The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-30
CoLFAx ANswEnlna SEYMOUR

COLFAx ANDWERING 1EYAOUR.
1t was grand answer that Colfa1 made
at Detroit to the vaporings Of Seymour. Sey-
mour's speeches are the harsnguss Of dem
agogue and partizan. Colfax speaks like
a patriot, like christian, like a statesman,
like friend of liberty and the people. The
speech throughout VA magnetic with truth
and eloquent logic. We quote thus much
concerning "carpet-baggers" and ''scala-
wsgs":
Gov. Seymour says in this speech that we
are trying to change the iseue into danger.
Gus civil war. Ali il don't need any change
What said Robsrt Toombs? "The Recon
struction acts are null and void, and shall not
stand" What says Henry A. Wiser "Se-
cession is not dead it il more alive to-day
than ever" What says Gov. Vance2 "By
the election of Seymour and Blair al the
oonfsderaey fought for vii! BE- Won wh.,
says pirate Semmes? II have been Dem
ocrat all my life. drew my sword against
the old flag, which had become q Haunting
lie, and have come here to rejoice with you
in the nomination Of Seymour and Blair
Laughter. Such is the issue made by their
own supporters, the issue made by their own
champions in all those States that we're po,s-
onsd with the virus Of treason. What do you
hear from that land 2 You may search
ancient and modern history, and you never
found yet anywhere whore there has been
rebellion against the constitutional author
ties, where that rebellion Was forgiven until
the men who were engaged in il complied
with the terms Of the government against
which they had unsuccessfuly warred.
These men, with the hope OF renewing it,
if they should gain power, with the old spirit
Of arrogance, the old domineering spirit, have
cast aside the veil 1t the New York Conven-
ton, and declare their intentions What did
they say7 need not read to you extracts
from Rebel papers in the South. You know
how full they are in regard to "carpet- bag
gers and scaIlawags.n You know the denun-
citation which they hurl against those classes
whom they thus insult aud stigmatze. Who
are scallawaSs7 There is not single ore of
you on the streets Of Detroit, who, If . man
would call you scallawag, you would knock
him down, if you were not q Quaker. Il is
considered term of reprosch and dishouor,
and they dare not to apply il to Union men
who, when the storm swept around them,
| when they were 1000 againet l, when they
were menaced, when they were prosecuted,
when they were ostraclsed, whom there were
those bowling around them for their blood,
dared to stand faithful in their allegiance to the
country, and refused to surrend er their birth
right, and yield allegiance to the Confsdera.
cy. They were brave men; they were fear
less men they we're true nep: thsy were
loyal men; and when they were .hreate 4 u
| with confiscation aud they were threatened
with exile; when they we're threatened with
death. and saw their brethren hung by the
wsysds on the trees Of the forest, to warn
tbav 4 - L..
they remained faithful to the country; they
said welcome exile, welcome confiscation.
welcome death itself, but % for US We stand
by the stars and stripes to the last drop Of
our blood and the last beating of our hearts.
Tremendous cheers. God bless them God
Bless those faithful Southern Union men.
If ever desert them, to BE- trodden under
foot by these maglignant traitors, may God
desert me and mine forever. IApplause |
Stand by them, and say to them and to ali
the apologists for their crimes, to all those
who sympathlze with them, in their spits
against the country, that these States are to
come back as they have come back, to that
family council, elevated BY those very des-
pissed, faithful Union men-come back reeen.
Grated, redeemed, and disenthralled by the
genius of universal emancipation. [Cheers.
Who are the men that they call "carpet-
bagsers7" Who are the men that they adorn
their Rebel newspapers with cuts, hanging
to tree, ~ the fate Of all carpet baagers,
after next March, when they expect to have
their great victory and be again in power?
The ''carpst-baggsr'' 10 the citizen of Michi-
gan and citizen Of the United States, frae
born, with all the rights which every man
who does ~ IN American citizen has the
right, to dare 60 wherever he pleases under
the dominion Of this Republic, and carve ont
for himself and the little family that God has
given him home with no one to modest
or to make him afraid. But these men who
dared to lift their banda against the country,
these men whose base hearts fred ON that
flag and shot down its defend sr,-these ma.
talk absut caSpst-baxesrs in thar mid.tI +
thank God whsn W have our hero Of the -.
bellion, the man Who chrushed il nnda, III.
feet, presiding in the Executive chair. tA.t
~ ahall have freedom of speech eli over III,
land, protection all over this land. There
shall b no man % poor, no man 20 humble,
no man 90 friendlsss, no man 10 pennies,
that he shall not dare 70 70 wherever he
plsases, on the soil Of the American republic
and express his sentiment al over-vote his
convictions, talk his convictions act his con- |
victions, with no traitor or no man to melest I
him or make him afraid. [Great cheers |
What is our Government worth il We do NOT
protect its own people? We demand alleei-
ance from every one bern under the fse. I'll
war or danger comes, We demand that Won
sAoald give your hearts blood to protect the
land from foreign enemies or domestic insur-
fsctioas, and what you have right to de-
mand IN return 10 protection. Let me ask
my brother Democrat, il there 10 one here.
whether b believes that down in Texas,