Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-28
THE YoRKEGLhE KMQUIRER. + /@\/

imprisonedw abroad, except for violationef the
laws. z
9. The soldiers and sailors are eulogzed. Their
bountes are obligations never to be forgotten and
their orphans and widows are the nations wards.
TO- immigration should be fostered by a liberia
and just policy
Ii. The Convention sympathizes with all op.
pressed people who are struggling tor their rights
General Logan nominated Gen. U. S. Grant as
the Republican candidate for the Presidency! when
the nomination was unanimously adopted.
The first ballot for Vice President resulted:
Wade, l49; Wilson, ll9; Colfax, lls; Harlan
l6; Kelley. of Pa, 6; Pomeroy, /. -.."
On the fifth ballot, Schuyler Colfax,> of Indiana,
and Speaker of the House of Representatives was
nominated for Vice. President, receiving 552 votes
The Convention then adjourned, subject to the
call of the President. .:. .... r..
The following sketch of the nominee for Vice
President, will prove interesting just here: .
Schuyler Colfax was born on the 23d of March,
1928, in New York city. His father was an off;
Ger Of one of the New York city banks and died
four months before the birth of Schuyler In the
veins of the Speaker runs the blood of the revo.
lutionary fathers; his grandfather, Gen. William
Colfax, having been the commanding officer Of
IGeneral Washington life guards throughout the
Revolutionary War Speaker Colfax received an
ordinary common school education, and then ob.
tanned clerkship IN astore After three years
service he removed to Indiana, and settled in St.
Joseph county. For four years young Schuyler
served as clerk in store in the little village OF
New Carlisle, and when seventeen years old, upon
receiving an appointment as deputy county auditor,
repaired to the county seat, South Bend, where ne
has since resided. AT an early age Mr. Colfax
commenced to take an active interest in political
matters, and frequently published his views upon
the questions of the day in the local newspaper:
He soon acquired reputation as an able writer, and
in lS45 became proprietor and editor of the st.
Joseph Valley Register, published in South Bend;
Though commencing with small means and a small
subscription list the paper by its general interest
and the editorial ability displayed, soon became
remunerative. Mr.. Colfax was Wing as long
as there was Wing party, and at its death he
Joined the Republican party. In the Whig party
he had risen to some prominence having been a
delegate to, and one of the secretaries Of the con-
vention which nominated Gen. Taylor. Mr.. Cox
fax's first nomination to Congress was in 1851,
when he was beatenby 200 votes. At the time OF
his second nomination, the Nebraska bill was the
most exciting issue before the country, and the
representative from the district having voted for
it against the desires Of his constituents the anti
Nebraska men Immediately selected Colfax to take
the lead in Furnishing the delinquent, and elected
him by 1000 majority. .
From the year 1856 up to the present time: Mr..
Colfax has been successively elected by large ma
jorities Mr.. Colfax was an enthusiastic support.
er of Mr.. Lincoln in the campaign of 1860; and
as long as the latter lived he loved, respected and
trusted Mr.. Colfax, in whose judgment he placed
such implicit confidence that it has been said he
rarely took any steps affecting the interests of the
nation, without making his intentions known to
him. ~ .., ... -.
In 1863 Mr. Colfax was chosen, and has since
remained, Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, and has acquired high reputation as q
shrewd and kindly chairman, and skiltul parlla-
mentarian. .-...: .... ...-.
He is pure in his personal and moral habits, has
a broad outspoken and catholic sympathy with
every good work Of reform, whether political, NOR.
all intellectual or religious, and has the warm and
enthusiastic confidence Of Christians and temper
ance reformers throughout the country. he at
ed Dutch Church, and is thorough teetotalist.
Without being educated as scholar, industrious
reading has given him much of what is valuable in
scholarship, unalloyed BY its pedantry its cannish-
ness, or it's egotisnl. Without being bred law
YER practical familiarity with legislation has taught
him all that is most yaluabein law, freed from the
conservatism and inaptitude for change and reform
which rest like an ipcubus on so many of those
minds which are bred by the habits Of the legal
profession to look for precedents which show what
the law has been, rather than to broad principles
which settle what the law ought to be. Yet MIR.
Colfax has frequently shown the happiest familiar
ty with precedents, especially in questions of par
iamentary practice.
except as clear statement and sound Judgment are
convincing. He rides no cratic hobbies. He de-
mands few policies which the average sense of in:
teigent men cannot be made to assent to on clear
statement of his position. He is emnently repre-.
sentative. A glance at his broad, well. balanced
practical brain, indicates that his leading faculty is
the sum of all the faculties -judgmcnt-and that
what he believes the majority Of the people either
believe or can be made to believe.