Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29


sH.. =. G. POMEROT.
In reply / will state that | never
wrote nor authorized the writing of
the above, and that the whole Is an
entire fabrication.
- S. C. POEROY.
The letter alluded to 10y the Senator
is one said to have been written by
him to Mr.. Cooper, who swore before
the Committee of Investigation yes
terday that Poineroy had approached
him with an effort of controlling four
Radical votes besides his own for ac-
quittal, on condition of receiving
$4,000.
From the New York World.1
Hiram Ulysses Grant.
This man has been nominated for
President by the Chicago Convention.
The facts of his life are: Born at Point
Pleasant, Ohio, April q, 1922, entered
West Point in 1887, graduated 1913 n
Second Lieutenat, and resigned in
1852 u Captain. In 1854 was appli-
cant for clerkship to the Prothonotary
of st. Louis; the application was re-
jected "for want of capacity" He
then went to Galena and became n
tanner. In August, 1861, he en-
tered the Federal army as Cap
tain, was transferred to the regular
service, where he still remains. His
habits, if Wendell Phillips and the
Tribune are to be believed, are ex-
tremely dissolute.
Schuyler Colfax, who for the last
three Congresses has been Speaker
of the House of Representatives, has
been put on the Radical ticket for
Vice-President. Mr.. Colfax halls
from Indiana, at South Bend, but was
born in New York, March %, 1922
His father died six months before the
birth of his son, and his education at
first devolved on his mother, who was
Hester Schuyler, cousin of Philip
Schuyler, of the Revolution, wherein,
too, the Speakers grandfather, VIII
liam ColfaX, commanded the guards
attached to the Headquarters of
George Washington. Mrs. Colfax
was not in easy circumstances after
her husbands death. However, she
succeeded in giving her son an ordina-
ry school education, after which he
became clerk in q grocery store
After being three years clerk, he
went with his mother to Indinan.-
Meantime this lady (who still sur
vives) had married Mr.. Matthew'S
At New Carlisle, Indiana, young Col
fax again served i'm q store, but when
seventeen years old was chosen dep
uty auditor of st. Joseph county, and
removed to South Bend, where he
has ever since lived. at this time he
was Wing; he dabbled little in
politics, but showed taste for coun-
try journalism, and in 1915 owned the
st. Joseph Valley Register, at South
Bend. In 1913 he was a secretary in
the convention which nominated
Zachary Taylor. In 1851, he ran for
Congress, and was defeated by 200
votes. In 1856, however, he was cleo
ted on mixed licked opposed to the
Nebraska bill, then so wide an issue.
His majority then was 1000. To
every subsequent Congress he has
been elected by large majorities, his
district being confirmedly Radical
Since 1868 Mr. Colfax has been Speak
er of the House of Representatives
Mr.. ColfaX's public career has been
more fortunate than impressive. He
has never made any "great speeches, !"
but has made several "pretty" ones.
There is little from which to Judge
his mental gifts. His capacity as q
presiding officer is something, how
ever, on which his friends base his
claims to distinction, but in reality is
one OF his most vulnerable points,
His administration of the Speaker
ship has allowed scenes which have
made our Congress q national shame
and n Kissing ut home and abroad
He has permitted the Farnsworths,
Ashleys, Stevenses, Kelleys and
Others to denounce the President, n
coordinate branch of the Govern
ment, in terms which would even dis
grace a Chicago newspaper. He has
permitted Butler to cali Bingham a
murderer, which, however true, is not
parliamentary, while Bingham was
allowed to go on in the same way
The recent wrangling between Don
nelly and Washburnc, in the worst
style of tile lowest brothel, all passed
directly under the ruling of the
Speaker.
The supscrvlceablc zeal he has offic-
tally shown to help the Radical dis
unionists crush out freedom of debate
in the House is matter of record. -
This intolerance in the Speaker arises
from bigotry in the man. His mind
is narrow, so narrow that he can not
argue ut all. His speeches are mere
statements Of opinion, couched in the
bittercst terms, and betraying not
the least depth of statesmanship nor
none of fairness. His whole record
has been only record of hate
lie was n Republican because
he hated the Southern people,
and he became disunionist because
time has intensified that hatred. A
sectionist all his lifetime, no single
act has ever shown the least compre-
hension Of sincerity in political oppo-
ncnts or the slightest expansion of
mind to a degree which takes i'm the
COOL ofthe whole country. Ofsuper-
ilcial attachments, tluency has stood
nm IN place Conformation, readiness
I'm place of thoroughncss, and assur-
nnce in place of solidity. Being "A
man of weak resistance and puny
power, in the administration Of the
responsible office he holds he has risen
no higher than TO be the willing reg
lister of old Th0d. Stevens and the
other head devils that have been
playing revolution i'm Congress dur
ing the last five years. Taken from
the narrow limits of an obscure Yves
tern district, and made national tar
get, II remains 10 be seen how he will
stand the wide criticism from which
his incOnsiderablc career has hitherto
exempted him.
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