Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-07-24
Senator Wilson in North Carolina.

Senator Henry Wilson addressed a large
meeting at Wilmington. n. c., last Thursday
lie said that after an absence Of five years.
during which be had heard Of ruin in North
Carolina, he again stood anon. them and
found their city increased in prosperity aad
their condition improved. lie continued
IS I cannot see nor do YOU feel the alleged
desp0tism OF the United States Government
The country IL arrayed to-day in two grand
organizations Each have their politics aud
their principles They are arraye1 against
each other.
The contest i not between the ideas and
principles of these or gan cations. You could
as well have been IN Lee 5 amy and say
you fought for the Union, a. to vote for the
Cincinnati and Baltimore ticket und say you
voted for Republicans. \ vote for Greeley
Is a vote 10 defeat the Republican party.
and defeat means determination Ii Is not
time for the Republican party to die. as
some say. 1t has Just begun 10 live. and
viii lave a thousand years 1t has done
more Tor the country. for liberty. ID lift up
dOwn-trodden humanity and TO make the
United States government grand and glori-
Gus than any organization that ever existed
on God : green earth.
lie said that the Republican party was the
The party has been right 10 every issue it
has maintained during its existence. but
before II dies be desired that il should do
something toward converting some three mil
lion Democrats. One step has already been
taken by the Democrats when they went into
convention al Baltimore AMI nominated two
Republicans tie had acted with the Repub-
lIcan party because II had advocated the idea
At all men are equal. whether black or
white. There has been no despotsm by the
federal government. y, book of history can
be opened and show where any country on
the face of the earth has been so mrrrilul.
Mr. Wilson then referred to the progressive
steps of the antI-slayery movement. and sand
that he spoke the sentiments of nine tenths
of the Northern men when he said they never
entertained sentiment of hatred toward
the Southern section Of our country. You
expected subjugation at the close of the war
that some OF your men would be impris-
oned, tried and executed, but not a man has
been tried for treason. He showed that the
reconstruction measures OF Congress were a
necessity forced upon Congress by the mac
ton and wrong action of Southern men
themselves, that those measures were not
prompted by unkind feelings lie refuted the
the allegation Of the despotism of the Ku-
Klux act, and stated that while the two
Houses OF Congress IN 1871 were at variance
on that subject, Horace Greeley wrote
leader saying that a government that would
not protect its own citizens ought to be swept
from the face of the earth
The President sent a short message to Con
gress asking for the passage OF law t.
punish the Ku-Klux. Ii had the effect of a
battle order, and the act was passed immedi-
ately. The Government was fully informed
of the doings of the Ku-klux by members
Of its organization. The Democrats who
have taken Mr.. Greeley can say no more
about the despOtism of the Ku-Klux acts.
He then urged the Republicans of North
Carolina to carry this State election as fhe
people Of the United States are looking upon
their vote at this ii as the settlement of
the Presidential contest. Garry the election
in this State and that will be the last of the
acknowledgements ticket. Give US
victory here and we will carry twenty-seven
States. Mr. Wilson then defended the
Administration of the charges of stealing,
stating that there had been less stealing
under Grant than under any other President
tor quarter of a century. He closed with
a warm oulogy of President Grant"