Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-19
C0LFAX..
His Reception at South Bend, In
ddfaha-Barge Gathering of
Friends aud Curious
People.
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He Makes a Speech-Accepts the
Philadelphia Situation A
Synopsis of His Remarks.

SOUTH BEND, IND, June tS.-Ntce-
President COlfax, with his wife and
child, arrived here this morning on the
early train. Mr.. Colfax is in good health
and spirits, To those Of his friends
whom he has met on the streets to-day,
Democrats and Republicans alike, he
expresses entire satisfaction in the re-
suit at Philadelphia This morning his
friends proposed to give him such greet
ing as would show the fdendsbipand es-
teem that those who have known HIM
longest and best have for him. This
evening about eight o'clock they as
fseTnbled in the courthouse square, to the
number Of - - ~ @ENF% - n AZ
TWO OR THREE THOUSAND,
and, accompanied by the South Bend
cornet band, proceeded to his residence,
four squares distant. The immense
crowd gatheFedin in and about his grounds,
and, afier the band had played two
or three tunes, called loudly for
Mr.. COlfax, who appeared on the
porticO, cheer after cheer was given for
him, and when. they subsided he ad-
dressed. his friends in a-half hour's
speech.
MR.. CoLFAX SAID
he had tried to avoid this reception but
the affectiOnate regard of his neighbors
and friends; 50 often illustrated hereto
fore, seemed to adhere to him more
closely in the approaching close Of his
public life. He spoke Of the obligations
he had been under from his boyhOod to
many of the thousands before him, who
had not only themselves supported him
but had educated their children, and
their children's children to believe in
him also.- He said that when leading
and prominent Republicans insisted
that he had no right to fix the time
when his public life should terminate,
and that it would be selfish and wrong
for him to refuse the use Of his name if
the party desired the
2 ErE 60 OLD TICKET. - f7F a.
He had yielded to that appeal, but when
a majority of the convention had deter
mined it would strengthen the ticket to
nominate another, he promptly tele-
graphed his adhesion TO the new ticket,
and would have been faithless indeed,
after having been candidate before the
convention, if he had not. He desired
now to add that he hoped to rejoice with
them over the election in October of
Governor Browne. Lieutenant-G Governor
Saxton, and the rest of the Republican
ticket down to his old friend Sam Tut,
Real Estate Appraiser, only regretting
that he had not more real estate for him
to appraise. He spoke of the principle
that had controlled his whole life from
the Constitutional Convention,
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO,
when, as their representative, he had, in
a small minority, denounced the article
which prohibited negroes from entering
the State, as disgrace to civilization
and humanity, and which every one
now repudiated, although then adopted
by tl-t i.- -t-
NINETY THOUSAND MAJORITY.
He had sought TO lift up the down
trOdden, and to secure liberty, protection
and equality under the law to all, and
he rejoiced that no one now, throughout
the land, dared openly. to oppose these
principles. He added that he was de-
termined that throughout this term no
temptation of any kind should induce
him to drift into antagonism or rivalry
to the President, and that his name
should not become in anyway nucleus
Of disaffectiOn or a wedge of discord.
W utu6NSI ut AHllefSQ as W p4OlS pAl-
icy he preferred rather TO counsel pri-
vately rather than by public protest to
awaken or fOment disctrd, while con-
stantly urging unity, harmony and con-
ciliatiOn as .E. -.E.
POLITICAL NECESSITIES
to keep party of three millions united
and victorious. He lamented all dis
sensions, and welcoming the season of
rest and quiet before him, instead of the
care and labor and responsibility of the
past twenty years, he said he should
prove in the home life he expected to
enjoy with the people who had given
him such lifelong attachment, thathe
was as earnest and CONSISTENT a Repub-
lican in private life as when in public
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The speech was followed with hearty
cheering for the speaker, then for Grant
ard Colfax, and then for Grant and
Wilson, when the crowd dispersed.