The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-27
BRILLIANT SPEECH BY HON.
SCHUYLER G0LFAx. rs
Horatto Seymour Answered,
me Republican Party vIndIcstea.


1
Special trains on several of The rail
roads brought large crowds from tk,
interior of the State. Attwo O'Clock a.
many people as could obtain entranc,
gathered in the passenger depot of III,
Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad .wherl
speeches were delivered by. Hon
Schuyler Colfax, Hon. B. F. wade and
Hon. Sam. Galloway.
On being introduced tothe. Immense
audience, Mr.. oolfax, Who was hearth
ly received, spoke just an hour. Tn,
following are his words interference to
Mr.. Seymour:
L have been reading this morning a
speech made by distinguished gentle,
man, citizen of New York, a candi.
date for the Office of President of the
United States, which has diverted nv
thoughts from that line of remarks
which I intended to follow to-day That
gentleman, and / allude to Gov. Sew
mour, has recently commenced TO can
Yass the United States as far as time
will permit, until the Presidential cleo.
ton, believing that the exigencies OF
his party demand IL, as think they
did, [laughteEl and I think it will be
loves labor lost. renewed laughter, ]
and 1 propose to devote my remarks
to-day before this large assembly to a
brief review, hurried as 1t must be, in
time for others to speak after me, of
some OF the views laid down by this
distinguished citizen. i Listened to the
speeches that the telegraph aunonnced
had been made by him with no 3com-
mon degree of interest, but when read
these speeches. 1 must acknowledgethe
regret with which i was panied. i
found them, through and through, not
a vindicatiop of his old political plat
form, not justifcatiOn OF the princi-
pies emblaZoned upon their banner
with which they Invited us to the issue,
but an arraignment and deDuuciation
of the party to- which he stands OPP.
posed, and which, thank God, blocks
up the way to the Presidential chair.
Ience, which is the gist of his Roches-
ter speech: 40
"What we hope and aim TO do is to
check this nSurpation and unWise legis-
lation. The men in power'baye, neither
established a successful system of re-:
construction, nor have they done any
thing to tighten the burdens which OPP
press the people of the north"
He Is now travelling throughout our
various States for the purpose of ar
unjust and untruly as am
TO say, that noble party of
whose mem bershlp 1, with you, am
justly proud. What they hope and aim
10 do, is 10 check lsnTpation and uu
wise legislation. Iu the olden times,
when they went forth to- hattie, war,
riors always went with the spear and.
with the shield; the shield for defence
and the spear for attack. / shall not
initiate the example of Governor Sey.
mour, and come here only with the
shield TO defend the party whose beau
tiful record Is written on the brightest
pages of our country's history, which
out tearing from your country's annals
the most brilliant pages that illuminate
its history. (GreaL cheers.) And what
does he callthis rscord2- He calls tia.
record of usurpation and unwise legis-
lalioG, let me pass but in review be-
fore you, for there Is nothing more
there is nothing more
inspiring, to every lover Of his country,
than the record we have written down
on the pages of our countfy's history.
Look back at the very birth ofthe
party, when it sprang into
existence, almost originating, as you
know, in the State OF Michigan, but
finding it's hundreds of thousands all
over the land. standing with it heart to
heart and shoulder TO shoulder. LAp-
plause.l What is Its first usurpatIon?
1t was when border ruffians sought 10
invade The plains of Kansas, sought to
punish devotion to liberty there by
outrage, by murder, by midnight assas-
by stealing ballot-boxes and
stuhing them to make them speak en-
tirely the voice of that people In the
struggle between liberty and slavery
when the army of the United States was
used there under the orders of the adj
minIstration, then in power to suppress
free speech, to pervert the people from
manitesting and declaring thelEsenu-
ments, then this young, vigorous Re.
publican party, born out of the ext
Rencies 1.-the hour, devoted Itself to
that whole principle OF Liberty and
Justice which has illuminated its BAN
ners ever since, dared. to throw down
the gauntlet of defiance at the feet of
the administration then in power, at
its army, at Its devotees, at Its support
ers, at It's apologists; dared TO make The
cause of Kansas our own, and your
speakers, and those In the adjoining
States and elsewhere, travelled through
the country like Peter the Hermit,
when he preached the crusades
against the Saracens, Hrousiug the con-
seriousness ofthe nation, awakening the
people to the sense of their danger and
their duty, struck down that power,
gave to Kansas free speech, gave TO her
liberty, and by that usurpation, our
drst usnrpation, she entered into the
Union at last Grrayed sin her white
robes of freedom, THANK God. Il Great
applause. That ID uur first nsnrpA-
ton. WHAT u the second usnrpRtioh
for which we are arranged by Cover
nor SEYMOUR 1T was when the Sup
RENE Court, uufaithful TO its duty,
dared in its high place pronounced and
promulgate that infAmous decision,
known as the bred Scott decision, by
which they sought TO enthrone In this
country slavery as a power above all
beyond the Constitution, before which
every knee should bow and every
tongue confess; dared Furthermore tC
enunoate that principle which IL the
people had ratified, would havs dis
IGNORED us before God and the civilized
world, that there were those SO poor in
our land that they had no rights that
a white man was bound to respect
and this young Republican party
knowing as they did OF the Teyerence
which always cluster around hef judo
Iai decisions knowing the power they
dared to encounter, they took issue With
that before the American people, dared
| to denounce II, dared TO stigmatlhe IL anc
what is more dared to- crushEis undel
their feet, until to-day there - not {
man in this land, Icare not 10 wha
party he belongs SO poor Tas.to do rev
erehcaito that Infamous decision. Ina
was our second nsurpation. tCheers.
Aud there we're those manIfhaf cluster
ed around that decision and defendet
| ftSthere were those men who Dsaintain
| ed thRt decision ngRtnst us and sough
10 make Il the CONTROL ling power OF tl1i
American people; sought to- make
the sentiment lof this great nation
sought to make II so immutab pie tina
/ every jurIst and every leg tslator shouli
| Is comnelIed- tosurrander his stllegtRnc
toi II. i thank Proxfdence that theri
/ wa party who dared to meet thai qe
cisfon, dared TO arouse the conscious
/ ness ef sthe people, against IL, dared
i DEFY 1t, dared 10 ienounce 10, dared .