The Portland daily press., 1867-10-28
speaker coisas a, Geeper In.,i.u,e.

Wednesday evening the Republicans OfNew
York assembled stCooper Institute to listen
TO an adde's by Hon Schuyler Colfax. 1t
will'not probably make him President as Mr..
Lincoln's speech at The Same place is said to
have done in 1860, bat It was brill ant effort
and richly deserving OF the warm encomiums
bestowed upon it by the Tribune. We lay be-
fore our READERS that portion of it that refers
to the late eiections:
Before discussing the acts OF the President
of the United States. L wish to say something
about these elections. Our opponents have
beer icing some cannon lately. They Hadn't
had anything to ire cannon over tor several
ysai 5. They diJn't fire any over Gettysburg;
they didn't ire any over Vcksburg. believe
your Mayor didn't think it was wise even 20 II
illuminate over Union victories 1t might SUI
up some " unpleasantneSs. Some people uiu
not see so much in those Victories 10 leJoioe
uv.r. They didn't fire cannon over tho uoH
fall of the Rebeilion but they iohnd :, go
at last 10 rejoicsn that way. ineS ,nai,sa in
them over our victories in inIlihii, BECAUSE III
tha mart of that State where 1--we We incrcas,
ed onr Republican maJorlties. lAppiause'I
Tbas,s i;rea fbeir cannon very hastily, and atter
they had paid ne expenses ~ tI tx n
nvnr and to count the profit and loss; and
they found they had been firing over the cleo
on of a Republican Legislature in Pennsyl-
wanna. IChrerS.I InpN IOuuu Uney naQ Deem
firing over the fact thai in the only Congress
sonall district of PENNSYLVANIA where a Con-
gresham vas to be elected they had lost 500
of their majority of last year. do Cheersl
They tound that they had fired over
the election E! o. !, Of Republican State
had fired over the election of u Republican
Governor IN Iowa by 12,000inereased majority
over that received By his predecessor-the last
Governor elected having had 10000 majority,
and the Governor now elected having 2SOO0
majority. lCheers,l But | will tell you what
they really did fife over 1t is this: That
minority of the people of Ohio had by an
apporiionment made by Democrats, elected a
majority OF the Legislature of that State. Rath-
er poor result to fire over, wasn't it? Well,
have otten thought that it was not wise for an
| army, more than party, TO have a constant
| Succession of victories. If they did, they
| might draw 10 their outposts, Withdraw their
| pickets, quarrel among themselves, aud incur
| the danger and the defeat OF surprise by the
| enemy 1t is well once in while to have
| little discipline like this. Ii has the effect to
show us the dangers that threaten us, and to
1 compact US into a irresistible mass. The victo-
ries Of the Democratic party III 1862, when they
carried this country from the Atlantic to the
/ Pacific, after the Emancipation Proclamation
| was issued, when they carried New York,
| New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, by a
| majority of $4,000 votes, nearly two-thirds OF
all the Congressman elected from these States
| Shonted with Joy, ana said, 'Emancl patton Is
dead aud buriedl'' Oh, no! Tho RepLb lican
party, in spite of this reverse, stood up to il
faithfully, fearlessly, because ii was right
| and b inua 1864 emancipation 2 triumphed
Emancipator himself was re elected by
| an overwhelming majority. Cheers. /
have never turned aside to contemplate
| which was the popular, which the unpopu-
| lar side of the question. l rather follow in
| that path indicated TO us by john Bright, the
/ great Commoner of England Lapplausel, whC
| declares that there is one single and sublime
| principle on which all great national questions
should be settled, that is, the basis OF eterna
right. Heal, hear, applause.l And in close
1 contormityto that was the remark to us o.
that noble Liberal NJ. Gasparin of France
when he said, at the opening of our war for the
Union, 1T does not depend on You to succeed
but above all, to be right do what you ought
IApplanse] But again, in this very hall oul
noble and martyred chief, in February, 1866
in that noble, convincing, unanswerabl,
speech; which stands high among the record
of his most eloquent efforts, closed, as many G
you may recollect, with that peroration which
fingers in my ear, and which comes to us to
night with renewed force from his grave LIE
us have faith that Right makes Might and il
that faith let US dare to the end, dare to stant
| the Right" [Great applause 90" f,f.f.,.