The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-31

marching as one man under the Liberal
banner, and this assures me that they
are all contending for liberty, equal
rights and universal amnesty. If such
assurances do not fill up the bloody
chasm, what does it mean, that you are
rallying around old Horace? Was not
Horace Greeley the most enthusiastic ad-
vocate of the constitutional amend.
ments? And is not every one aware that
Horace Greeley has been constantly
fighting for principle? Yet you rally
around that man, whose whole life il
identified with the very same things you
are suspected OF desire to overthrow.
Why, gentlemen. is not that assurance
enough to fill the bloody chasm? No;
there is something the Secretary of the
Treasury wants-that the whole South
ern people should vote the Republican
ticket: interrupted by fre.bell.
Feiiow-citlzens, when I was inter-
rupted, l was just asking my Republican
friends how they can expect, under the
existing circumstances, the Southern
people to come into the ranks of the
Republican party, knowing. as they do,
that it was the party that supported the
robbers that we're sucking out your SUBJ
stance? How can they expect that the
Southern people should step into the
ranks and perpetuate that party, whom
even its own supporters had to have to
carry out it's objects; for they considered
that no party had right TO stand in the
way of public welfare.
never felt the necessity Of the vic
tory of the Cincinnati movement more
than since have been in North Caro-
lima. For what do see here? sec q
great party fighting for great principles,
composed of men who were but recently
engaged IN active war against the United
States, but who, at the close of the
war, readily submitted, and have ever
since steady abided by its results, and
are now striking hands with their old
enemies. under the banner of universal
suffrage and national reconciliation; and
on the other side, another party anxious
to perpetuate those prejudices and
hatreds engendered by the war, and re-
gretting that those disorders had ceased,
which in keeping alive the animosities
alone can prolong its existence; really
ready at the time to set premium on q
Ku Klux. Laughter and applause. |
Like Richard III, they would cry, in
their. hearts, at least, 100 collectorships,
dozen foreign missions for single Ku
Klux. Laughter. And how sorry
they are the true article is not forth
coming, and they have to content them
selves with the inferior substitute To-
day paper was sent me which will
read. It purports to give an account of
the terrible outrage perpetrated here on
the person of Governor Harrison, of
New Hampshire, on Wednesday last. I
have been inquiring into this outrage,
and the account I have heard is, that
Governor Harrison stood on dry goods
box to make speech and broke through.
And now it seems the whole power of
the National Government must be
brought to bear on this city. because
Charlotte has not dry goods boxes
strong enough to hold Governor Harri-
son up.
And now, gentlemen OF the Radical
persuasion, what fall is this? When
you look back upon the proud achieve
mel of your party, does not the blush
OF shame mount to your cheek? Follow
the voice OF shame, if not of honor, and
stand by the peoples rights.
And now. my Southern friends, have
few words to sny to you. I have not
| come here to fatter you-I have not
come to help You regain anything you
| lost by the war. In the war, I stood
against you, because I believed in prin-
ciples opposed to those which you main
tanned, and which still advocate to day.
If there is anything that unites us, it is
that you have dropped many of your
prejudices, and are ready to cooperate
with Us in the great work of the re-esta-
blishment of equal rights and universal
justice.
Young men of the South, you have
lost efforts behind you, but yet great
opportunities before you. The task you
have before you ought to appeal to your
noblest sentiments. You can lift up
your country above the sloughs OF
partisan mis-rule and re-establish peace
aud prosperity within its limits. I ap-
peal to that noble ambition that ought
to animate the breast of every American a.
My colored friends, I belonged to q
school which, before the war, was known
as the anti.slavery school-the aboli-
tionists. have been consistant advo-
cate OF abolitionism ever since. And
do not come here to solicit your votes,
for, let me tell you. whether the colored
people of the South support Greeley or
not. the victory Of the Cincinnati move.
ment is certain. But. let me tell you,
that waa anrpriaa6 and ,ooinad IN hoo