Year: 1872

KING no speeches, 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 now. This
Is the truth that no person has yet
made the fact that he proposed to sup
port or actually did support my nomi-
nation, whether at Cincinnati, Balti-
more. or in the action which resulted in
sending delegates to either Convention,
basis for claim to Office No one who
favored my nomination before either
Convention has sought an Office at my
hand either for himself or any one else,
nor suggested to me that I might
strengthen myself as candidate by ap-
pointing any one to any important
office whatever. For my own part,
recognize every honest man who ap-
proves and adheres to the Cincinnati
platform as my political brother, and as
such, fully entitled to my confidence
and friendly regards.


One other point demands word.
Those adverse to me ask what pledges l
have given to those lately hostile to the
Union, to secure their favor and sup
port. l answer, that no man or wo-
man in all the south ever asked of me
either directly or through another, any
other pledge than that given through
all my acts and words, from the hour of
Lees surrender down to this moment.
No southern man ever hinted to me an
expe citation, hope or wish that the rebel
debt, whether Confederate or State,
should be assumed or paid by the Union
No Southern man who could be cl-
ected to the Legislature or made Colo
mel of militia regiment, eyer sugges-
ted the pensioning of rebel soldiers, or
any of them, even as remote possibil-
ity. All who nominated me were aware
that upheld and justified Federal Leg
islatlon to repress the Ku-Klux conspi-
racy outrage, though l had long ago in
sisted, as l now do, that complete am
nesty and general oblivion of the bloody,
hateful past, would do more for the sup
preston and utter extinction of such
outrages than all the forced bills of sup
preston and all the habeas corpus sus-
pension ever devised by men. Wrong
and crime must be suppressed and pun
ished; but far wiser and nobier is the
Legislation Of policy by which they are
prevhnted. From those who support
me in the South, have but one demand
| Justice, but one Observation-Disclosures
They wish to be heartily reunited at
peace with the North on any terms
| which do not involve the surrender of
their manhood. They desire rule
which is alike for white and black, and
shall encourage industry and thrift, in
which I fully concur; that between the
5tb of November and the 4th of March
next, quite number of Governors and
other dignitaries who in the abused
name ofrepublicanism and loyalty have
for years been piling taxes and debts up
on the war wasted States, will follow
the wholesome example of Bullock, of
| Georgia, and seek the shades of private
life, and darken those shades better for
themselves than for mankind generally
The hope that my election may hasten
a much-desired hegira of thieving car
pet-baggers, has reconciled to the ne
cessity supporting me, many who would
otherwise have hesitated and probably
refused. Fellow-citizens, the deposed
and partially exiled Tammany "ring -
has stolen about $50, 900, 600 from the
city of New York. That was a most
gigantic robbery and hurled its c. ntri-
vers and abettors from power and splen-
dor to impotency and infamy; but the
thieving carpet-baggers have stolen at
least three times that amount-stolen
from all citizens and impoverished the
needy; and they still faunt their pros
porous villiany in the higest places of
the land, and are addressed as Honor
able and Excellency. [Applause. 1
think I hear q voice from the honest
people, declaring that these iniquities
shall be borne in silence no longer-at
the farthest till the 4th of March next.
By that time those criminals will have
heard a national verdict pronounced
that will cause them to fold their tents
like Arabs and silently steal away. :"
That trust will be the end of their
st ealing at the cost of the good of our
county and the well-being Of her peo-
pie.


How THE VOTES WERE OBTAINED
A good joke is told on Settle, Grants