New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-24

in the SoutL? have never been tbere he
cause my duties did not call me there bna
| always felt certain no gentleman of thee
South would lay hand on me, and don't
believe they would let blackguards do il.
Ihey We're taking as if it were but charlie
TO let me pass through. That has passed
away, feliow-citizehs. You may have been
one OF the most effective Confederate soie
dlers OF the late struggle, and you NAV traves
all over this county, and | think no oneo
except very low, vulgar people will otfeb
I you any insult. | travelled to the furthesys
part of South Texas last year, and vas
! everywhere well received. | think every
Northern man who went South, minding his
own business and giving nobody cause of
offense. was treated, perhaps as well as }
was; ms person and property were just asa
| saeredly respected as mine were Now,
then, we have opened up new era if9
! TINS country. There was a time when it
| was not so; when every Northern man,
whatever his principles, could travel
Trough the South. Now they can do So,
ana am glad OF it. Think no more o6
our tl1umphs in the late struggle. Let us
rejoice to-day that these tridmphs have
Gehoea to produce good to tie whole
American people. There were actuaIIv
men IN the North who believed whe1a
Lincoln was assas 2inated that the Southern
people, as a people, fejoiced in that assasS
slnatlon. 1 am sure it was not so; but here
is d black and bloody deed done. and a
Whole people suffered for it. 1t was for a
long time impossible to make a large por-
t!on Ol taat class believe that the assassina-
llon was not the work of the whole Com
Ieoerate people There was injustice done
them through prejudice and through pas
SION Wemust try to dispel that prejudice
ana that passion. We must try to make J..
the whole people feel that the American
name IS dear to us all, that even in our
struggles we were friends. We did not
| nnh b., j.
uesUroy' prisoners We're not, unjustly
treated, but l really believe Deopie
on both sides meant to treat them
| with humanity SO far as they could
| 90 SO, and When cruelties took place they
were not understood to be approved Nv
| the great body of the people North or
South Now let US all resolve that we shall
| be nearer to each other next wear than We :
| are this. o[Applausel / am demanding
universal amnesty. Why, people say
there are only three or four hundred dis
1fanchlsed." Suppose there were only 200
L object to this disfranchisement and this
prescription 1t puts stigma on the whole
people.
LOUISVILLE, September 22.-Afr. Greeley
made speech here last night of consider
able length. He was received with great
enthusiasm. Upon the subject of proscrip-
tiOn he said:
Now, fellow-citizens, why do we condemn
prescription! They mistake who say there
are only two or three hundred left now for-a
pldden to exercise the common right of
American citizens. 1t is not so. There are
thousands. There are 5000 disfranchised in
the State OF Arkansas alone, and the men
who hold them distranchised expect to car
ry that State against us by virtue of that dis
tranchisement. But it is not only the number
of prescribed; there are men who are not
under this ban who feel themselves pro-
scrlbed because others are for an offense-
which was their otfense as we'll So long as
you have prescribed class in this country,
men all around them, honorable ard genera
GUS men, will feel that / ought to be pros
scribed the same as that man. The diff
ference was only by accident. He hap
pened to take ali oath or till an office before
the struggle that | did not, but his guilt
was no greater than mine. Accident only
makes him prescribed, and leaves me free,
so that so long as there shall be prescribed
classes in this country the prescription will
rankle in the hearts of millions of Ameri-
cans, who feel that they themselves eare con-
demned and bannedin the acts which dooms
their leaders. Is is not tor the sake of the
prescribed alone that / speak. Every com
munity has right to the best services OF
all its citizens. Men say to me, why, you o G
don't want to elect Toombs or somebody
else, do you No; / don't want to elect r
any of these men, but, | suppose, other
people do. WHO are you, or who ami, f0s
say whether they shall or shall not? 1t isnot
a question forme, but whether American cit
liens, whom you say have the same rights to
vote and hold office as you, shall be at
liberty to vote for men they prefer, or
shall be compelled to vote for men YOU
prefer. The question is not of several hun
dred, but of several millions of our people
Well, they say, what do the people care
about this; the banks are making money
the people are pfospering; manufacturers
are thrifty Who cares that few hundred
or thousand men are disfranchisedl / care
say the war which ended nearly eight
years ago ought to have had nearly all its
bloody traces wiped out before this. Zap
Olause. L say that while we have ofteIr
Oeen amused With promises Of general am
lesty, the government of the country has
been controlled by men like
Senator'S Morton and Chandler and General
Butler, one of which Senators is saying,
Well, then, all may forgive rebels, if they
WILL out | never CAM" Now, that spirit is
lot one which should rule a republican
country,
In the course of his speech Mr. Greeley
said:
Now, fellow citizens, wish to CALI your
attention to. an aspect of this struggle which
las not been PR sent d. There is no class
Of our citizens, TO part of the American peO-
pie, who have so real and great an interest
II the succession of our government as the
1Olored people Of this country Though
they know that we all admit that their
rights are perfectly secured by the constl-
tuition, and that no one can go back of that,
it is still their real interest that their rights
shall not be only accorded, but that they
should be fully accorded; that there shall
be no opposition, no objection to their en-
ioying Just the same political and civil
rights that we do. 1t is their interest more
than yours or mine that all contention
black men or white men shall
absolutely cease; that every individual
shall be judged and estimated ac-
3ording to his worth, with no respect what
ever to DIOR Or condition, If your govern
ment srcceeds there is no party there is NO
consider able faction, there is really nobody
e4a in le field opposing or objecting to
heir standing on the common platform of G
American nationality. [Applause.l say
hen 1t Is their clear interest that our gov
III. nent shall be welcomc l and ratified
md approved by the entire American peo-
Die, and yet it is a very discouraging fact
to us that there is no other class
20 generally and so bitterly opposing us as
hey are; there is no other class, as class,
Who insist so thoroughly or Inisapprehend-
ngly in misrepresenting u.s.. say this not
% excite prejudice against them. They are
gnorant, and their ignorance Is not their
3wn fault, though it is their and our mis-
fortune: thev are misled and we are calu1n-
mated in their ears. Why, have been re-
asked to contradict assertions
hat have been negro trader. Even on
ny way to this place, one quadroon girl, on
hearing me speak, said: 81 would like to
tick knife into his heart. He sold mE
mother into Richmond, Virginia" Laugh