The New York herald., 1872-07-06

smooth water and light airs.
Colfhx ON tho state OF the Nation
Astounding and Comprehensive Trum-
pot Blast from Kalamazoo.
Astonishing are the utterances that come
from the mouths of mighty men The glori-
ous Fourth puts them to their level best, and
when they are at that point the kernel of Truth
is laid bare from its shell of Sham with the
triphammer would smash a soft-boiled ducks
egg. We are charmed with our illustration,
and still more with what it has reference to-
namely, the Kalamazoo Demosthenic effort of
Schuyler Colfax. Virgil sang arma virumque,
Homer the wrath of Achilles, but Colfax makes
down from the wilds of Sahara to the firesides
of Podunk and thence back to Kalamazoo
It was feared, after the nomination at Phil
adelphia, Of Wilson, the Natick shoemaker, in
place of Colfax, the Indiana journalist, on the
republican Presidential ticket with General
Grant, the Galena tanner, that the Vice Presi-
dent, disgusted with the Philadelphia politi-
clans, might possibly go over to Greeley, the
Chappaqua woodchopper It was apprehended
that we must lose, at all events, in this can
vass, the services Of Mr.. Colfax in the illumi-
nation of the public mind on the great political
Issues of the day. We rejoice that these ap-
prehensions may now be dismissed On ''the
glorious Fourth" we did not know whether
Mr.. Colfax was among the cornfelds of the
Wabash, or pleasuring at Dutch Flat, or in
Utah. fishing in the Devils Gate of the Weber
River; but on the 5th we received the pleasing
only this, but that he had devoted the Fourth
to glorious speech to the "Michiganders,
at Kalamazoo, on the political situation.
Better still, the rich cream of that speech,
skinmed off for the telegraph, we submit to
our readers this day.
situation9 He says that, while rejoicing in
the glories of the future and the present of our
nation, we should guard against the perils of
the post. Spoken as patriot speaks when
there il danger ahead or astern, Then he
quotes the great Spanish orator, CASTELAR,, and
adopts his grand idea, that while Asia is the
Continent Of the past, and Europe is the Con-
tinent Of the present, America (nip hip y is
the Continent of the future (hurrah y. But
what are these insignificant bubbleizings to
the perils that environ us9 M
All me, what perils do environ
l. The man that NEEDLES with cold iron
And the first Of these perils, he tells US, is
planting the bill of the eagle in the icebergs of
Behring Strait, while his tail is exposed to the
heated atmosphere of the capes of Florida.
Another part of the peril is that stretching the
bird so far must make him ''too thin This
peril is combined with overtrading, and making
up the balance against us in scrip of different
kinds, to be paid at last in gold. Here we have
the ring of the real silver. The next peril he
thinks, is too many railroads, and the finding of
Stanley by Livingstone thousand miles from
a telegraph post. Our third peril, he says, lies
in our increasing State and municipal debts,
to the detriment of those in the niger min
strel business. Fourthly, Mr.. Colfax warns
us of the great peril threatening us in gigantic
corporations. These should be covered, he
thinks, with 2 Dolly Warden polonaise, for
decency's sake. In the fifth place, he touches
upon the peril of political corruption, the
great heat of the weather, the eloquence of
Susan Anthony, and the view-halloo of the
ofice-seeker, which he holds to be worse
than private embezzlement or stealing. Sixthly,
and lastly, he warns the people Of Kalamazoo
of the peril of going ahead too fast with the
doctrine of spreading out too much. This
deadly peril to nations, corn-fed hogs and
turtle-eating aldermen should be avoided in
the expansive state of our currency. Annexa-
ton is like marriage in the places far from
Kalamazoo, where the blushing bride is
carried off without asking her leave; and,
to conclude, he admonishes them to be
careful about going into war, or, in other
words, getting up an Indiana divorce.
Then he thinks that Capitalization might
or might not be perilous, according to
circumstances-which nobody can deny.
Furthermore, it was his opinion that the best
law for us is the law given by God Himself 70
Moses, which is this--'There shall be but one
manner of law for him that is born among you,
and for the stranger" And here the Vice
President stands firm, for he is founded upon
q rock-the rock of ages.
Moral of the above and deductions to bc
drawn by the intelligent reader:-The Asylum
for Inobriates has grand chorus nightly of
"Down in a Coal Nine" with its right resting
on the Polar basin, whence copious draughts
OF ice water are honored by the fishing banks.
Magniloquence is the food of fools. and onions