Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-27
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Tlcted brlbers like Ames, nor a proven
periurer, like McComb. He is a minis
ter, an honorable man; follower of
Him who charged the pastor as well as
the flock not to bear false witness against
his nelghbor. On Sunday morning Mr..
Robert Laird Collier preached a SER
mon CD to large congregation On sour
National Modification 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
hrst place to own Credit Mobilier stock
at ALL Having taken upon himself this
assumption, placing himself above the
Committee of Investigation, who have
declared exactly to the contrary, Mr..
Collier thus proceeded to speak of Mr..
Colfax:
''Tos begin at the beginning, Mr.. Sen
ator Nye could not say to Vice President
Colfax what he is reported to have said
to Mr.. Senator Patterson-that if he
wished to get out patent for fool he
should deposit him at the Patent Office
for model Those who have known
Mr.. Colfax best have never mistaken
him for fool No man in America ever
played small card better, or on less
capital did larger business. He was
fortunate in being a citizen of Indiana,
which, without great repute for enight-
eminent, has extended renown for re-
hglon. That he was suitable man to
represent his State Indiana has verify
believed.
When publicly accused of being
party to the Pacific railroad Job, we all
understand that these are the exact
words of his full, fiat, explicit, and, for
the time, efficient denial
Neither Cakes Anes nor any other
person ever gave or offered to give me
one share, or twenty shares, or two thou
sand shares, in the Credit Mobilier or
any other railroad stock; and unfortu-
nately have never seen or received the
value of a farthing out of the 27O per
cent. dividends, nor the 800 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 one-tenth of per cent
How pitiable, how solemnly sad, this
asseveration in the light of these recent
Investigations, testimonies and confess
sions
And what does Mr.. Colfax mean
when he asks for suspension of public
opinion? This is solecism Opinions
are not passive, but active; cannot be
kept In allegiance or held in suspense.
And the public are decidedly of the
opinion that lie has been told and
sworn to.
Now, mark how plain tale shall put
this reverend defamer down. We take
1t that the equivocator is as base as the
talsltier; the man who deliberately omits
words IN sentence that changes it's
meaning is as bad as he who interpolates
them for the same purpose. Whether
or not Mr.. Collier Eas done this we leave
tie reader to judge, after observing the
following facts: The New York Sun.
the Chicago Tribune, and other papers,
charged last summer that Mr.. Colfax,
among others, had been 0iUen a certain
number of shares for favoring the
schemes of the Credit Mobilier-to use
their words "5ribed to put the Credit
Mo6dtter through Congress" that
Colfax had received in dividends on this |
stock given him $4,000. To this charge
Mr.. Colfax replied in his speech at South |
Bend. The words quoted by Mr.. Collier
were IN answer to this explicit charge,
not IN denial of the fact that he had ever
owned stock. This is known to the Chi
cago Times, the Tribune, and every
other paper now attempting to show the
contrary, and was doubtless known also
to Mr.. Collier. But this is not all. It
Is part of the stock in trade of papers
like the ones named to misrepresent
those who happen to disagree with them
polltlca. :; still they are less guilty than
MIR. Collier, because they at one time
gave the Vice-P President the benefit of
his statement, while the former quotes
only the solitary sentence, without any
explanation whatever. We now call the
attention of the Times, the Tribune.
and Mr.. Robert Laird Collier, to the fol-
lowing extracts from Mr. Colfaxs speech.
and ask them all whether the construc-
ton they seek to put upon his language
is not an open and disgraceful perversion
OF it. Speaking of the charge that
stock had been given by Cakes Ames,
and that 800 per cent. dividends had
been declared, Mr. Coifax said:
| never had in my life dollar of
stock of any kind that 1 did not pan for.
| claim the right to buy stock In the
Credit Mobilier, or the Credit Immobi-
her If there is one in the Union Pacific.
or Central, or Lake Shore, or South
Dend ana plymouth railroads. Nor do
l know of any law forbidding it. If
there Is man in all our 1000, 900 of
people, who know me, who believes [
could be influenced hair's-breadth in
private or public life by the purchase of
any stocks in any company, 1 should not
value his good opinion as worth any
more than his evil one. I am proud to
say, too, that in all my public life no
man ever dared to make me dishonest
proposition. Do need to add that
neither Cakes Ames nor ANY other per-
son ever gave or offered to give me one
share, twenty shares, or two thousand
shares in the Credit Mobilier, or any
other railroad stock, and that unfortu-
nately have never seen nor received the
value of farthing out of the 27O per
cent: dividends, nor the 800 per cent.
dividends you have read about for the
last month, nor 100 per cent, nor one