The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-08-22
Horace Greeley makes a Speech.


Chappaqua at Portland, Me-, on Thursday last,
our distinguished candidate for the Presidency
made the following timely and eloquent ad-
dress:
MIR. CHAIRMAN AND LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN 1t is certainly true that throughout the
course of my life, so far as 1 have been con-
nected with public affairs, I have struggled
with such capacity as God has given me for,
first, impartial and universal liberty; second,
for the union and the greatness of our common
country and third, and by no means least,
when the former ends were attained. for an
early and hearty reconciliation and peace
among our countrymen. For these great ends
I have struggled, and hope the issue OF the
third is not doubtful.
thoroughly comprehend that no personal
consideration has drawn this vast assembly TO-
gether. Other high and grander considerations
have collected YOU around me to-day. 1t is
part of the unwritten law of our country that
candidate for the Presidency may not make
speeches in yindication and in commendation
of the principles whereupon he is supported,
or the measures which his election is intended
to promote; though candidate for Vice Pres
ident is under no such inhibition. I not mere
ly acauesce in the restriction, but also fully
recognize and affirm its propriety. The temp
tation to misnterpret and misrepresent a can
ddate for the higher post is so great, the means
of circulating such perversions among people
who never see word of their refutation are
so vast that candidate has no moral right to
subject his friends to the perils he must brave,
if not invite, by taking part in the canvass;
Yet there is a truth to be uttered in behalf OF
those who have placed me before the American
people in my present attitude, which does them
such honor, that claim the privilege of stating
it here and now.
This is that truth-no person has ever yet
Yport or actively did support my nomination,
whether at Cincinnati or Baltimore or in any
action which resulted in sending delegates to
either convention as the basis for claim for
Office at my hands. No one who favored my
nomination before either convention, or at
either convention, has sought Office either for
himself or any one else; or has any suggested
to me that I might strengthen myself as can
didate by promising to appoint any one to any
important office whatever. In very few in
stances, less than dozen, am certain some OF
the smaller fry of politicians have, since my
double nomination, limited to me that l might
increase nv chances of election by promising
q post Office, or some such Office, to my volun-
teer correspondents respectively. l have not
usually responded to these overtures, but now
give general notice that, should l be elected, L
will consider the claims of these untimely as
pirants after those of the more modest and
reticent shall have been fully satisfied. Ap-
plause.] In two or three instances, have
been asked to say whether would or would
not, if elected, conine my appointments to Re
publicans. / answer these by pointing to the
plank in the Cincinnati platform wherein all
who concur in the principles therein set forth
| ;o1I tn rtI m
vindication. I never yet heard of man who
invited his neighbors to help him raise house,
and proceeded to kick them out of it as soon as
the roof was fairly over his head. For my own
part. recognize every honest man who ap-
proves and adheres to the platform as my po-
| iitical brother; and as such fully entitled to
my confidence and friendly regard.
One other point demands word. Those ad-
verse to me and what pledges l have given to
those lately hostile to the Union to secure their
favor and support, Ianswer no man or woman,
in all the South, ever asked of me, either di-
rectly or through another, any other pledge
than is given in all my acts and words. From
the hour of General Robert e. Lees surrender,
down to this moment, no Southern man ever
hinted to me an expectation, hope or wish that
the rebel debt, whether Confederate or State,
should be assumed or paid by the Union and
| no southern man, Wuo Coulu pe eieeeeu w q
Legislature, or made colonel of militia regl-
ment, ever suggested the pensioning OF all the
| rebel soldiers, or any of them, even as remote
nossibility. All who nominated me were per-
fectly aware that upheld and justified Federal
LEGISLATION to repress Ku Klux conspiracy and
outrapes. though [ had long ago insisted as
strenuously as now do, that complete amnes-
ty and general oblivion of the bloody and
hateful past would do more for the suppression
and utter extinction of such outrages, than all
the force bills and suspension of ha6eas corpus
ever devised by man. Wrong and crime must
be suppressed and punished; but far wiser and
nobler is the legislation and the policy by
which they are prevented. From those who
support me in the South, / have heard but one
demand-iustice; but one desire, reconciliation.
They wish to be heartily reunited, and at
peace with the North, on any terms which DO
not involve the surrender of their manhood.
They ask that they should be regarded and
treated by Federal authority as citizens-.not
culprits-so long as they obey and uphold ev-
ery law consistent with equality and right:
They desire rule which, alike for white and
black, shall encourage industry and THRIFT, and
discourage rapacity and villainy. They cher
isb n ioyful hope, in which fully concur, that
between the 5th of November and the 4th of
March next. quite number Of Governors and
other dirnitaries who, in the absurd name of
Repubicanism and loyalty, have, for years,
been piIing debts and taxes upon their war
wasted States, will follow the wholesome exam
ple of Bullock, of Georgia-seek the shades of
private r life. The darker and deeper those
Shades, the better for themselves and for man
kind, and the hope that my election may have
the much-dcsircd hegira of thieving carpet
baggcrs, has reconcicd to the necessity Of sup
porting me many who would otherwise have
hesitated Fellowctizcns, the deposed and
partially exed oa i'd Tammany ANN ring ,f nave & stolen %or
That was Il most gigantic robbery, and hurled
its contrivcrs and abcttors from power and
splcndor to impotcncy and inf'my; but the
thieving carpct-baggcrs have stolen at the least
calculation three times that amount; stolen it
from a people already impoverished and needy
aud they still aaunt their prosperous vlllainy