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pure ana noble soldier, W mfleid Scott" Wa
ii political honesty that prompted Mr.. Gree
, ley while protesting friendship for Mr. Lin
coin to write secret letters to the Governor
Of the different States for the purpose of de
feating his reelection: Was it political hon
esty that prompted Mr.. Greeley to surrende
the principles to which he has devoted a Ion!
life for the bare possibility of being Presi
dent? With this record before us when thes
gentlemen prate about the honesty of thei
candidate respond in classic language
Aye, honest as the world goes"
TIE GREEKS BEARING GIFTS,
Awaking from his dream of universal con
ilscation, and indefinite Punishment, Mr.
Greeley discovers great friendship for Oh,
South. He affects naughty contempt fol
the carpet-baggers, land weeps over the alleged
oppression OF the South, by measures in the
enactment of which he was chief actor. He
| bemoans the fate of the South because some
OF the men whom he thought ought to have
been baniShed, are under temporary dis
reimbursement. Whence this sudden con.
version: Does anybody believe that Mr..
| Greeley, after spending long life of deter
mined and fierce hostility to the Southern
people, can all at once become their best
friend: Does anybody behave that Carl
Schurz, that agitator of strife, both i'm his
native and adopted country, can suddenly
become the angel of peace and repose to the
South? Does anybody believe that LYMAN
Trumbull, that restless spirit whose ambition
can never be satisfied, has embarked in this
new movement for the good of the South ?
Has 1t never occurred to you that there NAV
be some sinister motive under all these pro-
LESSONS: Knowing the character of these
men, and fOreseeing their designs, warn the
people OF the South to fear "The Greeks
bearing gifts" The Republican party can.
not indeed make eXtravagant promises to the
South, but L venture to affirm that it will do
more for the interest of the South. than these
pseudo friends of the South, notwithstand-
ing all their promises. We cannot promise
you State sovereignty because this has been
tried, and it failed miserably. We cannot
promise you unlimited local government, be-
cause that is incompatible with the interest
of the whole country, but we can promise
and will give an equal distribution of the
public benefits to every State, and equal pro-
lection to all the citizens.
THE BLOODY CHAsN.
When our liberal" friends fail of arou-
ment, they regale the ears of their auditors
with Mr.. Greeley's rhetorical flourish of clasp
ing hands across the bloody chasm."
1t is related that near the city of Rome,
there was cfasm which opened yearly,
threatening to engulf the city in its yawning
abyss, which danger could only be ayerted bv
some one of noble blood plunging in and
making him a sacrifice for the city. Not un-
like this is that chasm over which Mr.. Gree
ley proposes to clasp hands. At the forma-
ton of the Government this chasm opened.
and we threw in the slave trade for twenty
years; then we clasped hands across the
bloody chasnl. In 1920, this chasm opened
again, and we threw into it the Missouri
Compromise; then we clasped hands across
the bloody chasm. During the stormy DAYS
of notification the chasm opened again. and
we threw into 1t low tariff; then we clasped
hands across the bloody chasm. During that
period Immediately preceding the Mexican
war this chasm opened again, and we robbed
Mexico of Texas, and threw this into it
then clasped hands across the bloody chasm.
Later still this chasm opened again, and we
threw into it the compromise measures of
1850; then we clasped hands across the
bloody chasm. But in 1860 this chasm
opened again, and this time the American
people decided that there should be no more
clasping hands across this bloody chasm, but
that it should be filled up and oblterated for
ever. And for this purpose nearly million
OF the flower of the youth of the country
cast themselves as living sacrifices into this
chasm that it might be closed and closed for
ever. In view of this fact, l say that we can
have no more clasping hands across the
bloody chasm, but if we would have lasting
peace, and enduring reconciliation we must
put old things behind us, and forget that this
ever existed.
OPPRESSION OF THE SOUTH.
Having examined some of the reasons
given by distinguished gentlemen, why the
country should support the principles and
candidates put forth by the Cincinnati Con-
vention, and found that they will not stand
the test of logic and common sense, come
now to ask, why may not the American, why
may not the people of the South support the
present Administration? To this it is an
swered, that the the present Administration
is noted for its oppression of the South. This
statement has been made so often that many
persons accept it as true without pausing to
ask for the grounds upon which it rests. If
this charge were true, still it would come i'm
very bad grace from the supporters of the
man who more than all others is responsible
for all those laws Of which portion of the
Southern people complain so bitterly. But
is it true? Soon after the present Admins
tration came into power, it was discovered
that powerful organization, hostile to the
national Government, ramified nearly one
THRU ol INC country, whose avOwed purpose
was the overthrow of the governments of ten
of the States of this Union. For more than
year it carried on its diabolical work, per-
petrating outrage upon outrage, until the
sickening catalogue of its crimes Mortified the
civilized world. The knife of the assassin
was invoked, the torch of the incendary was
applied and every cruelty that barbarism
could invent was heaped upon those whose
only crime was fealty to the Government.
The State governments either from mbecil-
ity or cOnnivance utterly failed to suppress
this llendish combination, and cry went up
from all this broad land, calling upon the
Government to put a stop to these crimes.
In this emergency the Government set about
to meet these difficulties, and for that pur-
pose, Congress passed what is known as the
Ku-KluX law, in the execution of which il is
charged that the Administration cruelty op.
pressed the South. Now If President Grant
desired to Cypress the South why was he 80
tardy in executing the Ku-Klux law? Nearly
year had elapsed after its passage before
he could be induced to enforce it's provisions.
Then, again, why if he was so DESTROYS of
expressing the South did he not suspend the
writ of hobeas corpus in all these States ?
There had been sufficient disorders and out
RACES in all of them to furnish pretext.
Upon the hypothesis that the President