New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-16
GREELEY.

MIR. Greeley at POrtland-RecOnciliati
and Peace-NO Claim for Office at His
Hands-ImmOdest Oflce-seekers Re-
buked-The South Demands Justice,
Desires RecOnciliRtIOn-Raid on ThieV-
ing Carpet-baggers.
PORTLAND, Ne, August 15.-The follow
ing is the address of Mr. Greeley in the City
Hall yesterday:
Mr.. Chairman ladies and gentlemen-It
is certainly true that throughout the whole
of my life, so far as j have been connected
with public affairs, that / have struggled
with such capacity as God has given me,
| for: First, impartial and universal liberty;
second, for the union and greatness of our
| common country; third, and by no means
| the least when the former end was attained,
| for the hearty and early reconciliation and
! peace among our cOuntrymen.
For these great ends have ! struggled,
| and l hope the issue Of the third is not
| doubtful. / thoroughly comprehend that
| no personal consideration has drawn this
| vast assembly together. Other higher and
| gTander considerations have collected you
| around me to-day.
Il is 4 part of the unwritten law of our
! country that candidate for the Presidency
| NAV not speak in vindiCatiOn and COmmen-
dation Of the principles wAeTe0n he is sup
ported in the measure which his election is
intended TO promote, though a candidate
for the Vice Presidency is under no such IN
| bibitiOn.
not merely acquiesce in the restriction,
| but recognize and affirm the prOpriety of
such restriction. The temptation to misin-
terpret and msrepresent a candidate for
the higher post is so great, the means of
circulating such perversiOns among people
who never see a word of their retutatiOn,
are so vast, that a candidate has no moral
right TO subject his friends tO the perils he
must brave, if not invited by taking a part
in the canvass. Yet there is truth to be ut
tered IN the behalf of those who have
placed me before the American people in
my present attitude, which does them such
honor that l claim the privilege Of stating
it here. This is that truth: No person has
ever yet made the fact known that be pro
posed to support, or actively did support
my nomination, whether at Cincinnati, at
Baltimore, or in the action which resulted
in the sending of delegates TO either con
ventiOn. as the basis Of claim for othce at
my hands
No one wLO favored my nomination be
fore either ,onTentiOn or at either cOnven-
ton has sought an Office at my hands,
either for himself or for any one else. Nor
has any one suggested 20 me that | might
strengthen myself sB candidate by
promising TO appoint any one to any i'm
portant Office whatever. In a very few in
stances less than dozen of the small fry of
politicians have since my double nomination
claimed that / might increase my chances
of election By promising a pOstOffice or
SOM such office 10 ny voluntary cores
pOadonts respectively.
/ have not Usually responded to these
Oyertures, but I now give general notice
that, should be elet ted ] will consider the
claims Of these untimely aspirants after
those Of the more modest end rcticent shall
have been fully satisfied. Applause.
In two or three instances | have been
asked to say whether ! woCld or would not,
if elected, confne my appointments to Re
pubEcaus. I answer these by pointing to
wherein all who concur N the principles
therein set forth are CoTdi -,
invited to participate II taei "a
tablishment and vindicatiou. navel
vet heard Of a man who ;,uital
his neighbors 70 help him rAiss q 80 ar, asl