American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-02-22
A Neat Little Procession.

On the 18th of March coming, the follow
ing talented and heightened procession
will proceed down the Capitol steps at
Washington, and after appropriate music
by the Marine Band, be dispersed to vari-
Gus parts of the county:
The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of South
Bend, Ind.
The Hon. James w. Patterson, of Dart
mouth College, N. III.
| The Hon. James Harlan, of the WASH
ingtOn Chronicle, newspaper.
The Hon. Samuel c. POmerOy, of Atchi-
son, Kansas.
| Old Ames.
| The procession will halt at the foot OF
| the avenue and be addressed by MIR. Col
fax, with the following remarks, accom-
panied by smile:
| Neither Oakes Ames nor any other person ever
gave offered to give me one share, or twenty
| shares, or two thousand shares, in the Credit
Mobiier or any other railroad stock; and unfor-
| tunately have never seen or received the value
the 500 per cent. dividends in cash, stock, and
bonds you have read about every day for the past
month, nor 100 per cent, nor per cent. nor the
| tenth of per cent.
Mr.. COlfax will then repeat the follow
| ing challenge, uttered and published in
the teeth of the whole world, at South
Bend, in September last:
1 have said that 1 would like to buy twenty
shares at par, if attainable in the Stude-
baker Wagon Company, or the Birdsell Clover
m tor ars @ such
| opportunity now or hereafter.
He will be followed by Professor Pat
| tersOn, who, by special request, will re-
peat for positively the last time his touch
| ing farewell to public life in the following
beautiful language:
Ofthis outrage done to the fair fame Of men
who have lived without reproach for half a CEN
tury, by driving them into the gaze of the public
upon tse oSe a' with Of
torture inflicted upon men sensitive Of their good
ton Without s@ilicient reason, may take OCCASION
to speak elsewhere; but here close, simply re-
marking. if s%chthings are te continue all de,
pleasure and not with regret.
The Rev. Mr.. Harlan, before pronounce
ing the benediction, will hold up to pub
lie scOrn and reprObation two checks of
DR.. Durant for S., 900 each, with the fol-
lowing pertinent discourse
growing evil. The apology for doing it on one
side is that it is done the other. and the peril
Inscriptions agents, who make use of it not
contemplated by those who furnish it. A public
date to allow the expenditure of money to in1iu-
ence elections, without restricting its uses within
clearly prescribed limits, is one that needs
| ind purest Journals can adduce-
The Hon. Samuel G. Pomeroy, known
to the general public as 1.-The Christian
State man" and to the lobby as Subsidy
Pom," will follow Harlan, bearing on his
manly shoulders a transparency having
one side inscribed with the following GER
titicate of character, eulogy, and Obitua-
ry, from the pen of the eminent saint who
prec.des him:
We are utterly at loss to account for such a
him Intimately and well, believe him to be of
the truest and purest of our public men, rs they
know him to be one Of the most generous. His
lilies rejoice. Those who ought to know him thor
oughly regard him as singufarly unsclfish, caring
himself but to accomplish some good.
On the opposite side of the Transparent
cy a representation of the sstruest, and
purest, and most generous of our public
men" offering in his 'ssingularly unselfish
way" s. 600 in greenbacks to State Sena-
tor Y Ork, of Kansas, mot to aggrandiZe
himself, but to accomplish some good"
md make ''hundreds of worthy families
rejoice" The dastardly conduct of York
in turning over the whole sum to the
Speaker of the Kansas Legislature and thus
obstructing and defeating a benefaction
thy families rejoice will be only remotely
referred to in the inscription, ''Man's in
humanity to man makes countless thou
sands mOurn.o
Old Ames may or may not make some
remarks. He ia a man of intermittent
memory and spasmodlc utterance. He
will be accompanied by an army wagon
containing vouchers and memoranda.
Jim Nye would like to accompany the
procession, but being a man of profane
discourse and having threatened to lead
Prof. Patterson over to the Patent office
and deposit him as ''model of fool" he
has been barred out.
Aside from the gentlemen named, no
wind instrument will be allowed in the
line. Senator Pomeroy, being an earnest
advocate of liquor prohibition, insists that
no one even in the band shall take horn
ON the occasion.-N Y. Sun.