Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09
THE RUTLAND HERALD
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1878
A Political Millennium.

we nave all ncdTu Wltulu tliC past -"
months of the Ella of good feeling, and
it has been repeatedly announced fk0'
this tabled period was at hand Out we
must confess that, to us, it mas seemed
as distant as that propbollc perlod "hen
the lion and the lamb shall lie down TO-
gether and little child shall lead them.
Our want of faith, however, has been
somewhat shattered by an editorial para
graph in the Boston Post, as we'll as by
the action of the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture. Hon. George B. Loring, of Mas
sachusetts, is well known to most of our
readers by reputation, and many OF them
had the pleasure of listening to his elo-
quent and forcible utterances in favor OF
the Republican party and the reelection
of General Grant, at our county mass
meeting, last summer. He did during
the last campaign, as well as in past
campaigns, herculean labor in behalf OF
the party of progress and human rights.
AS an almost necessary consequence, he
was one of the best abused men In the
country. No words of cOntumely or
yituperation were deemed to severe or
bitter with which to characterize him
and, judging from the tone of the Demo-
cratic press, he was unfit to be trusted
in any position and his speeches and adj
dresses were merely yapid, senseless
words. The election passed, and Mr.
Loring was elected to the Senate of
Massachusetts and, on Wednesday last,
he was unanimously elected its presiding
officer. This unusual compliment, he
acknowledged in beautiful and appropri-
ate language And now the Boston
Post, which has been among the most
perverse and persistent of his maligners,
turns square around and compliments
him. 1t says: Or Loring's address,
on taking the chair, was worthy of his
reputat iOn as an orator, not only in its
well-roundcd periods and its apt histori-
cal citations, but in its sound good sense
and its earnest suggestions. Its spirit,
if found prevailing the action Of this
Legislature, will make the session noted
in the chronicles Of the General Court.
The New York World, too, seems to be
turning over q new leaf, and occasion
ally finds space to say pleasant word
of General Dix, and to most heartily
commend, and congratulate the people
upon, his appointments. So we had the
Tribune, after Mr.. Greeley's death, unit
ing in the suggestion that the opposition
presidential electors should cast their
votes for Gen. Grant and make his re-
election unanimous. The same spirit is
also displayed at the South. The Ala
bama legislature, or rather the two
branches of that body, each claiming to
be tile legislature, at one accepted q plan
of compromise suggested by the Presi-
dent, and happily settled what bid fair
to be a protracted and disgraceful politi-
cal wrangle. In Louisiana, too, Cover
nor WarmOth has announced his inten-
ton to submit gracefully to the powers
that be, and pay the respect that all
good citizens owe to the laws and decis-
ions of the court, no matter how dis
tasteful they may be. The same wise
spirit of Cancellation and good will was
displayed in the national House of Rep
resentatives, on the occasion of General
Banks rendering his resignation as chair
man of the committee on foreign rcla-
tons, for the reason that he was not in
political accord with the administration
and the majority of the House. His
resignation, it will be remembered, was
not accepted, and by an overwhelming
vote he was retained in his place, pres
enting for the first time in our history
one of the.most important of the COM
mittees of the House with a chairman
politically opposed to the majority. We
might go on and multiply similar in
stances, both North and South and in
both political parties, but these will suf-
flee. These and other cases seem to in
dictate that while there is peace on earth
there is, also, at the same time, good
will among men. We trust that it may
continue and not prove simply the calm
which precedes the storm. There is no
reason why the people should not be
heartily united, for, certainly, if we I'M
derstand the professed position of the
so-called opposition there are no political
issues, at present, to divide the country
or parties. The result of the last cleo
ton, so emphatically expressed, put a
final quietus to the only question that
has agitated the country for the last
quarter of a century, for with its YER
dict Of approval of the course of the re-
publican party on the subject of recon-
struction, finally closed all controversies
growing out of slavery. These ques-
tions being settled, the constitution hay
ing been harmonized with the new con-
dition of affairs, and all acquiescing
therein, why should we not hope that
for some time to come the political lion
and lamb should lie down together and
be at peace,