New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-03

SOUTH BEND, md, July 20, 1863.
SCHUYLER Colfax has reached his home, and
friends and ueglbors turned out masse to welcome
and 10 honor him. His trip has been one round OF
pleasant memories. The scene at the depot in North
Bend is one never to be forgotten. After the adj
dress OF welcome, and the cheering Of thousands hau
ceased. Mr. Cofax advanced, and spoke as fohoWs'
Mr. Mayor md ny Friends: For can find no word to
address you more correctly than that-tnendS OF my boy
hood days-frends Of my early manhood,friends OF my
matur,r ycar-frleuds who have grapped me to their
hearts Nth hooks OF see-I confess scarcely know how
10 speak TO you his afternoon in response to this most en-
thusiastic welcome YOU nave gwen me Ihere Is one
Sgnr,i i'm Inc English language. brief but impressive; it
thrills every nert that Is not calloused and hardened
rapiiyoit is the word "home" There is volume IN it
TO me- If there is any man in tins broad land from the
Atlantic the Pacific who has cause 10 love his nome IL
ishe addresses you, ever kind ever considerable
ever devoted ever anectouae. When have come mo
your midst from the laDOls (Which you Iad ASSIGNEE
have met ever! where generous welcome WIN NC
heart IN the Ouretched hand. When the railroad uai
sped on Monday last away nom the BANKS Oh 'g es
and the 5usguohaha, the crestS OF the
and tie Ohio there one thought that mica me H.
IL was the Thought OF my own DeiOVe1 nome on fro Won
of the beautiful ST. joe have been absent iiI I y0
much ia the past few years, but your ileuslP os
well as at home, it has upheld me, seeming mhG E
dian angel 10 protect me agalst IehI,e % ,aTs onr-
ger When, tucc years ago, IN uls " = o,r Mains
nov tlror Oh SCENES OF Indian warfare across OI plS
went 60 me Pacific coast on hose rb In the mines
interior, down ln tho hoWes VI & S.rra Nevodas far
which visited crossing the snOWidu SeIIa nv t
tora on Vauooryers Island back again 10 inc Is,nuS
tbon@t which, as my friend Gov. Bross viii tell you one
tLognt that ever with us by lnghl ana by dy anu
ti9t ~. on Inc loved at home Cheersl lhere is
mo- man thqt owes more to the people among whom nc
lives than DO who speaks TO you today from my ear
me In your arms, OH you have taken me unto go
hearts ana protected me against assaults ami caumy on
Overy side Jealous OF good name aud character US
VIC c before tbe American people If forget you may
5llf -
TO the root OF my mouth. can say la lud' Do""4ui
language OF Goldsmith,
NJ leiit ultraveIej 0ud.y turns TO thee
But to-day with the magnificent demonstrations which
Zane with feelings saddencd and chasened with the
thoughts that have been all day uppeImost m my mind
generous confidence Ieposed in me by the representa-
lives by The millions throughout the land who believe III
ability. in placing me side by side with our Dustin.
guished commander upon the same national uUAVs
confidence on their part in my PRINCIPLES ana IN
the rectltude Of my intentions ~ was pev rrso
that | might be relied on # l were chosen by the
people Of America never to turn nv back upon the
principles tnat profesed; and yet say, come be,
fore you with feelings Of sadness ana regret even anna
the enthusiastic friends who have accompanied me from
Chicago have been made to feel to-day almost as II
had regretted that accepted the nomination; since re.
turned my home that IL sewers, probably forever that
tie which has been between for almost lifetime, as
constituent and representative, that II removes me- III
degree from being your own chosen representative
before the American people aud that again am to
before you aud ask your suages TO speak anu act
and vote ia your behalf III our national councils nave
ic in all years that have passed as have gone mp
aud down the highway aht ny way % ''15 aint
if every home almost had an open d0HI, Giil1 i
every heart "a generous welcome. Even thOUgh the
poisoned arrows Of calumny might he hurled against
me, you were ever ready 70 yum en aSl,S anu plu
teC me- and to publicly exhibit your warm ana generous
~ 49, "a yaors nave bcen vouT rcpreseitatiye hui
further back than thatar back in 1850 IS years ago
bpr viii am eXIltton that think have right to feel
were daTkened with gloom for the political party which
mated our banners but thar this noble County of St
Joseph has stood by me faithfully at every election 10
you I owe everything that am, 10 your conunu continue
kindnesscs, 10 your longcontinued ana answering
hands of the American people because you here,
who have &C home from the days OF my DOyhOOd
leed Indiana and almost III the Unon that the hearts
OF those Chicago were turned toward Inc for
If that people who know this man believe IN INN ana a
teD sv frny that cannot md words to express you
the gratitude have for those repeated ana continuous
manifestations of your love for met But to-day, as
stand before yOu my thoughts back rather TO the
past than toward the swiftcOnlng tutuIe nave
before me- of my early life your midst have thought
of the faces was to see mere IN ths au. I,
before me when arrived at my nome fndI rtyi
two years ago. remember when, as boy nlst looked
down upon the smilhg PIes VI del1 UoF w. ncar
ing from my home IN the East WIN tnoSe WIo
and dear seek fortunes in tins western and
there was the place where our tent was ptche1 ana
where first we found home in Indiana and though but
barely then in my teens, sooner had arrived thec
Strengthened with my Strength see some Of those
Many have passed away; the tomOstoIes IN INC grave
yard tell the record OF their lives ana OF ther names Du
their children are left behind, who seem TO have inner
tied all their parents interests and all their paentss al
lection for me- they have inherited their DIoOq rom
the parents that gave them BIRTH and they have followed
me- too with their kindness until now nave even seer
the past contest the grandchildren OF tho5e VINO WEI
them rivang in their devotion the kindness and TREND
ship OF those who have gone before over quarter OF
1
town, then but little village, with my family, VINO were
compelled by circumstance well known to many OF you
by the election Of Of my family TO position IN your
county to remove here to your county, Wen DO
i remember the scenes ana the incidents OF ihos9
early years, well as remember them imprinted
as they upon my heart as with grayer Oh steel.
In All the associations OF early manhood, was one
I'm your midst, and many OF your Aldermen remem-
Der when you first saw and first crossed palms win me-
you remember when you nIst became aCguanteiu i'
me; you remember when you gave me your friendship
sec many now in your midst older than J. VINO were my
friends IN that early day when was Struggling ioI
I'm my career. In the Auditors ONCE OF your Ola Court
House was engaged IN making our LAX GuPatatTs,
with Supervisors, &c. and making ac99alntanees VINO
have ever snce been friends wen 40 @ ne
how in our mock legislative assembly was INC
demands Of parliamentary law which recent events nave
required me 10 aannister ia tG So Goy Come here
United STATES some OF you VINO Hahe CV n. .Hl 10
since that olden time do not know anything about that
old Courthouse Of ours and those associations which are
dear 70 me ana when sha never IOIBGl 1ncIe az ~
some things about II which peculiar remember IL
not in the lonan, DOrc or Cornthlan style OF
architecture. but 1t emphatcaly in the Indiana style
OF architecture. lLaughterl remember distinctly that
IL was just rs lOuS as IL was hlOc JUST
actly high IL wide. Laughter, and cries OF
THAT'S sOl 1t was the model temple Of justice in old
times in Indiana, and have found IN speaking over the
State few Of these venerable and antiquarian relies
left yet. Then coming down later shall not
speak TO you OF my public life which have had TO
lead, for it has been familiar 70 you. My political
life has been cast the tormiet period Of the history Of
our country from the days Of the Revolution 10 the
present time. With all the excitements and acerbbes Of
party struggle, with excitement unparalleled in the pol
ca contests OF the past rejoice TO be able TO say be
fore YOU to-day that never, when returned 10 your
midst has there been man. be he even the bttTes
Of a hOxyp ypr
antagonStic he might be TO me, That ever met with
tho reprOach that had turned my back upon solitary
Ilndge mnle Whom askng for YOnr sufTages that I