The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-03
THE NATIONAL CANVASS.
PROGRESS And INCIDENTS OF THE
GREELEY CAMPAIGN.
The Liberal Candidate for Vice.Preat-
dent Makes a Great Speech.

dOu. d. GEalZ DTOwu m6uo u W
effective speeches of the campaign at Logans.
port, Indiana, on the 9th of September. The
keynote of this elaborate effort Is given In the
following paragraphs:
The administration Of the President and his
party represents almost excluslYely the idea
of force, finding warrant Tor lib exercise IN
the sentiment of hate; and as force 10 Without
law, 80 hate Is without morality. Where re-
strained by the semolance OF pubic opinion
YOU find the spirit developing IN an official
dicIation 10 the people; where all antagonistn
Is crushed it. enacts a conquest and riots 10
fraud and pillage. lis Sign OF ~ascendancy at
the North is patronage; at the South plunder.
Discords are essential TO It's supremacy as The
food 1t feeds on, and accordingly 1t aims to
revive antagonisms rather than allay them.
monopoly the presentment made to capitalists,
and place the reward to its W following.
Whatever prosperity exists In business 1t
claims credit for In the name Of order; where
failures overtake ils policies 1t excuses them
in the interest of peace, and yet both peace
and prosperity are w%anlonly trafacked for
power. In the remarks which I shall make TO-
day my purpose Is 10 enter a pleading before
you in behalf Of friendly union and goodwill
among all The citizens Of our common coun-
Try against the longer encouragement of an
alienation stimulated for political ends and
that would p~recipltate opposing parties Into
hostile camps. That the policy OF the admin
l~sLration has not been q success In accom-
plishiDg The great aud controlling demand of
the people for reconciliation ID now admitted
on al sides save those OF blgoled partisan.hIp.
The evidence Is 90 convincing as to have salts
fed the most sceplical. 1t is shown In the re-
vulsion OF the sentiment of Southern COmmu-
miles from respect and Difference towards the
Federal executive TO the very opposite. II is
-tr - tLo hltfnnnaon r1hfnJ Ia AnanlIn~
there and everywhere between The white and
the black races. 1t ls displayed In the call Tor
new and harsher Legislation from Congress, In
the exposure Of that ruin wrought by the car
pet-bag governments, and In the revolt of q
large section of the Republican party from q
lead so destructive TO all future hope and 80
falthless to ali past profession. Nothing can
be clearer than the fact, whatever may be the
excuses set up, that the President and his
party have not been equal to the task OF re-
storing cordial relations towards the govern
ment and harmony between the races. And
even party leaders concede as much when
they propose to conduct the present canvass
on old issues, to kindle again hatreds, to fight
over the wal. It ID the recognition OF this
failure that has thrown them back on the ne
cessity OF celebrating q campaign out OF past
passions. No more complete proof Of delin-
quency In the conduct OF national affairs could
10 o y bhna AZ fAoo ~ " - p"S
mouths Of the most pronounced advocates.
Wendell Phillips dlscourses i1cendiarlsm TO
the black population; Senator Morgan declaims
malIynity to the white population. The one
wants the President retained In power until
the Confederates at the South are all buried;
the other until the poor relations at the North
are all surfelted with office. AS to the means OF
doing 80 they are alike Indifferent, provided
only it be harsh and unrepublican. With this
appeal OF theirs / wisn first to deal, and shall
endesvor to show you that 1t has less f0unda-
tlon In any Justice, Is scarcely less criminal
and Infinitely more dangerous than even the
neglected duty and demOrallzed rule that has
preceded.
Trade and and finance cannot
Withstand social convulslon, and yet 1t is the
old autagonism of SECTIONS they Invoke by
parade aud exRggeratIon Of whatever will re-
vlve resentment at The North against the
South. The great market that should con.
sumo The agricultural products of the Middle.
States cannot be founded anew when strife
ls brewing, and yet 1t Is the memories OF
slavery, the battlefield and prison life that
are c0nJured up to ~disorg8ulze all labor In
the cotton States and To. inlsme the soldiery
or the Union against the surrender of the
Confederate cause; and, more than all else,
1t Is the occurrence OF any disorder, past or
present; the pretence Of any conspiracy, or
the allegation of any hostility to the settle
ments, that Is seized upon with an aVidity
unworthy OF true courage to spread q Cloud
of terrorism over one-halt the land, and 10
coerce the other Into acquiescencs 10 mis-
rule. This is the old device OF tyranny 10
Intrench Its power-as true to-day Of Anna
deus, in Spain, as 1t was but yesterday of
Louis Napoleon, In France; not that plots
and vlOlences may not have occurred, but
they do not touch the great body Of the peo-
pie, are no warrant for restricted liberties,
and are always signs of danger TO freedom.