Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-04-30

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RN,. Ma, 81 the majority, IL would
have a,tonished him had he been told
that in avery short time he would hay,
been found among the leaders OF the oppa'
,ltlou. and vet that would have hoen IA,
truth When the extra session a Con
grr,s began, September, lsd,, he Aad lpil
the Democracy aud Vac foremost in ad.u'
eating principles and measure, that were
specially disngreeable 20 the Dcmogrtti,
party. This change Wa attributed by
MIR Rive, enemies % political di,apPolnl'
mcn, lie had, they sald, expected tA'
Democratic nomination for the Vice Pre-
idcney in ls3i hut that had been given
Ia Col Il NJ johnson and Virginia had
So littlr approved Of what was then done
that her Electors voted fnr VIM, Smith, 81
Sun, Carolina, and Col johnson owed
Ais election 20 the Senate, d the wdh
holding VI Nirginia's support prevented 9
choice Il Wee President rs the Electoral
College Failing 10 secure the Nic. lrosl
dcney. be- had looked for compensation
in a seat ia the Cabinet, "a, 1t WA, sup
posed Van Buren, would uHt retain III,
81 Cabinet Mr. Van Barcu. II will bt
r,uoncctcd, became President, March It'll
1897, The place Of secretary Of STATE
was desired Nv Mr. RNe,, hi, opponents
said. hut the new President retained hT
Forsyth in the State Department, and
no Cabinet officer wa, appointed except
ing Mr.. Puinsctt, who Wa, made Sccrc'
tary Of War II /, possible that Mr.
Riycs may have been governed 10y per
,onal considerations in changing his poll
tics; hu, il SO, le timed the chang, 81 as
10 give the appearance, at least, Of r.,
gard for principle to his action \ great
monetary J6HvUtSiiuu turk lri-tt-t- only two
months after the Inauguration Of Mr.
Van Barren. whereupun the admiuisiu-
ton took the ground toward which the
Democracy had ,o long been tending,
and adopted "hard money platform
An extra session Of Congress was called
when il was ascortained that there were
some prominent Democrats who would
not support the policy oi the aaminisiru
ton. OF these Mr. Riycs Was tho most
distinguished who was quickly rccog
nilcd us one Of the able~t of the now lead
crs Of the opposition Reelected 10 III,
Senate in 1889, he participated in th,
great conflict of $40; and after the no..
cc,siun of Mr., Tyler 10 the Presidency
on the death of President Harrison, lac
supported that gcntlcman's admiuistra.
ton on most occasions mt hc opposed
the admission of Texas into the Union
with great deal Of ability.
Iii, term Of Senatorial service expiring
in 1915, Mr. Rivcs wa, out Of office uu'il
1919, when, on the formation Of the Tay-
lor administration, hc was appointed
Minister 10 the French Republic. II,
had held the same office in the last day,
Of the Restoration when Charles y. wa-
King Of France and Navarro and in thu
early years Of Louis Philippe, King O
the French and it was his lot to see al
the changes that were effected hy Loui,
Napoleon, whereby the French Rcpuhli,
was converted into the French Empire
and the President OF that Republic into
Napoleon ILL., and Emperor of the French
Few Americans ever saw more that
was remarkable in foreign life than
it fell to the lot Of Mr.. Rives to see. He
returned to America in lSjj, and gave up
public life, devotipg himself to historical
pursuits. The first volume Of his "lli>to-
nv Of the Life and Times Of james Mad
lNou' WAS published in 1850, and the ~cc-
ond volume i'll 1856. Tho long delay hc.
tween these volumes was owing To- ia,
occurrence Of the secession war. Alr
kIve> came from his retirement in 1861,
to act a. member of what Was called
tho Peace Congress and lie was one Of
sort al committee which waited ON M
l.iuroln 10 ,o, if something could not he
done to prevent hostilitic, After the ac-
ce~>iun of his own State Mr., Riyos ioiurd
tho rebels, and became a member OF th'
,o-callcd Confederate Congress; hut Iii
heart never was in the Confederate cal~,
Passages might bcquotcd from the >ecuu
volume Of his work OH Madison 5 Life ans
Times to show that such was the fact
lie wa, one Of thousands Of Souther,
men who had no desire for di,uuon, hu
who lacked the courage that WAS require
firmly to resist the mscrupulouz AZ
unionlsts
THE MCGEE VI KpEE- WHALES Cos
FEsSEs TO An A,CoMrliCE.-A dispatc
from Ottawa states that two detective
have sworn'to having overheard . ronycl
sation between Whalcn and Doylc in til
jail, in which Whalcn is said 10 have ad
= mittcd to Doyle that he shot Darcy Nc
Gee. and that he would either be hung O
70 to the pcnitcntiary for life for it, NJ,
that ho wa, prepared for either, IN
seemed to take pride in the idc, that h
name would be handed down to postert
as great man Doyle was placed in
cell adjoining Whalen as Il stratcgcn {
lead him into conversation, the detective
taking up position near at hand 70 Istct
|. The evidence bears hard against Doyl
Z. as an accomplice.
RAILROAD MATTERS ~ New HAM
= ~nEE,-The people of New Hampshij
are alive upon the question of railroa
| communication with the West, and
T. great many schemes ana plans are pr
+ forward and discussed. A correspouder
e of the Concord Monitor strongly fa,ors
g route from Rochester through Strafor,
I Barust,ad. Pittsiicld and Chichester I
/, Concord; thence by Concord and Clnrcmor
e Railroad to Cavendish, Vt, 10 tenne
y with a railroad running through Rutlai
4 and Whitehall. AMI finally with the ~,
t. York Central Railroad lie says
IT, ! suppose il may hc considered as d