The Van Buren press., 1871-03-21
The Effect in Washington.

There was frightful crash and clatter
Of party crockery at Washington on
Wednesday. The little bits Of inteIli-
gence from the northeast corner Of the
county, that struggled into the national
capital, were very short and unpreten
tious but they did the business They
spread palcness through the Radical pal
aces. Had some unsupported and uude.
tected Guy Fawkes suddenly touched OFF
ton OF powder in the gronod vaults. Of
the capitol, there could hardly have been
more Il perfect picture Of dismay and
dlslocation than that witch followed the
reycrberations Of the granite crash in
New Hampshire, "New Hampshire gone
Democratic, was piece of news posi-
lively awful. There was a shifting to
gethcr of knees such as was witnessed in
the palace of Belshazzar. Everything
was forgotten in the terror of the hour :;
even reconstruction was allowed to tum-
bic to pieces like child's block house
The ku.klux bill dwindled down to o pi-
table resolution for the appointment of
special committee to investigate the
condition Of affairs at the South, and re-
port next December. Butler rayed like
a maniac, and accused Speaker Blaine Of
treachcry. The Radical maj jority lost all
selEcontrol, and permitted their caucus
bill to 60 down before a single quiet
point of order, raised 10y Mr., Beck of
kentucky. Even Senator Cameron, the
new chairman Of the committee on for
eien aGaire, who had never before relus
ed his support to measures of violence,
warned his party not to pass any more
reconstruction bills, unless they wished
to provoke still more avenging disasters.
The Senate took the same view of the
matter, and pitched the ku-klux bill aside
and began to talk about an adjournment
The House turned its back on the Presi.
dents darling San Domingo scheme, and
passed a resolution to adjourn on Mon
day next, without waiting for the return
and report of the San Domingo commits
sioners There was silence at the White
Hodse; the President admitted only
few intimate supporters to his presence,
and to these he confessed that he did not
understand the cause of the New Hamp-
shire revolution Some Republicans, we
are told, were guilty Of the immcasurable
atrocity Of actually eXultng over an event
which they accepted as a rebuke TO their
President and party for the Sumner
transaction.
There was good cause for all this per
turbaton in Washington. The New
Hampshire election is as full of signif-
cancc as an egg is Of meat. 1t is not
merely a rcbuke Of the administration; it
is rebukc ofthe whole party. 1t is a
popular condemnation of reconstruction,
military government, prescription, San
Domingo, force bills, invasions of the
Senate, infringement of the just rights
of the States, and the whole complex
scheme of strange policies by which
Radicalism has transformed the govern
meut. 1t dates the downfall Of the party,
and the Inauguration of better era
New Hampshire is the first to fall away;
Connecticut will follow in April, and
Maine, probably, in November; and in
the end, nearly the entire line of States
that have formed the bulwark Of the par.
ty will give way like row of unsupport-
ed bricks, The secret of the alarm at
Washington on Wednesday was the snnir
ing Democratic victory in lS12.--St.
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