Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-20
Hon. Henry Wilson in North Carolina.
Admirable Exposition of Political At
fairs.

WILMINGTON, N. c., July Ex-senator Henry
Wilson addressed large meeting here yester-
day. He said that after an absence of five years,
during which he had heard of ruin in North
Carolina he again stood among them, and
found their city increased in prosperity and
their condition improved. He said
81 cannot see nor do You feel the alleged DIES.
potism of the United States government. The
country is arrayed to-day in two grand organ
izations Each have their policies and their
principles. They are arrayed against each
other.
The contest is not between men, but
between the ideas and principles OF these Or
CARNATIONS. fOu could as well have been in
Lees army and say you fought for the Union,
as TO vote for the Cincinnati and Baltimore
ticket aud say you voted for republicans. A vote
for Greeley is vote TO defeat the republican
party, and defeat means determinations IL is
not time for the republican party to die, as
some say. 1t has ust begun TO live, and will
live a thousand years. 1t has done more for
the country, for Liberty, to lift up down-trodden
humanity and TO make the United States gov
eminent grand and glorious, than any organi-
cation that ever existed on Gods green earth
He said that the republican party was the adj
mralion OF all the countries of Europe. The
party has been right in every issue it has main
tanned during its existence, but before it dies he
desired that it should do something toward con
Yerting some three million democrats One Step
had already been taken by the democrats when
they went into convention at Baltimore and
nominated two republicans. He had acted with
the republican party because it had advocated
the idea thar all men are equal, whether black
or white. There has been no despOtiSm by the
federal government. No book OF history can be
opened and show where any country on the face
OF the earth has been so mercifll. Mr.. Wilson
then referred to the progressive steps of the anti
slavery movement, and said that he spoke
the sentiments of nne-tenths Of the northern
men when he said that they never entertained
sentiment of hatred toward the southern sec
ton of our country. Yet expected subjugatiou
at the close of the war-that some Of your men
would be imprisoned, tried and executed, but
not man has been tried for treason He
showed that the reconstruction measures of
congress were necessity forced upon congress
by the inactiOn and wrong action of southern
men themselves, and that those measures were
not prompted by any unkind feelings. He re-
iuted 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 a leader saying
that government that would not protect lis
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 a law TO punish
the kukluX. 1t had the effect of a battle order
ana the act was passed Immediately. The gov
ernment was fully informed of the doinus of
the kukluX by members of its organization
The democrats who have taken Mr. Greeley can
say no more about the despoiSm of the kukluX
acts. He then urged the republicans of North
Carolina TO carry this state election, as the peo-
pie of the United States are looking upon their
vote at this time as the settlement OF the presi-
dental contest. Garry the election in this state,
and that will be the last of the Baltimore-Cin-
cinnati ticket. Give us a 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 for a
quarter of a century. He closed with warm
eulogY of President Grant,