The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-09-28
A Slander Nailed.

Horace Greeley, while on his way last week
to Cincinnati to attend the Mechanics Fair, IN
passing through Pittsburgh, was compelled to
make short speech, and being questioned as
to his alleged secession sentiments, made IA
brief explanation, which the Grant papers and
reporters at once outrageously perverted and
sent the lie all over the country. So on ar
rivlng at Cincinnati Greeley again alluded to
the subject, and this time in way to leave no
! further room for doubt as to his sentiments on
the subject of secession. The following we've
his remarks:
| lam here guest at the invitation OF the
Common Council of Cincinnati 1t is their
| desire, as 1t was my wish, that should, while
their guest, abstain from any remarks which
might seem to SAVIOR Of a partlzan purpose.
and fully designed, had been left at liberty.
so to speak tina: no one of any party could
possibly have taken exceptions to it. But
| there has been an attack made upon me since
l came here which will trust to the hospital.
ity and the generosity of my entertainers to
me, To permit me to repel here and now. Last
evening, at Pittsburgh, il the course of some
| 0ifband remarks to a vast assemblugc like this
l took the pains - explain the circum
stances, the extraordinary, unprecedented
clrcumstar ces, under which was mpelled Ia
the winter ot 1860 and 1861 to offer, in good
falth to submit the whclc question OF union and
dlsunlon to the fair, uncOnstrained vote OF the
Southern people After due dcliberation and
discussion, l said then, that it was my belief
ana l. Is still my belief, that had the people
been allowed such y free and fair opportunity
they would have decided that the Union
should be maintained. Those remarks, which
male last evening, nave been misrepresen-
ted ; have Ueen, think, perverted into al ex
preston Il preSert belief and present coIyic
ton that any state had right to dis, live This
Union at It's own good pleasure. Fellow
citizens, uttcrl" repudjatc and condemn that
| sentiment Cheers. do net believe that an
state, or that ten states, c,en a majority OF the
states, has right to dissolve our Union APP
pause That Union is founded on the COust.
tuition. 1t is Il chartered government, not a
mere league. 1t does not constitute a Con
tedcracy merely, but nation; not Cover.
ment Of limited and defined p0%e s. bat Of IN
limited duration. Jehey; the tn. Union is
not only destined to be, Jut vas intended 60
be, perpetual, and believe that our great
civil war, it there ever wa. any reasonable
doubt as to III. nature Of that Union, has set
tied that doubt for evcr- Renewed opplausel
that slavery IS dead and that the Union
| abldes forever. such is the sum and substance
! OF the verdict pronounced through the issues
OF our great contest. There is no longer q
question, there can never again arise ques
ton, as to the perpctulty OF the Union. The
apple OF dscord, the only thing that ever
made any American hostile - his own cour-
try and constitution, has utterly persisted
Ihenceiorth the American Union abidcs Tor.
ever, grounded in the affections, in he neccs-
sl,ies, in the iervent devotion e the whole
American people. II there ever shall again
arise question OF disuron, thar question vii
! be present, not for the South, not for the
Southern section a. th.s ..tioa. BIT n s',ua
question will or can arise. As pelpe'u.. rs
The hills, Is sa.ll Us the ever lasting, rocks. the
Union OF these states abidcs and mast ABIDE
loreTcr. One sentiment, one purpose auimaJrs
the Americ".. he"tt, and 'hl. is that the rnlpn
Of the states must AID sh-l he preserved