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Show Vlt'E-I'liKSIDKN T COLFAX AH A. nx r. The 6inneis in tho Credit Mobilicr business are coming in for a fair share of cauterization from tho press of the country. And now the pulpit has waked up to the sense that there is pome thing wrong in the air of politics. ' The first cry for help comes from Chicago, Chi-cago, where tho Kcr. Hobcrt Laird Collier has just been preaching a sermon ser-mon on "National Iniquity." Tho central tiguie of Mr. Collier's band of sinners, we observe, U vicc president Colfax, of whotu he said: Those who had known Mr. Colfax best and he had known him personally person-ally for years havo Dever mintaken him for a fool. Mo man in American politiaj over played a small card better, or on less capitul did a larger business, lie was fortunate in being a citizen of Indiana, whero, if they bad not great repute for" enlightenment, they had extended renown for religion. That he was a suitablo man to represent the State of Indiana they vorily believed. When publicly accused of being a party to this Pacific railroad job, they all understood that theso were the exact words of bis lull, flat, and explicit ex-plicit denial: "Neither Oakcs Ames, nor any other person, ever gavo or offered to givo me ono share or twenty shares or 12,000 shares in tho Crodit Mobilicr, or any other railroad stock, and 1 havo never seen or received tho value of a farthing out of the 270 per oont. dividends, divi-dends, nor of tho S00 por cent, dividends, divi-dends, in oasb, stock, or bonds, that you havo beard about every day for tho past month, nor 100 per cent, nor one-tenth of ono por cent." blow beautifully and Eolemnly said I IJow should they regard these asseverations assev-erations in tho light of these recent investigations and testimony and confessions? con-fessions? What did Mr. Colfax mean whon ho asked for a suspension of publio opinion? This was a Bolocism. Opinions are not passive. Opinions cannot be suppressed and kept down. The public were decidedly of the opinion opin-ion that "a strange prevarication" has como to pass. It was not enough lor Colfax to proclaim publicly that all ho desired was to stand right in the Bight of God. This kind of spongo-cake religious air had been his stock in trade, which had paid him about as large a dividend as the Credit Mo-bilier. Mo-bilier. The speaker said be hated a man-that would kick a dog. Had he not eaid these same thiDgs of Mr. Colfax, and published them years ago, ho should consider that ho had the right to say them now. He hoped the huddling together of theBe Christian statesmen, Patterson, Colfax, Pome-rov. Pome-rov. Harlan, and others, would result in a purification of congress from all suoh men. Histrionio religion with dramatic piety he considered tho most heinous sin against God and man. There were Christian statesmen at Washington. Ho thanked God for that! liut they carried no card around with them advertising the fact. They said not their prayers in the marketplace market-place to bo seen of men. N. Y. Tribune. |