The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-04
POLITICAL
Speech from our Next President Horace
Greeley at Pittsburgh.

the balcony the following address
| FELLOW CITIZENS: The wise King
says, There is a time for war and a
time for peace" The City Of Pitts
burgh has recently witnessed rehearsal
of the pomp and pageantry, the blazOn-
r., and the circumstance of civil war.
A very large number of men were col
lected at vast expense, with the single
purpose of rekinding the bitterness
and hatred, the animositY and antipa-
| tines, the fears and exultGtiOns of civil
war, for the advantage of & political
party. take 1t, your journals of Pitts
! burgh, as we'll 8s the orators on this Oc-
casiOn, have been trying their best to
make us-the people--hate each other
for partisan advantage. A stranger
| would imagine, who was reading the
| journals of Pittsburgh for the last few
| days, that we were still at war, and that
their purpose was to revive and exasper-
| ate the hatred and animosity of civil
| war IN order to intensity and invigOrate
! their side of the conflict. They talk
about ''rebels and traitors" Fellow
citizens, are we never to be done with
| this? We demanded of our adversalies
! IN the great war that they surrender
their arms and go to their homes. They
surrendered them. We demanded that
| they enfranchise the blacks, and the
blacks are now enfranchised. None but
| white men now stand disfranchised on
the soil of our country. We demanded
| that they stipulate that the emancipa-
ted slaves shall not be paid for, and that
| the rebel debt shall never be paid by
! the Government or the States, and they
assented to that So far as / can see.
every demand made on the part of the
| loyal States and loyal party has been
| complied with by those lately in rebel
| hon. Everything. Everything has
been conceded, and still they tell Us We
| want them to repent. Have they not
| brought forth works meet forrepentance
IN thus coming together in solemn
Convention, the representatives of the
Southern people, and giving their as
sent to the platform of the Cincinnati
| Convention, which was the mOstintense
most complete Republican platform that
had ever been presented by any Nation
al Convention whatever. AIlthis being
done, we are told by these gentlemen
who met here, "All this is mOckery.
This is fraud. You don't mean anything
by it, and the cry goes on, " Rebels and
traitors" "Rebels and traitors" de-
nunciatiOn and prescription, the same as
ever. Four years ago, in the RePubli-
can National Convention, it was declaT-
ed that this prescription should cease.
Nobody else asks for prescription;
but then no one doubts, no other
party requires that any human
being should stand prescribed on
our soil for a rebellion that ceased
seven and half years ago.
FOur years have passed, and still it Is
maintained that there are at this day
thousands of people in Arkansas alone
prescribed. The most intelhgent-the
most responsible people of that State
are forbidden to exercise the right of
sufrage-fOrbidden exclusively by
the party that meets here and
shouts for Grant and Wilson.
Those of us who stood for it are equally
denounced if we do not happentO agree
with them in our present politics. Here
stands one who is charged by them with
being n secessiOnist. Could that be
true, feilow-citizens? Look facts In the
face. When Lincoln had been elected,
and this conspiracy for secession began
to advocate itself, we Republicans in
order to further and further separate
and divide the hearts of the American
people from each other, they hold es-
sential to their triumph that Hatred
should continue; that distrust, suspi-
cIOn, and alienation should continue.
DO what you Will, do what you may,
they are determined not to be satisfied
Now, fellOw-citizens, it is not enough
that those who fought againstthe Union
were told by our own men, and told still
more by those out of the circle, ''YOu
must back out OfyOur Republicanism, you
must surrender your opposition to the
extension of slavery, or consent to n
great civil war" This, they said, was
4I,y, / L
vastatiOn over the whole country, or
you shall surrender principles on which
You have Just carried the election. /
was one of those who said, ''No. there
IS no such alternative - ] denied that
the Southern people, the great minority
of them, were against the Union. L de-
mand that there shall be open, free dis
cussion before the Southern people. If,
after an honest, uDteTrified, uncOn-
strained vote, if they prove and the
people of the South say they want dis
union, l Will consent to it. i know they
will not. L know that The Southern
people, that the majority would have
voted as they actually did that winter,
not for secession, but for clinging to
the Union, and now, to-day, if the ma
ton were to be imperilled and there
were Just two modes of saving it, to
trust to the chances of civil war, or the
chance of a free, fair vote of the South
ern people, would very greatly prefer
to take the latter chance, rather than
the former. Fellow citizens, they do
greatly misunderstood and malign this
American people when they assumed that
in cold blood, before there had been any
clash Of arms, the people in the South,
any more than the people in the North,
desired disuniOn. In It's origin, the great
masses of those who consented to the Sc
cessiOn movement meant nothing by it but
to back down the North, and make US con
sent 70 the extension Of slavery That
was their purpose, and that purpose 1 did
my best TO defeat Well, the war is ended.
| think it ought 10 be ended. We had a
great and terrible, bloody and destructive
ci vii war Our success was perfect. The
defeat Of the adversary was more complete
than any defeat recorded in history. They
have suffered much They have conceded
all Cannot we afford to be magnanimOus.
at ast-They see, fellow citizens, they see
that the Southern people may vote Some
of them may; but the instant they vote
the cry is raised See how these fellows
vote. They cry you must vote the other
way" is that an election, OF is it only the
fashion OF war in another aspect
FcIlow-citizens, YOU belong to one of the
great hives Of American industry.
plead here for peace and reconciliation;
for the interests, especially, of this busy,
prosperous, energetic people. How / have
sympathized with Pittsburgh,-how have
Fcjoiced in her prosperity; how / have
wondered and admired her magnificent
growth you surely do know. No place on
| the continent has been dearer to me than
! Pittsburgh. J here has been no spot in
whose prosperity ! have more heartily re-
/ joiced, and this is because ! believe her