Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-05-25

Twill obviate the whole difEieultv Jill tend tC
settle rapidly all the lines of raiiad, any on
preferring naturally to pay 90 per acr'
on the line of railroad ran. than hal
that amount in an isolated posipn.
The Northern Pacific railroaa n is Tough
by some on other grounds. tn sure thes
reasons do not apply for opposig the bill
because the land has been alreadvranted t.
this company but there are ~ who sc,
the uselessness of going into the ar ket ant
attempting to reduce the rate III interest oil
our debt, when we are authd hing thes
great companies to put millions n million
Oh hrstciass mortgage-bond on ne marke
still bearing six or perhaps sevt per cent
interest in gold. 1t does look htt strange
and should not greatly wolde. some o
those ignorant foreign money -snders shoul'
prefer the six per cent. even # taken at
little risk.
Judge Poland has INTRODUCED a bill, yer,
important to certain class ofpersons. Al
the law now stands all claimant for propert,
taken or destroyed during the war ar
obliged to 90 the Quartermats6 and tn,
Commissary General, and satsfE them o
their loyalty, before their claimwf he ever
heard, so that on the word of % ~tffcerl
hang thousands of claims Judi POLAND
proposes to take that dangerous III unjust
power away, and leave the partial % prose
cute all their claims in the Court al Claims
This is an act of tardy justicd though
whether it has been before expeditn /. an
in doubt. 1t is notorious that urB, the de
cisions of these officers some of TIL Ioudest
mouthed rebels have received their pos
sessions and compensation for tamavcs
while true, whole-souled Union nan living
Dy their sides: have a been 1rS dspis isl sRs
,.-,..-....-- c. ~~ CANA ErN<u tC
do justice in this matter, but can We afford
to continue to be longer unjust to. this elias.
of people, of all others?
Mr.. Wilson of Ohio has introduced bill
for the prevention of cruelty to nnimal
while in transit by railroad, &c, Providing
that no cattle shall be confined in ans car oil
boat more than twenty-four consecutive
hours, without having rest and an opportu
nifty for feeding at least six consecutive
hours. This bill is certainly humane one
and will not only prevent the horrible cruel
ties to animals, now practised, but insure
us better and healthier food.
The House have passed bill for-tbe relic
Of the crew of the Kearsarge, giving then
$3.50, 900 for their destruction of the Alaba
ma.
Quite a lively discussion was had in the
Hsuse the other day, on the Diplomatic ap
preparation bill, the old vexed question Of
Minister TO Rome being again raised
was amusing to see the persistent effrts o.
the Democrats to faSten the discontiuuanct
of their Minister on the Republicans from
motives of hostility to the Catholic religion
and praise of tho Catholics and denuneation,
of the Republicans amused me certainly
To hear Brooks, the former prince of know
nothings and the bitterest of anti Catholics
lauding the guileless Fenians and kissing tn,
great toe of his Holy Father, the Pope, wa,
too ludicrous for one to behold. Ii was a
good Joke; but like all too-good jokes, i;
engendered hard feelings, and the House al
most became a bedlam and the yirtaous
Voorhees, couldn't help so far losing sight Of
his Catholic charity as to call d" liar and
lie most freely. Mr.. Bingham made one OF
the prettiest little fve-minute speeches
have heard for long time, and must send
it to you.
Rome. Mr.. Chairman, needs no particular
eulogy at the hands Of gentlemen who sur
-, 4aaa Dem ocratao % IAassfsss "a thls
4kosrntr<@~-cr, sir, recent eveEts have shs VI
to rejecting men that that power Itsehis nc
longer a unit, and cannot be. The syllabus
recently uttered by the head of that ergani-
zarien is declaration of principles which |
venture to say, the gentleman from New
York himself dare not indorse and 20 home
among his people. 1t IS an attempt to letter
the freedom of conscience il is an attempt
to fetter the freedom of speech it is al at
tempt to fetter the freedom of the pres. il
is an attempt to strike down the risIn. an
tagonism 10 every despotism on the FEE OF
the earth, in the form of representative gov
ernment, foremost among the exponen,s OF
which is America, the child and the hoe OF
the earth's old age Talk to me at thu era
of history about Rome being the d" patron
of science and the mother of arts Nhv,
sir, of that genius that makes even the mar
BILE itself wear the divine beauty Of ife.
there is more to-day in living America tan
was ever dreamed of in Rome, living or dad
Why, then, talk at this day about dignffync
that little principality with resident Mn
lister from America DO not gentlemen knw
that in the light of the teachings of tat
foremost of all the men bred in the ia Oh of
the church of Rome land | admit she rs
bred many great and noble men, who kuw
how to make humanity itself beautiful een
amid the terrors and fortunes of martyrdoal
uttered aword when under the ban of CHeses
V. and Leo Y. and Henry VIII. which RYE
.berates to-day all over Christendom? n
sir, to the Augustan monk who found ouk tr
himself and proclaimed to mankind the gset
central truth which to-day possesses th9 e.
lightened mind of the nineteenth centbr
that no mitered head may, of the gradelf
God or of divine right, interpose Its DIX
shadow between man and his Maker Nv
that word Martin Luther became the lIbea-
tor of the human race it made the imr &C.
tai period of human history, the reformat3b,
the instruction of the human mind, again
the despotism which for centuries hadIe.
shaved il. Under the omnipotent power
that utterance every tyrant, whetherk
Rome or out of it, holds to-day the reins
power with a tremulous and unsteady hapc
and the day is not far distant when eve
throne of power shall turn to dust and AN
before the consuming breath of the enligt
ened public opinion of the civilized worl
which declares for free governments, r.
churches, free schools, free Bibles. and trs.
Letter from Kansas.
LAWRENCE, Kan, May 10, 1879.
Editor OF FREEMAN Entering Kansas Il