The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-10-29
COLFAX at DETROIT.
IMMENSE MEETING.
UNEXAMPLED ENTHUSIASM
HIS reuiew Of Seymour's Speech.
DETROIT, October %

ing to- day was highly successful
affair. Special trains on the sever
al Railroads brought, large crowds
from the interior of the State. Al
two o'clock as many people as could
obtain entrance gathered in the pas
senger Depot of the Detroit and
Milwaukee railroad, where speeches
were delivered by Hon. Schuyler
Colfax, Hon b. f. Wade, and Hon
Sam. Galloway. On being intro
duced to the immense audience, Mr.
ColfaX, who was heartily received.
spoke just an hour. The following
are his words in reference to Mr.
Seymour:
have been reading this ing
q speech made by distinguished
gentlemen and citizen of New York,
q candidate for President of the
United States, which has diverted
my thoughts from that line of re
mark which l intended to follow to-
day That gentleman-an 1 allude
to Governor Seymour-has recent
ly commenced canvass of the
United States, as far as time will
permit until the Presidential cleo
ton, believeing that the exigencies
Of his party demanded it as l think
they did Laughter and 1 think
it will be cloves labor lost" (renew
ed cheers and laughter] and l pro-
pose to devote my remarks, to-day
before this large assembly to re-
review { hurried, as it must be, in
time for others to speak more) OF
some of the views laid down by this
distinguished citizen. I listened to
the speeches that the telegraph an
nounced to US had been made by
him with no common degree Of in
terest, but when l read these speech
es, I must acknowledge the regret
with which I was panied. I found
them through and through, not a
vindication Of his old political plat
form, not Justification Of the prin-
ciples emblazoned upon their ban
ner with which they invited us to
the issue, but an arrangement and a
deunciation of the party to which
he stands opposed, and which, thank
God, blocks up the way to the Pres
idential chair. Great applaus. I
will read a sentence which is the gist
Of his Rochester speech.
"What we hope ard aim to do is
to check this unsurpation and un-
wise legislation. The men in power
have neither established a success
full system of reconstruction, nor
done anything to Tighten the burden
which Cypress the people of the
North.''
He is now travelling throughout
our various States for the purpose
Of arraigning, untruly, as 1 am com
PEELED to say, that noble party of
whose membership I, with you am
justly proud. What they hope and
aim to do is to check usurpation
and unwise legislation. In the olden
times when they went forth to bat
tie, warriors always went with the
spear and with the shield-the shield
for defense, and the spear for attack
l shall not initiate the example of
Gov. Seymour, and I come with
OILY the shield, to defend to the
party whose beautiful record is writ
on the brightest pages of our coun-
try's history, which you can not OBJ
literate or erase without tearing from
your country's annals the most bril-
liant pages that illuminate your his
tory. [Great cheers. And what
does he call this record? =? He calls
it record of usurpation and unwise
legislation. Let me pass it but in
review before you,for there is moth
lug more triumphant, there more
soul stirring, more inspiring to ev
Try lover of his country, than to the
record we have written down on the
the pages of our country's history.
Look back to the very birth ofthe
Republican party, when it sprang in
to existence, almost originating, as
you know in the State Of Michigan,
but finding its hundreds of thous-
ands all over the land standing
with it heart to heart and shoulder
to shoulder. Applause What is
its first usurpation 1t was when
border ruffians sought to invade the
plains of Kansas sought to punish
devotion to liberty; there by out
rage, by murder, by midnight assas-
sination, by stealing ballot boxes
and stuffing them, to make them
speak untruly. The voice of that
people on that struggle between lib
erty and slavery, when the army of
the United states was used there un-
der the administration then in pow
to suppress free speech, to prevent
the people from manifesting and de-
claring their sentiments. Then this
young, vigorous Republican party,
born out of the exigencies of the
hour, devoting it self to that whole
principle ofliberty and justice, which
has illuminated it's banners ever
since, dared to throw downthe gaunt
let of defiance at the feet of the ad-
ministration- then in power to sup
press free speech, at its devotees, at
its supporters, at its army, at it's ap
biologists, dared to make the cause
of Kansas our own, and your speak
ers and those in the adjoin ing States
and elsewhere, travelled through the
country, like Peter the Hermit when
he preached the Crusades against
the Saracens, arousing the con-
sciousness of the nation, awakening
the people to the sense ftheir dan
ger and their duty, struck dhwn that
po wer, gave to Kansas free speech,
gave to her liberty, and by that usur
patton she entered into the Union,
at last ARA jed in her white robes of
freedom, --thaIk God. Great ap
plause.l That was our first usurpa-
ton.
What is the second nsurpation for