The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-28
GREELEY AMONG THE
PEOPLE.
HIS SPEECHES AT HAMILTON
AND DAYTON.
PATRIOTIC AND STATESMAN
LIKE LUTHERAN CES.

Mr. Greeley arrived ut Hamilton, Ohio,
on the oath inst. His speech to the vast
multitude that assembled to receive him,
is in the following words:
MEN OF OHIO: l bear you joyful gree
tings from the people Of Indiana. APP
plause. have looked into their clear
eyes l have seen the light of heaven re-
Elected from their honest faces, and tell
you that as well as | can read men, / have
read tbem and feel assured that on the
night of the sth of October next they will
send forth Il majestic voice on the side of
nation al reconstruction. [Great. Applause.
The great liberal were now sweeping
ov ersthe country, destined to eilace all dis
tinction Of race and all past bitterness, and
to wipe out all this, will scarcely find any
where hcartier response than from these
people. Last night, not less than 10000
of them met us at Indianapolis to say that
50 far as their state was concerned they
speak in no equivocal voice. They are
with you, liberals of Ohio, and of all other
states, in declaring that strife
having ceased hatred shall cease,
prescription chall cease, disiranchisment
shall cease, and the whole American peo-
pie, united under one flag, and animated
by one patriotic IMPULSE shall march for
ward once more on that career of great
ness and prosperity planned and prepared
for them by our revolutionary fathers.
Applause These fathers, when we
were but thirteen little states, scattered
along the Atlantic border, as though pro-
phetically, called themselves the contin-
entail army.
That was the army which fought the
battle of the revolution, though our coun-
try then covered but a narrow strip of
the Atlantic seaboard, yet in spirit and as
piration the American eagle looked over
across the whole broad land, and said
"This is all mine. This shall all be
planted and watered by the people who
acknowledge my ascendancy." So, friends,
we are resolved not merely that we
shall be united in geography, that there
shall be one government from Texas to
Maine and to Oregon, but there shall be
one willing, joyful, cordial people, Zap
plause, not pinned together by bayonets,
not stricken down and held PROSTATE by
force, but all of them, north and south,
east and west, rejoicing that they are
all. TApplause.1 There is no more
doubt at least that all must be as we pro-
pose We cannot hate each other
forever. We cannot keep raking up the
stories of Andersonville, Salisbury, and
Libby prison to make this people hostile
in heart to those who live below the Ohio
river. We shall learn at last, we shall
come at last, 10 be one people. Why not
now Seven years ago the last shot was
fired seven years and more ago the last
confederate flag was surrendered or
folded, and still we go on holding conven-
tions-military conventions--to emphasize
and aggrandize the triumph of part over
another part. l rejoice in that coming
triumph of the whole nation, when the
| people of the south ahall say to the people
of the north: We rejoice that our coun-
| try WAS not divided, that our mistaken eff
| forts to have southern confedcracy were
defeated. We find at last that it was our
destiny and our blessing to be part
of the American people. SO the south
will say. The time shall be when the
states south Of the Ohio shall rejoice
yearly as you can rejoice, that slavery has
passed away forever, They will feel that
the great chain was lifted from their necks
and that those were broken which bound
their limbs, when 100000 Of American
people were liberated and made citizens of
) this country where they had formerly
, been slaves. They will yet realize tina,
Wv ""' 'o' =" sna'i
} than they would have been So long as a
part of their people were held in bondage
lney WIN reaiizo that what was t1eh
"oahness, mas, through emancipation pc
eplne .ne,r strength ana they VIII rejoice
.nat ho'h,ng now remains 10 mar the
and their country. SO their fellow citi-
A'n' nav oeeh asAGu W SURRENDER seees-
. ., W apnhuon slavery W enirahch'se
. .hua' ro,oieu iei'ow ei.l]ens' oia every
.hihs reasonapie ana proper 10 make our
triumph perfect. NOW we say, ana they
tioh ana Jealousy perish forever. lap
P'Tusel
Let US lorgeI tnat we nave fought; let us
remember ohiy that we nave made peace
iet US say that there shall be no degrade
n t,on no people over. oyer whom we triumph