Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-22
GreeIey's Movements in Maine.

Greeley's Movements in Maine
AUGUSTA, MAINE, Aagust l5.-
Greeley left Portland this morning
on a special train for Augusta. HI
was accompanied by Hon O. F. Kim
ball and several other prominent gen
tlemen. At all places along the,roatt
dense crowds collected to see him
At Brunswick he was greeted will
deafening cheers and music. In re.
sponse to calls, he made short
speech.
PORTLAND, August 15.-The fol.
lowing is'the address of Mr.. Greeley
in the City Hall yesterday
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND LADIES AMI
GENTLEMEN 1t is certainly true that
throughout the course of my life, SO
far as l have been connected with
public affairs, l have struggled, with
such capacity as God has given me.
for-frst, impartial and uniyersallib-
erty;; second, for the union and great
ness of our common country, and
third, though by no means least, when
the former end was attained, for early
and hearty reconciliation and peace
among our countrymen. For these
great ends I have struggled, and hope
the issue:of the third is not doubtful.
| thoroughly comprehend that no
personal consideration has drawn this
vast assembly together. Other, high
er and grander considerations have
collected you around me to-day. 1t
is part OF the written law of our
country that a candidate for the Pres
idency may not make speeches in
vindication and commentator of the
principles. whereupon he is supported
or the measures which his election is
intended.to promote, though candi-
date for Vice-President is under no
such inhibition. 7 not merely ac-
quiesce in the restriction but recog4
nize and affirm its propriety. The
temptation to misinterpret and mis-
representa- candidate for the higher
posts is SO great, the means of circu-
lating such perverGons AMONG people
who never see a word of their refu-
tation are SO vast,. that candidate
has no moral right to subject his
friends to the perils; he must brave
it-not invite it by taking part IN the
Canvass, Yet there is q truth to be
uttered in behalf of those who have
placed me before the American peo-
pie in my pre- ,ent attitude which does
them such honor that | claim. the
privilege of stating it here and now.
This is that truth: No person has ev-
er yet made the fact known that he
proposed to support, or actually did
support, my nomination, whether at
Cincinnati, at Baltimore, or in any
action which resulted in sending del
egates to either Convention as the
basis Of a claim for oficeat my hands
No one who favored my nomination
before either Conyention, or at either
Convention, has sought office at my
hands either for. himself or for any
one else, nor has'any one suggested
toNne that I might strengthen myself
as a candidate by promising to ap-
point any one to an important office.
In a very few instances, less than e !
dozen, l am certain, SONS Of the
smaller fry cs politicians have, since
my double nomina ion, limited to me
that I might increase my chances. oi
election by promising y post office Or
some such place TO my volunteer cor
respondents respectively, I have not
usually responded to these oveftures,
but ! now give general notice that
should I be elected, I will consider
the claims'of theseuntimely aspirants
after those of the moro raol1era and
retired shall have been fully satisfied.
[ Applause.
u two Of three instances have
been asked to say whether I would !
or would not, it elected, contine M |
to RepublicansP 7 an
swer these by pointing to the plank
in the Cincinnati platform wherein
I'll who concur in the principle there
are cordially invited to par
ticipate in their establishment ana
vin'!ication. ] never yet heard o. a
Ioaa WHO asked bis neighhors te. holp !
him raise a house antl nrocea'ca t,
kick him ont OF + 50 SOON as the ROOT
was fairly qver MS head. For my
own part ! recognize every honest
man who approves and adheres to the
platlorM as iny political brother, and
as such fully entitled to nv confidence
and friendly regard.
One other point demands word.
Those adverse tome ask what pledges
I have given to those lately hostile
to the Union to secure their favor
and support. I answer, no man or
woman in all the South ever asked of
me, either directly or through anoth-
er, any other pledge than is given IN
all my acts and words. From the
hour Of Lees surrender to this mo-
ment, no Southern man ever hinted
to me an expectation, hope or wish |
that the rebel debt, whether Contea- !
crate or State, should be assumed or
paid by the Union. and no Southern
man who could be elected to a Legis-
lature or made Colonel of a militia
regiment, even suggested the pen
sioning of all the rebel soldiers or
any of them, even as remote posi- [
bility.
All who Nominated me. were. per-
fectly aware. that Iupheld and justi-
fed Federal legislation to repress
Ku Klux conspiracy and outrages,
though I. had long ago insisted as
strenuously as now do that complete
and general oblivion Of the
bloody hateful past would do more
for the suppression and utter extinc-
ten of such outrages than all the
force bills and suspension Of habeas
corpus ever divised by man. Wrong