Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-29

NEW YORK, July ga Greensboro, N. c.,
special states that Carl Schurz made speech
there last night, in which he said he had be.
lon9ed to the an:i-slavery party all his lle and
if he was not now fighting in the ranks of the
republican party it was their fault, not his lie
advocated congressional acts of reconstruction
in order to secure to the negroes their civil and
political rights. After this il became their duty
to secure political rights and privileges to rebe,s
who had laid down their arms in good faith
Then it was that the flag of amnesty was plant
ed with the flag Of justice, and Greeley was its
standard bearer. He said the democratic party
for years legislated to keep itself in power by
corruption and fraud, and the republican party
was doing the same now.
The kukluX laws placed great power in the
hands of the administration, which was being
now used for the baSest purposes. The federal
arm was being reached into the affairs Of the
states, and the merits were not even safe. He
claimed that the votes of colored men were cor
ruptly controlled by carpet-baggers, who had
also robbed and plundered the south, and were
countenanced in so doing by the republican
party, republican congressman and the admins
tration; by its deputy marshals, the republican
party was at this time controlling elections
south, and unfolding the most atrocious system
of government that ever cursed a people free in
name only.
He then gave history of the liberal move
ment, maintaining that the Cincinnati banner was
that of the true republican party. He denied
BOutwelS statement that the democrats OPP
posed emigration, and said oppressive taxation
by plundering carpet baggers was not an induce
ment to emigrants. He thought it strange that
Boutwell, should advise southerners against
claSping hands across the bloody chasm OF the
war, saying the heart must be obdurate to
counsel against uniting in harmony, friendship
and peace. When the bloody chaSm was once
bridged by clasped hands there would be no
longeri any need Of republican party. The
disclosure of the rebel plans to burn northern
cities was being paraded before the people of the
north to keep alive the old war feeling, and if
the republican party could not live and
prosper except by deSpotism, corruption
and revival of war animosities, it
does not deserve to live. He urges
republicans to trust rebel soldiers who could
not offer better evidence of their acceptance of
the issues of the war than that they now rallied
around the Greeley banner.
He referred to the needs of the colored people
and advised them to cultivate friendly relations
with the whites, for they never could live happy
if the white man is not their friend. He claimed
that if the coored vote now compact and solid,
were divided between the two political parties,
both parties would be equally interested in
securing to them their rights.
In addressing the rebel soldiers present, he
said there was full confidence felt in them in the
north; but admOniShed them, il armed, bands
were allowed to scourge a citizen, no matter of
what color, the liberal republicans would not
be able to stem the channel of civilization
and protect them. II there are more recur-
rences of disorder, take swift and retributive
measures into your hands, and let the federal
government see that confederate soldiers are
not only able, but willing and resolved that life
and property shall be protected in your homes,
your counties, and in every one of your states.
He then read the letter Of Pleasonton relative
to the st. Domingo business, closing up by say
ing that now it simply remained question of
Yeraeity between PleasOntOn md Gen. Grant.