| OCR Text |
Show C.VRIQtJirED BIODESTV. Kveryono who knows Solictor Col-fa!, Col-fa!, tho viee-FroEidcnt of Oic United 8ates, personally or by rrpuiation, in awaro that ho is not only urkno in his deponuient but ia modest to an unusual un-usual degree, although eighteen years of puWic life are not calculated ordinarily ordin-arily to promote bhfulce to any alarming exteut. Wc think tliut Mr. Collin has pursued an impolitic, if not an imprudent course, by rerniittinc this feeling, ctf weakness if it may bo tiuvuJi, to stand in the way of promotion. promo-tion. It induced hiui to write n letter announcing his intention to withdraw altogether from tho vu'gar pursuit of political proferment, and retire to his own North Bend and employ tho remnant rem-nant of his days in pastoral pursuits and in aocial communion with his old-tinic old-tinic "lloosier" friends and neighbors. There wcro aotue found at tho time this announcement was mado so unreasonable un-reasonable a to doubt the sincerity of the V. l''a professed motives, and intimated in-timated that "retiring" was tho most ropular manner to present one's claims, and that ho had brought his occular members to Voir on the point and was not entirely oblivious to the importance of tho rwe. Those who wero more lntlnmtcly acquainted with Mr. C, ! however, couldn't think other than! that theso inuenJoes wero intended to j convey an ungrounded rejection, and tho lact that tho party look him at his I nord and nominated Wilson in his umj proves conclusively that his would-be tradncers wero malicious in their mssnuatioos. True, Mr. Colfax's name came wominently before tho , ' h,l,Jet'b,s'nveotioe,ntwi!hsuDd- nh.s"rcuremen,,"but,hbastho fh" ovcrwoouing niodes.y pmcniins him f!m any . ;-i" to ,bwt ,leir wUhe(ti ! 'he In,!,.,,,, j,MiM calcd - h.m on tit ww, l0mi ""t-""- 10 "'"Pi'ment him ou'he,elt -ritoscJl;,rBivi ; 1 "7a'7,h"ofhiScou,-pernor, "7a'7,h"ofhiScou,-pernor, when the r t,-iD. .. --enilwas.ittbo,,.;;,-' k ,thoo arrived atwC, j ;h-U'd ; uiixi ., or Mr. C".'- 'l'ai ;ir Jo think that Vui wv ",a,1d;hDc;.;.l;;;:K:i,;i;J 'l:e Mluati. n V, ; n:CT, ;U ;va |
