Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-09-27
MIR. Greeley's Western TriEs---His
Speech at Pittsburg.
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION BY THE pEopL,

ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE
An important speech made by Mr.. Gree
ley on his arrival at Pittsburg on Thursday
last was received at too late an hour, by tel
egraph last night, to be got into the earlier
portion of our edition Of Friday morning
that is the portion Of the edition going South
IN the A. M. mail-and we find that it
was accidentally omitted from that portion
of the edition of Saturday morning We
therefore give it now, as no portion Of our
readers, in any part Of the. country, should
fail to be in possession Of It's bold, manly
and truthful usterance in rebuke Of the per-
| petuation of the hates of the var, ard in en-.
coura cement of fraternity ~
| SPEECH AT PITTsBURG.'H SEA
Fellow.citizeps: The wise king say there
is a time for war and a time for peace. The
city OF Pittsburg has recently witnessed
rehearsal OF, the pomp and pageantry, 'sthe
blazonry and circumstance of civil war.
| A very large number of men were collect
ed here, at vast expense, with the single
purpose of reminding the bitterness and
hatred, the anlmosities and antipathies, the
fears and Civilizations Of civil war, for the
advantage of political party / take you
to witness that the greater portion of the
journals of Pittsburg, as well as orators on
this. occasion, have been trying their best to
make US the people-hate each other, for
the sake of partisan advantage A stran-
ger would imagine, wbo~was reading the
journals Of Pittsburg for the last few days,
that we were still at war, and that their
purpose was to revive and exasperate the
hatred and animosity of civil war, in order
to intensity and invigorate their side of the
conflict. cssa $50 i3 81 al
They talk about rebels and traitors. Are
We never to be done with this ? We demand.
| ed of our adversaries in the great civil war
! that they surrender their arms and 90 to
their homes. They surrendered them. We
demanded that they enfranchise the blacks,
and the blacks are enfranchised None but
white men stand DISTINGUISHED on the soil of
our country. We demanded that they stip-
| ulate that the emancipated slave shall not
be paid for, and that the rebel debt shall
never be paid by the government, or by the
States, and they assented to that
So far as | can see, every single demand
made OF the part of the loyal States and peo-
pie has been fully complied with on the part
of those lately in rebellion. Still, they tell
US, we want them to repent. Have they
not brought forth works mete for repentance?
In solemn convention the representatives of
the Southern people have given their assent
to the platform Of the Cincinnati convention,
which was tho most intense, the most com
plete republican platform that had ever been
presented by any national convention what
ever. All this being done, We are told by
these gentlemen who met here, all this is
mockery and fraud you do not mean any
thing by it, and the cry goes on rebels and
traitors, denunciations and prescription, the
same as ever. 8 leEq1 goI
-Four years ago. in the republican nation
al convention, it was declared this proscrip-
ton would speedily cease. -Four years have
passed and still it is maintained that there
are this day thousands of people Of Arkan.
sas alone, probably the most intelligent and
responsible people Of that State, forbidden
to exercise the right of suffrage, forbidden
exclusively by the party that meets here
and shouts for Grant and Wilson, Nobody
else asks for prescription but them No
other party requires that any human being
should stand procribed for rebellion on our
soil that ceased seven and half years ago.
No party, no men of any party but this,
the very party that held a great military
parade this week in order to further separate
and divide the hearts of the American peo-
pie from each other.
They hold essential to their triumph that
hatred should continue and distrust, suspi-
cion and alienation should continue. Do
what you will, do what you may, they are
determined not to be satisfied. 1t is not
enough that those who fought against the