The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-25
SPEAKER OJLFAX.
His Reception by the Union League of
EeW York

Few York.
The New York tribune of this morning speaks
OF Speaker Coiiaxs reception last night as
follows:-
business meeting of the members of the
Union League was held at their club house last
evening. Mr.. John Jay presided. The meeting
was organized the Hon. Schuyler ColfaX entered
the room, and was received with loud aud long
continued cheering. After few words OF intro
duction from MIR. Jay, Mr.. Colfax thanked the
company, and alluded briefly to the condition
of the canvass in q few conversational sen.
tencee, thus concluding:-l have spoken OF the
Importance of this contest and the measureless
value of victory to the Republican party as the
party Of loyalty and peace-the party that
seems, under the providence of God, to be in
trusted with the salvation Of the Amerl;
feel sure that traitors will cease to
RAISE their voices in behalf of the
Lost Cause" tApplause.) Victory will rebuke
them, and they will appeal to the very noun
tains to save them from the popular wrath.
We have but one motto in this contest but one
watchword upon our banuer-and 1t Is that
Loyalty shall govern what loyalty preserved
(Applause.) Remember, my friends as illus
trating the spirit of the Rebellion, the nvective
that was poured upon the head of the lamented
Lincoln Immediately after the close of the war.
over, the loyal spirit that won the battle,
strong at the ballot with the strength OF war,
wrote Liberty" upon its banners, and, inspired
with the same patriotism and devotion, went on
in its conquests from victory to victory,
overwhelming opposition, and gaining new
honor and new glory. Where Liberty" was
inscribed we have now written the nobler motto,
Loyalty aud justice to all who maintained the
Union" We who wage this contest desire no
prescription, no persecution, not one word of
wrath, not one act of vengeance. We merely
want this Union to be ruled by the men who
have shown devotion to the Union. We want
no war, we want no blood, we want no poverty,
we want no desolation, we want no drafts; we
want peace Sgrest apPlausel, and only peace;
| the East aud in the West, peace in the White
House, and no more endless sessions of Congress
! in expectation OF Presidential violence Zap
plause); peace between Congress and the Ex,
ecutve, peace all over the land, to all
| the dwelers in the lard, between the At
lantic and the Pacific, With peace ex-
stability, and with stability prosperity and with
| prosperity progress, and with progress peace.
| (Applause.) Gentlemen, l say to you, aud [
! feel that am invading no confidence in doing
so, that have it from the lips of our chief, that,
wnen elected President-for feel that it has
been decreed that he will bePresident( (applause)
no matter what his Administration may pro-
| duce-above oil things else, we shall have
| the will and majesty of mighty people, declar-
ing and insuIing to every citizen, black or
white rich or poor, be he humble or exalted,
! the safeguard OF the nation, and protecting him
| from every wrong with the shield of our ma.
| tional stlepgth. (Great applause.) He will use
| American po wer tor the protection of the Ameri
can people; 10 protect the AieIlCdn CltZeu III Ine
savannahs of the South as well as the prairies
.of the West, whether he stands by the Atlantic
that surges along the Eastern coasts, or by the
Atlantic that surrounds the foreign countries of
| Europe, SO that he may feel, as to- American
citizenship, like Paul felt even amid his ene-
mics, that none may lay finger upon him, for he
was a Roman citizen. (Great appiause) Then
W shall have moro moro dishonor,
no mole differences between the Administration
and the Representatives of the country. L cry
dweller in the land will be protected-under his
own vine and his own fg-tree, with no traitor
or enemy to modest or make him afraid-the
national honor will be defended, the national
faith observed, the laws OF the land will be
obeyed, and from thes> swftlY-coming days of
peace, our posterity, blessed by our labors, and
rich with all that we have sacrificed, will realize
the most magnificent future that ever opened to
people, and destiny eclipsing in its gran
deur, its happiness, its public, prosperity, aud
private virtues all that we find written in the
records of the past. Great applause.)
Mr.. Colfax was followed by the Hon. John A.
Grswold, our candidate for Governor; the Hon.
E. b. Washburne. of Illinois; Mr., Clahln, of
Massachusetts; and Mr.. Stark weather, of Yer
mont, after which the Club proceeded to private
business and adjourned