Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-06-27
III. coLFAx's SPEECH LAST
MIGHT

= The speeches made last night by Messrs.
IColfax, Bross and Richardson, in front Of
the International Hotel, Virginia, taken
down by two Photographic reporters, are
too lengthy for publication in the News.
and cannot be written out until this after
noon. They will perhaps appear at length
in the morning papers. We have only
room to-day for the following brief but
beautiful sentences from that of Mr. COL
fax:
Irejoice that came to you at = time like
| this, when the rainbow Of peace spans our
| entire horizon from ocean to ocean, giving
the assurance that the deluge Of secession
shall not again overwhelm this fair land OF
ours. (Cheers.) come to you rejoicing in
the triumph Of this great Republic Of ours
over the enemies who sought to bayonet the
/ PROSTATE form Of liberty, and to blot thi 9
/ great country from the map Of the world.
/ Thank God, who rules in the heavens, who
| determined that what be had Joined together
| on this continent, man should not put asun-
: der; the Republic lives to-day, and will live
( in all the coming ages Of the future. CHEERS
/ There may be stormy conflict and peril; there
/ may be foreign war, but trust not; am
for peace instead of war, wherever war can
, be honorably avoided. want no war with
England or France. want the development
and the mighty stepping forward Of our giant
Republic in its march Of progress and power,
to be, as it will be, the commanding nation
Of the world, when it shall lift its head like
von tall cliff Mount Davidson1, that lifts its
mighty form swelling over the valley, laugh
ing at the rolling storm clouds around its
base, while the eternal sunshine settles on its
head.
That Union Of which you and are citizens,
is saved; the conspiracy that threatened its
life has gone down, blasted with Gods wrath
honor through all the coming centuries Of
our history. And our Union is saved-that
Union so dear to US and so priceless, which
has lifted us from infancy, in the revolution
airy struggle, TO the proud position we occu-
pied among the nations Of the earth at the
opening Of the rebellion, and which we have
since reconQuered that Union whose value
We can no more compute than we can the
value Of fathers blessing or mothers love;
which earth has no arithmetic to reckon and
no scales TO weigh it not only lives, but will
go forward, increasing in grandeur and in
power until this earth on which it stands
Yields in the wreck Of matter among the crash
Of worlds. (Cheers.) We have had dark
hours in the past; We have realized what
Herodotus told us-that in time Of peace,
children bury their parents; but in time Of
war, parents bury their children. We have
had reverses, days without sunshine, nights
without star but At last the day Of oppres-
sion, gloom and despair is over, the storm
wind has passed away, the glorious sun Of
victory and peace again shines on our ban
ners.
After Congress adopted the Constitutional
amendment banishing slavery forever from
the land, our armies went forth and victory
trod on the heels Of victory so rapidly that
YOU could scarcely cease from rejoicing over
one triumph before the news Of another came
20 you, till at length, on the lightning wire,
news came that the rebellion had persisted,
and the nation survives. Although, since
that time, Abraham Lincoln, that great and
good man, whose death every loyal man in
this nation mourns, so great, SO good, who
will occupy so brilliant page in history; the
Moses to lead US to the promised land Of
peace, but not the Joshua to occupy II with
US; who was to preserve Us through all dan
gers, till the sun Of victory shone all over our
borders, till even the rebel capital was in our
hands, and every rebel army had surren
dered, or was about to surrender, and the
starry banner waved in triumph over all the
Republic. Although that great man has
fallen oy the hand Of the assassin, yet he had
carved out his own niche in the Temple Of
Fame. and his deeds shall live after him TO
commemorate his name and services to all
the generations that are to come. (Cheers.)
Luther once beautifully said, "God buries
his workmen. but his work still goes on" 1t
is for US who are left behind to carry on this
work to its glorious contamination.