Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-15

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DEATH OF Gov. WAsHBURN.-Vermo
has to mourn the death of her governor,
who died at Woodstock, on Monday NOR
ming February 7th, after an illness of sew
eral weeks, said to have been brought on
by incessant hard labor. He was born in
Lynn, Massachusetts, Sept. 18th, 1914, and
was therefore at the time of his death in
the both year of his age. In him Vermont
loses a noble man, and she will mourn him
with sincere sorrow. Since the first year
of the war he has been prominently before
her people and his name has been familiar
as household words" To him more than |
to any other one man is she indebted for |
the early equipment and forwarding of her |
troops to the seat of war, where they ever |
afterwards shed such lustre on the name
of our state. As long as the war lasted
Gen. Washburn was untiring in the dis
charge of the duties his state and the per-
ilOus times had imposed upon him. He
was terrible worker. Hard labor seemed
to be almost necessary to his being, while
his energy seemed almost Napoleonic.-
To show her respect for him as a man and
a citizen, Vermont last year gave him the
highest and most honorable position she
was able to bestow-in itself a sufficient
panegyric to his worth.
PUNGENT-We clip the following from
the New York Sun, radical, sensational,
grumbling republican journal, which does
not like Grant, and judging from the ex-
tract below, has not the highest opinion of
Sumner or Butler. The paragraphs are
pithy and terse, and have more than a
grain of truth in them, although We are
not prepared to endorse the whole of the
Suns opinions of these men:
| Turn we then to Congress Its halls are
as replete with talent as they are destitute
of friends of the President And who are
| the leaders of the republican party in the
| two Houses? Mr. Sumner dominates the
Senate Vain, cOnceited, arrogant, POM
pous; holding the widest doctrines upon
international law, and uttering the crudest
notions about finance: wont to conceal
meagre ideas under a sophOmOrical ampli-
| tude of rhetoric, and smother them under
masses of far-fetched, ill-sorted, generally
irrelevant, and always useless learning
he is the last man who should be intrusted
with the guidance of the republican party
in an exigency like the present. He Is an
incompetent pilot, except when the gale
blows strong from the African coast The
wind no longer sits in that quarter, and
Mr.. Sumner will seriously damage his rep
utation and his party unless he disappears
from public view along with the dusky
client whom he has served so well.
Mr.. Butler, regardless of allth proprie-
ties of time and place. has usurped the
leadership of the House. trimming over
with brains, audacity and ambition; never
in his element except when fomenting a
quarrel with distinguished members of his
own party, whom he rules on the principle
of your purse or your life always eager
to jump into other peoples business, a. Mr..
Dawes keenly expressed it, aspiring to play
the role of Thaddeus Stevens in the House,
with an intensely pro-slavery record be-
hind him; coveting Henry Wilson's seat
in the Senate, with his weather eve peering
far out 10 sea in search of the Presidency
Mr. Butler, with the helm in his hand, j.
the pilot to run the republican party high
and dry upon the shore