Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-26
HORACE GREELEY IN PiTTsBURGH.


The following extracts are from
the speech of II. G. on Thursday
evening at Pittsburgh:
FELLOW CITIZENS: The wise King
says there is time for war and a
time for peace. The city of Pitts
burgh has recently witnessed a re-
hersal of the pomp and pageantry,
the blazonry and circumstance of
civil war. A very large number OF
men were collected at vast expense
with the single purpose of rekfnd-
ling the bitterness and hatred, the
animosity and antipathies, the fears
and Civilizations of civil war, for the
advantage of q political party. l
take you to witness that the greater
portion of the journals of Pitts
burgh, as.well asithe orators ON this
occasion, have been trying their
best to make rs, the people, hate
each other forthe sake Of bipartisan
advantage. A stranger would imag-
inc, vino was reading the journals
of Pittsburgh for the last few days,
that we were still at war, and that
their purpose was to revive and to
exasperate the hatred and animosi-
ty of civil war, in order to intensity
and invigorate theirsideof the con
flict. They talked about rebels and
traitors. Fellow citizens, are We
never to be done with this? We
demanded of our adversaries in the
great civil war that they surrender
their arms and go to their homes.
The. surrendered them. We, de-
manded that eniranehise the blacks,
and the blacks are enfranchised.
None but white men stand disfran-
chised on the soil of our country.
We demanded that. they stipulatei
that the. emancipated slaves shalt
not be paid for, and that the rebel
debt shall never be paid for by the
Government or by the State, and
they assented to that. So far as l
can see every demand made on the
part of the loyal States and the 10y
al people has been fully complied
with on the part of those lately in.
rebellion. Everything has been
done that VIC ask, everything has
been conceded and still they tell us
why We want them to repent. Have
they not brought forth works meet
for repentance: ~. ..... ...,- d.
When Lincoln. had been elected
and this conspiracy for secession
began to advocate itself, we Repub-
licans were told by our own men,
and told still-more by those'ou of
the circle, you must back off your
Republicanism, you must surrender
your opposition to the extension of
slavery or consent to a great civil
! war. This they saidlwas the only
alternative. Bloodshed and devas,
tation over the whole country, or
you shall surrender principles on
which you have just carried the cleo
ton. / was one of those who said
no, there is no such alternative. l
denied that the southern people, the
great minority of them, are against
the Union. 1 demand that there
shall be open free discussions before
southern people of an honest, un-
terrified, uncenstrained yyote.S If
they approve, if the people of the
South say they want disunion, l
will consent to it. I know they will
not. I know that the Southern
people, that the great majority would
have voted as they actually did that
winter, not for secession, but for
clinging to the Union, and now to
day, if the nation were te be imper-
illed and there were just two modes
of saving it, to trust to the chance
of civil war, or to the. chance eof q,
free, fair vote of the Southern Speo-
ple,I would very greatfully prefer to
take the latter chance, rather, than
the former.
There were just 700 Liberal votes
cast at the Maine election. The
tidal wave doesn't run very high in
Maine.