Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11
Letter from Vice. President Colfax.
SOUTH BEND, June /.

SOUTH BEND, June /.
To the Editor of the Chicago Republican. ~
Your Washington correspondent,
"Zeta," in his letter printed in your paper
of to-day, says that the friends of Mr..
Colfax are reported to have received let
tiers from him, or from parties aoho haze
accompanied him on his late tour, which
complain good deal of the growing dis.
satisfaction with the Administration on
the part Of a large number of Republi
cans, on account of many of its appoint
ments," and follows this with some insin.
uations as to the supposed benefit to result
to me personally by casting a shadow :"
on Gen. Grant
AS long as this effort to create sus-
picion of unfriendliness between the
President and myself was confined to
Democratic papers, l deemed it unworthy
of notice but when Republican CORES
pondent of prominent Republican paper
follows the bad example, and publishes,
under the thin guise Of "rep0rted," allega-
tions on which to base it, l ask this brief
space in your columns to expose it as the
calumny that it is
There never has been, and is not now,
the shadow Of a shade of such unfriendli-
ness on either side. / have written no
letter or letters, to any one at Washington
or elsewhere, speaking of any dissatisfac-
ton of any kind with the Administration.
Nay, more than this, to those who have
complained to me about appointments,
have replied that if Gen. Grant had been
inspired and infallible, he could not even
then have satisfied 1.-THE of the vast num-
Der OF applicants, because there were TWEEN
ty times as many persons who desired, and
really deserved appointments as there
/ were Offices to bestow. "The parties who
accompanied me on my late tour" were
my wife and sister only; and they have
written nosuch letters. The whole story is
a weak invention of some enemy, who
! has probably deceived your correspondent
with it,
Indeed, the very reverse of this charge
is proven by recentspeeches of mine, re.
ported in Chicago papers. At the Pacific
Railroad celebration there, May 10, I said
Quoting only what shows the animus OF
my remarlxs): u + ~ f'sEEb%
= = ~ 'swho-now presides so faithful
ly over the nation which, under providence he
saved, Ulysses S. Grant.
- With that stern, infexibe, that outspoker
maintenance of our rights, and of our vindica
ton from wrong, tha6ha characterized since the
4th OF March the administration of Ulysses g.
Grant"
And in speech at Springfield, ILL.,, May
70, son his latet tour, in response to a
public reception, I spoke warmly and cor
daily of "the Presidents emphatic de-
claration that the Government must be ad-
ministered with economy, that the reve-
nues must be faithfully collected, even if
he had to remove officer after officer" of
the respect he commanded for our nation
abroad by his bold, frank, outspoken
American policy, and of his determination
to conduct our relations with foreign ma
tons by the inspired principle. of the
Golden Rule.
Others have preferred, as they have a
right to do, to point out what they deem
subject to criticism, as erroneous or un-
wise. But, believing that the President
has striven to do all for the best, have
chosen rather to direct public attention to
what ! thought al good citizens had a
right to rejoice over and commend
Respectfully Yours,
SCHUYLER COLFAx.