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/ tentment in their new homes.
Died in Abingdon, on the 18th instant, Jane
Hale, age 1l3 years. She was born in Catawba
county, North Carolina, in 1859. Her mother
was white woman and her father fuli-blood-
ed Indian.
Hon. Horace Greeley's Speech at Portland,
Maine.
| On the 14th inst, at Portland, Maine, Hon.
Horace Greeley delivered the following ad-
mirable speech which will be read with inter-
est and approval by patriots throughout the
country:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies' and Gentlemen:
Is is certainly true that throughout the
course of my life. as far as have been connect
ed with public affairs, | have struggled, with
| such capacity as God has given me, for first,
| impartial and universal liberty second, for the
unity and greatness of our common country;
and third, end by no means least when the
| former and was obtained, for early and hearty
| reconciliation and peace among our country
men. For these great ends have struggled,
and hope the issue of the third is not doubt
| full.
thoroughly comprehend that no personal
consideration has drawn this vast assembly to-
gether. Other, higher and grander considera-
lions have collected you to-day. 1t is part OF
the unwritten law Of cur country that caudi-
date for President may not make speeches In
vindication and commentator of the principles
whereupon he is supported, or the measures
which his election is intended to promote,
| though candidate for Vice President is under
no such inbibitions not merely acquiesce in
| In the restrlctlon-l recognize and affirm its
propriety.
| The temptation to misinterpret and misre-
present candidate for the higher post is 50
great, the means of circulating such perversion
among the people, who never see word of the
of the refutatlon. so vast, that candidate has
no moral right to subject his friends to the peril
he must brave. if not invite, by taking part In
the canvass. Yet there is truth to be uttered
in behalf of those who have placed me before
the American people in my present attitude,
which does them such honor that [ claim the
privilege Of stating it here, aud now this is
that truth: No person has ever yet made the
fact known that he proposed to support, OF
actually did support, my nomination, whether
at Cincinnati or Baltimore, or any action which
resulted in sending delegates to either conven-
ton, as the basis Of claim for Office at my
hands. No one who favored my nomination
before either convention, or at either conven-
ton, has sought Office at my hands, either fol
himself or any one else, nor has one suggested
to me that might strengthen myself as a can
didate by promising to appoint any one to any
important Office whatever. In some few in.
stances, less than dozen, am certain. some
of the smaller fry politicians have since my
double nomination limited to me by letter tha
| | might increase my chances OF election by pro
missing postoffice or some such place to my
volunteer correspondents. respectively.
[ have not usually responded to these over
tures but | now give general notice that should
| be elected [ shall consider the claims of these
untimely asplrants after those of the more
modest and reticent shall have been fully salts
fed. Applause In two or three instances
have been asked to say whether [ would o.
would mott if elected, confne my appointment
to Republicans. | answer these by pointing t
the plank 10 the Cincinnati platform wherein
all who concur IN the principles therein Sc
forth are cordially invited to participate il
their establishment and vindication. | neye
yet heard of man who invited his neighbor
to help him raise house and proceeded t.
kick them out as soon as the roof was fairl
over his head. For my part, Recognize ever.
honest man who approves and adheres to til
Cincinnati platform as my political brother
and as such fully entitled to my confidence am
J friendly regard. One other point demands
.-sJH
[ have given to those lately hostile to the u
MON to secure .neir favor and support an
swer-uo man or woman in all the South eve
asked of me. whether directly or through an
other, any other pledge than is given In all m.
acts and works from the hour Of Lees surren
der down to this moment
No Southern man ever limited to me an ex
pectation, hope or wish that the rebel debt
whether Confederate or State. should be assum
ed or paid by the Union, and no Southern mai
who could be elected to Legislature or mad
colonel of militia regiment ever suggested tn
pensioning of all rebel soldiers or any of them
even as remote possibility. All who nomi
mated me were perfectly aware that [ upheld
and justified federal legislation to repress tn
Ku klux conspiracy and outrages, though | hat
long ago insisted as strenuOusly as | now do
that complete amnesty and general oblivion o
the bloody, hateful past would do more for th,
suppression and utter extinction of sucn out
RACES than all the force bills and suspension O
habeas corpus ever devised by man. Wronl
and crime must be suppressed and punished
but far wiser and nober in legislation is thu
policy by which they are prevented.
From those who support me In the South
have heard hut one demand-justice but ont
desire, reconciliation. They wish to be heartily
reunited and at peace with the North on an!
terms which do not involve the surrender o.
their manhood. They ask that they should b.
regarded and treated by the Federal authorit,
as citizens, not culprits, SO long as they OBEY
and uphold every law consistent with equality
and right. They desire rule which alike fol
white and black shall encourage industry ano
thrift, aud discourage rapacity and villainy. :
They cherish joyful hope, In which | fully
concur, that between the 9Th of November anc
the 4th of March next quite number of Gov
errors and other dignitaries who in the absurd
name of republicanism and loyalty have beer
for years piling debts and taxes upon their war
wasted States will follow the wholesome exam.
pie of Bullock, Of Georgia, and seek the shades
OF private life. The darker and denser those
shades the better for themselves and for man
kind, and the hope that my election may has
ten the much desired hegira of thieving carpet
baggers has reconciled to the necessity of sup
porting me many who would otherwise have
hesitated and probably refused
Fellow citizens, the deposed and partially
exiled Tammany ring has stolen about thirty
millions from the city Of New York. That was
a most gigantic robbery, and hurried its con-
trivers and abetters from power and splendoI
to impotency and infamy but the thieving car
pet-baggers have stolen at least three times
that amount stolen it from the already i'm.
poverished and needy, and they still faunt their
prosperous villainy in the highest places Of the
land, and are addressed as honorable and excel
lencies. Applause. think [ hear voice
from the honest people Of all the States declar-
ing that their iniquity shall be gainful and in
soIent no longer, at the furthest, than the 4th
of March next, by that national verdict pro-
nounced that will cause them to fold their