The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-10-03

(Which wuz Postmaster, and hopes to be agin.)
General Buffers Reply to Greeley's
Pittsburgh Speech.

AN immense Republican demonstration
occurred at Cincinnati a few evenings
ago, at which General Butler was one of
the principal orators. He more particu-
larly addressed himself to Mr. Greeley's
Pittsburgh speech. He said:
Mr.. Greeley told the citizens of Pitts
burgh, after the great meeting of the SOL
diers of the war, where there was not a
wers OF hate, not a word Of unkindness, not
a single word of harshness directed against
the rebels, that that meeting was for the pur
pose of raising hate. He goes further and
says that the disloyal and rebel States have
done all that loyal men asked of them. He
says owe demanded of our advsrsaries in
the civil war that they surrender their arms
and go to their homes, and they surrendered
them" Let us see how that was. We de-
manded that they should surrender in 1861,
and they fought till 1865, and did not give
up their arms till they were struck from their
hands, and they went home in preference to
being hanged for their crimes. Now, what
snail you say of one who is a Presidential
candidate, who tells US of our great civil
war, which cost us 800, 600 lives in battle, and
1920 starved to death at AEdersonville
that we demanded that they should sur
render their arms and 90 home and they sur
rendered them What further does Mr..
Greeley say? eve demanded that they
should enfranchise the blacks, and the blacks
are enfranchised." Who ever used words
SO calculated to deceive? Show me the vote
men had control when they voted to enfran-
chize single negro, and l will vote for
Horace Greeley, and that is the worst pun
i ddaa at you could put upon me What else
emancipated slaves shonld not be paid for
and that the rebel debt should never be paid
by the Government or any State, and they
assented.' Now undertake to say there is
not one word of truth in that. Not one
What is the fact The Fourteesth Amend
ment was passed by Republican Congress,
against the votes of every Democrat in that
Congress. 1t was then put before the people
as an amendment. Now that Fourteenth
Amendment provided
l. That every man should have the right to
vote.
2. That the slaves should not be paid for.
5: That the rebel debt should not be paid.
That amendment was sent to the States
Those that had Republican Legislatures yot-
ed to adopt it, but the States which did not
vote for it were: Kentucky, the only State
about here that Greeley has any hope Of
Next was the State of Mississippi. which was
then under Andrew Johnsons rule, and a
terrible ruler he Next were the States
of Texas and Virginia, both of which were in
the hands of rebel governments.
But will come to a little nearer home
The States of Ohio and New Jersey did vote
to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, but
the next year the Democrats of Ohio got into
power, and then the Democratic Legislature
withdrew that ratification. The Democl ATTIC
pdIbg VI OulO ulu not assent. Virginia did
not assent. Kentucky did not assent Texas
did not assent. Mississippi did not assent
What Southern State did assent? Georgia
did not assent until after the Constitutional
Amendment became law of the land by
| the vote of three-fourths of the States and
I then, when we had reconstructed GEORGIA
over again and put in new set of loyal leg.
islators, and turned out everybody that
would not take the oath of loyalty to the
Government-then and not till then, did we
the ratification nf NV he
Georgia did not assent. Arkansas was in
the hands of the colored men and they did
assent. Florida was in the hands of the col
| ored men and they assented North Caroline
| turned the cold shoulder to Greeley the Other
| day. She asseuted. South Carolina, where
| there are more blacks than whites assented
Alabama, where there is majority of color
| ed men in the Legislature, assented.
| Now. then, we see that no Democratic
Congressman voted for the Fourteenth
Amendment, that no Democratic Legislature
| ratified, and that no Southern rebel ever vet
| agreed to it,
eve demanded" says Mr.. Greeley, sthat
! the emancipated slaves should not be paid
| for, that the rebel debt should not be paid
| and they assented." Who, 1 ask. is the
they" He was speaking OF the rebels, OF
those new friends of his. They are the
they" l have shown you the statement il
| wholly incorrect.
He goes on, $50 far as can see, every de
! mand made on the part OF the loyal States OIL
royal people mas Deen computed with on the
part of those lately in rebellion. Everything
has been done that has been asked to et
/ done To that | answer nothing has eve
been done that has been asked to be done by
the rebel States. Now what shall we say O
man who asks to be President and who
knows the record, because l took it out O
the Tribune almanac (and don't suppose h,
reads anything else), who makes such state
ments as these when he knows the contrarl
to be the case? You know and the countr1
knows.
General Butler concluded with an elo
quent appeal for the preservation intac
of all the rights of the colored citizens
secured by the amendments, wildly por
traying their devotion to the country triet
on hard fought fields, and earnestly pro
testing against turning the Administra
ton over to those in whose hands tn,
rights of colored men would not be re
specteo.
While the General was speaking it be
gan to rain and he stopped. Shouts OF
$50 on" filed the air, and he said II cal