Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-07-05
Political.

Senator Henry Wilson Of Massachusetts,
has told New York correspondent, who
tells the public, that he Is confident that Gen.
Grant will be the next President. His faith
in the general was thus expressed:
He had the most perfec, faith in General
Grants thorough sympathy with Congress and
the principles Of the republican party, anu
smoke Of him az an out-and-out republlcsn-a
radical. General Grant, he said, had declared
that all his generals who 20 South turn radicals,
and that they will average more radicals than
the Massachusetts, delegation. Grant was
Eluarely in favor Of manhood suffrage, and has
quietly given all the aid in his power to the
Congressional programme.
In speaking Of Grants anteceients he said It
WAS an error to report that be was ever demo-
GRAFT. He was an old whig, but voted for Blu
chAnan on account Of personal objections to
Fremont.
Mr.. Wilson further thought that Congress
ought to confne itself at the July session to
the passage of an amendatory act and then
adjourn and he believed that it would do
so. lie believed that all the Southern States
could be represented in Congress before the
next Presidential election that they would
participate in it, and that 1t was very i'm
portant, both IRON party and national
point of view, that they should do SO. lie
believed that the republicans would carry
halt of the Southern States, and he was
quite sure of one-third, and he was also Of
the belief that at the next election the re-
publicans Will carry the country oyerwhclm-
ingly.
If this report of Mr.. Wilson's views is
correct, it is Of some Importance, for they
are the opinions of one Of the shrewdest and
best informed politicians in the country.
The n. Y. Herald says The convention
that nominated Grant has already been held,
and that it met under big apple tree near
AppOmattox Court House in April, 1868.
Gen. Sheridan bows to the Will Of his su-
periors, and has issued special order, stat
ing that the president having expressed the
opinion that the time for registration Of
louisiana is not long enough, it Will be ex-
tended until further orders.
The Southern papers generally receive the
late opinion OF the Attorney General on the
reconstruction question with favor, but there
are some striking exceptions. For instance,
the Atlanta (Ga,) Ne0 Era, which has never
been accused Of Northern radiealism, says:
"Nothing could have been more ill-timed. F"
Another Georgia paper sums up the At
torney Generals opinion thus -" Everybody
can vote that is registered. Everybody can
register that Will swear. Everybody can
swear that has a mind to. Every negro has
a mind to swear
The Maine republicans have renominatcd
Gov. Chamberlain, for his second term, Ly
reclamation. Ex-Viec President Hamlin
was at the convention and made a speech, in
which he favored, by Implication, the i'm
parchment of the President. lie said
He believed that treason is a crime so odious
that it ought to be punished Those who
neutralze laws should answer the penalty Of
that crime. Persons who usurped power should
be impesched and removed from Office. lie had
read in no history where a republic had lost its
liberty by the usurpati0n II the legislative
power; but such liberty had ben lost, step by
step, through the entertainments Of the execu-
tive power.