New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-30
lFrom the Chicago Tribune.l

LIGONIER, Indiana, September 4.-HOn.
Schuyler Colfax spoke at Lagrange this
afternoon for two hours and half to an
audience of five thousand people, and for
nearly the whole time the rain poured down
in torrents. 1t was a novel scene to see
umbrellas listening to the Vice-President,
receiving his speech in the faith of inspira-
ton, for certainly in no other sense does it
seem that so large an audience could
endure in that manner and grow larger the
whole time, as was the case.
Mr.. Colfax was introduced by gentle
man, who has taken 20 part in politics for
several years until now. Andy Ellison, of
Lagrange, has announced himself as an in
dependent Democratic candidate for Con-
gress, which makes some of Haskell s
friends say that he is hired by Williams,
the present incumbent.
MIR. COlfaN was advertised to speak at
LigOnier in the evening, and after closing
his speech he took a carriage and was con-
veyed across the country seventeen
miles, arriving at dark. When some four
miles from LigOnicr, at Buttermilk Corners,
he was met by a procession of some seventy
five carriages, which had gone out to meet
him.
He spoke to an audience this evening of
more than 1000 people, who completely
blocked the street for an hour and three
quarters. He spoke of the pride in being a
Republican, the advantages of the govern
ment, and of the manner it was sustained
in it's dark hours, and of the ticket, the men
upon which are symbols of the principles
which they represent. The Republican
ticket means economy and faithful execu-
ton of the laws; freedom to all, homes for
means nothing. He had been slurred by
the Democrats for his public speaking. but
he is still a citizen, and had the right of a
citizen to speak. He pronounced a eulogy
upon Congressman Williams, for his stead
fastness to the principles to which he was
pledged, both in Congress and out. Demo-
Gratis at New Albany had asked him not to
reprOach them with johnson, because they
did not elect him, which was true; but
Democrats seduced Andrew johnson from
the way he should go, then fathered him,
and go they are responsible for his acts.
During the first eighteen months of
Grants administration. some ninety-five
millions had been collected in excess of the
last eighteen months of johnson, and to
this fact the Democracy make no allusion,
while they distOrt the expenses. Demo-
Gratis on the stump talk against taxation,
because it is popular; but in Congress they
vote solid against a reduction Of taxes. At
the present rate of retrenchment, taxation
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confined to spirits and tobacco, and every
drink of whisky that went down a mans
throat was contribution toward wiping out
the public debt. General Grant and him
self were trying to smoke some of it out
and, as to the value of smoking, Grant
smoked out Vicksburg, Richmond and Pc
tersburg, AppOmattox Courthouse, and one
hundred millions of the national debt. Did
ever Democratic speaker or paper speak Of
those who loaned money to- the government
in the hour of her trial to put guns in the
hands of our soldiers. to bury our dead in
the national cemeteries, and carry on the
war, but in terms of the bitterest invective
as swindlers and scOundrels
Mr.. COlfax then spoke Of the sacred duty
of the government to keep its obligations
inviolate, for which he was loudly cheered.
He then compared the currency under the
good old Democratic rule, such as stump
tail, red dog and wildcat to greenbacks, and
national bank bills under Republican rule,
as n refutation of the Democratic charge
that Republican rule made the poor man
poorer and the rich man richer. He said
there Is no country in the world where there
Is more aggregate happiness and prosperity
than in the United States, and in proof of
this, witness the vast emigration from the
countries of the Old World, and let them
come, for there is still room in the vast
domain of this great free republic of ours
for ages yet to come.