Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-11-23

Inc Springfield hcpuJicaH gets rdcy let
ter from its Washington correspondent on
the present hullabaloo down South" from
which We take the following
Washington, Nov. II, 1860.
Washington IS quioter than it has been
for a long time, our tire-eating clerks having
already sickened Of their cockade fever 1t
may be a very fine thing for 4 man who
lives down in South Carolina to indulge in
some hysterical antics over the election Of
Abe Lincoln, but it is poor business to
indulge in here. The few madcaps who put
on cockades here, the day after election were
laughed at so heartily by even their demo-
cratic comrades, that they were left off the
next day. Two clerks have been playing
the fool by sending in their designations, to
take effect the 18th Of March next Just as
if the young squirts didn't know that they
would be kicked out Of their places before
July next, if they didn't resign! You have
somewhere expressed the opinion that Uncle
| Abe will allow these worthless dogs to re-
main in Office. You are mistaken. Old
| Abe is too sensible for that. He may allow
| the well-behavcd democrats to remain, but
the madcaps, the disunionists, and all their
| crew. will have to take up their beds and
walk. 1t is u we'll known fact that all the
best Offices in the departments, are now Oc-
cupied By Southern men, who do little OF no
work Northern democrats have the small
salary places, and do all the work. One
Northern democrat, who has been in Office
| for years, complained to me last winter that
his department. was crowded with lazy south
ern loafers, who read the papers and smoke
all day, putting in interludes of swearing
against everybody and thing from the North.
One Of these fellows got well come up with
few mornings before election. lie sat read
ing the Herald in one of the departmental Of
| fees, and CHANGING to hit upon bit Of un-
| pleasant news, be burst out with, "D-n
the free state. They are rotten to the core
| Even the democrats in them ere knaves. =
At another desk in the department, sat
another clerk, Northern democrat, with
| more than the usual share Of pluck. He
stoppad from his work, and turning his
head, quietly remarked ''You don't know
the people Of the North, and you treat your
northern friends with great injustice -
Southerner was entirely unused to contra
diction, SO be continued with still more blug-
ter II wouldn't give d-n for all YOUR
northern demoerats-they are all abolition
lists at heart: = "fou speak falsely" quoth
northeruer but 10 sooner were the words
out Of his mouth, than hot-head jumped at
him with clenched hand. "Ah, this is the
game you are after, is it7' asked Yankee,
at the same time confronting his assailant,
and in a second of time knocking the son of
the South prone upon the floor, with his
nasal organ in very unsatisfactory condi-
ton. When he gathered himself up again,
the discounted southerner behaved himself
with eminent propriety, and the story of his
dIubbing excited much laughter in Wash
ington. The story is true in all its particu-
lars.
Gov, Corwin is here and he counsels mod
Grafton at the present time, as the proper role
of the Republicans Let the cotton states