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Show COLFAX AT DENVER. Tiic Hon. Schuyler Col lax was the fair oratorat Denver List week, and, as usual, made a very interesting and scholarly addrers. There are few Americans a6 gifted as Colfax in the art of collating, digesting, and comprehensively com-prehensively stating current facU.aud if he had chosen the profession of historian instead of the role of a politician, his studious habtU, powers of concentration and popular adaptation, adap-tation, might have rendered him a very useful man even beyond hia own generation. It is pleasant to observe, however, that ho has discarded dis-carded politics and is devoting hia attention at-tention to matters of general utility. In his address at Denver he made an interesting comparison between the condition of Colorado at the present time and its condition in iNil, when he first lttd the Territory, in course of which he said: And, willi -ixty thoiiaml liail i.fi-iittlu griiiiii (ted ful truing with in tifty milt; of itii- fity on thi! e:iet, ami half a million h-'ii'l in thi) Territory, with half a million of sh'i bc-i.L'-, it ii fvMmit that it i.-liti-tinedlo b (jiiito as ili.-tingui-dif-d fur its itn-to-al re-'jiirL'fs iif for any otbor of its indhitrk'S. We have said Sohuyler ' should have been an historian. He has one disqualification for this work, however. how-ever. He is too rose-colored in his ideas of practical things. This led him as a politician to have more laith in the negro than in his own race, and to help on tho deplorable legislation which has been enacted since 1&10. He cautiously expresses the opinion that his "hope of the ultimate civilization of all tiic Indians who are willing to be civilized," is in making them cattle and sheep-herders. sheep-herders. Fancy the phclinks of tho "nGble red" engaged in such enterprises. It would take about a company of infantry to keep each Ingun at his post. Denver i; to-dny the centre uf a railroad system in this Territory numbering 700 miles, strvtcbiiig over 200 milus north and south, und owr -"0 milt's fast and w-t. till 't climb- an apparently impossible impos-sible eauyna, fight thousand feot above the sea, and dare tn threaten thj snowy range it.-elf with subjugation. Even the grasshoppers do not escape es-cape attention. Tbeae pests, tne orator says, do not despise the East. They ravaged Xew England four times in the last century; a quarter of a century ago Baltimore suffered from an invasion of a vast herd of them. He would attack the insect in the egg. Deep plowing and irri- ! gation are also recommended. In the south of franco, boys collect their eggs some of them picking up ten to lifttwu pounds por day, and wbun boiled they are said to be a line least for I'lirmc-ri' hogs, while the turtey relishes these pets from their earlkt egg to their most active prime. Colfax insists that railroads properly prop-erly come under legislative regulation regula-tion as public corporations, but fears that popular discontent may be ' carried to an injurious ejtent. The close of the oration Is in gush- ( ing -style. AU the world and rest of mankind are coming to America, whose prople make everything and do everything; he refers to the universal uni-versal tendency of immigration towards this countiy, but fails to explain ex-plain tho current decrease in he European tide to these shores;he eulogizes eulo-gizes American institutions and liberty, but does not speak of the down-trodden and impoverished South ita decreasing wealth and prosperity, and the national necessity of restoring restor-ing and rebuilding thai section. The prosperity of the western country is more seriously retarded by the sad condition of affairs in the southern States than by any other cause. From the South has come tlie great expoi table, cash - yielding staples which have given io and activity to every channel ol commerce and every branch of industry, and he present decline in the business of the Xorth and West must be attributed largely to tho poverty-stricken and demoralized condition to which sectional sec-tional legislation has reduced the southern Deople. |