The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-26
AROUND the CIRCLE.
IL. c. On the Home stretch.


He MAKES A SPEECH AT coRRY, IA.
FRANKLIN, Pa, September 25.-Mr
Greeley's speech at Cory, Pa, Is as fol
lows:
FELLOW CITIZENS: A Presidential
election necessarily brings into review the
action Of your government and measures
for good or Ill which affect the prosperity
Of the country and the welfare Of the peO
pie. That Is its Significance: that Is IL
purpose. Not that you or I, who may
be persons Of very moderate capacity
and still more moderate worth, should be
President or hold some other office, but
that you, the people, should look over the
whole ground, sec what Is right and
what is amiSs, and use your best efforts
to correct the evils and 10 sustain what Il
good.
KU.HUX AND CARPET.DAoGERs
Now, you arc aware as well as
am that our country has not been recon
Ciled, and regulated, and brought into
peace and order, and that nearly eight
years have elapsed since the war ended
and peace and security ought TO have
been attained much sooner than this
Look at the difficulties and obstacles Ia
be overcome. Now, first, not in point o.
view, but urgency, was what we called
the Ku.Klux outrages Of the South. Ger.
tain persons, mainly open rebels, and moi
u part rebel soldiers, conspircd together
formed themselves into companies OF
organizations Of some kind, and in hide.
Gus DISCUSSES paraded the country,
mean certain portions Of the Southern
country, abusing and maltreating inno'
nocent, quiet people, mainly the
black men. l don't mean to say there
were not excuses and provocations for
these Outrages, but say there is no JUS
tiacation for any such conduct rs that.
The pretense generally was that what
they called the carpet.bag governments
were Gbominable. It is probably true,
but that is no excuse for hauling quiet
people out Of their beds at midnight and
subjeCting them to all manner of indigni-
ties. So then l said. l did not recon.
mend particular or extreme measures;
but l SAID, no doubt, that it is the duty OF
the States to protect their citizens respec.
lively and to put down all lawlessness.
But suppose they don't, or can't, or won't?
The people are entitled to protection, per.
feet protection. II the State government
fail TO give it, there must be o power
somewhere that will give it. We look
after man who Is not more than half o
citizen, whom foreign government op.
presses, and all the power Of this great
nation Is put to work to protect that man.
He may, perhaps, have Only declared his
intentions to become citizen, but all the
cannon and all the force we can COM
mand are employed for his protection.
Our government must have the power to
protect its people at home as well as
abroad. So 1said o year ago last spring.
Let the President tell US what sort Of
legislation he needs to put down these
Ku KluX and l will back him up TO the
full extent. lie said what be needed were
laws. They were passed and they did
the work. You have not heard OF any
serious Ku Klux outrages since these acts
were passed. Since these acts were pass.
ed, q year and u half ago, nobody has
heard of any serious Outrages there;
though there have been trials in one or
two States, especially in North Carolina,
yet they were trials for offences commit
ted two or three years ago, long before
the act was passed So the work was
done-the Ku Klux conspiracy was crush.
ed out by the act Of Congress. And al-
though these outrages occurred in very
narrow district Of territory they discredit.
ed and damaged all the Southern people
who may be suspected oil any sympathy
with those who made the outrages. That
was done, hut still there remained that
other element OF discord and discomfort
at the South, which was call
ed the carpet.bag thieves, who
went into the South with our armies.
A number oil shrewd, cunning and un-
scrupulous men undertook to make them.
seles rich out Of the poverty and misery
Of the vanquished South. They made
themselves the special leaders and cham.
pions Of the black people there, and they
organized Union Leagues and other secret
societies, Of which the first effort was to
combine all the black men OF the South
in q consolidated phalanx and thus give
the direction, real government and man.
agement Of these black men to these
white leaders, who were called the carpet.
baggers. So then they nominated those
for office, and they made themselves
Governors and congressman, and Secre.
taries, and so on, and they commenced,
through the machinery OF legislation,
using simple, ignorant negroes, some as
legislators, and they commenced meas:
ures and gigantic robberies. In the first
place they made for themselves great
salaries, such as the poor Southern States
were unable to pay, and they pretended
to start great many internal improve.
ments, and issued bonds IN behalf or in
aid of these improvements. They
contrived 10 steal the bonds, sell
them Tor the most they could
get, make no improvements and
then leave tho States, war wasted and
desolate, before overwhelmed with debt.
l doubt whether these debts ever can be
paid, and am sure there is very little
disposition to pay them among the people
who own theproperty Of the South. They
regard them Us frauds, simple iniquities
imposed upon them, and the charges oi
unjust burdens they cannot bear. ap.
prehend II they were to sell out all the
property in South Carolina to-day 1t would
not very much more than pay these pre-
tended debts which have been imposed
upon her by the carpet.baggers, who rule
the negro legislators. Some of them
merely simple, some Of them rogues, and
all Of them being without property were
without proper responsibility. Hereis an
clement OF discord and hatred, a general
belief on the part Of the Southern people
that We Of the North sent these Villains
down there to rob them, and by enfran-
chising the blacks and other measures
Of reconstruction we have delivered
these people bound handi and fool
into the clutches of these corrupt carpeI
baggers, to be robbed out of their money
Now let me try TO give you an illustra'
tion Of the way the thing works. Aler