Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-05-24
NAVE WE MALIGNED SCHUY-
LER COLFAX.


position from correspondent in this
State:
Occasionally we SEQ magnity unstintingly
buried at proficient statesmen who have gro wn
venerable ia q long and faithful service OF their
country. 1 send you aa article clipped from
The Sua. bearing date April &C. which very un-
Justly smirches the character Of one Of your most
honored sitiIens, Schuyler Coltax whose unsullied
public record for period Of twenty years calls
loudly for an authentic denial Of such gross cal
umny. There Is public demand at the present
time that an enthusiastic vindioaton be proiercd Q
on behalf Of the maligned, by his friends aud
neighbors, who have been intimately familiar {
with his whole life from ooyhood,
IInsnr Foorr. a
"GLEswoop, N. Y, May 1, 1876" Q
We are not disposed to bcgrudge
Schuyler Coliax any comfort which
he may be able TO derive from the con
stancy of such friends as Mr.. Harry
Foote. Every convicted fraud, whether .
u proficient statesman or not, is iairly
entitled to all the sympathy and admi-
ration he can command. Even after
Ananias had been stricken dead for
his tremendous lie, there were young
men who came forward TO put the re-
mains In decent form for burial, and
perhaps to shed few tears over the
virtues Of the departed. To mock at
such funeral Offices would bo rough.
Its possible, however, that this well.
meaning Mr.. Foote may be laboring
under msapprchension. Perhaps he
has been out Of the country for the past
four or five years. Perhaps ho has
another person in mind. The Scuy-
Ter Coliax We have referred to has
not an unsullied public record. The
Sun did not smirch his character un-
Justly, nor was 1t guilty OF calumny.
There is no public demand at the
present time for any enthusiastic dem
onstration in his behalf. We shall
therefore try to convince Mr.. Foote
either that his Schuyler is not our
Schuyler, or that he has been seriously
mistaken in the character OF his friend
Our Schuyler was Vicc-Prcsident
during Grants first term. lie had
= been member of Congress from lndi-
ana, and then Speaker OF the House.
His political success was not hard TO
understand. Plausable rather than
able, assuming virtues which he had not,
cloalSing mediocrity under hypocrisy
and cant, he prayed, exhorted, and
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!. iiero 10 So,no VI
Ne,hef JAZZ Hms' pO' @ ns' on v,a'I sha,s ar
twenty shares, or two thousand shares, in the
t Credit MobIlior or any other railroad and un.
fortunately nave never rsosSa s snS .svsnr =, Va
' cent. dividends nor the eight hundred per cent
Q dividends in cash stock. and bonds you have read
seo9. every aay aoi ,ns pass mont" NJ, S asoS
|. ops % per T cent
}. Tins smiling did our Schuyler dis.
6 miss the charges against himself as
n tribes licbt as air. lie also thus raised
k n onestion of yeracity between himself
v and Oakes Ames in which. for time,
q the Christian statesman was regarded
n bv tbe public AS having the advantage.
n Bnt IN January. 1874. after the 20.
II land committee lad begun It's work of
h. ;nves,igalion he suddenly changed
ID front and still smiling admitted an in.
a. yestmcnt of $500, but denied under
M oath that he had proiited by il. Then
N Oakes Ames made a clean breast of
is the whole transaction. And even pro.
IA dueed a check for 81. 200 of dividends.
m payable TO IS. C. or bearer" Though
10 stunned for few DAYS. our SCHUYLER,
is still again came up smiling, and swore
positively that he had received neither
ts check nor money. but his oath was
opicl,lv answered by the crushing dis.
closnre that this check. drawn by Ames
on Iune 90 had been cashed Tor Col.
fax bv the Sereeant.at-Arms on the
lis oIst and that on the very next day
Of Colfax had denosited in the First Ma.
to ,;onal Rank inst sl 200 in greenbacks
a For once fho face ot onr Scbuvle,
I'D los, ia hah;,ual grin. Convicted as \
p hr;be.takcr liar and n neriurer he
of conld only shed pitoous tears in III,
he Senate Chamber and yainly appeal &c
on the Eternal Tribunal of Justice. II,
vc could not be expclled from the Sonat,
rs; because bo was Vice. President ant
hs, al,bongh he might have been impeacb
Tor cd or Indicted for perjury he was al
ibs M loved 10 mass down ont of his. hipl
re- o,,,ce brokcn and disgraced the mos
Kill mclancholv and the most bypocritica
>, Of ali thc wrecks left bv ibe Crodi
lr Mobilier
M iMs. Low ma he had fallen. il was re
're served for his own folly TO cousummat
ol' bis DEGRADATION. Alter a period O
il,rI silence be ATTEMPTED TO explain hi
III nossession of the greenbacks deposite,
re- bv him in tho hank the dav after IN
ne x r." cheek was casbed In puttin,
IN, forward the flimsv plea that A stranger
'as hrs;,oss mon az Now Yorl. Ind sen
lin, sI o0o 90 a tol.en of d;sintereste,
Inag adm;ra,;on our SCHUYLER Colfax nm
us w;,,;nclv d;scIosed The fact that be
70 ,he V;ec' presiden, oftbe limited state,
WI had d been hired lohbvist recularlv |,
,l'n G nov Of ono Nesbi,; a nrinier wb
I'm Sald a Govcrnment contract for an,
nj ,,,,;nr orvolonos,
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