Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-22

Morton and Chandler and Gen. Butler.
The Senator is saying, "Well, all may for
give Rebels if they will, but ! never
eaRsa---N0w, that spirit is not the
one which should rule a Republican
country. A Republic should be generous
and faithful, generous TO errors whereof
the very last evil consequences have long
since faded away. Grant that il was
wrong, indefensibly wrong, the attempt
has been r nobly battled and
defeated. Grant that the whole
Confederate movement was as heinOus as
you please; still it was utterly defeated, it
became lost cause, aud there is no
more probability, aud might
say, DO more possibility of an
other serious attempt to divide this
American Union, than there is of an at
tempt TO disrupt and destroy the solar sys-
/ tenn. Never before did the Union stand so
strong as to-day. Never was its future so
assured as Il is. to-day, and never did any
movement result in more complete and Ut
ter discontinue than the Confederate move
ment. Then | say, seven and half years
| alter the last Shot was fired in the behalf of
that mOvmeIi, 1T is time for amnesty
| complete and perfect, il is time for oblivion
| OF Ofienses that so long since passed away.
| Fellow citizens, we stand on the princi-
| pies embodied IN our platform. Those
| principles our sdversaries do not assail.
! They confess Judgment, but they insinuate
| that a purpose is therein indicated which Is
! not our real purpose, and that we mean
something utterly different, aud therenp0u
they proceed TO attribute 10 Us
purposes which We never cher
shed, which we positively diSsvow,
and which they ought to know
are utterly absTrd. The most important
of them are utterly forbidden by The con-
stitutiOn, and they know it. No man can
go to Congress, or be chosen President,
without taking solemn oath TO sustain
the constitution, which absolutely fOrbids
the payment Of the Rebel debt or the pay
ment for emancipated slaves.
Lcommend my caase to the sober judg-
ment of the American people. 1 ask them
10 Judge us without prejudice, without pas
sion, and with spirits unin6uenced by wrath
and vengeance. | ask them TO judge us as
citizens who are sincerely trying TO do what
we believe best for our country, and / do
trust that passion and prejudice will not
prevail, that we shall be judged as we are,
and not as we are represented, and that
the beniicent triumph which will increase
the value of every acre Of land in the
Southern States, which will increase the !
product of these States, make their
people harmonic, black and white, |
and make them live in al
more truthful, peaceful and fraternal rela- |
Lon than they have hitherto held towards |
each Uther-I trust that this result viii be |
attained and that generations to come shall |
rejoice over the inception, the progress and |
the triumph of the Liberal movement. |
(App!ause.) Friends, 1 bid yeu good /
night.
AT the close of the speech Mr.. Greeley |
retired aRjd loud and repeated cheers.
Cannons were fired at intervals during the !
speech, and rockets aud other fireworks |
displayed. --- O. 47,
Still worrying O'COnOr.
New YORK, Sept. Pit is reported /
that Chas. O'COnO- has written leLter 10 |
4 member of the StraightOut Democratic |
Committee, accepting the nomination Cf |
the Louisville Convention, Z. z. Sykes,
one of the leaders In the movement says !
O'COnor Uses these words in his letter: al
do accept the Louisville nomination"
Senator Bayard of Delaware returned |
from Europe yesterday, his health greatly
improved.
Seymour and PendIetOn 80 Take the
stump.
Special to the st. Louis Republican.
NEW YORK, Sept. l9.-The Tribune an
noInees that Hon. Horatio Seymour, the /
man of all others who has most reason TO |
be lukewarm in his support OF Mr.. Greeley,
takes the stump for the ticket and Platform |
of Cincinnati, as adopted at Baltimore, in |
company with his old antagonist, Hon. DE |
Witt G. Littleiohn.
Hon. Geo. II. PendlatOn, who returned /
from Europe in the steamer arriving night |
before last, has already started for Ohio for /
the same purpose. He pledges himself
until the day Of election.
Grants Advocate General.
. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19'-Attorney-G Cen
eral Williams, whose three months service
on the stump in Oregon in the spring were
of such value TO the Radical canvass as to
render the defeat of Liberal for the Uni
ted States Senate from that State extreme
II doubtful, has decided TO 10 il again.
He has already done more political service
to the Grant party ehan any of the other
members OF the cabinet, and yet the party !
compel him to again take the stump. He /
will start next week, aud before his return
will speak in The principal cities Of Pennsyl-
vania and New York.
In the meantime astOuishment is express |
ed here that Bslknap has not made single |
speech during the campaign, but has re-
nlained all summer at his official duties