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Scarcely had the hum of excitement died when Stephen, glancing at Colfax for the next move, saw that young gentleman seized from the rear by his uncle, the tall Colonel. And across the street was bliss Virginia Carvel, tapping her foot on the pavement. "What are you about, sir?" the Colonel cried. "The wench isn't worth it." "Mr. Colfax shook himself free.
"So you had a hand in this, Davy. I might have guessed as much." "Who the devil is this?" says Mr. Colfax. "A sort of ward of mine," answers the Colonel. "Drummer boy, financier, strategist, in my Illinois campaign. Allow me to present to you, Major, Mr. David Ritchie. When my men objected to marching through ice-skimmed water up to their necks, Mr. Ritchie showed them how."
"Think!" he begged. "No good can come of your knowledge. It cannot avert harm if harm must come. And more be cool in your judgment, or you may ruin all of us." "But, Judge Colfax," I cried out, "your proposal of choice is empty. One cannot reject or accept the unknown." "It must be so," said he. "There is an astounding fact about Julianna which you do not know.
Perhaps George had caught sight of a face in the depths of the carriage, for he turned purple, and stood staring on the pavement after his choleric parent had gone on. It was done. Of all the thousand and more young men who had upheld the honor of their state that week, there was but the one who chose to remain in durance vile within the Arsenal wall Captain Clarence Colfax, late of the Dragoons.
Among those who then favored the Administration policy of restoration were Colfax, Dawes, Delano, Fenton, Fisher of Delaware, Wm, Kellogg, J. S. Morrill of Vermont, Governor A. H. Rice of Massachusetts, Shellabarger, and others who opposed the restoration policy of President Lincoln after his death and the accession of President Johnson.
He was a delegate to the Charleston Convention in 1860, and was elected a Representative to the Thirty-Eighth Congress. He appeared as a member of the Thirty-Ninth Congress, but his seat was successfully contested by William H. Koontz. SCHUYLER COLFAX was born in New York City, March 23, 1823. He became a printer, and settled in Indiana, 1836.
He was forever retailing to Colfax some new achievement in the advertising, circulation, and editorial fields, and that in White's presence, for he did not take the latter very seriously, telling of a new author of importance captured for the book department; a new manuscript feature secured for one or another of the magazines, a new circulation scheme or connection devised, or a new advertising contract of great money value manipulated.
Women waved to the other boats flocking after. Laughter was heard, and joking. Mrs. Colfax stirred in her berth and began to talk. "Virginia, where are we going?" Virginia did not move "Jinny!" She turned. In that hour she remembered that great good-natured man, her mother's brother, and for his sake Colonel Carvel had put up with much from his wife's sister in-law.
Chandler, of Michigan Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island Jovial Senator Nye, of Nevada Representative Elihu B. Washburne, the Father of the House Speaker Colfax as a Presiding Officer Representative James G. Blaine, of Maine, and his Tilt with Tucker, of Virginia Representative Fernando Wood, of New York.
I drew back behind the thick-leaved vine; for the man was Judge Colfax. Of all persons he was the last to act as if he sought concealment in what he did, the last to be guilty or wear the appearance of guilt.
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