Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-07-15
From the New York Tribune.
Mr.. Colfax on the Situation,


companied by his wife, has been
paying hasty visits to many rela-
tives and near friends this side of
| the Delaware, left for home few
days ago. Knowing we'll that he
had no political objects in this visit,
we have sought to leave him uuan-
noyed and unserenaded to the best
of our ability. Now, that he has
left us, we copy a portion of his re-
marks on the 2Sth ult. at Providence,
the only place at which he has been
induced to utter more than a few
matter of-course sentences. These
casual remarks have drawn the fire
of the Copperhead journais-our
readers shall judge with what JUS
tice. After responding to Mayor
Clark's personal illusions, Mr.. Col
fax said: -.
Not now embroiled in war, but
with peace at home and abroad, /
sometimes venture to think of the
future of this great country, of which
you, as well as myself, are citizens.
But 1 scarcely dare to say to you
to day what is my conception of the
mighty, the glorious and magniti
cent future Of our Heaven favored
Republic, if its citizens are faithful
to principle and to right. In the
swift-coming future, our posterity
will see whether these dreams Of
mine are to be crowned by glori-
Gus consummation; but l know of
no land upon the surface of this
globe on which the sun shines in it's
progress through the heavens that
has the brilliant future which is be-
fore us, if we are faithful to duty
and deserve the smile Of Divine ap-
proval. That able writer and pro-
found thinker, Prof. Draper of the
New York University, in his inter
esting and instructive works, con-
denses all history into theory for
which he has written these works
that have added such honor to his
name and added SO much glory and
Just renown to American literature.
1t is that nations are under law of
growth, like individuals; that they
have their periods OF birth, of in
fancy, of youth, of manhood, of
prime and maturity, and of decay
and old age. And as it is the duty
of the physician, ministering to the
ills that aff1ict the body of the indi-
vidual, to endeavor to postpone
that final consummation which must
at last come to all that is earthly
to prolong the life by preventing
the life blood from being exhausted,
keeping the flush of life upon the
cheek, and the bounding blood in
the vein of the individual, so is it
the duty of the statesman, and of
those who represent you in public
affairs at your National Capital, to
endeavor to so perform their duties
that this final stage of decay and old
age may be as far as possible post
poned. 1t is that thought desire
to bring before you to-day, in the
few words I shall speak to you. 1t
is that thought that has animated
my public life, and, believe, the
public lives of those who represent
the people of New w-England. I con-
ceive that sometimes there must be
exhaustion of the blood that runs in
the veins of our great body polite.
When a great rebellion lifts its black
flag Of treason, striking at the heart
of the Nation, the Nation must shed
it's blood to preserve the National
existence. But there is no other
occasion that l can contemplate as
within the range of possibilities, in
which those who are charged will
the conduct of your public affairs
should willingly resort to war
War drains the blood from the ma
ton. War exhausts the resources
of republic, an empire, or king
dom. War carries anguish and des.
olation into the households through
out the land. War piles up debt
and taxes upon the shoulders of the
people; and although there may be
glory, as there is in the heroism ot
the battle field, unless in a sacred
cause, like that for the preservation
of national existence or for the re-
dress of wrong that can in no other
way be redressed, there is no justifi
cation for war in a great republic
like ours.
Nor do I agree with those who
fearing a danger that may possibly
come to US, speak of those troubles
that afflict our body polite, and ot
the evils that sometimes are inhe
rent in our human legislation, as
the precursors of a downfall of the
Republic. Nor do I concur witt
those who insist upon it, that in this
nation of ours the poor are trodder
under foot. I know in this land, as
in all other lands, there is in all por.
tons of it, to some extent, poverty
destitution, and distress. 1t is in
separable from mankind, from the
Garden of Eden until this time, that
there shall be misery among US, as
we walk in 1ife's pathway, asa ma
ton or an individual, to the tomb
But looking over the world for its
verdict, and for its judgment, ap.
pealing to all civilized lands for the
proof of what say to you, I assert
that there is no land existing upon
any of the continents of this globe
that is so much paradise to the
poor man as the Republic of the
United States of America Great