The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-31

Now here is the first paragraph in Gree
ley's letter accepting the Cincinnati nomina-
llonj ana take that it is Legitimate edi-
ton, Tor cut it myself from Theodore Til.
ton-Woodhulls Golden Age. Now here ;s
what Greeley says:
mat subject to our constitutional ohlf-
gatlons TO maintain the equal rights of all
citizens our policy is to aim at local self.
government, and not at Capitalization - In
deed, Horace The very catch words Of the
ku-hlux-Klan; the very identical words
that had been nailed at the mastheads of all
the rebel sheets in the southern states: mt
lest that might not be sufficiently plain snd
prosperous, hear what he says further; he
says:
"And there shall be no federal subyersion
ofthe internal policy OF the several states.''
etc. Now observe, he is talking about per-
sonal rights, and there shall be no federal
SuoVersioA of what any state may deem and
prescribe as the best modes Of enforcing
those rights.
Thus, you go down to South Carolina
and they take fancy to hack, main, and
quarter you, you must not think of appeal
ing to the federal courts 10 protect you, for
that would be trampling on
THE SACRED DOCTRINE OF LOCAL sELF-Gov-
ERNAENT.
And that it is precisely the same ground and
precisely the same remedy for personal
rights in the southern states that Horace
Greeley in that Cincinnati letter agrees to
hand you and me over to, and therefore I
charge Mr.. Greeley, and charge him upon
the words that are out of his own mouth,
that he agreed and offered, for democratic
support to abandon and sacrifice the great
guarantee of the Fourteenth amendment to
the constitution and to throw citizenship
ondeF IL 10 the southern dogs to be eaten.
THAT CINCINNATI CONVENTION
that have referred to was very remarka-
bic body. You remember that Convention
assembled pursuant to call issued by sew
eral disconnected Republicans, who said that
they would not endure the revenue policy of
the Republican party; they were bent on
having free trade or revenue reform, and the
Convention assembled in Cincinnati on the
lst of May last. and want you to bear in
mind that that convention was called ex-
pressly aud directly as
A FREE-TRADE CONVENTION: .a
that was the object OF the call, calmly and
undoubtedly expressed, and the convention
assembled in pursuance of that call wound
up, after three days of lucubration and agita-
ton, by nominating the highest protective
tariff man in the United States
Somebody was cheated and somebody did
the cheating, and the question was to find
out just who it was that did the cheating
ard just who it was that got cheated. But
pretty soon the most respectable portion of
tnat convention
BEGAN TO TURN STATES EVIDENCE,
and we got pretty fair narrative of lust
the Fay the thing was done, and come to
cut it down we found there was a telegraph
wire leading from the New York Tribune
office right into Cincinnati. Horace Greeley
was at the Tribune end and Whitelaw Reid
at the Cincinnati end. Frank Blair was general
whipper-in at the Cincinnati end, Reuben E.
Fenton pulled the two strings on the outsid Q
and this unnatural and extraordinary anon
ally was presented, of free trade convention
nominating high protective tariff man.
Now, do you know now they did it, or
rather how they thought they did it They
agreed that it was absurd. that there must
he some so TT of compromise or adjustment
made to sa We them from being laughed at
and therefore they hit upon this happy expe-
dent, that although they assembled as a
free-trade convention, and although Horace
was high protective tariff man, ana they
NOT 1x Moth ho l,,n;,.
victions they would compromise the matter
by both being false, and therefore tAey said.
Nov we will abandon free trade it you will
give up protection" and when they came to
adopt their platform they had positive opn
ions to express on every conceivable subject
of national policy except the one they were
called TO consider. Laughter. You re
member when Andrew johnson
SWUNG AROUND TIE CIRCLE
and took his chaplain, the Rev. Petroleum
v Nasty, with him. The object with
which he set out was to go to Chicago to at
tend the laying of the corner stone TO the
memory OF the late Mr.. Douglas While
Nasty accompanied this exhibition [ saw.
as chaplain, and as historiogra pher, he
wrote forty-seVen letters of two columns
each, and when they got back to Washing
ton, at the end OF the ninety four columns,
said: Up. s While in Chicago we learned
that cornerstone was laid for monument
| to the memory of the late Mr.. Douglas"
Now, this was the situation Of the Cincinnati
Convention. They had the most positive
opinions under heaven upon every sort of re-
form, civil-service, postal and telegraph, and
what not, but on the subject that they were
called t. consider they had no opinions to
express. Not only that, they declared they
had none, and want you to listen while I
| read what they said, and beg you to be qui-
ct, because it must be read in low tone,
without accent or emphasis. because that
wonld snojI IT. Now here is what thew said
on the subject that they came primarily to-
gether to consider:
Greco nizing that there are in our midst
honest but irreconcilabie differences Of opin-.