Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-09-27

Union should be prescribed. Those Of us
who stood for it are continually denounced
if we do not happen to agree with Others In
our personal politics.
Here stands one who is charged by them
with being a secessionist Gould that be
true +? Look the facts in the face. When
Lincoln heD1heen elected and this conspira-
cy forl d began to advocate itself, we
ra1 leals were told by your own mon. and
ID ! still more by those out of the circle,
you must back" out of your republi sanism,
you must surrender your opposition to the
extension Of slavery or consent to great
civil war. This they said was The only al
Tentative. ~Bloodshed and devastation over
the whole country, or you shall surrender
principles on which you have just carried
the election. was one Of those who said
that there was no such alternative deni-
ed that the Southern people, the gre.t ma
jority Of them, are against the Uaion. [
demanded that there should be op~n, fres
discussion before the Southern people, and
an honest, unterri6ed, unconstrained vote,
and if they approve, if the people of the
South say they want disunion, will con-
sent to it. I know they will not
I know that the Southern people, the
great majority of them, would have voted
as they actually did that wiuter-not for se-
cession, but for clinging to the Union; and
now to-day, if the nation were to be imper-
Tiled and there were just two modes saving
| it, to trust to the chances of civil war or to
| the chances of free, fair vote of the South
ern people, I would greatly prefer to take
the latter chance, rather than the former ;
for, fellow citizens they do greatly misun-
: 'derstand and maign this American people
when they assume that in cold blood, before
there had been clash of arms, the people
in the South, any more than the people in
| the North, desired disunion. In its incep
ton, in its origin, the great masses of those
who consented to this secession movement
meant nothing by it but to back down the
North and make US consent to the extension
of slavery. That was their purpose, ard
that purpose [ did my best to resist ami de-
feat. i,.i Il
Well, the war is ended, and I think ii
ought to be. We had great, terrible,
a bloody, destructive civil war. Our sue
cess was perfect The defeat of our adver-
saries was more complete than any defeat
recorded in history. They have suffered
much, they have conceded all.
Cannot we afford to be magnanimous?-
At least they say that the Southern people
may vote. Some of them may, but the in
slant they vote the cry is raised, ''See how
these fellows vote p They cry, "You
must vote the other way?', Is that an cleo
ton? 1t is only the fashion of war in an
other aspect. iuar
Mr.. Greeley here spoke in complimentary
terms of the prosperity and growth Of Pitts
burg, and closed by asking the people to
grasp the hand held out by their Southern
brethren, and forget they had been enemies.
How q Grant Ten Otel x eeper Treat
ed CoiOred Veterans.
There is in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a
large hotel called the Monongahala House.
Its owners and managers are among the
staunchest hackers of the Administration -
On the occasion of the late Soldiers and
Sailors Convention it was the most profuse-
~ and richly decorated building in the city ,
and all the leading lights Of the Administra-
ton party stopped there during the session
of the Convention. But the manager Of
the Monongahala House wasnot sufficiently
reconstructed to be willing to, put colored
delegates on an equal footing with his white
guests. Here follows the tale as given in a
dispatch from Pittsburg -.
The Washington Veteran Club, compris-
ed Of some 220 persons, made arrangements
many weeks ago for apartments and board
at this hotel The white men Of the delega.
ton we're at once assigned rooms, but LIE wis
Douglass, son Of Frederick Douglass, and
the other colored veteran members OF this
delegation, we're denied accommodations.
Incensed at the action of the proprietor, the
President Of the Club, General Chapman,
held consultation with the delegation,
when it was decided to secure quarters else
where, and the Club fled out of the hotel
and were taken in charge by number of
citizens. In justice to the proprietor it may
be stated that he was willing to receive the
colored men if they would be satisfied with an
apartment by themselves, in which table
could be spread, and whsre they would be
made as comfortable as circumstances would
permit, but this was not satisfactory, and
the delegation departed, as has been stated
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