Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-09-24
GREELEY IN PITTSBURGH.
He Addresses the Multitude.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, September 19.-Horace
Greeley aud party reached this city at7s
O'Clock this evening. Mr.. Greeley was met
at.the depot by, torchlight procession and
escorted to the st. Charles Hotel, where he
eliveredfroml the. balcony the following adj
dress:
feitop> Citizens: The wise king says there
is time for war and time for pence The
city of Pittsburgh has recently witnessed
rehearsalo of the pomp and pageantry the bla>
zonry and circumstance of civil war. A very
large number of men we're collected here, at
vastexpense, with the single purpose of re-
kindling the bitterness and hatred, the ami
mosities and antipathies, the fears and exul>
tations of civil war, for the advantage of a
political party. l take you to witness thatthe
greater portion of the journals of pittsburgh.
as well as orators on this occasion. have been
trying their best.to make us, the people, hate
each other for the sake of partisan advantage.
stranger would imagine, who was reading
the journals of Pittsburg for the last few DAYS
that We were still at war, and that their pur-
pose was to revive and exasperate the hatred
and luminosity of civil war, in order to in.en-
sify and invigorate their side of the. conflict.
Tisey talk about rebels aud traitors Are
we never to be done with this? We de.
manded of our adversaries in the great civil
war that they surrender their arms and return
TO their homes They surrendered them
We demanded that they enfranchise the blacks,
and the blacks are enfranchised. None but
white men stand disfranchiscd ON the soil of
our country. We demanded that they stip>
ulate that the emancipated slave shall not be
paid for. and that the rebel debt shall never
be paid by the Government or by the States.
and they assentcd to that
So far as | can see, every single demand
made on the part of the loyal States and peo
pie has hecn fully complied with on the part
of those lately in rebellion. Still. they tell us
we want them to repent Have they not
brought forth works meet for repentance In
solemn convention the representatives of the
Southern people have given their assent to the
platfnrm OF the Cincinnati Convention. which
was the most intense. the most complete Re-
publican platform that had ever been pres
sented ia any national convention whatever.
All tins being done, we are told by those gen.
fiemen who met here, all this mockery and
fraud; you do not mean anything by it, and
the cry goes ont, rebels and traitors, denunci-
alton and prescription the same az ever Four
years ago, in the Republican National Com
vent'on, /. was declared this prescription
would speedily cease. Four years have passed
and still it is maintained that there are this
day thousands of people of Arkansas alone.
probable the most intelligent and responsible
people of that State, forbidden to exercise the
right Of suffrage, forbidden exclusively hv the
party that meets here and shouts FOR Grant
and Wilson. Nobody else asks for proscrip>
ton hut them. No other party requires that
any human being should stand prescribed ON
our soil for a rebellion that ceased seven and
half years ago. No party. no men of any
party but this the very party that held great
military parade this week in order to further
separate and divide the hearts Of the Ameri,
can people from each other. They hold es-
sentia' to their triumph that hatred should
continue, and distrust, susncon, and aliena-
t'on should continue. Do what YOU will. do
what you may, they are determined not to he
satisfied. 1t is not enough that those who
fought against the Union shonld he pros crihed
Those of ns who stood for it are cnptinuallv
denounced if we do mt hannen tn agree with
others in onr personal politics. Here stands
one who is charged nv them with being
se"essionist. Gould that be true? Look the
facts in the face
When Lincoln had been elected. and this
conspiracy for secession began to advocate
itself, We, Renuhiicans, we're told bv vonr
own men. and told still more by those on. Of
the circle; you must back out of your Rernbli
canism; you must surrender your opposition
to the extension Of slavery, or consent t, a
great civil war. This. they said was the ONLY
alternative. Blondshed aud devastation over
the whole country, or you shall Surrender
principles in which you have Just carried the
election. l was one of those who saia that
there was no such alternative I denied that
the Southern people, the great majority Of
them, are against the Union. I demanded
that there should be open, free discussion be-
lore the Southern people, and an honest. un-
terrified, unconstraned vote and if thew an.
provc-if the people of the Snnth say they
want disunion. | will consent 10 it. know
they will not. know that the Southern noo
pie. that the great majnrty Of them, would
have voted as they actually did that winter
not for secession. but for clnging to the Union.
and now, tn day, if the nation we're to be im>
perlled. and there were just two modes of saw
ing It. trust to the chances of civil war. or TO
the CHANCES of free, fair vote of the South.
ern people would very greatly prefer to take
the latter chance rather than the former; for.
fellow citizens, they do greatly misunderstood
ana mat'sn the American people when thew
assume that. in cold blood before there had
been clash OF arms, the people in the South.
any more than the people in the North. desired
dlsunlon. ln its inception, in its origin. the
great masses IF those who consented to this
secession movement meant nothing by it hut
to back down the North and make US consent
to the extension of slavery. That was their
purpose, and that purpose did my best to
resist and defeat. Well, the war is ended.
aud think it ought to be- We had great.
a terrible. bl"ody, destructive civil war.
Our success was perfect
The defeat of our adversaries was more
complete than any deiea. recorded in history.
They have suffered much they have conceded
all. Connot we afford to be masnaninous
At least they say that the Southern people
may vote. Soue of them may. but the iu>
slant they vote the cry is raised, "See how
these fellows vote" They cry, You must