The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-07
COLFAX.
Our vice.PresIdent Elect at urnrrisnurg

Last evening, at Harrisburg Schuyler Colfax
spoke as follows Of toe Republican vlctpry:-
We commended our cause TO the eternal throne and
rested our fate on Him who is the protector of tn.
helpless and the friendless and lie, from His eternal
throne, put our enemies TO aisht. lCheers2 WHAT
has been The course OF the Democratic party during
the pHtt few years7 What has been their policy?
Three times we have met them in the cnnylss. Ii
1864 they made their platform NJ Chicago just rs they
pleased. &. l.. Valandgham WAS the chief author of
that platform. They denounced the war as n failure
and proclaimed 10 the American people and TO the
world, that Abraham Lincoln a despot, n lyrant,
traitUr usurper; and they dared then and there To
desert n nation in it's hour of sore lral (Cres of
that's soy They dared to demand the right of Seces-
sian. They hung out the white flag of surrender, and
The great people OF This country struck down that "
and that platform because they dared thus To desert
the cause OF the nation III It's very hour OF triumph
(CheeTs)
In 1866 they met us again, this once proud and
powerful but autocratic and domineerng Dem 'cratic
party; then they wrote their own platform, they did
III 1864 then they arrayed MS rs tyranica, because
did not allow Rebels to pOlue the nails Of our uaion's
capitol and make laws for the widows AMI cHildren Of
those they had slain. Again they were defeated. The
people determined that oysty should govern what
loyalty had preserved, (Sreat CheeringD and God
cruwned our Efforts with triumph.
Again, in 1868, they more wrote their platform
they pleased Again they placed in the field their
chosen candidate ON the platform written by Wade
Hampton. They declared the Reconstruction mea-
eures OF Congress unconstitutional, YolutiOnlry and
yUid. They threw the gauntlet down Mt our feet We
met them aud won the glorious victory over which
You rejoice to-day. (Applause.) As often they
make such issues with Us, the loyal patriotic, noble
American people will strike them down, as they have
done three Times during the four years just past
tApplause.l
his is not all the significance of this victory which
we have won can imagine, while we are here re-
jucing the glad news OF victory, that there
men il the South who, though they rel Icing
III their hearts, do not exhibit their enthusiasm They
the tried Union men of the South, who rel Iicel
not i'll the public streets, but hung upon the outskirts
of hostile DIS, with Dlanched faces, to learn
they were To have prOtectiOn-w whether this grea
country would stand by them, whether their dear
est righlB were 10 be outraged, and, amid the mlr
mers and scowls, and the acts of the crowd that
rebuked by the glorious news. they assured
that there should be peace in all this land ha there
should be protection for every loyal man, they dl 90
home not shouting with joy you do here to-day but
these good, loyal men ot the Sonh gathered aud
their hearthstOnes, bended knees, with their wives
and daughters and sisters, to thank GOD that they
were plOl.c,ed. Appause.)
Ny friends, IL is noble, magnificent, patriotic
triumph. 1t means, in the decisive language of our
great leader emphalicay, Let have peace" rre-
mendous applause.l II means protection to every
man in our laud. BY this grand popular vote y1n
have settled that principle that every has the
right to go South or North. East West throughout
The whole length and breadth OF the Union, unmo-
lested long he is devoted flag and that nc
is TO be protected by it against outrage and wrong.
II means that he may sing his loyal songs wherever
he may 60, with none 10 modest or make him afraid.