The Van Buren press., 1873-02-25
A Good Radiance,
A Forthcoming Procession on the Fourh
OF March,
From the New York sun.

! From the New York sun.
On the 4th Of March coming, the fol
! lowing talented and high.tonsd process
sion will proceed down the Capitol steps
at Washington, and after appropriate
music by the Marine Band, be dispersed
to various parts of the country;
The Hon Schuyler Colfax, of South
Bend. Ind.
The Hon. James w. Patterson, OF
Dartmouth College, n II.
The Hon James Harlan, Of the Wash
ington Chronicle newspaper.
The Hon Samuel &. Pomeroy, OF
Atehison. Kansas,
Old Amcs
The procession will halt at the foot oI
the avenue and be addressed by Mr. Col
fax, with the following remarks, accom-
panied by smile;
Neither Oakes Amcs nor any other
person ever gave or offered to give me
one share, or twenty shares, OF two
thousand shares, in the Credit Mobilier
or any other railroad stock and, unfor
tunately, have never seen or received
hundred and seventy percent dividends,
nor the eight hundred per cent dividends
in cash, stock, and bonds You have read
about every day for the past month, nor
one hundred per cent, nor one per cent
nor the tenth Of one per cent.
Mr.. Colfax will then repeat the fol
lowing challenge, uttered and published
in tho teeth of the whole world at south
Bend in September last:
81 have said that would like to buy
twenty shares at par, if fattalnable, in the
Studebaker Wagon Company or the
Birdsel Clover Separator Company here T,
and challenge either one Of the two last
companies to give tie such an oppor
tunity now or hereafter
He will be followed by Professor Pat
terson, who, by special request, will re-
peat for positively the last time his
touching farewell to public life in the
following beautiful language
"Of this outrage done 10 the fair fame
Of men who have lived without rcproach
for halfa century. by driving them into
the gaze OF the public with . seourge OF
epithets which should be laid upon thu
lowest criminal with caution; Of the tor
ture inflicted upon men sensitive OF their
good name, by subjccting them to legis-
lativs inquisition without sufficient reason
may take occasion to speak elsewhere ,
but here close, simply rcmarking, il
such things are to continue, all decent
men will leave public life, as | do, with
pleasure and not with regret.
The Rev. Mr.. Harlan, before pro-
nouncing the benedietiou, will hold up
to public scorn and raprobation two
checks Of DR. Durant for $1,000 each,
with the following pertinent discourse
The expenditure of money At cleo
tons is growing evil The apology
for doing il on one side is that it is dons
on tho other, and the peril grows ou, OF
the fact that it is often handled by un.
scrupulous agents, who make n use OF it
not contemplated by those who furnish
it, A public sentiment that will make it
perilous to candidate to allow the ex-
penditure Of money to iahueace elections,
without restricting its uses within clearly
prescribed limits, is one that needs
strengthening by all the arguments our
best men and purest journals can ad'
ducs
The Hon Samuel {. Pomeroy, known
to the general public as The Christian
Statesman and to the lobby as Sub
sidv Pom" will follow Brother lIsrlan,
bearing on his manly shoulders trans
psrency, having one side inscribed viii.
the following certificate OF character, eu-
logy and obituary from the pen OF the
eminent saint who precedes him;
1--WE are utterly at loss to account
for such a representation OF Mr.. Pome
roy. Those who know him intimately
and we'll, believe him to bc one Of the
tru0st and purest Of our public men, as
they know him to he ono OF the noss
generous. His benefactions have made
hundreds Of worthy families rejoice.
Those who ought to know him thorough
y regard him ~ singularly unseliish,
caring only for money rs he.c uss IT.,
not to aggrandizc himself, but to accom-
plish some good.