Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-29
We find in Putnan's Magazine for Inn,
the following sketch of the next Vice p,
dent of the Limited States

We find in Putnan's Magazine for Jr.
the following sketch of the next Vice p,
dent Of the United States:
Schuyler Colfax was born at house il, Y.
Moore street, near West Broadway, in the ~
of New York, March %, 1923. His mol!
but sixteen years his senior. He received a.,
common school education; was bred Z. -; 90
and settled in Indiana in 1896. He SOON -
foreman and assistant editor Of the yiIla,al
of South Bend: 1t was then very small ib5'.
such as every Western settlement issues NV
of flyer to a job printing business, as so5, ,.''
has got its school house, grocery. bo,I
blacksmith-shop, and begins to think ato1, ''
ing meeting house.
The typo out West frequently gets the .,-
of the preacher, though the race is Clos
who saw Colfax then at the case DESERT
as a light, spindling, faxen-haired. 49,
ing youth-cleyer rather in the Yankee s.
English sense-with delicacv Of tor,-. -
which suggested doubt whether h -
stamina to live to manhood, Fitbon, 80 ~ l-
suggestion that in his mature vears b. ,-,- 'l''
Speaker Of the House, and the ,eco,,I %''.'i Dc
the country for President The par. =. ---'ce Of
to South Bend by stage from Ds--i, --'l zane
q n
fit, and though Mr. Colfax been - guy niue il
and publisher Of the South Bend Refs,sr,
Is he became Of age, other and sub.e.1a-. ~.
dences we're required to establish his clam ~
| ellectual superiority
In lo4o he was delegate to and Secre,s-v
the Wing National Convention. In 1850 hen.
a member OF the lndiana Constitutional Gomez.
ton. In 1872 he was again Secretary of h.
Wing National Convention. He vas ele..ei ~
the Thirty-fourth Congress and has been rs,,,,Is-
| ly reelected to every subsequent Congress He
was elected Speaker Of the Thirty-eighth Con-
greSs, and has been reelected Speaker Of The
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth. He was urged bg.
he declined to accept q seat In the United State.
Senate, preferring his presiding chair in theIIou
His open, pleasant face has become familiar
large audiences throughout the country. VII.
have listened TO his addresses upon political ,.-.
les, upon the late President Lincoln-bv VIII
he was warmly loyed-upon his tour across t5s
continent to the Pacific, or upon subjects en-.
nected with the work Of the Sanitary and CHRIS.
tan Commissions.
He Is pure in his personal and moral hsb..
has a broad, Outspoken and catholic svmra,l7
with every good work Of reform, whether 1.-.
cal, moral, intellectual or religious, ami ha. ,al
warm and enthusiastic confidence Of Chri,,a-,
| and temperance reformers throughout the e--r-
try. He attends, and we believe is I member q
the Reformed Dutch Church, and is ,ho7-l,l
teetotalist Without being educatedasa scb5'-
industrious reading has given him much rll.
IS valuable in scholarship unalloyei D. Il. reii-.-
~, its clannishness or its egotsn Hdu,
being bred lawyer, practical t--i-a-y with
legislation has taught him all that Il u5s- vau4-
bic in law, freed from the cOnseryatsn lli il4u-
titude for change and reform which re.r lae az
incubus on so many of those minds which lra
bred by the habits of the legal profess L o. .ls
for precedents which show what the law l-.
been, rather than to broad principles which SEQ
tie what the law ought to be. Yet Mr.. t1l
has frequently shown the happiest ia---l--
with precedents, especially in questions tEa-l
mentary practice.
As presiding officer he is the most IalL
the House has had since kenny Clay. H LIS
velous quickness Of thought, and talent t--
rapid administration of details, enables h.
hold the reins Of the House Of Representa-
even in its moist boisterous and turbulent n1sl
As an orator, Mr.. COlfax is not arguueltitir5
except as clear statement and sound jgi-un
are convincing. He rides no errauc I'll. les
He demands few policies which the average sens
OF intelligent men cahhol ue LLI1Ae 81 '7't--
a clea- statement Of his position. He (, euila,,
" representative.
He knows men well. estimates then crr.y.s
treats them all fairly and candidly. " Nh
| will get through his business with Won in .-Fa
minutes, and yet none is more free from he d p
rid 5rusgusHess of busy men. Their are her
and kindness in Mr. C0lfax's p0,i.eae.-. VI
, leave his presence with the impression tll, DE
at once an able, honest and kind man. P..-4
opponents like him personally, as vel as hs p
litical friends. We have never heard tlat Be lls
any enemies. The breath ofsiaEier ia, been &.
lent toward his fair, spotless fame. The wife
his youth, after being for a long time an lay----
sank TO her final rest several years ago, ely-.
him childless. His mother and sister prs,-is ST
his receptions, which for many years have ''r-
not the most brilliant, but the most papuIa-
I any given At the Capital.