The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-02-07
\ NEAT LITTLE PROCESSION
From New York SUM-

FROM new Ork sun.
On the 4th of March coming, the fol-
lowing talented and heightened process
ion will proceed down the Capital steps ut
Washington, and after appropriate music
by the Marine Band, be dispersed to va
rious parts OF the country:
The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of South
Bend, Ind.
The Hon. James W. Patterson, Of Dart
mouth College, n. ii.
The Hon. James Harlan, of the Wash
ington Chronicle, newspaper.
The Hon. Samuel q. Pomery, Of Atchi-
son, Kansas
Old Ames.
The procession will halt at the foot Of
the avenue and be addressed by Mr.. Col.
fax, with the folio wing remarks, ac-
companied by smile:
Neither Cakes Ames nor any other
person ever gave or offered to give mo
one share, or twenty shares, or two thou
sand shares, in the Credit Mobilicr or any
other railroad stock and unfortunately
have never seen or received the value Of
farthing out of the two hundred and
seventy per cent. 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 follow
ing challenge, uttered and published in
the teeth oil the whole world, at Souta
Bend, in September last
81 have said that ! would like to buy
twenty shares at par, if attainable, in the
StudeDgker Wagon company or the Bird
sell.Cioyer Separator company here; and
/ challenge either one OF the two last
companies to give me such an opportunity
now or hereafter"
lie will be followed by Professor Pat
terson, who by special request viii repeat
for positively the last time his touching
farewell to public life in the following
beautiful language
"Uf this outrage done TO the fair fame Of
men who have lived without rcproach for
half century, by driving them into the
gaze of the public with IL scource of
cpithets which should be laid upon the
lowest criminal with caution of the tor
ture inflicted upon men sensitive Of their
good names by sabjeeting them to legjsa-
tive inguisitiOn without sufficient reason,
l may take occasion 10 speak elsewhere
but here | close, simply remarkiGg, il
such things arc to continue ali decent
men will leave public life, as do, with
pleasur and not with regret.
The Rev. Mr.. Harlan, before pronounc-
/ ing the benediction, vii! hold up TO pub
| lie scurn and reprobation two checks of
/ DR.. Durhnt for $1,000 each, with the fol-
/ lowing pertinent discourse:
"The expenditure Of money at elections
is a growing evil. The apology for doing
It on one side is that il Is done on the
other, aud the peril grows out OF the fact
that it is often handled By unscrupulous
agents, who make II use of it not contem-
plated ly those who furnish it. A public
sentiment that will make it rerilous 10 a
candidate to allow tho Expenditure of
money TO influence elections without re-
stricting its uses within clearly prescribed
limits is one that needs STRENGTHENING by
all the arguments our best men aud pprcst
journals can adduce"
The Hon. Samuel G. Pomcroy, known
to the general public us The Christian
statesman and 10 the lobby MS Subsidy
Pom" will follow Brother Harlan. bearing
on his manly shoulder transpnreucy
having one side inscribed with tho follow.
ing certificate of character, culogy, and
obituary, from the pen of the eminent saint
who precedes him
I'VE are utterly at n loss 10 account for
such representation of Mr.. Pumcroy
Those who know him Intimately al d
well, believe him 10 be one Of the tract
and purest Of our public men, as they
Kho" nm TO be ono Of the most generous