Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-10-01
MR.. GREELEY,s SPEECHES.
His Great Speech at Cory, Pa, about the
Ku-Klux and the Carpet-Bag Thieves

FRASRLiN, Penn, sept. 25.-The mag
uihosnI palace car Ruby, having on board
the Greeley party, left Cleveland this moru-
ing ut about 8 o'clock for n hasty run
through the oil regions Of Pennsylvania.
The incidents Of the day, thus far, have
been a repetition Of previous days. The
course Of Mr. Greeley through this interest
log and oEee famous country, has been
marked BY warmth aud honest admiration
on tue part Of the sturdy Penusy lvanians
particularly hattsriAR TO Mr.. Greeley and
his relations toward them. lie came to-
day among this people as though be were a
dear friend who had been away for years
They GRO uded around him aud shook his
hand aud glanced around proudly, as 1t
grAutisd beyond measure At the reception 10
which they themselves Wsrs participating.
Every sentence OF his speeches vas approx
cd With the loudesI OF cheers, and voices
continually interrupted with "Ttat's the
talk, boys" Hes ny man" At Erie
Cory, Titusvils, OIL City, and Franklin,
speeches we're delivered. The one az Corr
the keystone OF his days work-wSs
spoken before as large au audience as the
place could furnish. 1t 10 as follows
SPEECH AT CORY, PA.
FELLow.CtriZENs. A Presidential cleo
ton necessarily briugS into review the &C
tion Of your Government, and the measures
for good or III which affect the prosperity OF
the country and the welfare Of the people
Nor 10 isa significance 10 the fact that A or
b, who may be persons Of very moderate
capacity, and still more moderate worth,
should be President or hold some other
office, but that you, the people, should look
over the whole ground, see what is right and
what ia AmisS, and use your bss; efforts to
correct evils and 10 sustain what il good
Now, you are aware as well as | am, that
oar country has not been rscoucilsd and
regulated, and brought into peace and
order although nearly eight years have
elapsed since the war ended. Peace and
security ought to have been attained much
sooner than this. Look at the difficulties
and obstacles to be overcome
Certain persons, mainly open Rebels, con
spired together and formed themselves into
companies or organizations Of some kind
and IN hidsous DISCUSSES parAded the coun-
try mean certain portions Of the South
ern country-abusing and maltreating limo
cent quiet people, mainly black men. do
not mean TO cay that there were not excuses
and provocatonS for these outrages there
were. But | say there is no jussiGcAtion for
any such conduct As that. The pretense
generally was that what they called the Car
pst-BAR Governments we're abominAble
That IL probably true, bu, /. is no excuse
for hauling quiet people ont Of their beds at
midnight, and Subjeoting them to ali man
nsr Of indiRniiiss. So then / said did not
rseonnend particular or extreme measures,
but | Iaid no doubt il Is the duty Of the
States TO protect their citizens respectively,
and TO put down all lAvlessness. But sup
pose they do not or cannot, or will not &?
The psople are entitled to protection-per.
feot protection. If the State Govern eu,s
will not give it, there must be = power
somewhere that will give it, We look after
man who is not more than half citizen,
whom foreign Government Expresses, and
all the power Of this great nation is put to
work to protect that man. He may, per
hAPs, have only declared his intention to be.
come a citizen; but all the cannon and all
the force We can command are EN- ployed for
his protection. Our Government must have
the power 10 protect its own people At home
as well as abroad. So said year ago lat
Spring; "Lst the President tell What sor,
OF legislation he needs to pot down those
Ku-kluX and ! will back him up to the full
extent" he said what he needed. Laws
were passed, and, alter all, they did the
work. You have not heard of any serious
ku-Klux outrages since these Aots were
passed. Indeed, aimee they we're passed, a
year and a half ago, nobody has heard oi
any ssrions outrages there Though there
have been trials in one or two States, es
psciAIly in North Carolina, yet they are
trials for Offensss committed two or three
years ago, long before the act was passed.
30 the work was done. The Ko-KluK con.
spnaey vas crushed out by the act of Con-
gress and, although these outrages occurred
IN very narrow district Of territory, they
diseredi1ed and damaged all the Sou,hera
people who may be suspected of any SYM
patty with those who committed the out.
RACES.
cARPET-BAG THIEvEs.
ou' sun there remained that other Gle.
ment OF dlscrsdit aud discomfort At ,bs
9gu'h union was called Carpet bag thieves -
Haeh tney went into the South with our
armies, . number OF shrswd, cunning nm.
aerupnlous men undertook to make than.
selves rich out OF the poverty and misery 81
The vAnquiShed South. They made them
selves the especial leaders and cham piops O.
me black people there; they organized I'm
700 Leagues aud other secret soci4ties, o
ne, The hrst object was to combine all th,
S"S mem OF the South into solid phalan L
.su 80 nus give the direction Of the real Gov
hlsuIl, aod the management of tho,,
men TO those white men who wsr,