The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-31

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1t is the only one that has carried out
the doctrine of protection to men of
foreign birth. CApplause.
But the Courier calls me smiling
Colfax." Well, [ ought to smile. l
have had a happy and pleasant life,
for | have had many warm friends to
sustain me, and l feel that /
have yet warm and ardent
friends still who approve of
my public acts. CApplause.1 | have
a right to smile. But there are some
things [ never did smile upon. | e "
er smiled on treason nor on traitors,
and, thank God, | never expect to do
it. prolonged applause.ls
Mr.. Colfax next referred to a false
hood of a rebel paper, the Louisville
Courier. He said that Wednesday
morning. the day he spoke at New
Albany, that paper charged that in
1852, after SCOTS nomination, and
when the tide was running against
him at the South, Colfax wrote bogus
letters daily for the Courier. telling of
the enthusiasm he pretended there
was in that region over Scots nomin-
alton. He denied this charge in
his New Albany speech Wednesday,
declaring that he had never written
| such letters, or any other letters thus
| falsely dated. Thursday. the Courier
acknowledged that its charge of the
previous day was untrue, but reprint
ed a letter from its files dated April,
1852, at New Orleans, signed Louisi-
ana" before the nomination, but urg-
ing Scott on the South as sound on
slavery, and which its editor says he is
willing to swear was written by him.
Mr. olfax branded this as equally false
with the previous statement which
its author had acknowledged to be
false, and said If the editor sWore to
it he would only be as guilty as when
he Joined In the reasonable attempt
to destroy his country. He proved
its falsity, by citing the fact that in
May, the next month after the date
of this bogus letter, he voted, In the
National Convention that nominated
Scott, against the platform because Il
Uds prO-s'GUery. He also drew atten-
ton to a telegram from Louisville, sent
Wednesday night to the Associated
Press, and published Thursday morn
ing in the Cincinnati papers, en-
bodying this last charge, and saying
that the disclosure Of tais letter had
created q aensqtion there and much
comment, when no one outside Of the
Courier room in Louisville could
have seen this bogus letter till the
paper was printed the next morning,
showing that this also was a manufac-
tured falsehood.
Now [ love to contemplate the days
of peace we will have, when we shall
have elected the hero Ulysses s.
Grant, President of the United States,
and when the peaceful influence is
felt all over the land. But ahl Dem
ocrats told US that a great reaction
would take place. In old Vermont
when the people spoke, at the ballot
box, and when they came down from
the mountains to cast their votes for
Right and Justice, it was like the tread
of the gallant boys In their march
through the land of the rebels:
Tramp, tramp. tramp. the boys are
marching"
And when you heard from Maine,
with a largely increased Republican
majority, it was the same cheering
sound,
TRAMP. tramp. tramp the boys are
marching"
But, said the Democrats, wait until you
hear from some of the States outside of
New England; then the great reaction
will begin. But when the news
came from Pennsylvania, which was
followed by Ohio and Indiana, aud all
wheeled into line, and even In Indi-
ma with all their frauds and impor-
tations, they had risked their money
and all and lost, we now have your
distinguished fellow citizen, Colonel
Baker, to preside over US as Cover
nor, it IA the same joyful song:
marching"
When we look Westward to the young
State of Nebraska their disappoint-
ment is complete. With a good
round majority in that State, aud the
reaction not yet commenced, it is still
the glad news:
Tramp; tramp. tramp, the boys are
Next you hear from Western Vir-
GINA, surrounded almost with rebels.
There the Democracy expected the
reaction to begin, but it was not yet
From that State came up the same
song
Tramp, tramp, tramp. the y are
And so it will be all over the land.
The great principles of Right and JUS
tice will prevail, and when on the Sd
of November. the people in this great
land of ours have spoken, it will be
the glad song,
stamp, tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching"
During the darkest days of the re-
bellion [ never had any doubt of the
success of our cause. / never hest
| tated in my opinion that the cause of
Liberty and Freedom would triumph
during the whole of the campaign,
bearing the magic words of Liberty
and Justice should float over all the
land, and when the soldiers were
marching South, aud all the shack
els of slavery had been abroken,
I felt that YOU had the cause of God
and Liberty on your size, and still
the boys marched on till the rebellion
was crushed and the war was ended.
In the course of Mr.. Colfax's re
marks he paid a fine tribute to the
memory of Mr.. Lincoln, which the
reporter will not attempt to produce.
It was certainly a fitting tribute to
the memory Of our deceased PTesi-
dent, and produced a thrilling se1sa-
ton in the heart of every loyal mar
and woman present.
The speaker continued: With GRAM
as our leader, and the great people
standing By US, we will still govern
this land for years yet to come.
believe in the Providence of God, who
holds the destinies of nations as if in
the hollow of His hand. And HC
will give us peace with General