The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-06-23


HIS "switeh tail is too near the ground,
Du ca, da aday.
CHoRrs-we're bounaf4e.
SPEECH OF CARL sCHuRZ
At the Milwaukee Ra.ificatiea Mee,ias
OK WEDNESDAY, EVENING, MAY 80.
Below We give the principal portion I'VE
wish we had space for more) of the speech
of this eloquent German Republican, on his
return home from the Chicago Conyen-
ton.
need hardly say, sir, that when the mo-
ton was made to make Mr.. Lincoln's nomi.
nation unanimous we seconded it without any
sacrifice Of feeling, and when it was carried
we heartily joined in the general enthusiasm.
GCheers. We had not gone there to have
our candidate nominated or none; but with
the royal intention to subordinate our indi-
vidual judgment to the judgment OF the
majority, provided the Convention asked
of US nothing inconsistent with our con-
scienceslas:: Anti Slavery men and the dignity
Of the Republican cause. [Cheers. And !
do not hesitate to say, that if Gov. Seward
had not been in the field, Mr.. Lincoln would,
unless mistake the temper Of our people,
in all probability, have been the first choice
of Wisconsin. Although Gov. Seward failed,
Mr.. Lincoln's nomination nailed the good
old Republican banner to the mast as boldly
and de.ian.Iy as ever. Prolonged Applause.
Mr.. President, had the honor to be
member of that Committee who were to
carry to Mr.. Lincoln the official announce
ment of Es nomination. The enthusiasm
with which we were received Ut Springfield
was boundless. There We saw Mr.. Lincoln's
neighbors, and it became at once apparent
that those who knew him best, loved and
esteemed him most. [Cheers. And then |
saw Mr.. Lincoln again, for had met him
before in that memorable Senatorial cam
paign in Illinois, when he, as man OF true
and profound convictions, although DIS
countenanced and discouraged by many
leading Republicans, who thought 1t good
policy to let Mr.. Douglas return to the Sen
ate without opposition, threw himself Tor
ward for the imperiled purity Of our princi-
pies, grasping with bold hand the
Republican banner, which was IN danger OF
sinking into the mire OF compromise and
unnatural combinations, and held it up
proudly aloft in one of the fercest struggles
the country ever witnessed. Great APP
plause.l met him then when be bearded
the lion of demagogueism in his den, when
the brilliant sallies of his wit and sarcasm
drew shouts Of delight from the multitude,
when the thunderbolts of his invective
ratified triumphantly against the brazen
front of Stephen A. Douglas. APPLAUSE
When the lucid unsnswerable logic of his
arguments inspired every patriotic heart
with new confidence in the justice of our
canse, and then under his powerful blows,
the large Democratic majority OF Illinois
dwindled down to nothing. There | saw
him do what perhaps no other man in the
nation would have done. There learned
to confde in the patriot and the defender OF
profound convictions, to esteem the states
man and to love the man. Great applause
And, now, | saw him again, surrounded
by the Committee of the National Conyen-
,iou, who had come to lay into his hands
the highest honor and the greatest trust that
politica! party has to bestow--an honor
which he had not thought OF in his hard
fought battles. which he had not craved
and had hardly been sanguiuc enough TO
expect. There he stood silently listening
to the address Of our chairman his eyes
downcast; in his soul, perhaps, a feeling
Of Just pride struggling with the overawing
consciousness Of responsibility. Then be
answered, thanking them for the honors
bestowed upon him, and accepting the Lead
ership in the great struggle, not with the
exultipg tone of one who has achieved aPer-
sonal triumph; not with the rompous Mrs
and artificial dignity of one who is conscious
Of standing upon the great stage of the
world. but with that unaffected, modest
simplicity of a man who is strong in the
CONSCIOUSNESS, Of his ability and his honest
intention to do right. lApplause.l
MANY Of those who now surrounded him.
had voted for other candidates in the con-
vensiou, and some, still laboripg under
feeling of personal Disappointment, had come
there, not without some prejudice unfavor-
able to Mr.. Lincoln. Blu. when they saw
/. man who had worked lis way from the
humblest station in life to his present emf
nence, not by fast speculation or adventur-
Gus efforts, not on the wing OF good luck,
but by quiet, steady labor, answering
fidelity to principle-his private and public
duties, by the ', gor Of his gcnias and the
energy Of his characser-the man who had
won the confidence Of the people, and was
now lifted upon the shield Of great na-
.ioual party, not by ingenious combinations
and adroi, management, but BY the popular
instinct nnfs,,ered by.pronisos, nnpledged
to anybody, anything but the people and
the welfare OF our coan,ry-his hands are
free to carry out the honest dictates of bis
pure conscience, life behind him not only
above rsproaeh. but above suspicion,-s
nrobiem bsfcre him. for the dissolution Of
which he was em,nsn,ly fitted by the native
virtues Of bis character. the high abilities
OF his mind, and a strong honest purpose,
they ail felt that with thus pure and pa,ri-
cite statesman, all those great qualities
would return to the White House, which
makes Republican government What it ought
10 be-a government founded upon virtue.
Isnthusias,ic cheers. And an Eastern
delegate Who had voted against him in tie
Convention. whispered to me in = tone Of
highest satisfaction; .Sir, we might have
icae a more daring thing, bat We certainly
cauia not have done better thing Pro-
longed applause.
cannot fad words ssrong enough to des-
isnase the Stiffness Of those who hsd
snesrinsly affected to see in Mr.. Lincoln
bat second OF third rate man, who, like
Psik and Pierce, had been taken up merely
for tie purpose Of expediency. Let them
s,k Mr.. Dous,as, from whose hands he
~rss,ed The popular majority 10 i!iincis let
them ask these. who once feit the msgic
touch Of his lucid mind and honest heart:
!es his desrac.oss ask their own secret mis-
siyinss, and 10 their own fears they <ill read
the cause 81 the JOY ard assuraaees Of
his friends. TApplanse.l They whistle in
order 70 keep up their courage; but neshinks
IL ;s . dolefci sound. Laughter and ap-
nlanss.1 So then ws ssand before the eeo-
p;e, vssa ths elasfssn sf fres labsr, sad
upoa il q true representative Of frss lshor
as . sasdsdsss fss the rressdeuey. osthis