The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-04
THE CAMPAIGN.
GREELEY AT CORY, PA.
STIRRING WORDS FROM THE
SAGE OF CHAPPAQUA.

FELLow-CITIzESs: A presidential cleo
ton necessarily brings into review the
action Of your government and the meas
ures TOR good or ill which affect the pros
perity OF the country and the welfare of
its people. That is its significance, that
Is its purpose. Not that A or Il, who may
be persons Of very moderate capacity and
skill, and more moderate worth, should be
president, or hold some other office; but
that you, the people, should look over the
whole ground, see what is right and what
is amiss, and use your best efforts to cor
rect evils and to sustain what is good.
Now you are aware, as we'll as am, that
our country has not been reconciled and
regulated, and brought into peace and
| order, and that nearly eight years have
| elapsed since the war ended, and peace
and security ought to have been attained
much sooner than this. Look at the diff
culties and obstacles to be overcame now.
| First in point Of view and urgency, was
what We call the Ku-klux outrages of the
| South. Certain persons, mainly open
rebels, and not part rebel soldiers, con-
spired together, formed themselves into
companies or organizations of some kind,
and in hideous DISCUSSES parsded the
country, / mean certain portions of the
Southern country, abusing and mall
treating innocent, quiet people, mainly
| black men. l do not mean to say
there were not excuses and provocations
for their outrages; there were but say
there is no justification for any such con
duct as that. The pretence generally was
what they call the carpet-bag governments
were abominable; it is probably true !;
but that is no excuse for hauling quiet
people out of their beds at midnight and
subjecting them to all manner Of indigni-
ties. So that said did not recommend
particular or extreme measures, but l said
no doubt il is the duty Of the states to
protect their citizens respectively and to
put down all lawlessnsss. But suppose
they don't or cant or won't. The people
are entitled to protection, perfect protec
ton. II the stale governments won't give
| 1t, there must be power somewhere that
will. We look after man who is not more
than half citizen, whom foreign govern.
ment oppresses and all the power of this
man. He may, perhaps, have only de.
clsred his Intention to become a
Citizen but all the cannon and all the
force We can command is employed for hi.
protection. Our government must have
the power to protect its people at home,
rs well as abroad. So said year age
last spring, let the president tell US what
sort of legislation he needs 10 put down
those Ku-klux, and will back him out to
the full extent. He said what he needed
Laws were passed, and after all they did
the work. You have not heard Of any Sc
rious Ku-klux outrages since these acts
were passed. Since these acts were passed
year and half ago, nobody has heard
OF any serious outrage there, though there
have been trials in one or two states, es-
pecslly in North Carolina, yet they are
trials for ofienses committed two or three
years ago, long before the act was passed
7 So the work was done. The Ku-klux con.
| spiracy was crushed out by act Of congress,
and although these outrages occurred in q
] very narrow district Of territory, they dis.
, credited and damaged all the Southern
people who may be suspected of any SYM
i pathy with those who made the outrages
That was one, but still there
remained the other element of dis.
q cord and discomfort at the South, which
was called the carpet-bsg thieves. When
they went into the South with our armies
| q number of shrewd, cunning, unscrupu
lous men undertook TO make themselve
rich out of the poverty and misery Of tn
vanquished South. They made themselve
special leaders and champions of tn
4 black peoples then they organized Uniol
n Leagues and other secret societies of whicl
the fret effect was TO combine all tn,
:. black men Of the South in consolidated
!. Phalanx, and then give the direction Of
the real government, and management o.
9 these black men TO these white leaders
who were called carpet. baggers. So
then, they nominated those for office, and
J they made themselves governors and con
gressmen and secretaries soon, and thew
commenced, through the machinery Of
{ legislation, using simple ignorant negroes