Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-09-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

Judge Poland has been invited by the
New York State Republican Committee to
come into that State and speak for the Re
publican cause and accepts the invitation.
The Windsor Journal regards the Con-
gressional question as practically settled
against Judge Poland and in favor of Judge
Steele, whom it terms ''the peoples candi-
date"
Ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania has
gone over TO the Greeley party.
Cakes Ames, Colfax, Wilson, Garfield,
Dawes and others, charged by the N. Y.
Tribune with specializing in the Union Pa
citic Railroad Credit Mobiler deny the ac-
cusation and brand 1t as calumny.
"With thirteen ex-rebel generals on the
floor of Congress-" remarks the Hartford
(Ct.) Courant, land with suffrage universal
at the South, the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency is travelling over the coun-
try believing like bull of Bashan for
amnesty, and accusing the Republican
party and the Union soldiers of 'rekind-
ling the bitterness of the war"
A Washington correspondent ofthe Mont
pelier journal, after congratulating Yer
mont upon her recent election says:
beyond peradventure, ii must secure
the re- ell ection of Hon. j. S. Morrill, for
another six years to the United States SEN
ate. The State could do herself no greater
honor. Faithful, industrious to fault, en-
inent in all the qualities of head and heart
that constitute true American statesman
ship, and above all, an honest man, even
after a soourn in Washington, 'for 10, these
many years. Senator Morrill, has earned for
himself, by the most assiduous, patient la
Dor, the pedestal on which he now stands,
d distinguished among his peers. His re-
election is no less than just recognition OF
his task we'll performed, although that task
were but his duty as the peoples servant"
Eek Senator John p. Hale on Sumner: 81
entered the Senate four years before Mr..
Sumner, and enjoyed his personal inter
course and friendship from his appearance
there in 1851 up 10 the time went to Eu-
rope, in 1865. 1 appreciate, as highly as any
man can the invaluable service he has rem
de red to liberty, but candor compels me to
say that, from the outset, his influence in
| the Senate was greatly impaired by an over
bearing egotism, and an arrogance of man.
ner well nigh intolerable. His arbitrary
anddictatoria nature renders him peculiar
ly liable to substitute his own hasty I'M
pu lses for convictions and principles Of
public policy. l can, therefore, readily UNI
derstand that Mr.. Sumner might be be-
trayed by his wounded vanity and imperi-
Gus temper into a temporary misjudgment.
But that he could, under the influence OF
personal irritations, be so blind or so dis
honest as to deliberately and persistently
counsel the colored men OF the nation ia
use their newly acquired right of suffrage
to rens tate their lifelong enemies and OPP
prcssors in the control of the government,
is to me the strangest phenomenon of these
latter days.
That Horace Greeley well understands
the present temper of the South is appar-
ent from the following extract from letter
written on his Southern tour in 1871, and
published in the Tribune of June Sth.
How his present attitude can be reconciled
with the view than taken, we leave for his
| friends to explain:
"That those who struggled and fought
| for secession generally believed they were
right in so doing. But, while they
still affirm the right of secession, am sat
isfed that a majority of them believe its
practical assertion was unwise and inexpe.
dent. They hold that they should have
made their late struggle in the Union, moi
against it; under the flag of our fathers
not that of the stars and bars in ostensi.
| 10 a Of A To- ~
in resistance to its authority. They expec
to regain as Democrats, through elections
the power they lost as rebels through war;
Charles O'Conor does not accept the Lou
isville nomination, as we enormously stat
ed last week. In a letter finally and defin
itely giving his refusal, he annihilates tn,
Liberal Democrat coalition in the follow
ing admirable sentence:
Unless their lines are kept firm and thei
antagonism on some real or supposed prin
cipe consistently sustained, political par
ties can produce no good; they are on thei
face mere factious combinations to delud
the people, and divide, As the profits of
trade, such portions of wealth as can b
wrung from them under the forms of law
Consequently, In country governed b.
parties, an avowed coalition of element
before deeply and vitality antagonistical
for the mere purpose of carrying an elec
ton, is not honorable.
Extract from Senator Wilson's speech de
livered at his home in Natick on the 6tl
instant:
81 say to you tonight, l have been a
anti slavery man for nearly thirty-seve
years / have always believed in the doc
Urine that Almighty God made us all an
Christ died for us all, and that we are a
| tl.nt ~ Hon ali
ty and every race and every color ought I
have perfect liberty and absolute equalit
everywhere, the wide world over. And
don't confine II to men, either / includ
women in that declaration, and never sa'
a time in my life | would not give to eveI
man everything | asked for myself and {
every woman everything l asked for m
wife or mother. / believe that to be tn
Christian doctrine, the doctrine Of the Me-
Testament and the essence OF liberty"