Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-07

US lasted TO the grave, and even beyond
the grave. May that hallowed memory
be kept green and fresh and perennial for
ever.
=. 1 come back TO the old theme. II is the
theme Of gratitude. II is the theme of
thanks that is struggling with feeble words
TO give to You the expression OF heart
overtiowing with an affection towards you
In this busy season of the year these as
sembled thousands are fit answer to
every falsehood and calumny that has
been used against me.
was struck by the fact when coming
from your depot this very day that the
escort of the hundred and forty Germans
of the German Grant and Colfax Club
put the seal of their condemnation and
their denunciation upon not only the
calumny, but the forgery to which have
been subjected here. You know IL Is a
filsehood You know that never in my
public life from the commencement to the
close, in one year or month, day or hour,
have 1 ever held any other doctrine than
that principles and character, not birth
place and creed, were the true test for Off
cial promotion" Men who may resort TO
forgery, may sign my name with their
felonious fingers; for forgery is felony.
! You here know that there has not been
an election for the last twelve years that
| have not gone TO the polls, not with a
closed ballot, but with an open one, and
| voted Cor men of foreign birth and who
worshipped at different altar from what
| did myself ..se
Here is the only place where / shall an
swer that calumny Let II be buried in
the tomb where are buried calumnies and
forgeries like 1t In the years that have
past
Now my friends-for l shall not speak
to you at great lengSh--I come to the con-
clusion Of these remarks
If there is one thing for which long in
this land of ours to-day-f there is one
thought that rises uppermost above all
other thoughts--it is that thought en-
bodied in those brief, sententious words
of the great Captain of our armies, EN-
bodying as much as a speech of an hours
duration, because it is exactly suited to the
exigency of our situation--it is, "Let us
have peace" [Great applause.l There
is no country in the world, there
is no land beneath the circuit of the
sun that longs for peace like this great
Republic of ours. Peace, and, with it,
consequent prosperity. Peace, and, with
it, progress and development Peace, for
l am opposed to all wars as I have often
told you, except those wars forced upon
us for the preservation of our national ex-
istence. We want no more war We want
no more violence. Wew want no more out
rage. We wantpe We want no more
drafts. We want no more bloodshed. We
want no more carnage. We want no more
| debt. We want peace, and peace we will
have. The great hero of the country who
heads the Union army today in this con
test commanded peace on the battlefield,
and he WILL in the Executive chair, COM
mand peace in this Republic of ours lap
plause1 from ocean to ocean and from the
frozen lakes to where the flowers bloom
in perpetual spring upon the borders OF
the Southern Gulf He will have peace by
protecting every man within our limits,
poor though he may be; downtrodden
though he may have been ; humble though
he may be; friendless and obscure though
he may be--Ulysses s. Grant will give him
protection. Applause.
A voice "Three cheers for Colfax"
Mr.. COlfaX: That ought to have been q
cheer for Grant, for was speaking OF
him, not of myself have nothing to say
about myself as candidate, for suppose,
to tell the truth, that if General Grant
should be elected 1 probably should also
be so. Laughter and applause] They
say he can't make speeches. A voice,
ave don't want him to."1 You see l am
saying nothing about the principles or
platform, or the candidates of our oppo-
nents but have right to speak of him
who led those for whom | speak, that
stood round him defending these Republi.
can principles in the past. He has made
one speech: when the committee of the
Chicago Convention announced his nomi
nation to him at his residence in Wash
ton. 1t was speech of only eight lines
but there wcre'two lines in it that were q;
weighty, that were as valuable as if they
had filled the many volumes that gave you
the history of the works of Confucius
They were these words: eff elected
shall have no policy to enforce against the
will of thep people," Greatapplause. That
isadeclaration worthyo of the man. That is
a declaration worthy of the cause, and he
said, you remember, to President johnson
the will of the people must be the law o.
! the land, and so say we all. The will Of
the people enforced, and the law of the
land obeyed, and we shall have peace, and
with peace, progress and development
unknown in the history of our country
before. With peace, your country of i'm
mense resources, washed by the waters ol
the two great oceans of the globe, checked
in its advancing course by the horrors Of
war for moment-with peace it will steI
forward with gigantic strides in wealth
and hope until it obtains prouder posi-
tion in the record of nations than it has
to day. We have within our limits al
that makes nation great. We have q
people brave, as they have shown them
selves to be, self.sacrificing, devoted and
practical, with boundless resources, min.
eral, commercial and manufacturing; liv.
ing in the temperate zone, which isthe
governing zone of the world, and beyond
the limits of which there are no great ma
tione, we have within ourselves all the
elements of greatness, and with an admin
istration which shall be the will of the
people, and which shall enforce the law OF
the land, we are destined To prosperity
which in glory shall eclipse in the future
all the brilliant records of the past.
One word more about home come
back in the conclusion, as l spoke in the
commencement in regard to home. Home
which, as Dryden tells us, is "the sacred
/ refuge of our life" Home with all its
tender and aflectionate associations
Home with its sacred ties. Home with all
those sensibilities which are excited by
the very mention of the word. Here, ii
this beautiful city--a village when first
saw it and lived In IL, now advancing with
its motto, Coward" with speed un
paralleled by any other city in our State
with its vast manufacturing advantages
making it the very Manchester of Indiana
with its beautiful st. Joseph Valley, the
garden spot Of the West; with its noble
prairie on each side, destined to an agri
cultural wealth that shall almost be to
us incredible when 1t Is fully realized
by its development. You have your
lot cast in the most pleasant
spot in this Republic of ours. con,
gratulate you upon it. aud l congratulate
myself that l am with you here as part
and parcel of this growing city of South
Bend. And wherever / may be cast in
life, separate from you as representative,
or still with you as citizen, my interests
my hopes, my aspirations, my convictions,
shall ever be for this noble city which has
DrOYt.d To me throuyh so many wears tho