New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-21
MIR. HASsAUREK'S SPEECH
MORE EXTRACTS FROM THE ADDRESS AT
AVONDALE.

BEARS-MORAL COUhAGE VI ihb
CANDIDATE.
The following are additional extracts from
the speech of the Hon. Frederick Hassaurek at Avon
dale Ohio on Wednesday evening, portion 81 which
was printed In Thursdays TRIBUNE:
AN EXAMPLE PROM HISTORY
Let mo refer you 10 example In modern German
history In 1906 the Prussian and the Bavarian, the
Prussian and tho Saxon, the Prussian and the
HanoveriaD, were arrayed In deadly conflict.
| Children Of the same race, they met each
other In deadly strife, and shed each others
defeat ranhed dcsp in the breasts Of the conquered
Curses not loud but deep were heard by the FTenoh
ran, many a saxon, many a Hessian sworc that he
would rather be French than Prussan Yet when the
columns Of invader threatened the soil OF faherlaud
where was the malignant spirit OF 1866 Il was forgot
eD and side by side the Prussan and the Bayaran the
passsn ami the saxon soT@ed the nights sac OF
others arms for the common fatherand lCheersI
Cannot such things be with usf lApPiauseJ From
lions OF common country. It was war between
Citizens terrible, fratricdal Blood flowed In
ended sit ended years The institution
that had caused the has passed away The tenets
who commenced the war have paid for it dearly. There
sacrifices on both sides There were brave men on
under many sod Why should the living carry the old
are moSeng w ASpaase LIE is short aud i
has other object 70 struggle for than the heart
plause. Why not after the conflict OF enter
into Doodless aud Dlissfu rivalry of peace aud
make the randest strides road to the peace
full conquests OF modern progress and civilization
| lCheersl Horace Greeley represents. thus senti-
ment. prolonged cheers.l The party of Gen. Grant
does not 1t Horace Greeley to whom, although he
justice to say that he originated the only satesmanlke
proposition that was made during the whole OF our re-
construction troubles: Universal amnesty anu Jul
| yersal suffrage" (Applause.l
THE sTATEsaANsHIP OF HORACE GREELEY
Had his advice been followed many useless and pain
full chapter in our history would have remained I'M
written. Had the establishment Of negro
| suffrage been coupled with universal amnesty,
the two races would have become reconciled
TO the situation and TO each other; The
boon conferred upon the one would have reeoneed h 10
pounity 10 smooth the path OF restoration aud clear II
Of difficulties that now have become so Troublesome
| We missed the opportunity, and regret that we
missed 1t; but realizing the advantage which we have
lost, able TO that Horace Greeley was right,
and those who opposed the combination OF universal
amnesty with universal suffrage were wrong lap
But we are told that an Amnesty bill has been passed
at last. Yes, great many Amnesty bills have been
passed. Congress has largely engaged In the retail am
nety business but 10 was done by pecemeal ana wha
bad grace. IL was amnesty without reconciliation. We
vote and but few debarred from holding office.
And II the deprivation extended TO but half
bic With the spirit Of our institutions II you
want to punish men for the crime OF treason,
the crime individuals, but you must not punish
class All class legislation Is wrong, and the existence
icann, besides being source of troubles Of resent
meuts, and of dangers.
"PUT YOURSELF IS HIS PLACE"
Put yourself in the place OF those Consider the
feelings OF young sOutherner who that his own
father an intelligent and perhaps educated man, is
not allowed to hold Office. while his former unetered
heldhand may be elected justice of the peace. What
be the feelings produced by this contrast on the
young men Of the South who love their fathers and
understand that they have done wrong in defending
what they, however enormously supposed TO be their
constitutional rightsi Add to this the exoRons, the
rasGalties and the rODDeres practced by tue carpet
bag Governments, aud you Will be able to account to
yourselves for the malgnity OF the KuKux organiza-
tons by which certain portions OF the South have been
infested They but men, and as somebody said, there
is a good deal Of human nature III man. Laughter.I
There two sides TO every question: ana IL DenOoYes
us, While condemnng awlessness aud violence In what
ever form it may present itself not TO dsregard entirely
suffered.
sarily follows such radical revolution as the events OF
the last years have brought on In the South What |
claim is that the evil results Will continue while the cyl
work Remove the causes ana the results
will disappear The disorders which the spirit OF bitter
OF hatred, and revenge have produced VIII dls
appear when that spirit itself has disappeared Allay
the bitterness and remove the resentment and your OBJ
ect will be gained. III the bonds of fellowship can be
restored shall need no more military interference
you cannot good fellowship by asking the
man have conquered TO get down on his knees
and whningy admit tnat he has been IN the wrong or
by requiring him to beg your pardon TOT having Deen
whipped by you. Laughter That Is not t9e way IN
schoObOy do that. IL almost impossible to get man
TO do it, And YOU yourselves would aesPse man i1p
each question In law well as In war Have you ever
seen hi CAN'T who did not suppose himself TO he in the
rights Aud so these Rebels thought they in the
right. We thought they were in the wrong. We knew
they were In the wrong But they, with the natural
and universal perverseness tgants, could it,
They had been educated TO believe that in seeding from
the Federal compact they merely made use OF consttu-
tOnal right They looked upon the Union as fedora
alton of sovereign aud independent States They fought
for their mistaken idea and were defeated You con
quered them, you took away their slaves, you dis
ranchlsed the masters you recohstrncted tnem over
and over again, and finally you remanded tnem 70
the urces OF the carpetbaggers, who deyOured
what left OF their substance Aud now those me n
BourbOns who assembled at Louisville the other day
forward and accept terms they accept your
PLATFORM they recognize the validity OF your COhsutu
Onal amendments they subscribe u the equiilty Of
rights which the war has established WHAT mere can they
do and what more VIII you exacti WIN YOU as Scplo
did the Carthagenians impose new terms ana condl
tOns upon them, or require them To DC hayeu awe ny
the eeches and thieves that in possession Of their
bankrupt State Governments or will you remember az
Applausel VIII you remember at last that they too
are Americans and that If they are to love the country
OF birth you must not give them stones for bread
and serpents instead OF fishes. Apphnsel WIZ you DC
as y behaves tue 70 y ySs2 10 Saa
telling them in the language Of Ruth, Where thou
odsest VIII LODGE tny people Sna DC uy people, "no
THE NEED OF CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Mr. Greeey's election will give us provisional
remedy which, it is true, is but hall loaf, and not
very big at that but which will, nevertheless, pre-
vent great many OF the ABUSES ana cOfuplohS Win
which our present system is afflicted mean the one
term principle laid down in the Cincinnati platform, and
soemnly Endorsed by Mr. Greeley, whose candidacy
rests upon the express understanding That he Will
neither seek accept reelection. Applause.J In
theory the correctness the one-erm principle may
perhaps doubted, but in practice 1t may prove Of
the greatest usefulness at least until we succeed in
Introducing regular system OF Cvil Service You all
know that, matters now stand the four years OF
Presidents administration are almost invariably devoted
10 task OF securing his own reelection lie has to
crafty old friends and To make new ones he must
concihate conflicting Interests aud claims, ana
personal He watch the course
nersOual differ