Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-10-04

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UNDERGRADUATES STATESMAN
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CANDIDATE.

CANDIDATE.
The following are extracts from the
speech of Hon. Frederick Hassaurek, at
Avondale, Ohio, ON Wednesday evening of
last week: .'E
AN EXAMPLE FROM HISTORY.
Let me refer you to an example In mod
ern German history. In 1866, the Prus-
sian and the Bavarian, the Prussian and
the Saxon, the Prussian and the Hanove-
rian, were arrayed in deadly conflict
! Children of the came race, they met each
! other in deadly strife, and shed each others
| blood. The Prlssian conquered, and the
sting Of defeat ranked deep in the breasts
Of the conquered. Curses, not loud but
deep, were heard by the French agents all
over Southern Germany, and many Ba-
varian, many a Saxon, many a HeSsian
swore that he would rather be French than
! Prussian. Yet when the note of war was
| sounded from over the Rhine, and the col
umns Of the invader threatened the soil of
! fatheTland, where was the malignant spirit !,
| Of 1868? 1t was forgotten, and side by
ian, the Prussian and the Saxon |
i stor1ned the heights of Woerth and |
Weisenburg and died in each others |
arms for the common tatherland. TCheers.1 |
( Cannot such things be with us? APP !
plausc.] From 1861 to 1865 a cruel war
was waged between the two sections of our !
common country. 1t was war between
. citizens, a terrible, fratricidal war. Blood
flowed in streams, and the destroying angel
was at work. The war ended. 1t ended
seven years ago. The institution that
had caused the war has passed away. The
tenets upon which it was based have been
abandoned. Those who commenced the
: war have paid for it dearly. There were
sacrifices on both sides. There were brave
: IIIen ON both sides. The bones of both
:, our dead bleach together under many a
!, sod. Why should the living carry the old
s quarrel beyond the graves i'll which both
: our heroes moldering? [Applause.]
= Life is short, and it has other objects to
: struggle for than the heart-burnings and
q resentments of the past. Renewed APP
: plause.l Why can we not after the con-
Q tiict OF war enter into a bloOdlesS and bliss
Il full rivalry of peace and vie with each 9th
: er which of us; the North or South, Will
= make the grandest strides on our new road
7, to the peaceful conquests of modern pro-
l. gress and civilization. [Cheers.] Horace
n Greeley represents this sentiment. Pro
!, longed cheers. The party of Gen. Grant
+ does not. 1t was Horace Greeley to whom,
lG although he " as not my choice for tie
g Presidency, must do the Justice to say
"a that he orig mated the only statesmanlike
q proposition that was made during the
is whole OF our reconstruction troubles: "Uni-
versal amnesty and universal suffrage
re [Applause.]
~ ''PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE"
~ Put yourself in the place of those men.
~ ~ consider the feelings of young Southerne1
IL who sees that his own father, an intelligent
-, and perhaps an educated man, is not al
~ lowed to hold office, while his former un-
81 lettered feld-hand may be elected justice
of the peace. What must be the feelings
'Co produced by this contrast an the young
- men of the South, who love their fathers
l1e and cannot understand that they have
- done wrong i'll defending what they
'I' however enormously, supposed to bt
w. their constitutional rights? Add to thi!
- the cAt0rtions, the rasCalities, and tht
VI robberies practlced by the car2et-bag Gov
III ernments, and you will be able to accoun
on t. yourselves for the malignity Of thu
vi Ku-KluX organizations, by which certain
W. portions OF the South have been infested
"a" They are but men, and as somebody said
there is good deal Of human nature il
lie man. Laughter There are two sde
AN to every question, and it behoOves us, while
condemning lawlessness and violence il
whatever form 1t may present itself, no
to disregard entirely the prOVocatiOns unde
20 which the gully parties have suffered
N L admit that such disorders are natural
n9 and perhaps inevitable, during the perioC
We, Of transition which necessarily follow!
Ter such aradical rev tuition as the events of til
10 last few years have brought on the South
re- What L claim IS that the evil results viii
"a continue while tue evil causes are a
ne work. Remove the causes, and the results
, will disappear The disorders which thu
ne 81 irit Of bitterness, of hatred, and revenge
hu have produced, will disappear when tina
'iu spirit ltsek has disappeared. Allay tht
rs bitterness and remove the resentment, ant
your object will be gained. If the bond
of fellowship can be restored, we shall nee(
- 10 more military interference and no ku
49, kluN laws.
II" But you cannot restore good fellowship
by asking the man whom you have con
quered to get down on his knees and Whin
ingly admit that he has been in the wrong
re or by requiring him to beg your pardon 70
y having been whipped by you. Laughter.
ed That is not the way which things ar
Tor generally done. II is hard to make school
w boy do that. Ii is almost impossible to &c
{" man to do it. And you, yourselves
= you'd despise man for doing so. Their
Try are always, as [ have said, two sides t.
~ each question in law as well is i'll war
ilu Have you ever seen iitigaut who did no
he suppose himself to be in the right? An,
is SO these Rebels thought they were in th
D. right. We thought they were in the wrong
Ad- We knew they were in the wrong. Bu
ng they, with the natural and universal per
Ill VerseneSs of lItig&ntS, could not see il
eW They had been educated to believe that il
AZ seeding from the Federal compact the
co merely made use of constitutional right
OF They looked upon the Union as fedora
'hG ton Of sovereign and independent States
nu They bought fa4 their mistaken idea an
ar were defeated. aOli conquered lhepl, yOl
!y took away their slaves, you disfranchise
the masters, you reconstructed then
over and over again, and finally you re
manded them 10 The tender mercieS of tn
his carpet-baggers, who devOured what was LET
oftheir substance. And LOW those men
ro- / mean the Greeley men among item
nd and not the BOurbOnS who assembled a
40 Louisville the other day-come forward
arn and accept your terms they accept you
-nd platform they recognize the validity O
,,o your Constitutional amendments; the,
or subscribe to the equality Of rights whicl
act the war has established. What more cal
Nh they do, and what moro will you Eact .
Ill VIII you, as Scipio did to the Carthage
tn mans, impose new terms and condition
in upon them, or require them to be fayeC
ere alive by the leeches and thieves that are il
lid possession of their bankrupt State HOvern
Ms ments, or will you remember at last tina
NJ. revenge is human but forgiveness is di
nth vine ? TApplausel VIII you remembe
tb- at last that they, tQo, are Americans, ant
to that if they are to love the country of thei
birth you must not give them stones TO
bread and serpents instead of fishes. TAP
/ a plause.J Will you be magnanimous, as
aer behooyes the victor TO be, and stretch on
in the hand of fellowship to your countrymen
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