Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-03
FOR SOLDIERS TO READ!
Horace GreeIey's Speech DeIiv-
cred at Pittsburg, Sept. 10Th.

says there is time Tor war and time
for peace The city of Pittsburg has
recently witnessed rehearsal of the
pomp and pagentry, the blazonry and
circumstance of civil war. A very
large number of men were collected at
vast expense, with single purpose
of rekindling the bitterness and hat
red, the animosity and antipathies, the
fears and exultations of civil war for
the advantage of a political party.
take you to witness that the greater
portion of. the jou nails of Pittsburg, as
well as the orators on the occasion,
have been trying their best to make
US, the people, hate each other for the
sake of personal advantage. A strau-
ger would imagine, who was reading
the Journals of Pittsburg for the last
few days, that we were still at war.
and that their purpose was to revive
and to exasperate the animosity of
civil war. In order to intensity and
invigorate their side of the conflict,
they talk about rebels and traitors
Fellows citizens, are we never to be
done with this? We demRn led of our
adversaries in the great civil war that
they surrender their arms and go to
their homes. They surrendered them
We demanded that they enfranchise
the blacks, and the blacks are enfran-
chised. None but white men now
stand disfranchised on the soil of our
country. We demanded that they
stipulate that the emancipated slaves
shall not be paid for, and that the reb
el debt shall never be paid by the gov
ernment or by the State, and they as,
sented to that. So far as l can see,
every demand made on the part of the
loyal States and the loyal people has
been fully complied with. On the part
| of those lately in rebellion, everything
has been done that we asked. Every
thing has been conceded, and still
they tell US, Why, we want them to
repent Have they not brought forth
works meet for repentance ? Thus,
in coming together in solumn conVen
ton, the represen ntatives of the South
ern people have given their assent to
the platform of the Cincinnati conven-
ton, which was the most intense, the
most complete Republican platform
that had ever been presented by any
national convention whatever. All
this being done, we are told by these
gentlemen who met here: All this is
mockerv. All this is fraud. You
don't mean any thing by it; and the
cry goes on, Rebels and traitors -
Rebels and traiotrs Denunciation
and pro scription the same as ever
Four years ago in the Republican
National Convention it was declared
that this prescription should speedily
cease. -Four years have passed, and
still it is maintained. There are at
this day thousands of people in Ar
kansas alone prohibited-the most in
telligent, the most responsible people
of that State, forbidden to exercise the
right OF suffrage; forbidden exclusively
by the party that meets here and shouts
for Grant and Wilson. Nobody else
asks for prescription but them. No
other party requires that any hun an
beng should stand prescribed on ouI
soil for a rebellion that ceased seven
and half years ago. No party, ne
men of any party, but this, the very
party that held great military parade
this week, in order to further and fur
ther separate and divide the hearts OF
the American people from each other
holds as essential to their triumph
that the hatred should continue:
that distrust, suspicion and
alienation should continue
Do what you will, do what you may
they are determined not to be satisfied
Now, fellow citizens, it is not enough
that those who fought against tht
Union should be prescribed. Thost
oF II
denounced if we do not happen tC
agree with them in our present poll
2 tics. Here stands one who is charged
3 by them with being a secessionist-
/ Could that be true, fellow citizens P
Look facts in the face. When Lincor
5 had been elected and this conspiracy
for secession began to advocate itself
we Republicans were told by our owr
f men, and told still more by those ou
: of the circle, You must bs ok out O.
: your Republicanism; you must sur
3 sender your opposition to the exten
: sion of slavery or consent to a grea
E civil war; This they said was The
only alternative of bloodshed and de
f vastation over the whole country, o.
l you shall surrender the principle.
< on which you have just carried
v the election I was one of those whC
e said no; there is no such alternative
, l denied that the Southern people, the
e great minority of them, are against tn,
s Union. l demanded that there shall
: be open, free discussion before tb
Y Southern people and an honest, unter
' rifed, unconstrained vote. If they ap
e prove; if the people of the South sa,
}. they want disunion, will consent t.
+ it. l know they will not, / know tina
the Southern people, the great majori
" ty would have voted as they actuall,
" did that winter, not for seces
O sion, but for clinging to tn
= Union; and now, to-day, if the nation
IS were to be imperiled and there wer
V just two modes of saving ito trus
It to the chances of civil war, or to tn
e chances of a full, fair vote of the South
l ern people, would very greatly prefe
e to take the latter chance, rather than tn
former, for fellow citizens, they d
greatly misunderstood and malign thi
,e American people when they assum
, that in cold blood, before there ha
II been any clash of arms, the people
,, the Sorth, desired disunion. In its il
W ception, in it's origin, the great mass
(, es of those who consented to the 81
e. cession movement meant nothing b
at it but to back down the North an
II. make us consent to the extension
~ slavery. That was their purpose, an
or that purpose l did my best to resi-
+ and defeat Well. the war is ended
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