Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-08-23

AT PORTLAND, "WEDNESDAY, AUo. ID.


grander considerations have collected you
around me to-day. 1t is part of the I'M
written law of our country that candidate
for President may not make speeches in
vindication and commentator of the prin-
ciples whereupon he is supported and the
measures which his election is intended to
promote, though candidate for Vice
President is under no such inhibition.
not merely acquiesce in the restriction, but
I recognize and affirm its propriety. The
temptation to misreport and misrepresent
a candidate for the higher posts is so great,
and the means OF circulating such perver-
sions among people, who never see word
of their refutation, are so vast that a candi-
date has no moral right to subject his
friends TO the perlls he must brave, If not
invite, by taking part in the canvass. Yet
there is a truth to be uttered In behalf of
those VINO have placed me before the Amer-
can 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 made
the fact that he proposed TO support or ac-
tually did support my nomination, wheth-
er at Cincinnati, at Baltimore, or in the ac-
ton which resulted in sending delegates to
either convention, basis to claim for
Office at my hands. No one who favored
my nomination before either convention,
has sought Office at my hands, either for
himself or any one else, nor has any one
suggested to me that might strengthen
myself as n candidate by promising to ap-
point any one to any important Office
whatever. In very few instances-less
than dozen, l am sure-certain of the
smaller fry of politicians have. since my
double nomination, limited TO me by letter
that 1 might increase my chances of cleo
ton by promising a post office or some such
place TO my volunteer correspondents. re-
spectively. l have not usually responded
to these overtures, but now give a gener-
al notice that should be elected will con-
| slider the claims of these untimely aspirants
after those of the more modest and retcent
shall have been fully satisfied. applause
In two or three instances / have been
asked TO say whether / would or would
not, if elected, confine my appointments 10
the Republicans. l answer these by point
ing to that plank of the Cincinnati plat
form wherein all who concur in the princi-
pies therein set forth are cordially invited
! to participate in their establishment ant
vindication. / never yet heard of a mar
who invited his neighbors to help hin
raise a house and proceeded to kick them
out of IL as soon as the roof was fairly over
his head. For my own part / recognize
every honest man, who approves and adj
heres to the Cincinnati platform, as my
political brother, and as such, fully EMIT
led TO my confidence and friendly regard
One other point demands word. Those
adverse TO me ask what pledges / have
given to those lately hostile to the Union &c
secure their favor and support. l answer
No man or woman in all the South ever
asked of me, whether directly or through
another, any other pledge than is given in
| all my acts and words, from the hour o
Lees surrender, down TO this moment. NJ
Sou thern man ever limited to me an ex-
pectation, hope or wish that tho rebel debt
whether Confederate or State, should bt
assumed or paid by the Union, and ne
Southern man, who could be elected to
Legislature or made Colonel of militia
regiment, ever suggested the pensioning o
rebel soldiers or any of them, even as re
mote possibility. All who nominated m,
were perfectly aware that / upheld, justi
fled Federal legislation to repress Ku-Klu,
conspiracy and outrage, though had long
ago insisted, as strenuously as I do now
that complete amnesty and genuine oh
livion of the bloody, hateful past could d,
more for the suppression and utter extinc
ton CT such outrages than all the force bill
and suspension of habeas corpus ever de
vised by man. Wrong and crime must b.
suppressed and punished but far wise
and nobler is the legislation, the policy, b,
which they are prevented. From thos
who support me in the South have hear,
but one demand-justice; one desire-re
T Cancellation. They wish to be heartily re
united and at peace with the North on an,
terms which do not involve a surrender @
their manhood. They ask that they shal
, be regarded and treated by the Federal au
thorities as citizens, not culprls, so long a
they obey and uphold every law consisieu
with equity and right. They desire rul
which alike for white and black, shall on
courage industry and thrift and discourage
rapacity and villany. They cherish joy
full hope, in which fully concur, that be
tween the 9th of November and the 4th q
March next quite number of the Govern
ors and other dignataries, who, in the abu
sed names of repubicanism and loyalt,
have for years been plling debts and take
, upon the war wasted States, will follow tn
wholesome example of Bullock OF Gcorgii
and seek the shades of private life. TIL
q darker and denser those shades the bette
4, for themselves and for mankind, and tn
hope that my election may hasten thi
much desired heglra Of the thieving carpe
baggers, has reconciled to the necessity c
, supporting me many who would otherwis
have hesitated and probably refused.
Fellow-c itizens The deposed and part
ally exiled Tammany ring has stolen abou
+. SS0,OOO,OOO from the city of New York
n That was most gigantic robbery and hun
q led its contrivers and abettOrs from powe
and splendor to impotence and inlamy
; but tho thieving carpet baggers have ste
= len at least thrice this amOunt-stolen
/. from the already impoverished and needy
a and they still flaunt their villany in IA
high places of the land and are addresse
!, as ''Honorable" and "Excellency," thin
j. hear voice from the honest people of a
, the States declaring that their iniauitie
4, snail De galnlul anu llsolNenl no longer,
Ii the farthest, than to the fourth OF Mare
next BY that time those criminals wi
have heard national verdict pronounce
n that will cause them to fold their tents Xix
Arabs and silently steal away: and that,
= trust, will be the end of their stealing, |
l. the cost of the good name of our countr
l. and the well being of her people.
,r At the conclusion of the ceremonies
- the hall Mr.. Greeley took a carriage an
made a short call to the residence of Con
10 modore Churchill, on State street, and froI
y thence to the Falmouth Hotel, where dir
> ner was had, plates being laid for part
II of about 20. At 8 o'clock he was serena,
rs ed at the hotel and spoke substantially
follows: