Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-08-14
Political Notes.


Acts 90 D." We arc afraid the Senator has
neglected his Scripture readings lately
Sumner says ia his letter. with vanity
that would be offensive if it were not ludicrous,
" if any valued friend separates from me now,
it will be because he places a man above prin-
ciplcs !"
Which is right Charles Sumner who
says the election Of Greeley and Brown will
be Republican victory, or Graft Brown who
says the Republican party no longer cx-
lists %
is not that colorcl man nearly right who,
after reading Senator Summers letter very
carefully, came to the conclusion that his
hatred to the President is stronger than his
love for the negro"
Judge Black has at last come out for
Greeley. When he first heard of the Cincin-
natl nomination, Judge Black remarked "Of
all the prominent men in the country, Greeley
is the only man whose name has been men
toned in connection with the Presidency who
is utterly unfit to receive it,"
Tho Trijuac makes coarse assault upon
Con Dix for having the temerity to write a
letter saying that the interests Of the country
demand the reelection of Gen Grant IL
slurs his services in the war, and intimates
that he is a mere seeker for Treasury pap
Such vulgar abuse Of so eminent patriot
only shows that the pungont letter touched
Mr. Greeley on the raw.
Rev DR.. Sears, the eloquent Unitarian
writer, says at the close Of recent article in
the Religious Magazine Booths bullet
made us clasp Lincoln more closely to our
hearts, and forget his fobles Summers ruth.
less attack will make the country receive
Grant into warmer gratitude, and be more
jealous than ever Of his fame
General Joe Johnston declares for Gree
hey. In his letter he says he would have
preferred somebody else, and adds 81 think
the overthrow Of the present administration
necessary to any hope of constitutional gov
ornmcnt, and feel that continuance Of the
Democratic party is necessary" General
Joe don't claim conversion very much.
The La Crosse Democrat is dead but
the New York Tribune still lives "a fact
we regret to say, which must mitigate the
sorrow Of those who are Democratic at all
times and under all circumstances at the
loss Of Mr., Pomeroy's red-hot sheet The
TriLuae has fallen heir to that legacy of stale
iusiuuation against General Butler about
stealing spoons aud insulting women, ="
which formed a large portion Of the stock in
trade of the Democratic sheet lately deceased.
Whatever or whoever is or is not converted, 4"
the Tri5une is.
The public debt statement is better than
it promised for July, and the old score has
been wiped out to the extent Of s3,427, 6S7.-
IS. That is very pretty little sum, and it
is refreshing to know that we are constantly
diminishing the " frightfu total" We do
not, however, care to hurry up to the Greeley
standard, which was to tax heavily enough to
pay the debt in ten years from sG7 and to
put ten per cent upon incomes That is a
little too fast. Indeed we congratulate the
countr that the Tribune Bureau was not the
Treasury Bureau. 1t was always opposed to
reduction Of taxation.
Fred. Douglass paper this week notices
Summers letter, saying 1t is written in
the interest of Horace Greeley 1t comes
upon us at time when the professions of
: iavoring equal rights made by the party nom
mating Horace Greeley arc being proven a
false pretence in Savannah, Ca by the shoot
ing Of colored people for trying to exercise
the right to ride in the street cars of that city
This specimen Of Liberal Republicanism i,
not well calculated to encourage colored men
to cast their lot with the supporters of Horace
Greeley whose journal encourages such out
RACES by apologizing for them
MIR. Summers whole course is founded
, on the plea that the Democrats have been
really converted to Republican principles
] His proof Of this consists in the adoption Of
the Cincinnati platform at Baltimore. But
everybody knows that what a man says is not
SO good a criterion by which to Judge his sem
timents, as the construction he puts on his
own words Can Mr.. Sumner fnd single
Democrat or Democratic journal that con-
fesses any change in its principles? On the
= contrary does not every explicit declaration
made by Democrats show that they claim the
" conversion to be the other way2
Henry Wilson said in Cincinnati
" Let it be understood am not here to say
there have been no mistakes made by the Re-
publican party. say there have been mis-
takes, but let me ask who are they who are
ready and anxious to forgive the men who
took up arms against our government; to
forgive those who, while holding public offices,
used their positions to stab the government !;
to forgive those who conspired to burn our
cities and to send pestilence to our homes /;
who, in short, are ready to forgive anybody
and everybody except the Republican party
and its leaders ?" This is an eminently per-
tinent question, and well deserves considera-
ton.
Montana Territory held an election for
Delegate in Congress on Monday and the re-
turns indicate the probable election of Magin-
mis-, Democrat, over Caggett, Republican.
As the Democrats will now be looking around
for consolation and claiming this as gain, it
should be understood that the Republican can.
didate was elected last year only through a
Democratic bolt Cayanagh former Democratic
Delegate, having reyonged his defeat in the
Democratic Convention by carrying his friends
over to the Republican side. This year the