, 1873-03-09

THE CHICAGO
audience OF probably 5000 people, who occasionally
ra9re and no less dc1nonstratlve than the South
Benders have been when listening to his speeches II
the past. His speech "aa rs follows:
CoLrAx's srEEcH. .
HE. MAYOR, NE1anDons, IND FnIEEps: LILY heari
would be cold and GALLONS indeed, 1t did not throt
more quickly md happily at such welcome home NJ
this with which am honored, aud the grattude
fur which it would take lifetime TO exhibit. Here
you have known me from childhood. Ny goinga Out
and comiugs IN have been before your eyes 1y char.
acter has boen formed In your midst, and you kno"
whether, for . s~~
Of money, could be induced to shipwreck 1t. When
yon come Mther therefore, by the tlonsands, spon-
9nd an gad to BE- t9a 3 and
tn by prominent and lifelong political opponents
to honor me with such unmstakable manifestations
OF your unabated confidence and adccuonate regard.
feel It due to you, well TO myself. to the
utter injustice OF tho cruel charges on which have
been arraigued during the past winter.
HIS GRIEVANCE.
II had been confeaaed and wicked criminal,
could not have been pursued with more nalignity by
portion OF the American press aud their Washington
correspondents. Day after day, every possible cir
cumstance has been exaggerated and telegTaphed
handed % f hat t LIQUID explain & Ills Or T tbat Or The
other point, and, when explained the malicious
enemies have tortured, and perverted, and misrepre
the reputation Of the man they hated should be de-
stroyed, and rs day BY day they poisoned The public
mind they rcjoiccd almost with shouts Of exultation at
having effected, AZ they hoped their work Of ruin.
H1s FnANKNEss.
The frank exposure Of al my financial affairs did no
good This disclosure Of the sacred coudences OF the
dead only gave them fresh opportunities for cavl and
fasthcation Tho testimony Of my sepfather and Sis
ter, and untmpcachable you here know them to be,
was denounced as unworthy Of belief.
=" "coNsc1ous OF HE nSNocEHoE."
These enemies were determined on having their vio,
hm but conscious Of my Of this cruel
and wicked charge, md confident that He who know
eth all things Will, in Ills good time, mako that
manifest to a hsxs stood HnmoTed
willing to hide my time for the complete sud1cauon
know Is SO certain to come.
Let me read from the Chicago Inttr-ocedn Of Sept
&C. 1872, the following extract from the speech de-
vered here the previous day. t was MADE you viii
one o a 3:P % aS shSs Whe ged
to tho Credit obier ut $50 900 apiece; who had been
had been paid, and for which certain legislation had
been enacted
:. TIL oRIGIrAL DENIAL.
'ts,ever having in my ufo dollar Of stock OF any
cbase stock IN tho Credit Mobiliez or Credit 1nmobl-
hbiting 1t. DO need to add that neither oakes
Ames, nor any other person. ever gave offered to
one or two hundred
sseeiTsa s r.; tae value & q ,,.1S 1aEthins out
hnya read about the past month, nor loo per nor
tho tenth Of per cent. have said that i twenty
shares OF it could be purchased ut par without buying
Into prospective lawsuit, it would be good invest
meut Il valuable stock represented but never
tce, want no stock a. any price with lawsuit on
top Of It" "
Although ssss WITH Da5sy sises tn. right
ayowed frankly my willingness to Iuy, own
buying into lawsuit, mud thus accepted all the odium
there could attach to purchasing it, as then under
stood IT, have been charged with preyarication be-
cause did not go and state TINT had withdrawn
years before, from m incomplete contract to buy
twenty shares, losing what had paid account. II
ee ee. Charge shan wss snswe1n9
would be required Of me, 1 should certainly have
done SO, tt would havo strengthened, instead Of
weakening, what was stating, but that1 could not
foresee- An eminent dlvine once said, rather
irseserently, at mans foresight were only g
be but little lower than the angels !" and my way in
speaking has ulways been to discuss and explain pend
ing issues, and not to discuss explain those TINT
were not pending.
uE ILLUSTRATES. ~
But Let us test this by illustration,-a method
which often brings out disputed point moro yytdy
charged with having been given shares in woolen
factory; that from these shares you had received
sad IL
ing through legislation in regard to the duties wool
would you not not regard it as a. sufficient !i tn. an,
that Jon had al your Life publicly advocated the scale
OF duties alleged to have been carried by corrupHon7
these alleged gifts that you had never owned my
stock in woolen factories or anything else that yon
@ ee
dividends Now, If you had voluntarily withdrawn as
had st Recu1ary loss over four years before from
hsss supposed IS . sut5c,sns retasstloa
and enormous div1dcnds But, Il you addcd to this
the frank statement that you had said you would bc
willing to buy this vey factory stock 1t par and to
you not think that your answer would he full and
thorough On every practical point that the wanton
been inhaled BY ny speech, on tho vital point that,
though such stock ever given to me- publicly
avowed ny willingness to bear all reproseh that
n1s ENEMIES CALLED AS WITNESSES.
But do not intend to rest tho argument On this
point here call my enemies as witnesses.
The New York I47du1s Of Sept &C. 1872, published .
a % s sas 9sa;s
was to the charge Of having had stock given to ne
Never owned share in the Credit Mobiiier TINT he
same paper should, Jan. o4 print literally quota
ton from the speech with the essential word *'giye
left out, and then baso;1epeated charges Of my
falsided. [A1r. Colfax here exhibited the paper.]
TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE also, which has almost daily
the speech did hot understand it d tie time It de-
clAred, editoEany. Sept: 27, in commenting
70 purchase whatever stock he thinks proper
Even when offered him at par and when tho accrued
dividends arc more than equal to it's par vaue.' And
On Sept 2a the next dag 1t said again quote its In
also, although my payment Of e5N dis
proves that part OF it,, follows =" Mr.. Colfa1
c1ds that he had the right to purchase the stock Of
the Credit NobEer, any other company. Ames got
this stock put In his hands that ho might sell 1t at par
and tho par value OF It out Of ta ten accrued div
idenls, which wus in fact making present Of it, Ac-
cordtug to Mr. Colfa1 receiving Credit obiicr stock
at par, with accrued dividends, equal to its price,
would be Rtruight out-purchnse."
At THE INVESTIGATION.
When testified on the 7th OF January, after tho |
holiday recess, during which the Hon. hlr. |
Auncs Raid he refreshed hn memory by Lin mcmoran~
DUN at home, 1dec1ared emphatically, 1 did hero
last September that had received dollar from
him for dividends, nor, Indeed, any account what
ever. He present In the Co1nmttee-room and did
not deny this dissent from It, though asked him
10 cross-c1nmine On that very afternoon Le told
Mr. Crounse, Of the New York Times who swore to it
afterwards before the Committee that my statenent
vas probably correct. On Dec II, in hts
and written out original testimony
he swore about Pcge 20 of tho report, az fol-
ows !: sNor can / remember having paid hir1 any
1vidends, and Mr.. Alley, his associate before
he COMMITTEES [see Page 3 Of the report thzt before
he holidays LII. Aroes told him that Was substau-
Ia1y correct in my statements to the transaction
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