Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-23


PORTLAND, Aug. 18th - The following is
the address of Mr. Greeley in CITY Hall
yesterday:
MIR. Chairman and Ladies anu Gentlemen.
1t is certainly true taat III ou hou, the
course of my life, So far as have been con-
nected with public affairs. | have struggled
With such capacity as God has given me for,
first impartial and universal liberty, S cond
for the Union and greatn ess Of our. common
country and third and by no means least,
when the former end was attained for early
and hearty reconciliation and peace among
our counuymen. For these great ends |
have struggled, and hope the issue of the
3rd is not doubtful. | thoroughly compre-
bend thai no personal consideration has
drawn this vast assembly together. Other
higher and grander considerations have col.
lected you around me to-day.
1t is part Of the unwritten law of orr
country that candidate for the Presidency
may not make speeches in vindication and
commentator of the principles whereupon
he is supported or the measures which his
election is intended to promote, though
candidate for Vice-President is under no
such inhibition. | not merel acquiesce in
the restriction. | recognize and affirm lis
propriety. The temptation to misinterpret
and misrepresent candidate for the higher
posts is SO great, the means Of circulating
such perverslons among people who never
see word OF their reputation are. so vast
that candidate has no mora! right to sub.
ject his friends to the perils be must brave
if not invite, by taking part in the canvass.
Yet there is truth to be uttered in behalf
of those who have placed me before the
American people in my present attitude
which does them such honor that claim
the privilege of stating it here aud now.
This is that truth No pc, son has ever
yet made the fact known that lie proposed
to support or actively did support my oomi-
nation. whether at Cincinnati, at B ,lti-
more, or in action which resalte, in sepdipo
delegates to either Convention--as the basis
of claim for office at my hands; no one
who favored my nomination before either
convention or at either convention has SOUGHT
Office at my hands, either for himself or any
one else; nor has any one suggested t., me
that might strengthen myself as candidate
by promising to appoint any one to any iu.
portant office whatever In very few in.
stances-Qess than dozen, I am certain \
some OF the smaller fry of politicians have,
since my double-nomination, limited to me
by letter that might increase nv chances
of election by promising postofioe or some
such place to my volunteer correspondents
respectively. have not usually respop.
ded to these overtures but I now give gener-
al notice that should [ be elected, I will
consider the claims of these untimelv aspi.
rants after those Of the more modes, and re
tlcent- shall have been fully satisfied
Applause
In two or three instances have been ask.
ed to say whsther / would or would not, if
elected conflLe my appointments to Republi-
cans. l answer these by pointing to the
plank IN the Cincinnati platform wherein
all who concur in the principles therein set
forth are cordially invited to participate in
their establishment and viudication. [ new
! er yet heard Of a man who invited his neigh.
bors to help him raise house and proceed
to Kick them out as soon as the roof was
fairly over his head. For my own part
recognize every honest man who annroves
and adheres to the Cincinnati platform as
my political brother, and as such fully emit.
tied to my confidence and friendly regard.
One other point demands word Those
adverse to NE ask hat pledges I have Civ.
en- to those lately hostile to the Union to Sc.
cure their favor and support l answer, no
man or woman in all the South ever asked
OF me, either directly or through another.
any other pledge than is given in all nv
acts and words, from the hour of Lees sur.
render down to this moment No Southern
man ever limited to me an expectation, hope
or wish that the rebel debt, whether Confed.
crate or State, should be assumed or maid bv
the Union and no Southern man who could
be elected to Legislature, or made Colonel
of militia regiment ever suggested the
pensioning of all the rebel soldiers OF any of
them, even as remote possibility. All who
nominated me were perfectly aware that
upheld and justified Federal legislation to
repress Ku Klux conspiracy and outrages,
though had long ago insisted as strenuous.
ly as l now do, that complete amnesty and
general oblivion Of the bloody, hateful past
would do more for the suppression and utter
extinction of such outrages than all the force
bills and suspensions of habeas corpus ever
devised by man. Wrong and crime SUP.
pressed and punished; but far wiser and
nobler is the legislation policy bv
which they are prevented. From those who
support me in the South I have heard but
one demand Justice but one desire,-re-
Cancellation. They wish to be heartily re.
united and at peace with the North on any
terms which do not involve the surrender Of
their manhood. They ask that they should
be regarded and treated by any Federal au
thority as citizens, not cul prits, 50 long a.
they obey and uphold every law consistent
with equality and right. They desire a
rule, which, alike for white and black. shall
encourage industry and thrift, and discour
age rapacity and villainy They cherish
joyful hope, in which l fully concur, that
between the 9th of November, and the 18th
of March next, quite number of governors
and other dignitaries who, in the absurd
name Of Republicanism and Loyalty, have
for years been piling debts and taxes upon
their war wasted States, will follow the
wholesome example of Bullock, of Georgia,
and seek the shades of private life. The
darker and deeper these shades the better
for themselves and for mankind; and the
hope that my election may hasten the much
desired hegira Of thieving carpet baggers
has reconciled to the necessity of supporting
me, many who woull otherwise have hesita-
ted and probably refused.
Fellow citizens, the deposed and partially
exiled Tammany Ring has stolen about
100000 600 from the city Of New York