Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-11

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"land" in the sea, they will take to their
boat and await some passing ship. AS
to the feasibility of the scheme, too
many opinions have already been ex-
pressed; experiment alone can determine.
Springfield Republican
MIR. COLFAX AND CAKES AMES.
In the carnival of SANDER that at
tended the last Presidential campaign
the honorable reputation of Schuyler
Colfax was to be weighed against the
fading memory and Enthusiastically as
sertions of Cakes Ames. Against Mr..
Colfax the opposition leaders seemed to
turn with especial malice. Pure as had
ever been his reputation in all the paths
of life, eminent as were his services to
freedom, they hoped to crush him by idle
inslnuations, and perhaps to revenge
upon him the fall of slavery. The fee
BILE and hesitating charges made against
him by Cakes Ames were eagerly repeat
ed, and the people were called upon to
believe testimony that was either frivo-
lous or contradictory, and to accept a
statement as true that was denied by
Colfax, and which had once been denied
| by his assailant. The heat of the con-
test has passed away, mems impulses
have been softened into common sense,
and the more candid of his opponents
have confessed the inteoritvof Mr. Col
/ tax, and the errors ana CONTRADICTIONS OF
Ames. 1t is impossible, indeed, to read
over the whole testimony of the latter,
and observe the varying nature of his
statements at different times, without
feeling that his once vigorous intellect
had become clouded, and that the disease
which was so soon to bear him away had
perhaps impaired these faculties which
in their mature strength carried on to
success one of the greatest of modern
financial and engineering labors.
1t has since happened that two incl
dents have occurred that tend to show
what became of the $1,000 check marked
S. c. which Ames, IN one stage of the
controversy, said he had paid to Mr..
Colfax. About two months before his
death Mr.. Ames admitted to General
Clinton B. Fisk, of ST. Louis, with whom
: he had long been in close business rela.
tionship, that he believed the check was
: paid to himself, that Dillon, the cashier
was correct in his statement; and he
further said that Mr.. Colfax had been
7 greatly wronged in the matter. In 9th.
er words, according to General Fisk's
statement, which we are authorized tt
use, Ames himself was convinced at las
t that the $1,000 check was never seen MOI
! heard Of by Mr.. Colfax. No one, there
fore, can any longer entertain the pre-
posterous charge, when even its anthol
: had abandoned it; and the additional
e testimony Of Mr.. Drew. who saw Anne
0 draw $1,000 check on the 22d of Jun,
{ and pay the money to a stranger, re
d ceives confirmation from the statemen
n oF Gonoro1 E,e1r W. .bo,1J ,oo,aol,
t have thought this unfounded accusation
$ deserving of another notice, so who'll,
< unworthy is it of belief, had not thes
t somewhat remarkable incidents tendet
to throw new light upon the whole trans
: action. The honor Of our public men
:. too, is dear to the people. Mr.. Cola.
}. has been deeply wronged. and we believ
e the country will rejoice to see his I'm
e tainted reputation saved from the malic
e of his enemies, and will do full justic
d to his eminent public services and tn
y unselish devotion with which he ha
d given his life to the support of pur
# republicanism.
it 1t would be pleasant to think. as
5, confidently believed by some of hi
E friends, that Ames, had he lived, woul
g have publicly stated that he was mistak
ot en- in the matter, and that death alon
b prevented him from repairing the injur
: he had done. Yet his latest statemer
Re will tend to show the little reliance tia
$, can be placed upon his earlier ones. HI
al memory had plainly become impaired
he and the charges he so confidently mad
Re against Wilson, Colfax, Blaine, Garfield
n and the other republican leaders. tt
y chief defenders Of freedom, have recei'
al ed new refutation. His testimony wa
e evidently not trustworthy. He BEGAN
IS. sensible himself that he had been lie
lg into error; and if he was at last COZ
n WINGED that he had done injustice to NJ
it Colfax,it is not impossible that he woul
y, have been equally ready to withdraw b
m other statement. He felt, his friens