Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-20
POLITICAL.
Horace 6reeiey,s westward, no
Seathing Rebuke Of the Pittsburg
" Parade. e
Powerful Plea for Reconciliation.

PIrTsBURG, Sept. l9.-Horace Greeley
and party reached this city at seven O'Clock
this evening and viii leave for Cincinnati
at l:30in the morning. Mr.. Greeley was
met at the depot by large torch light pro-
cession and escorted 10 the st. Charles
Hotel, where he delivered from the balcony
the following address:
Fellow citizens: The wise king says there
is a time for war and time for peaca. The
city of Pittsburg has recently witnessed q
rehearsal Of the pomp and pageantry, the
blazonry and circumstances of civil war. A
very large number of men were collected,
at q vast expense, with the single purpose
Of rekindling the bitterness and hatred, the
animosity and antipathies, the fears and
civilizations of civil war, for the advantage
Of q political party. l take you to
witness that the greater portion OF the
Journals Of Pittsburg, as well as the ora
tors, on this occasion have been trying their
best to make US, the people, hate each other
for the sake OF partizan advantage. a
stranger would imagine who was reading
the journals of Pittsburg for the last few
DAYS, that we were still At war, and that
their purpose was to revive and to exas-
perate the hatred and animosity Of civil war
in order TO intensity and invigorxte their
side of the conflict. They talk about reb-
els and traitors. Fellow-citizens, are We
never to be done with this? We demanded
of our adversaries in the great civil war that
they surrender their arms and go TO heir
homes. They surrendered them. We de-
handed that they enfranchise the blacks,
and the blacks are enfranchised.
None but white Men
now stand DISTINGUISHED on the soil Of our
country. We demanded that they stipu-
late that the emancipated slaves shall not
be paid for, and that the Rebel debt shall
ne, er be paid by the Government or by the
States, and they sssented to that. So far
ss can see, every demand made on the
part of the loyal States and
the loyal people has been fully
complied with on the part OF
those lately In rebellion. Everything has
been done that we asked. Everything ha~
been conceded; and still they tell US, Why
we want them to repent Have they not
brought forth words of meet repentance
In thus coming together In solemn conven-
ton? The representatives Of the Southern
people have given their assent TO the plat
form Of the Cincinnati Convention, which
was the most intense, the
most complete Republican platform
that had ever been presented by any Ma
tional convention. However, all this being
done, we are told by these gentlemen who
met here that all tbs Is mockery, all thi:
Is fraud, you don't mean anything BY It
and the cry goes on Rebels and traitors
Rebels and traitors, denunciation, pro
scription, the same IS ever. Four years
ago In the Republican convention 1t wa
declared that this
Prescription Should speedily Cease
Four years have passadIand still 1t Is main
tanned. There are at this day Thousands
of the people of Arkansas alone prohibited
the most intelligent, the most responsible
people of that State, forbidden to exercis,
the right of suffrage, forbidden exclusiVel.
by the party that meets here and shout
| for Grant and Wilson. Nobody asks 70
prescription but them. No other part,
requires that any human belD
should stand prescribed on our sol
for a rebellion that ceased seven and
half years ago. No party, no man Of any
party doubt this, not the very part: that
held a great military parade this week, In
order to further aud further separate an
| divide the hearts of the American people
from each other. They bold essential t
their triumph that hatred should continue
that distrust, suspicion and alienation
should continue. Do what you will, d
what you may, they are ..
Determined NOT TO be Satisfied.
Nor, fellow citizens, is it not enough
that those who fought against the Unto
should be prescribed. Those who stoo
for it are equally denounced, II we do no
happen to agree with them in our preseI
politics. Here stands one who Is charge
by them with being
A secessIOnist.
Could that be true, fellow citizens? Look th
facts In the face. When Lincoln had bee
elected, and this conspiracy for sece:
sion began to advance itsel
we Republicans were told
our own men and told still more by tho
out of the circle, you must back out Of you
Republi canism. You must surrender yor
pposition to the extension Of slavery
consent to s great civil war. This, the
said, was the only alternative. Blood she
and devastation over the whole country,
YOU shall surrender the principles on Whit
Won have Just carried the election. / W
one of those who said, No, there is no sue
alternative; | deny that the Southel
people, the great minority OF them a
against the Union; demand that there shs
be an open free discussion before the Soul
ern people and an honest interrided unco
strained vote; IL they approve, il the Peep
of the South say they want disunion "
, consent to 1t; ! know III
will not. know that the Southern Poop
, that the great majority would have vote
as thew actually did that winter, not (
I secession but for clinging TO the unto
4 Aud now to day, II the nation were to
imperiled, and there we're just two mod
Of saving it, to trust to the chances OF
!, civil war or to the cha
; ces of Ia free, fair W
!, of the Southern people, l would great
J prefer to take the latter chance rather tn
the former. For, fellow citizens, they
b greatly misunderstood aud malign Il
American people when they assume that
J cold blood before there had been any ella
of arms the people in the South, any mi
than thoss in the North, desired disunit
In Its inception, in It's origin, the sr'
masses of those who consent
to the secession movement meant nothii
by it but to back down the North and ma
8 us consent to the eItsnsioRi of slavery. tt
= was their purpose, and that purpose
g nav best to resist and defeat. Well, the v
r Is ended, and 1t ought to be ended.
: had great, terrible, a destructive q
10 war. Our success was perfect. i
Is defeat Of the adversary was mt
= complete than any defeat recorded
g history. They have suffered much. I'll
have conceded all. Can not We afford
T. be INSTANTANEOUS at last? They see,
e low-citizens, they see that the South
b people may vote. Some Of them may,
IS the instant they vote, the cry Is ran
II s1see how these fellows VOTE" The
YOU must vote the other W
la that an election or Is 1t only the FASH
of war in another aspect? Fellow-citize
YOU belong to one of the great hives
American industry. plead here for pc
T. aud reconciliation, for the interest esp
H. ally of this busy, prosperous, energ'
es people. How / have sympathized VI
K Pittsburg, how have wondered and
" mired her magnificent growth, you SUI
Or do know. No place on the Continent
ne been dearer to me than Pittsburg. IL
r has been no spot in whose prospeTit
,s have more heartily rejoiced and this is
be cause / believed her prosperity was fir
IN linked and bound together with the p
:. | .>n-{,v opd growth of Our whOl0 COuul