Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1870 — Colfax on General Packard. [ARTICLE]

Colfax on General Packard.

Mr. Colfax went very much out his way, and beyond what was expected from him, in his speech last Saturday, to bolster up and defend the unfortunate course of our delegate in congress and to charge in substance that the opposition to the renomination of 'Gen. Packard grew from the disappointment of a few individuals who did not receive the petty offices at his disposal.— To charge that such men as lion. John Reynolds, Col. Bailey, lion. Chas. Cathcart, old Gen. Orr, Judge Hannah, Hon. Firman Church, Major Ctdkins, Col. Keith, the Mattinges, Hon. John I*. Barnett, Mr. Spangler, Hon. Ansou Wolcott, Mr. Bushnell, Judge Test, Mr. Foster, Dr. Caldwell, lion. R. S. Dvviggins, (who cast the electoral vote of thin district for Mr. Colfax for Vice President) Col. Hammond, J. R. Hopkins, D. S. Makeever, Sqnirc Harding, Dr. Moss, and hundreds of others, were influenced in their opposition to Gen. Packard by such nrifling causes is nn absurdity unworthy of the Vice President of the United States, and Mr. Colfax may consider the silence with ■which this part of his otherwise frequently applauded address was received as the delicate manner an intelligent and well-bred audience expresses its disapproval of what was thought to be an unmerited eulogy of the one man, and a gratuitous insult to the many.