The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-05
ARETAIL STATESMAN.
George Alfred Townsend on Schuy.
Ter COifaX.

RETAIL STATESMAN.
George Alfred Townsend on Schuy'
Ter COifax.
The daily papers Of last Friday con-
tanned, per Associated Press, about one
thousand words of Colfsx's speech
where he reviewed the Credit Mobile,
charges and ''Gath's letter on the same.
Gath" at once took up his truncheon
and retorted:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. &c.
Yesterday the speech Of the late pro-
missing Colfax came to hand, deftlv ap.
pended to an introduction to Joe Haw-
lev, the laid-out candidate for the Senate
from Connecticut. Hawley was held
out at the ferry, Schuyler while sitting
on the stile. In death they were not
divided, both being email and odd nu-
merals. As usual, Schuyler's speech
was committed to the Associated Press.
l can fancy how he smiled at the oper-
ator a revival of that cast.iron smile
which went before him like headlight
as the unfortunate man fgered into
electricity his parliamentary gable. 1t
was a smile modelled, not shed, for the
remains OF the creature underneath it
do not possess the capacity even to think
a genuine smile. Cold selfishness, like
the moons shine, is in that smile, and
as DR.. Byron Sunderland, who was Col
fax's clerical adviser for years, once
said: "Mr. Gath, beneath that emile he
wears the malignity OF devil" | took
exception to this; it reduced the intel
lectual similitude of his majesty, the
parliamentarian of the lower house.
The remarks OF Colfax as to his COM
plicity in the Credit Mobilier division
should give the quiet and analytic read
err the measure of this little man. He
has lived on Barclays Manual for years,
and he uees it to break the sbattis Of the
main charge, that he was the purchaser
OF the Credit Mobilier, by showing that
Cakes Ames was not the nominal Chair
man OF his committee, and that the
reports have been anachronistic in some
minor forms of statement. These little
rulings are made with great vigor and
moral confidence, and then the late
promising performs the characteristic
act OF gibing and mounting at his crea'
tors by quoting Bowles, Bross and Rich
ardson as workers with himself in
the Union Pacific interest. We all un-
dertood that some day or other it would
come out what mean motive he had in
view in tearing these unhappy men
from their families to sit in a stage
coach with him under his moony smile
for weeks and hear at intervals his little
freshman speech on the golden sands OIL
the Pacific, the silver sands of Maine,
ETC., etc., etc. He took them along to
sell them out and use them temporarily
as his advertisers and securities. Each
was, in his clammy eyes, a John De-
frees, to be pitched to the wolf when the
time came. Here ingrstitude il
more stronger than traitors
arms" for these gentlemen gave
Schuyler all his stock in trade, except
the manual. He is as much male up
OF newspapers as the full-dressed pro.
portions OF a meager female; and
padding and hustle of his reputation
rattle to the touch, and you can detect
in both the peculiar paper.milling Of
the two TribuneS and the Springfield
Republican,. Driven into the position Of
the desperate, Cofsx furiously avows
that he had a right to invest his money
where he pleased, thus intimating con-
fidencein the Credit Mobilier. Not So
He might as we'll have put it in q
fence" or receiving shop for stolen
goods, and it is not known that he ever
had any money Of his own. The in
vestment, if he had made it, must have
been purely honorary and the dlvl'
dends wholly material. Thus, at the
conclusion of career which was 8
shining exemplifcation of the possi'
bility of small things, Mr.. Colfax'c
heartless desertion of old friends fol
more powerful enemies and deerened
selfishness attain the consistency OF q
defense Of public jobbery. Nobody n
surprised; some are what Sairey Camp
might call "confuged." Here is what
he said:
"But never having had in my life q
dollar OF stock OF any kind that | did
not pay for. | claim the right to pur-
chase stock in the Credit Mobilier, OF
the Credit Immobilion, if there is one
in the Union Pacific or Lake Shore,
South Bend and Plymouth railroads
in oil well or gold mines promising i'm
mense dividends, that sometimes fail
in printing offices, or furniture and
chair factories; in banks"
| always knew that Schuyle pas
sion for secret societies would get him
into the Credit Mobiier or some other
financial conspiracy. Now, Harry
McComb says that none OF these Com
gressmen paid dollar for their stock
that it was set down to them and paid
for in the bonded dividends at the rate
Il o.-o.oI bundro nor cont WhOeyer