The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-02-15
From the Chicago lntsr OCEAN,

s.The Greatest Of these IL Charity"
= Mr.. Colfax has a new accuser.
This time he is not newspaper IL
heller. nor professional slanderer.
He is not a convicted briber. like
Ames, nor a proven perjurer, like
McComb. He is minister, an
HONORABLE man: a follower of Him
who charged the pastor as well as
the flock not to bear false witness
against his neighbor. On Sunday
morning Mr.. Robert Laird Collier
preached a sermon (g) to a large
congregation on "Our National
Modification q Pulpit Review OF
the Credit Mobilier Scandal, in
which. among other things,
he said that "he wanted to impress
upon his hearers the fact that it
was wrong in the first place to own
Credit Mobilier stock at all. = Hav-
ing taken upon himself this assump
ton, placing himself above the
Committee of Investigation, who
have declared exactly to the con-
trary, Mr.. Collier thus proceeded
to speak of Mr.. Colfax: 80
To begin at the beginning, Mr.. Senator
Nve could not say to Vice President Coltax
what he is reported to have said to Mr.. Sena-
tor Pat,erson-that if he wished to get out
patent for a fool he should deposit him a; the
Patert Office for model Those who have
known Mr.. COlfax best have never mistaken
him for a fool. No man in America ever
pia-ed a snail card better. or on less capital
did larger business. He was fortunate 10
I being a citizen of Indiana which, without
great repute for enlightenment. has extended
renown for religion That he was snita
BILE man to represent his State Indiana has
verilv believed. M
When publicly accused Of being party to
the Pacific Railroad job, We ALI understand
tina: these are the exact words of his full,
fat, explicit, and, for the time, efficient de-
NAL: 3' f1 F1
:. Neither Cakes Ames nor any other per-
son ever gave or offered to give me one share.
or twenty shares. or two thousand shares, in
the Credit Mobilier or any other railroad
stock: and unfortunately ! hare never seen
or received the value OF a farthing out ut the
8 go per cent dividends, nor 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 l per cent, nor the ONE
tenth of 1per cent y
How pitiabe how solemnly sad, this as ser
walton in the light of these recent investiga-
tions, testimonies and confessions!
And what does MIR. Colfax mean when he
asks for :. a suspension Of public opinion 20
This is solicism. Opinions are not passive,
but active : cannot be kept in abeyance or
3 held in sus psnse. And the public are de:id-
eddy OF the opinion that lie has been told
and sworn to.
The above extract can be relied
ON as correct, for it is taken from a
report, the proof sheets of which
were revised and corrected on
Sunday night by Mr.. Collier him
self.
Now, mark how plain tale shall
r put this reverend defamer down
We tlke it that the equivocator is
as base as the falsifer: the man
who deliberately emits words in a
{ sentence that changes its meaning
. is as bad as he who interpolates
them for the same purpose. Wheth-
er or not Mr.. Collier has done this
we leave the reader to judge, after
3 observing the following facts: The
New York Sun, the Chicago Trib.
rne, and other papers, charged last
summer that Mr.. Colfax, among
; others, had GIVEN certain number
of shares for favoring the schemes
of the Credit Mobilier use their
words. s BRIBED TO PUT THE CREDIT
MoBILIER THROUGH CONGRESS and
that Colfax had received in divi
| dends on this stock given him $40,
02O. To this charge Mr.. Colfax re
piled in his speech at South Bend
The words quoted by Mr. Collier
. were in answer to this explici
charge. not in denial of the fac
that he had ever owned stock. Thi.
+ is known to the Chicago Times, tn.
Tribune, and every other paper
now attempting to show the con
trary. and was doubtless known alst
to Mr.. Collier. But this is not all
It is part of the stock in trade o
s the papers like the ones named Il
Inisrepresent those who happen tt
to disagree with them politically
still they are less guilty than Mr.
Collier, because they at one TIM
gave the Vice President the benefi
of his statement, while the formel
quotes only the solitary sentence
without any explanation whatever
We now call the attention of tn,
Times, the Tribune, and Mr.. Rob
ert Laird Collier, to the following
extract of Mr.. Colfax's speech, ane
ask them all whether the construc
ton they seek to put upon his Ian
guage is not an open and disgrace
full perversion of it. Speaking o
the charge that stock had been Civ
en- by Cakes Ames, and that SOi
per cent. dividends had been de
clared, Mr.. Colfax said
never had in INV life dollar of stock q
any kind that did not pay for. clai N tn
right to buy stock in tie Credit Moblier. q
the Credit Immobilier, if there is one; in III
Union Pacific, or Central. or Lake Shore. 0
South Bend and Plymouth Railroads No
do know of any law forhiddng it. If ther
is man in all our 4O,000,000 Of people VIII
knows ue, VITO believes could be influence
hairsbreadth in private or public life by tn
purchase of any stocks in any company.
should not value his good opinion as wort
any more than bis evil one. I am proud I
say. too, that in all my public life no ma
ever dared to make me ), dishonest PROPOSE
4 ton DO need 10 add that neither Oake
4 Ames nor any other person ever gave or o'
| fered to give NE one share, tweity shares o
/ 1000 shares in the Credit Mobilier, or an
/ other railroad stock, and that fortunately
! have never seen nor received the value of
1 farthing out Of the go per cent dividend.
! nor the 800 per cent dividends You have rea
about for the last month. nor 100 per cen
! nor one per cent, nor the tenth of one pc
cent. I nave said that If twenty shares of
could be purchased at par without buyin
into prospective lawsuit it would be . goo
Investment, etc.