Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-06-28
SPEECH OF CARL SCHURZ.
At the Milwaukee Ratification Meeting, We'd
nesday Evening, May 20.

Below we give the principal portion I'VE
wish we had space for more) of the speech of
this eloquent German Republican, on his re-
turn home from the Chicago Convention.
need hardly say, sir, that when the mo-
ton was made to make Mr. Iincons nomiua-
ton unanimous, we seconded it without anv
sacrifice of feeling, and when it was carried we
heartily joined in the general enthusiasm -
Cheers We had not gone there 10 have our
candidate nominated or none but with the
royal intention to subordinate our Individual
judgment to the Judgment Of the majority.
provided the Convention asked Of rs nothing
inconsistent with orr coHSciences as auti-s!avlrv
men and the dignity Of the Republican cause.
Cheers And do not hesitate to say. that
if Governor Seward had not been in the field
Mr.. Lincoln would Unless mistake the temrer
Of onr people, in all probability have been
the first choice of Wisconsin Although
Governor Seward failed, Mr. Lincoln's nom
ination nailed the good old Republican banner
to the mast boldly and deiiantly as ever
Prolonged applause
I" Mr. President, had the honor TO be
member of that committee who were 10 carry
to Mr. Lincoln the official announcement OF his
nomination. The enthusiasm with which We
we're received at Springfield was boundIess-
There we saw Mr. LincoiH's neighbors, and il
became at once apparent that those who knew
him best loved aud esteemed him most
[ Cheers And then | saw NJ: Lincoln again.
for had met him before in that memorable
senatorial campaign in illinois, when he. as a
man Of true and profound convictions although
discountenanced and discouraged by many lead
ing Republicans, who thought it good policy
to let Mr.. Douglas return 10 the Senate with
ont opposition, throw himself forward TOR the
imperlled purity of our principles, grasped
with bold hand the Republican banner, which
was in danger Of sinking into the mre Of COM
promise and unnatural combinations, and hold
i: up proudly aIoft H one OF the tiercest strus-
giles the country ever witnessed. Great ap-
plauSe | met him then, when he bearded
the lion Of demagOguism in bis den when the
brilliant sallies of his wit and sarcasm drew
shouts OF delight from the multitude when the
Of his invective ratified triumph /
antly against the brazen front of Stephen a /
applause when the lucid unan-
swerable logic Of his arguments inspired every
patriotic heart with new confidence in the .
Justice of our cause, and when under his pow
erful blows the large democratic majority of /.
Illinois dwindled down to nothing There | /
saw him 90 what perhaps no other man in the /
country would have done There | learned to
,olfde in the patriot and the defender OF pro
ound convictions, to esteem the statesman and
o love the man. Great applause
" Aud now, saw him again, surrounded .
" the Committee Of the National Convention
Who had come to lay into his hands the highest
rust that political party has to beStow-an
lonOr which be had not thought Of in bis hard
ought battles, which be had not crayed and
lad hardly been Sanguine enough to expect
There he stood, silently listening 10 The i'd
lreSs Of cCT chairman bis eyes downcast in
lis soul, perhaps, feeling OF just pride strrs-
cling with the Overawing consciousness Of re-
Then be answered, thanking them
or The h0nors bestowed upon him, end accept
ng the leadership in the great struggle, not
With the exulting tone of one who has achieE-
d personal triumph not with the pompous
hrs ard artificial dignity OF one who is consei-
,us Of standing upon the great stage Of the
sorld, but with that unaffected modest sim
,licity of man who is strong in the consci.
BUSINESS of bis ability and his houest intention
o do right. Applause,
Many Of those who now surrounded him
lad voted for other candidates IL the Conyen-
ion, and some, still laboring under feeling of
PERSONAL disappointment. had come there, not
without some prejudice unfaYorable TO Mr.
lincoln. But whey they saw man who had
Tcrked his way from the humblest station il
ife to his present eminence, not by fast specu-
alton or adventurous efforts, not on the wing
# good luck, but by quiet, steAdy labor, IN
werving fidelity to principle and his private =
md public duties, dy the Eigor Of his genius and
he energy of his characterize man who had
ron the coufdeBce of the people and vas now
lifted upoH the shield OF asgreat national party
sot by iagenioCs combinations and sdroEt nan !.
sgeuest. bat BY the tie PoPoIar isstsct-an !