Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-15
Our Washington Letter.
Wash,nton, D. C.. yuLu 10. 1874

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b Wash,ntoa, d. c., July 10, 1874.
n The weather is almost unendurably ho
and in consequence there are but few pee
pie upon the streets. The mercury stand
c 100 in the shade. The farmers roun
about are complaining bitterly of drought
Could we poor mortals have one goo
shower, how happy we would be.
The District Commissioners are at worI
at fevcred heat arranging for paying Of
the District creditors. 1t is estimated
that it will require 100000 at least t,
satisfy this demand.
The letter Ex-senator Bayard, the Dem
ocratic Congressional leader, read at th,
meeting Of Tamany Sachems at New
York, on the fourth of July, sounds tn,
key note OF the coming Democratic cam
paign. The protested fear of "a central
lied government controlled by class and
moncycd interests" is bis first proposition
against the Republican party. lie cackles
jubilantly over the successful tricks of his
party in securing from fraudulent import.
ers and delinquent taxpayers, consisting
of wealthy firms and corporations, huge
corruption fund with which to Stubborn the
dress, This is we'll known to have raised
a clamor for the repeal of the laws which
protected the Treasury from the new le-
gion of Democratic thieves of the whole
sale Tweed order.
He claims that the minority party car
ried through Congress all the investiga.
lions, and all attempts at reform, and
with the usual show of consistency, he
exclaims (: How slowly and unwilliDgly
has the hand of the spoiler (which is the
tax gatherer) been Withdrawn from the
pockets Of our merchants. He maintains
that stealing, gsuch as that for which Tam.
many sustained Tweed and elected him TO
Senatorial honors, demands far less con.
slderatlon from that peculiar class of hon,
est patriots thqu their first duty, which is
10 maintain constant checks upon official
power" lie bewails tho sad fact that
Republicans do not believe in Democratic
patriotism, and that they demand the
safety of the republic by securing the
government in the control Of honest men,
who have not upheld, and do not yet up,
hold, the cause Of our national destruc.
tlon. He asserts and re-asserts that his
party can furnish honest men. But the
assertion is without the slightest show of
proof, and when after years of effort to
catch the great Tammany "boss" he and
his ceajutors are now wearing the Jail uul-
form, what effrontery it requires for
Congressional leader to call the men of
Tammany honest men to their faces. All
the capital the party has made for many
years has been purchased with the money
of which the country has been robbed by
these very leaders who now claim office
as reward for their robberes.
The Commission to settle the affairs of
the Freedmen's Bank completed its Or
ganization, and filed bond for 500, 900
Yesterday. 1t consists of ex-Pestmaster
General Cresswell, Mr.. LEOPOLD, and Mr..
Purvis, the latter a leading colored man
Of Philadelphia, There will be, includ.
ing all the branches, thirty.seven banks to
wind up, the parent body here having OK.
ended its operations through branch banks
hat had considerable independent power
n the different Southern States and the
titles of New York and Philadelphia. The
Encouragement and closing of these
freedmen's banks, in addition to the mn.
nerous other savings banks all over the {
ountry which have gone into liquidation Q
the past few years, and sacrificed mil
ions Of the money Of poor men and wo.
nen, will furnish powerful argumen. in q
avor OF system of absolute safety for the q
aVlngs OF the poor and indus:riousof the 0
ountry. The only true safe plan is that :
hlch has worked so successfully in Eng. !;
postal savings bank system. In
lis way alone the poor of the country
10 accumulate their savings without dan. Q,
sr OF loss, and at the same time aid Tho W
'vernment by holding its bonds at a low y
ito Of interest, and thus supplying cap,.
] in the country which we now seek in &C
urope. Mr.. Cresswel, who proposed th
is plan, is now at the head of the COM
iss'on to settle all the affairs of these m
irty-seven banks, and will BIO able to !,
y considerable experience iu the short. =
mlngs OF the private system in support "a
the Postal system which he he has 50 es
ny recommended in his reports for two wi
ars past. LIVE -