Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-15
Prom an Occasional Correspondent
Our Washington Letter.

Try paper, as well as city, has It's q" Washington
Column Or Washington Letters" or better
still, the broader guare is now and then adopted,
and tho public are favored with "a Woman =
letter from Washington" Without any dispar-
agcmcnt to the Watchman's " Thomas, or others
Of his craft it is true and it should be confessed
because it is true-that some halra-dozon Of the
most popular metropolitan journals Of the day
are employing lady correspondents in this city,
and judging from the extent to which they are
copied, the proprietors are largely the gamers
thereby.
But for the present the work Of news mongors
in Washington is nearly at an end with Con-
gross ends the sensational period here, aud to a
great extent the " lashionablcs' have closed their
doors for the season, whether Congress sits longer
or not, as Lent is most scrupulousy observed
here This was well llustratcda few days since
when we met an old Vermont friend residing here
Tor the first time for some fifteen years, and when
invited to make us friendly call she replied
that she would do so with pleasure in about six
weeks, IN as soon as Lent was over. amentcd,
like Mark Twain, that my early Sabbath school
education had been 50 sadly neglected, that was
unable quite to comprehend so practical nm appli-
cti ln of h5ard Chriu,aaHy.
There is a general anxiety to learn what Con-
grcss will probably do how long they will set, or
whether they will remain to enter upon general
legislation. It is the opinion now Of those best
able to judge that they will remain three or four
week longer, for the purpose of providing some
remedy for the deplomble condition Of things in
the South That duty is regarded paramount to
I'll othcrs-lor riot and misrulc have SO long been
The curse Of those infested districts, that little
short OF civil war now exists, as is well shown by
the majority report Of the Senate committee to
/ investigate southern outnges, made on the 10th
inst The picture there presented, shows vivid
/ ly how the hatred Of Yankees and all that per-
tains 10 the vital principles Of a free republic,
still raukle- in the Southern heart, Reconstruc-
zion is q misnOmer, not reality, while the crimes
50 of perpotrated upon the loyal men Of the
South, go unrcbuked. It is, indeed the seyerest
test our government has ever encountered to know
its present duty, and perform it, Shall the Re.
public endure, or the ku-klux, is the question Of
the hour, and Congress propose. to settle it, be-
fore they adjourn.
Another topic OF very general remark is the
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