Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-22
Ky, on the Short Line road for Louisville
at 3:15 o'clock. -t5ss5e.
First Speech to Southern Audience.
At Newport, Ky.

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All along the route E-om Cincinnati Il
Louisville, Mr.. Greeley was called on
wherever the train stopped, but generally
declined to speak. At Newport he SPOKE
from the platform as follows:
Citizens Of Newport: There was time
and that not many years ago, when I woult
not have been welcomed to the soil of Ken
tucky as am to-day. There was q time
when Kentuckians did not think of me a:
they do now, and / believe it was because
they did not understand me 80 well as they
do now, for in the olden time was al
humble but Jealous friend of Ken
tucky's nOblest statesman, Henry Clay.
(Applause.) | loved, l honored,
trustea and followed that man,
for many years, and sore was my heart
when the news came that our fondest anti
cipations were blighted and he was not
chosen President. But what matters il?
The fame of Clay Is worldwide, aud be is
revered and loved by millions of his country
men, aud will be for generations to come.
What matters IL whether he filed one Office
or another or no Office? The offices dc not
make the man. 1t is men like this that
glorify and dignity Office. Well, our friend
passed away. The generation of which he
was one passed away; end there came dark
days over our Union, days OF hatred and
strife and violence and disruption, and
i. looked as though the sun of
the American republic had forever
gene down. Despots exulted, aristocrats
exulted. "Well, there" they said, ':is you
see what comes of your free institutions.
They are played ont. Witness your great
model Republic" Well years passed on.
Then there were reVerses, there were disas-
tiers, but there was still the faithful Ameri-
can heart and after time all came around,
the Union was restored, the old flag was
triumphant, and the people, the American
people, were brought together. Well, from
that hour | said, Now, let us try to be
friends again; yes, better friends than we
were before. We have differed, we have
fought, but the cause of the trouble
has passed away. Slavery is dead.
There is no more reason why We
should fight. Let Us try to be hereafter
and men who love and honor
each other. So in that spirit, with that
purpose, labored on for some years,
scorned by many, misunderstood by oilers,
called renegade, and honest people be-
lieying that L had absolutely turned my
back on all the principles, all the ideas of
my better life. 1 think they were mistaken,
my friends. | think new circumstances,
new conditions, new duties, presented
for in the new republic, that
republic which has been founded
OH the overthrow of the Confederacy, that
here are different obligations, different
1uties, from those which were current
thirty years ago. | tried TO forget and
cause others TO forget passages III which
here was only bitterness, and nothing cf
profit 10 either section, or TO any
,lass of the people. tried TO make my
remember only what shall be,
What must be, In that better future which
an quite Ger ain is opening upon this
people, that future of concord and of peace,
IF mutual reliance aud sympathy which
vas not known in thu old time. Why
many times was told fifteen or twenty
Tears, "YoR can come down to the South
md nobody will hurt you" / said, "Why
should any body hurt me, there" There
vas never a moment j wished i'll /
0 the South, and never sought TO
10 them harm. Why should you
ell me / viii be protected
n the South. / have never been there te-
,ause my duties did not call me there. But
felt ee: tain always that no gentlemen Of
he South would lay a harsh hand upon me
md don't believe they would let black
guards do it. They were talking as if il were
,harity 10 let me pass through. That pas
ed away. Fellow citizens, y on may have
Deen among the most effective Confederate
loldiers In the late struggle, and you may
raVel all over this country and think no
me except very low vulgar person Will
,fier you any insult. travelled TO
he farthest part of the South, Tex
IS, last year, and was every
where well received. think every north
.rn man who went Soufh minding his own
business and giving nobody cause OF Ofense
vas treated, not perhaps so well as was,
,ut his person and property was just as
acredly respected as mine we're. Now
hen we have opened up new era in this
There was a time when that
,ould not be so. There was a time when
t was not so that every man, whatever his
could travel through the South.
It does seem we have come TO time when
hope We may say, Let all that has made
IlienatioR between us perish. Let us
hink no more of our triulnphs in
he late struggle. Let US rejoice together
hat these triumphs have tended TO produce
,oOd to the whole American people. There
$ liberty at the South and at the North
Now let there be fraternity in the South
md North. Why should we call together
nultitudes of soldiers eXulting over victo-
lies won in the last struggle, and then to
AXE up all the evil it has done in tha
struggle, as though they were characteris-.
ic of the people. There were actually
nen in the North who believed when Lin
,oln was assassiDated that the Southern paO-
Die as apeople rej0iced in the assassination
am sure it was not so. But here is
black, bloody deed done, and the whole
people suffered for it. 1t was for long
line impossible to make large portion Of
hat class believe that the assassination was
lot the work of the whole Confederate
)eople. There was injustice done them
through prejudice, through passion. We
must try TO make the whole people feel that
he American name is dear to us ali; that
wen in our struggles We were
riends. We did not tear and rend each
,tber, We did not destroy prisoners. l do
lot mean TO say that some prisoners were
not unjustly treated; but do really believe
he people on both sides meant TO treat
hem with humanity 50 far as they could do
70, and where cruelties took place they
we're not understood TO be approved by the
.reat body of the people North or South.
Now then, let us take a new depar ture, let
Is all resolve that we shall be nearer to
'ach other next year than this. [Applause.l
am demanding universal amnesty. Why
people say there are not many. only three
,r four Thousand disfranchised suppose
here were only two hundred. l object 10
his disfranchisement and this prescription.
{ puts a stigma on the whole people.
THE train at this moment came
long and Mr.. Greeley concluded as fol-
ows:]
But l see that the time has come for me
o desist, and will therefore close, trust
ng that all OF you will DC better Ameri-
cans, better lovers Of our country, and
our cOuntTymen now and evermore.
9reeley's Reception at Louisville.
Another Speech, at the Calf HOuse.
The Attitude of the ColOred Race.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 2I.-Mr. Greeley ar
ived at $40 O'Clock, the train having been
ieiaye ed en- route. He was met by an in-