Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-15
invited to participate in their establishment

invited to participate in their establishment
and vindication. / never yet heard of a man
who invited his neighbors to help him raise a
house and proceeded to kick them out of it
so soon as the roof was fairly over his head.
For my own part, 1 recognize every honest
man who approves and adheres to the Cincin-
natl platform as my political brother, and as
such fully entitled to my confidence and
friendly regard. One other point demands a
word. Those adverse to me ask what pledg-
es have given to those hostile to the Union
to secure their favor and support. 1 answer,
no man or woman in all the South ever asked
OF me, whether directly or through another,
any other pledge than is given in all my acts
and words from the hour of Lees surrender
down to this moment No Southern man ever
limited to me an expectation Of hope or wish
that the rebel debt, whether Confederate or
State, should be assumed or paid by the
Union, and no southern man who could be
elected to Legislature or made Colonel of a
militia regiment, ever suggested the pension
ing of rebel soldiers, or any of them even as
remote possibility. All who nominated me
were perfectly aware that | upheld and usti-
fed federal legislation to repress Ku.Klux
conspiracy and outrage, though | had long
ago insisted as strenuously as l now do that
complete amnesty and genuine oblivion
OF the bloody and hateful past, would do
more for the suppression and utter extinc-
ton OF such outrages than all the force,
bills and suspension of habeas corpus ever
devised by man. Wrong and crime must
be suppressed and punished, but far wiser
and nobler is the legislation and policy by
which they are prevented From those who
support me in the South, have heard but
one demand-Justice, one desire-reconcl-
iation. They wish to be heartily reunited,
and at peace with the North on anv terms
which do not involve the surrender of their
manhood. They ask that they shall be re-
garded and treated by the federal authorities
as citizens, not culprits, SO long as they obey
and uphold every law consistent with equity
right. They desire a rule which alike for
white and black shall encourage industry and
thrift, and discourage rapacity and villany.
They cherish joyful hope in which l fully
concur, that between the 9TH of November
and the fourth of March next, quite num-
Der of the governors and other dignitaries
who in the abused names of repubicanism
and loyalty have for years been piling debts
and taxes upon the war-wasted States, will
follow the wholesome example of Bullock of
Georgia. and seek the shades Of private life.
The darker and denser those shades the bet
ter Tor themselves and mankind, and the hope
that my election may hasten this much de-
sired hegira of the thieving and carpet bag
gers has reconciled to the necessity of sup
porting me many who would otherwise have
hesitated and probably refused.
Fellow Citizens The deposed and par
TALLY exled Tammany Ring has stolen about
$50 200, 900 from the city of New York. That
was most gigantic robbery and hurled its
contrivers and abetters from power and SPLEEN
dor to impotence and intamy. But The thiev-
ing carpet baggers have stolen at least thrice
this amount; stolen it from the already i'm
poverished and needy; and they still Haunt
their high villiany in the high places of the
lfnd, and are addressed as Honorable and
"Exeellency." | think l hear a voice from
the honest people of all the States declaring
that their iniquities shall be ganful and in
solvent. By the 4th of March next these
criminals will have heard national verdict
pronounced that will cause them to fold their
tents like Arabs and silently steal away, and
that | trust will be the end of their stealing
at the cost of the good name of our country,
and the we'll being of her people.
After the speech the multitude passed by
the platform, shaking hands with Mr.. Gree
ley as they passed, after which he was driven
to the Falmouth.