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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-08
cieties that now dominate over party politics,
we may bid farewell TO any reasonable hope
of republican government.
The Knell OF Slavery.

Within half century slavery seemed to
be one Of the strongest and most invinciblc
political institutions in the world. Politics
aud governments we're controlled by it's do.
mands. Even President Harrison, on his eec.
ton to the Presidency, in 1910, felt himself
called upon to disayow all sympathy with
those who had begun to agilate for its over.
throw in the United States Now there is
scarcely a respectable nation under the whe'"
heaven so poor as to do it reverence, or even
to bear the guilt and odium of connection
with it
Up to the year 1915, Brazil was the great
market for imported slaves. But the closing
up Of the American market, the Cutting Of
the Spanish American States with slaves, and
the constantly increasing peril, as well as the
unproiitableness Of the traffic, have combined
to compel its discontinuance. The War Of
the Rebellion not only struck the letters from
every American slave, but also turned the
whole mighty power Of this government
against the dabolical trade. BY signing the
Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lin
coin no more emphaticaly put an end to
American slavery than, by signing the death
warrant Of Gordon, the savo-trader, did he
sound the death knell Of the traffic 10 human
beings all over the civilized world
Brazilian emancipation, just accomplished
will give liberty eventually to over a million
and half of negroes. Their emancipation
brings with it all the rights Of citizenship
which the common people Of any race enjoy
The principal features Of the bill are That
all children born of slaves after the date Of
its Becoming law shall be held, in all re.
spects, as though born Of free mothers, save
that they may be made to serve an appren.
ticeship until their twenty.frst year. For
the benefit Of the existing generation, the bill
grants to all slaves the right to hold and in.
herit property, and to obtain liberation per-
emptorily on tender Of the amount Of official
valuation. The bondmen of the crown are
freed Immediately, while fund of the taxes
on the possession and transfer of slaves, Of
the profits Of lotteries and Of fines, is formed
for an annual liberation of slaves under spec.
flied circumstances, including such as are not
registered at certain time.
The measure of emancipation adopted is
not the one which American emancipationists
would prefer to have adopted. But freedom
has always been within reach of the more en-.
ergetc Of the slaves in Brazil, and the rgor
Of the system was never so intense aS in this
country. The reform will not go backward, and
there are no tendencies to give this change a
backward direction.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-08

UNIVERSITY or VERMONT AND STATE AGRictl-
ruRAL CoLLEGE.We understand that the Cor
poration Of the University, at a special meeting
held last week decided that women should be ad-
mitted to the Academic and Scientific courses Of
t he University, in accordance with the vote oil the
Corporation last Commencement from and after
the beginning Of the next spring term. Young
women will be required to room and board in
private families approved by the Faculty
The Corporation have also changed the time Of
the Annual Commencement Commencement
will occur next summer ON the second wednos-
day in July, instead of the first "Wednesday in
August, as heretofore. Under the new arrange
ment, the long vacation will be in the summer in
stead OF in the winter. The old reason for a two
month 'svacation in the winter, viz: that the stu
dents might teach in the winter schools, has lost
most OF its force in later years. Young men
md they can earn more nowadays, as genenl
rule, in the summer months than in the winter
and the arrangement Of long vacation in summer
is found 10 conduce to the health of the students
Our University is one of the latest to make this
change The great majority of American colleges
now hold their commandments in June But
two or three Northern colleges, tone Of which is
Middlebury,) hold their commandments as late
as August and these will soon follow the ex-
ample Of the rest. 1t is better for students and
Faculty that the hot midsummer months be not
devoted to study or to exhausting examinations
Free Press.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-08

The ration " furnished each day by the
Chicago relief committee for three persons
consists Of peck Of potatoes, three pounds
OF pork, one pound Of sugar, one pound Of
cheese, three loaves of bread, one pound oil
crackers one bar Of soap, one cabbage, and
two quarts Of onions.
One very gratifying fact with regard to
the burglary in the New York controller 5
office has only recently become public. Some
Of the worst OF the fraudulent and forged
papers were not where they properly belong
ed, but in another desk, 50 Hsggerty aud
Balch didn't get them. The Tribune says
that they have been given into safe hands, to
be used as evidence against the thieves when
the time comes.
Baron Rothschild sails by the same lucky
star, whether he steers for success by stock
speculations, cock fights, or fast horses. The
latter has engaged his talents, this year, and
his turf exploits have been absolutely magical
throughout the season. First he won the
Derby with Favonius !" then the Oaks, and
afterward St. Leger with the mare Hannah
and now with Corisande named after Dis
raeli's heroine, he has forced the prize Of the
Cesarowitch TO fall into his overlooking treas.
ury Of wealth and honors. To carry off the
four highest prizes of the turf in a year is
success without precedent.
One Of the itinerant politicians Of Texas
was recently addressing crowd of negroes
at Austin, who had evidently not been school
ed by Nasty, or else had taken one Of Mas
by's confusing mixtures before the meeting
Prompted by local light at his side who
thought he knew the ropes, the speaker said
my friends, you have had republican gov
ernment for the past two years, and what hal
il given youl" "Nuthin' nuthin' taxes
taxes taxes!" yelled hundred negroes
my friends, you did not understand my
question il has given you liberty and lift
and schools" f" iii hi! OATS So"
During the great fire at Chicago, in the
confusion Of the removal Of furniture from a
stately mansion on the night of the 9th o.
October, marble statue of yelled femsl,
figure was lifted from its pedestal and laid OF
its back in the hall Two men entered, ant
seeing what they supposed to be dead
body covered with thin drapery, lifted il
tenderiy, bore il to place Of safety, and
watched it until daylight. When they found
the money value ofthe form they had SO care.
fully guarded, they claimed extravagant rec.
ompense which the delighted owner was very
glad to allow. One Of the men quietly said
that they only knew it was very cold, but
were too scared 10 nstice how very heavy il
was.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-08

-Governor Palmer's suggestion that Lieu
tenant-General Sheridan be indicted as aeces.
sorry tc the murder of Colonel Grosyenor has
created sensation at Chicago. He has
Just published letter to Attorney.Geu.
eral Bushnell instructing him to bring all
the facts before the Grand Jury, Gin order
that all persons concerned in the unlawful
killing Of Thomas w. Grosvenor may be
brought to speedy trial"
Alderman Holden, president of the City
Council of Chicago, and candidate for Mayor
is reported to have secured SIS, 900 of the re-
lief fund, of which he was treasurer, and to
have refused to give it up when requested to
do 80 by the proper authorities. II is now
alleged that the money is being used to secure
Holden's election.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-08

Sixty miles of streets were laid vast By
the fire at Chicago.
The Prince of Waless contribution for
Chicago is about 81 ,500--a handsome sum.
@London's Chicago fund is mounting up
toward 100000, in our currency,
Gov. Hoffman has changed Thanksgiving
Day in New York to the 30th of November
The Canadian government will not demand.
the Horton. not wanting her. So that speck oil
war has disappeared.
Government has decided to continue the
Mormon trials, but not to send more troops
to Utah.
Chicago is to have special court for the
settlement of claims to titles arising in conse'
quence of the fire.
Fifty thousand persons in Michigan anu
Northern Wisconsin have lost everything
through the fierce ravages of fires in Pra'''''
and 10 forests.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-08

W The revolutionary movement in Mex.
leo against the Juarez government seems to
be increasing in strength. The Dias party
claim that Juarez has been reelected fraud.
ulently, Another dispatch states that a short
time since the citadel in the city of Mexico
was attacked by a regiment of gems d'arm'
and captured. Subsequently the government
forces recaptured it, the losses being several
hundred 10 killed and wounded.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-08

- The official Republican majority in
Ohio is 2O,lS6 in Pennsylvania l4,430
and 10 Iowa Al ,203,
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-02

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Losses paid since 1880 over
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GEORGE FALES Vice-President.
JAMES w. MoAIlISTER Secretary. [2Is
THEODORE M. REGER. Assistant Secretary.
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-02

States, which, according to the present appor-
tionment, give one hundred and seventy-six
votes for President, went for the Republi-
cans, while seventeen States, which give one
hundred and fifty votes, went for the Demo-
Gratis. 1t will be seen, therefore, that if the
Democrats can retain in 1872 all the States
they carried in 1870, they will prevail in the
next Presidential contest, provided they can
make an additional gain Of fourteen electoral
votes.
Can the Democrats make such gain
Assuming that they will show good sense ia
the erection of their platform and the seec-
tion of their candidate, the Southern States
afford the most available field for them to
make the necessary break in the Republican
lines. Among the States carried by the Re-
publicans the past year were Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, and Texas. With no changes else
where in 1872, these alone, if wrested fron
the Republicans, will more than suffice 10
elect the Democratic ticket.
Can the Democrats hope to make gains in
the South? The negro vote is very unsta-
BILE foundation on which to anticipate the
continued supremacy of the Republican
party. Though the elections of the past
year demonstrate the truth of this PROPOSE
ton, neither party seems to comprehend the
principle from which 1t springs. Consider
ing the circumstances under which the ne
groes of the Southern States obtained the
elective franchise, it is entirely natural, aud
indeed highly creditable to them, that for
one, two, and perhaps three elections, they
should vote the Republican ticket almost to a
man. This they would regard as the pay
ment of a debt, which they might we'll
believe they owed to the Republican party.
But after they had discharged this obligation,
and when they began to find that nothing
specially beneficial to the great mass of them
was likely to flow from this exclusive devo-
tion to one party, then, if they were satisfied
that the Democrats would make no attempt
to deprive them of their rights they woHld
gradually become subject to the same nfu-
ences which control the votes of other races
of men; and with these influences fairly in
operation the result would be that portion
of them, perhaps only small portion at first,
would vote the Democratic ticket
This is the key which solves the problem of
the recent elections in the South. A margin,
small margin doubtless, of the negro ele-
ment, fell away from the Republicans. A
portion of it refused to vote at all, while
another portion took an advance step and
voted with the Democracy. To secure the
| whole of this margin, and by bold blow to
crumble q still larger fragment from the Re-
publicans, is the policy through which the
! Democrats may reasonably hope to carry every
! Southern State in 1872, and thereby make up
! the possible loss of one er two Northern
States like Connecticut and Nevada, and
come out of the struggle victorious.
In view of the situation, we do not wonder
that the Tribune is nervous and restive and
seems almost ready to give signs of woe that
all is lost.
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the end of these inexcusable vagaries Why
are the forty millions of sensible business
people who inhabit tho country to be dis
graced and worried by such freaks of
Legislative impertinence as this? Why is
Congress to be turned into an arena for
half-cracked people to crack bad Jokes
in the face of an overtaxed and insulted
public Is there any remedial agency
anywhere which will stop this morbid
development of foolishness in high places?
Or are we to go on until our whole public
business breaks down under the weight of
public contempt? Do not let anybody mis-
take. There is something rotten in the state
of Denmark when anybody going about at
large can do such thing as PROFOUND crazy
bill to make it penal offense for Govern
ment officials to take a drink. And that
rotten thing in Denmark's state was Ham
let's misfortune-a doubtful condition of
sanity-that very doubt which we are
compelled to raise about the gentleman from
Maine. In the name of the public veal we
demand that people who deal with political
affairs should try to think soberly upon the
propreties and practicalities of public life,
as they are condemned, under the heavy
penalties of insolvency and social ostracism,
to deal soberly and decently with their private
affairs. When Mr.. Morrill, proposed to make
it "a crime against the peace of society to
offer the Commander-in-C Chief of the
United States army, for example, a
glass of wine, does he not know,
to speak seriously, that he is himself
guilty of a crime against human reason itself
If he does not know it, do his constituents
know it? If they know it, will they discredit
themselves and all of us by keeping such
Representative? If neither he nor they know
it, is there any one who can and will teach
them? And if there is not, what, in the name
of the multiplication table, of the laws of
gravitatioD, of all fixed facts aud laws is to
become of them and all of us?
Indeed, what would become of Washington
in particular and mankind in general if the
firm connection so happily established among
us between whisky and politics were to be
broken down? "Shall there be no more
cakes and ale" Oh Pharisee of the Pharisees?
Was his Majesty King David profaue, not
sacred, majesty, when he declared with strong z
judicious Hebrew sense that wine maketh
glad the heart of man? ? The sting is taken
out of the Puritans pretty considerably, thank
goodness. They cannot burn wriukled old
women for witches, SO they are reduced to
trying to ''rob the poor man of his beer -
They will fail. The "bar," literally, of public
opinion will be too strong for them; and,
though we may shock some foolish souls by
saying it, we prefer the simple intoxication
produced by whisky to the compound mental
drunkenness of people who think they can
change human nature by acts of Congress.
At all events it is less mischievous. The one
is the master of the china shop who goes into
passion and cracks "a cup or two; the other
is the raging bull that breaks into the shop
and smas hes everything.
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THE CONDITION OF MISSISSIPPI.


From the NJ Y. World.
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, is re-
cognized authority on matters pertaining to
the industrial condition of the South, espe-
cially as regards cotton, and in copy of his
message Just sent into the Legislature we
find some interesting statements and statis-
tics respecting his State. The full returns of
the census not having as yet come into his
possession, Governor Alcorn selects seven
counties in Mississippi, ''bottom land and
upland, ridge and prairie, negro county,
white county, and mixed county," from
which the returns are complete, and by
comparison in these widely scattered sections
of the census of 1860 and that of 1870 arrives
at some general view of the condition of the
whole State. Cotton he shows to have fallen
off 63 per cent. from its yield in 1860; corn,
60 per cent; hogs, Go; wheat, sc; sweet po-
tatoes, GA; peas and BEANS SO, and home
manufactures, g.. "Whether deficiency of
capital or a deterioration of labor" be the
cause of this general decadence his Excel
lency does not at first say, but further on in
his message thinks that, ''on the whole, how
ever, the general decline shown points pain
fully to not only falling off in the amount
of our colored labor, but to character of
falling off among the whites which is sug-
gestive of breaking down in the spirit of
the people" The almost entire destruction
of orchards, the decrease in the article of
honey of S6 per cent, and of SO per
cent. in cheese, are indeed sad testimonies
to the existence of some evil sapping the
foundations of household thrift. Counting
from 1865 in thirteen counties, taken as they
come, Governor Alcorn finds that while white
dram-shops have increased from 81 to 1SS,
negro drinking places have swollen from to
81. Crime, taking a score of counties for
example, he describes as ''shockingly great
in its amount" but nevertheless being
brought within the cognizanee of the law" ="
offenses in the nature of murder and feloni-
GUS assault in 1870 being 236, of which 128
were by whites and 108 by blacks. In the
articles of marriage and education Gov
ernor Alcorn describes the colored popula-
ton as doing well, but finds that, "while the
nursing care of the negro infant under
slavery resulted in the raising to ages be-
tween 1 and of 04S per cent. more than
that of the whites, the nursing care of the
negro infant under freedom has resulted, 80
far, in the raising to ages between l and of
1'73 per cent. less" The peace of the State
is declared undisturbed by any organized
opposition to the laws, and the Legislature is
urged to economy, the civil list for 1870
amounting to $l,061, ,249, against $527, ,6O7.
or something less than half that, in 1866.
Taken altogether, this exhibit of Mississippi
affairs is not pleasant one; but as Governor
Alcorn is candid enough to show things just
as they are, it is to be hoped that his ability
to ameliorate the situation may be found
equal to the frankness with which he de-
clares it.
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THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION-THE
REPUBLICANS ALARMED.
From the N. Y, Sun,

From the ~ Y. Sun.
In little more than a year hence the
Presidential candidates of both parties, and
of all parties, if there should happen to be
more than two, will be in the field, and the
country will have fully entered upon the
campaign of 1872. 1t is beyond question
that the successful candidate in that contest
will be chosen by smaller majority of the
electoral votes than any President has re-
ceived since James X. Polk defeated Henry
Clay. This fact is impliedly admitted by the
nervous manner in which some Republican
journals, and especially the Tribune are
handling the election returns of the past year
and trying to draw encouragement from their
ugly-looking figures. No apportionment of
members of Congress having been yet made
under the new census, prophecies concerning
the future must be mainly based upon the
imperfect data furnished by the existing ap-
portionment.
In the elections of the past year, twenty
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-12

The Republicans, aided by the
friends of Reform, in Wayne elect
ed their entire ticket with the fol-
lowing result:
Treasurer over 800 majority;
Auditor, between 200 and 300;
Carr, for Representative, has At
majority over Peckinpaugh.
The balance of the county ticket
was elected by majorities ranging
from Is up. Wayne usually being
300 Democratic. This is a glorious
result.
Critchfield's majority over Reed
in Wayne is from 1450 to 1900.
The Democrats carried. the State
ticket by a small majority. Mr..
Devin run ahead of the State ticket,
but from latest accounts the indica-
tiops " e.s that Mcdowell had smal.
majority in the county. The office
holders and their friends feel blue,
and look downhearted at the idea of
so soon vacating the fat county Of
fees upon which they seemed to
have such firm hold.