Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-03-14
Hr. COlfaX al Home.

lion. Schuyler Coliax had public recep-
ton on returning TO his home at South
Bend, Indiana, Satur day Henaturally in.
proved the occasion 10 make a speech in
sslf-vindicaton. In the course Of this he
said
Suppose any one Of you had been charged
! with having been CIV en- shares in q wooden
factory that from these shares Won had re-
/ ceiyed enormous dividends, and that, as
payments for these gifts and dividends, YOU
had aided cOrruptly in carrying through
! legislation IN regard 10 duties on wool
would YOU not regard il as Sufficient answer
| to such charges to tell the public that YOU
had been all your life public " advocating the
scale Of duties alleged 10 Lave been carried
| by corruption-besides this, their enact
/ ment had been year BET ore these alleged
! glttS-that You had neve' owned any stock
l II wooden factories. OF a nythinr else. that
| you had not PAID for; Il iat your shares had
never been given you and that YOU had
| never received any such dividends? Now,
/ II you Lad voluntarily 5ithdrawn. as had.
/ at pecuniary loss, Ovt r four years before,
/ from an agreement TO lJuy such stock in a
wooden factory, yea " ould regard what |
/ nave supposed as, Sufficient reiu tatiOn of the
charge that YOU had been bribed by gifts of
stock and enormous dividends But if
You added 10 all this the frank state
ment that You would be willing TO buy
TINS very factory stock at par, and to
hold It II II would not involve you in litiga-
non, woul you not think your answer to
be iull I'D thorough on every practical
point Una the wantOn calumny required you
to stated
Mr. oliax continued at some length, re-
peating his testimony before the investi-
gatinf; committee, and declaring once more,
upon his honor, his innocence of the charges
brought against him. He did not allude to
Mr.. Nesbitt. At the close of his remarks
there was handed him letter, with 500
signatures Of his fellow citizens attached.
expressing the confidence of the signers in
him, after which the following resolution
" as offered and unanimously adopted:
Resolred, That in welcoming, SCHUYLER
Coliax home to-day, after his twenty years 1
OF arduous public services, in which he has |
been e1ceLed by none as a II odel statesman,
temperate and faithful to d inciples. we do |
50 with undiminished con fidence in his |
honor and integrity, both as, public man
and private citizen.
The Louisville Couvier-Jou rnGl. Demo-
cratic paper, says:
We have taken the trouble 70 review care
fully the case of Mr.. Colfax as recorded in
the Congress investigation, nd compare it
with the elaborate defence d .livered by the
late tiee-President at Sou tn Bend, last
The result Of our researcl ,. Is that he has
given a successful and satisff ,ctory erplana-
ton Of the entire matter.
II Will require closer ana tysis than that
which we have made, or are capable Of max
ing, TO alter our opinion tina t in this bu.-iness
Mr. Calfax has been very nlu ch abused a nd
ErOnged; and We are the II adler 10 allo.v
his since we have never been TEMPTED
md could not be induced to sacrifice the
private character of any man to partisan /
interest.