The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-09-27
GREELEY ON THE TRAVEL.


CINCINNATI September 2l.-At
various points on tho Ioute between
Columbus and Cincinnati. trains
were stopped and brief speeches
were made by Greeley. A great
crowd met him at Xenia, where ne
spoke rs follows;
think | am somen hat known 10
most Of you. and you can testify
whether in the struggles Of the past
whether in life long compromise
with pro-slaveiy ascendance-my
voice was not raised on the side of
emancipation and liberty. APP
plause.1 Those days have passed
and new days have come. rejoice
that was with most of You in max
ing this land of impartial freedom.
If we had heard that all men were
to be fee except four or five hun
dred, we should have felt that our
triumph was incomplete. Sol stand
this day demanding that there shall
be no prescribed class: no disflan-
chised people, black or while, in
this country. [Applause.l But the
generous banner of universal liberty
shall enfold under lis mantle the
whole American people That is
my platform and all of it, and that
our victory as UnioniSts and as lows
ers of impartial liberty: being com
plete, there shall be no man depriv-
ed of his national tights. When this
struggle shall be ended, we demand
that the capstone be placed on the
temple of liberty by the enfranchise-
ment of the last man who now suffers
under the ban of prescription. Such
is my purpose; such is the ground
whereon stand. AS such | COM
mend it to ali those, who in the old
time, the darker time, The Time of
the oppression, struggled with me
on the side of liberty. Great
cheering.]
Tomorrow Mr.. Greeley has Il re-
ception at The Burnett House at
noon, and will leave at 3 o'clock P.
NJ, for Louisville where he remains
until Monday, and thence he goes to
Indianapolis.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 22.-~Greeley,
in discussing The colored question
said "Fellow> citizens: -four move
nent should prevail, as rust it will
prevail, we will sweep away all this
refuse Of lies. In three months we
will say 20 the colored men, we
protler you nothing, except the pro
ection of the laws, the same for US
You have your living 10 earn as we'll
as we. You sill have 10 use all
your abilities, all y0nr energies, all
your faculties. and make the most of
them you can. The laws do not ia
vor you, but they will thoroughly
protect you; and in three months, it
we succeed, the colored people will
be so disabused, that the same men
can never drive them again-ncver
again
But suppose me fail, and we may
fail. If the coiored men did not be-
lievc that the power was against us
that money was against US; if they
did not realize that The treasury {;
the army, the 100000 office holders,
are all banded against us in force,
which they believe We cannot over
come, they certainly would not be so
universally hostile against u.s.
Why2 They think we cannot sue
coed, and they want to be upon the
winning side. That is part of it;
but they are also deluded in regard
to our purposes. We say we are
not your enemies we will not be
your oppressors, we will not, though
you have done us injustice We
will Try, as well as we can, 10 have
your children educa ed and enlight-
ened, so that the mistakes you have
made cannot be made over and over
again.