my double nomination, limited to
ME by letter that I might increase my
chances by promising a pOst-Office or
some such place to my volunteer cor
respondents respectively.
/ have not usually responded to
these Overtures, but I now give general
notice that should l be elected I will
consider the claims of these untimely
aspirants after those of the more mod
est and reticent shall have been fully
satisfied. Applause In two ofthese
instances / have been asked to say
whether I should not, if elected, con-
fine my appointments to Republica. /
answer those by pointing to that plank
IN the Cincinnati platform wherein all
who concur in the principles therein
set forth, are cordially invited to par
ticiDate in their establishment and
vindicatiOn. 1 never yet heard of
man who invited his neighbOrs to
raise a house, proceed to kick them
out of it as soon as the roof was fairly
over his head. For my own part recog-
nize any honest man whoappToves and
adheres to the Cincinnati platform, as
my political brother, and rs such, fully
entitled to my confidence and friendly
regards.
One other point demands n word.
Those adverse to me ask what pledges
l have given to those lately hostile to
the Union, to secure their favor and
support. l answer, no man or woman
in all the South has even asked of me,
whether directly through another, any
other pledge than is given through all
my acts and words, from the hour Of
Lees surrender down tin this present
moment. No Southern man has ever
limited to me an eXpectatiVe hope or
wish that the rebel debt, whether Con-
federate or State, should be assumed or
paid by the Union. No Southern man,
who could be elected to n Legislature
or made Colonel of militia regiment,
has ever suggested the pensiOning of
rebel soldiers, or any of them as n re-
mote possibility. All who nominated
me were perfectly aware that ! had up
held and justified the Federal legisla-
ton to TepreSs the Ku-EluX conspiracy
Outrages, though l had long ago in
sisted, rs l now do, that complete am
nesty, genuine oblivion of the bloody,
hateful past would do more for the
suppression and utter extinction of
such Outrages than all the force bills
and suspension of habeas corpus ever
devised 10y men. Wrong and crime
must be suppressed and punished, but
far wiser and nobler is the legislative
policy by which they are prevented.
From those who support me in the
South have but one demand-justice;
but one desire-reconciliatiOn. They
wish to be heartily reunited and at
peace with the North on any terms
which do not involve the surrender of
their manhood. They cherish a joyful
hope of being recognized by Federal
as citizens, not culprits, SO
long as they obey and uphold every
law consistent with equality, a right
hey desire, a rule which alike, for
white and black, shall encourage in
iustrY and thrift, and one in which i
'ully concur, that between the 5th of
and the 4th of March next,
quite a number of Governors and
Jther dignitaries, who in the absurd
name of republicanism and loyalty,
nave for years been fixing debts and
axes upon their war-wasted States,
will follow the wholesome example Of
Bullock, of Georgia, and seek the
jhades of private life the darker and
deeper those shades the better for
themselves and for mankind. The
nope that my election may hasten
his much-desired hegiTa of thieving
;arpet- -baggers has reconciled to the ne
,essity of supporting me many who
would otherwise have hesitated and
refused.
FelIow-citizens, the depOsed and
partially exiled iFammany ring has
stolen about $50, 100000 from the city
lf New York. That was most gi-
gantic robbery, and hurled its con-
rivers and abetters from power and
plendor to impOtency and infamy;
Jut thieving carpet-baggers have stolen
It least three times that amount, stolen
t from the already impoverished and
leedy; they still flaunt their pros
,erOus villainy in the brightest places
f the land, aud are addressed as
Excellency. EApplause.l
think L hear voice from honest
,eople of all States, declaring that
heir iniquity shall be gainful and in
olent no longer, at fartherest till the
Jurth of March next. By that time
hose criminals viii have heard the
IatiOnai verdict pronounced, that will
ause them to fol q their tents, like
rabs, and silently steal away. That,
trust, will be the and of their steal
ng, at cost of the good Of our eountry's
and her people.
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