Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — Greeley’s Attack on the Soldiers Answered. [ARTICLE]

Greeley’s Attack on the Soldiers Answered.

One of the most-disgraceful parts of Mr. Greeley’s speeches while on his, recent electioneering cajnp4jigß,,.was. .his attack on the soldiers at Pittsburgh. General HaWley, of Connecticut, in a' speech made at Waterloo, InAy-teok occasion to re ph to the Pittfi--bnygh gla.ndffl] fiTllnysy: . “As one of the signers’ of-fhe ’call fbr the Pittsburgh Convention, its tenjporary President, and a meuiber-of the-Committee „on Resolutions, I have a word to say in, reply to Mr. Greeley: Coming'to Pittsburgh the day attar the convention, exasperated by its success, he said: ‘A large number of persons were collected here at a vast'expenee, with the single purpose of rekindling the bitterness and hatred, the animosity and antipathies,, the fears and exultations of civil war for the advantage of a pbliiieaTUpirty,’ ririce he made these, charges in one bitter speech. I apeak delilwratelv, four.-davs after Theard these remarks; I speak with a.44rii sense of what I am saying, when I say the charge is infamous!y and uialighan'tly false. I appeal the j,soldicrs who were there. No assembly of Pennsylvania Friends was ever mofe generously disposed.' We disowned emphatically the suirit oUreveage, declareutbe war closed at-Apppmattox, and, -VQili—tmalibe toward none and Charity .for the riglit-hand of fellowship to alp who accept, the results of the war and obey the Cons:itution and laws, enthusiastically welcomed the let ter from Confederate sjldierAtAnd spent over two days in a 10-ve-fefct i 4 good-felhpvAbip and patiiutijm. . Not a word of our resolutions, not a syllable of our speeches, not a cry or t heor the llanflwioi Mr. Greeley.” <