The Portland daily press., 1872-09-26
HORACE'S PILGRIMAGE.
Another Speech Mt Cleveland.
He RejOices i'm the Conversion of the De.
mOcracy.

CLEVELAND o., Sept. 25.-Horace Greeley
and party arrived here last evening and were
received at the depot and escorted to Monu-
mental square, where he addressed large au-
dience, directing his words to the advance
guard of liberty and the old time abolitionists
OF the western reserve, rejoicing that the De-
moeracy had abandoned its hostility to equal
rights, and saying that he desired the Demo-
cratic party four years ago to nominate Mr.
Chase, hoping they would then adopt the plat
form they have now adopted Some doubted
the sincerity of the Democratic party but
backward step could not be taken. He would
rejoice even if he was defeated in the election
il through his name as candidate an end should
be made of all contention concerning equal
rights OF man. "We should be done with this
old time controversy. Great questions concern
ing the rights, interests and duties of labor are
now for public attention and should be dis
cussed. The rubbish and debris of the old
time controversy should be swept away. All
we need now is cheerful acgaiescence of the
people OF all parties in the Constitution as pro-
claimed. The questions of taxation, finance,
labor and the interests of labor demanded at
tentlon, but all the men of the country must
have equal rights. This must first be disposed
Of After further remarks Mr.. Greeley retired
At Corry-Hc is Troubled.
TTTUsvILLE, Pa, Sept 25.-Mr. Greeley spoke
at Cory to-day in favor of reconciliation and
in denunciatiOn of the Ku Klux outrages and
the carpet-bag governments of the South A
to the case of Arkansas, where 10000 property
holders are still dsfranchised, and where Pow
ell, Clayton and his subordinates are the State
board of canvassers with absolute power to re-
ject whatever votes they, see fit and bring about
such a result as they choose 81 want" said
Mr.. Greeley, "you to see that this thing all
goes back on you people of the United States.
You are sustainers of these iniquities If W.
had a Government at Washington. which
frowned upon these evils that Government
cto oil this buc in q tip,a
Men who are robbing South Carolina to-day
would be on a dead race out of that State two
days after they had heard that another Govern
ment was about to be installed at Washington.
Just as Bullock resigned and ran away, so these
men would all get out if they did Lot feel that
the mighty arm of the Federal Government was
outstretched for their protection and defence
1t is against this niquity that we fight. The
villains who corrupt elections in Arkansas ara
all shouting for Grant, shouting and working
for him, and they are gaining immunity for
their crimes. Fellow-citizens, do not know
what will be the decision of the people in the
contest now before us. Everybody else is very
confident that what they wish will be the re-
suit. 1 only know. that if the people could
look into these wicked governments at the
South and see them as they are they would no
longer be sustained by the public sentiment of
the North. know that, and believe the light
is creeping in. Two-thirds of your journals
have never told the people what the truth is about
and they conceali facts, and as consequence
the people do not understand them. To-day
they say, what reconciliation do you want?
They say we are reconciled, what more do you
want? Now / am not reconciled to having
such robbers govern the State. want to be
reconciled; l want governments that honest
men can afford 10 be reconced to. plead for
reconciliation. The Southern people have
greatly sinned in my judgment, and they have
greatly suffered. had friend who went
down to South Carolina, spent some time there
and came back. He is a very Jealous Republi-
can. He said he had seen many things he did
not like. He said he saw a man there who,
when secession began, was living in Paris on an
allowance from his father of 900 year.
He is now clerk to q negro assessor IN Charles
ton at 81 per day, and mighty glad to get it.
Now such things do take place. and l do think
the people have suffered a great deal.
l think it is time that a generous hand was
outstretched to aid them. 1 think it is time
for the Northern people to say to their country
blacks shall be enfranchissd, and they have
been enfranchised ;now then, we insist that you
shall be enfranchised likewise. There are 20,-
600 DISTINGUISHED this day in Arkansas, and
the only hope of carrying that State for Grant
is to keep them disfranchised That is one of
their purposes to keep them disfranchised. All
over the South there are such iniquities as this
l think, hiden from the light. Now then. we
want the Northern people to say to the South,
to those who have been our enemies, let us for
get the past, let us come together on one COM
mon platform, wipe out all acknowledgements,
all prescription with us on the common plat
form of nationality, on equal rights and equal
| laws for all the people, and let us again take
| hold and push forward the mighty republic in
its career ef greatness and prosperity.