New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-06
GRATz BROWN ON RECONCILIATION.
HE ADDRESSES LARGE AUDIENCE AT SPRING.
FIELD, lLL--AN ABLE DISCUSSION OF TIE
QUESTIONS AT ISSUE.

FIELD, ILL.--AN ABLE DISCUSSION OF THE
QUESTIONS AT ISSUE.
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
CHICAGO, Sept. 5-GOv. b. Gratz Brown
addressed an immense gathering Of the Liberals Of ILL
nos at Springfield, to-day. The meeting held in
Courthouse Square, Jesse X Dubois presiding, and was
attended by many prominent representatives of the Lib
cause. Gov. Brown began his remarks by saying OF
Illinois her prompt to the call OF country,
and her statesmen not found divided in Its peril
A. Lincoln and A. Douglass clasped hands over former
feud to make the safety OF republic and to-day
you have as great II not greater stake In the issue OF
this pending controversy than any others OF the Union
May we not then have full faith that the men OF
Illinois will respond with equal
courage when called upon TO clasp hands
the chasm OF civil conflict and give their votes
for true and lasting peace based principles OF JUS
tce and Of conquest He then proceeded to invite
attention to the manner in which some OF the gravest
interests Of the nation have been sacrificed by
those controlling tho Government In the effort TO per-
etuate themselves In power. When President Grant
was naugurated, there were two great problems de-
manding soluon-a reconciliation Of the sections and a
reconciliation Of the races. The administration at the
South has been substantially rulo imposed from with
out not developed through the people themselves
! IL has been organized system eff depreciation and
| plunder whereby most debased set Of tralfckers
| in Northern honor have been fOsted upon Southern
communities to strip them Of their substance In 1.-THE
| name Of loyalty. Gov Brown here submitted
| tabular statement showing the southern com
| munities to have been plundered OF $16S,Ooo,OOo
| in three short years Of attempted resora-
| ton. This he contended, represented only o
very small part Of the injury inflicted the question Of
the reconciliation Of the He said any attempt to
subject the white the black TO govern by virtue
OF CASTE to rule in tho Of COLOR would equally fail
| to prove success.
| One OF tho weightest questions We are now called
upon to solve Is how these shall be harnonzed In
political society resting popular appeal for its
controlling power Unless this rancOr OF races shall be
| successfully avoided, all the forms OF republican
| government must be replaced by harsh and
| cruel repression founded on force. Tho President
and his party baye not attempted TO inculeate
among the negroes such true sense Of justice as would
mako their citizenship harmless element In our ma
tonal fe feature, however, which more than all
else is most sharply defined in the dealing Of the Presi
dent and his party with the coored at the South s
tho rigid isolation they have been induced
| to maintain. To that end every legal
and political appliance has been directed
and special laws invoked from partisan Congress. AS
T contrast take the condition Of those States which
were able to throw Off the Administrative interference
and connde their affairs TO their own peope-Vlr-
ginia, Tennessee. and Missouri. They were moro
charged with hatreds and rancors than any COM
munities at tho South. Fortunately for them, they
were the first to turn for relief to Liberal policies
perfect amnesty all the white population engaged in
the war; and full recognition of all the civil rights con-
armed 10 the colored population by the war, were the
two great principles which their new departure was
based and SO soon as applied tho effect was
magical Civil order was at once everywhere
restored the peace neghborhoods because permanent
memories OF former hostility were forgotten and the
whole people turned with one accord to repair by indus
try what had boon lost in conflict.
In making this appeal to the conscience and judgment
OF the North would not willingly overlook the deep
obligations that upon all to see that no harm be-
falls that race which has been elevated from slavery into
freedom The North is justly proud Of its great
act OF emancipation and it is incumbent on Its citizens
to nterpose and the cOored race from the dis
asters that must If the policies Of the present
Administration are prevail in future. Their constitu
onal guarantees will be strong when the people OF the
whole land are IN fraternal accord.
Gov. Brown was followed by Col Carter OF Louisiana
at considerable length The demonstration closed with
a serenade to Gov Brown this evening, when he made
brief response. Tho Liberals Of Columbus, Ohio, Will
have daily organ Tuesday next. to be called The
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