Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-26

more than halfway to conciliate him more
than a year ago; but there is a clique il
Washington, social clique, which manipu
ates Hancock and keeps up the feud. Wo-
men have more to do with it than men,"
"What do you think of the Ku-Klux bill p
"GCod bill, sir! 1t has already stopped a
good many outrages. The fact that the Presi-
dent has power to send troops into any State
| to quell disturbances, in itself is enough to
brighten the disturbers of the public peace"
But John Quincy Adams says the bill is
an absolute surrender of the principle of free
government--placing in the Presidents hands
the power through that and the ELECTION bill, -
to raise himself to the empire
can stuff! How ridiculous to talk about
man raising himself to the empire in this
country! Such man, after declaring for the
empire, might hold a regiment of soldiers in
the White House yard for just one day, and
then the people would put him in the Potomac
River. Why, they shut up Napoleon at
strasbourg, and ducked him in the sea at
Boulogne for just such nonsense"
But in '52 he did ride to the top after all ?"
Eyes, but France was not composed of
States, as far as each State
controlling its own troops-and every COVER
nor, democratic and republican, watching
jealousy his own State militia. We are not
France. Let some crazy President declare
himself Emperor, and intrench himself in the
White House yard with the whole regular
$4,000 fighting men--around
him, and how long would it take Governors
Jewett, Randolph, Geary and Clafn
and the rest, to surround and capture the
whole concern? No, SIR" said the general
''when president declares i'm
perialism, every governor will have to be in
the mess too, and when that shall be the case,
the country will be too rotten to be worth
preserving"
adams calls the Ku-Klux bill Grants
negro policy" remarked
IAN humbug again! 1t is simply law
making it possible to arrest and dispense I'M
lawful gangs of rascals, black or white, in any
of the southern States-to inprison them, and
try and punish them. Grant don't have any
negro, nor German, nor Irish policy. His
policy is to protect all citizens remain at
peace, economic and try and pay the debt.
All this stuff and talk about imperialism in
America is a libel on the good sense of the
people, and Adams ought to have too much
good sense to talk such toolishness."
The Newark Courier says that 'the
present is the third prosperous peach sea-
son in succession in Delaware, and the pro-
iuct is likely to be greater than ever before.
he Ieacn GrOWerS COminlttee met In lover |
ecently and figured up a crop for the PENN
ula of 100000 baskets; but since that
cooler estimates cut it down one fourth at |
east. The preparations for canning and dry
ng are much more extensive than in any for
ner year, as also are the preparations for
from New York to markets be-
You'd. One canning house in Dover is said
to have received an order from single
house in London for 400, 900 cans. Dover
has been for a number of years the centre
and headquarters of the peach growing bust
ness. Since the opening of the Junction and
Breakwater Railroad, by which short water
was established between the Lower
Peninsula and the New York market, the
planting of orchards has moved southwark
with astonishing rapidity. In most of the
cornfelds young trees are coming on, signify
ing that in little while the raising of corn
will be abandoned in that region, and fruit
will be the staple product"