Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-10-02
POLITICAI.

The Lawrence American promp tly takes
up strangely misled member of III Grand
Army, who writes to the Salem Ga @ete to
prove that the organization il a 20 litical
affair, and shows HIM to be pratt Ter OF
senseless twaddle. Every member, says the
Amcric0R. knows the utter falsty of the
charge that 1t is in the most remote man ner
connected with politics. And it adds " lie
IS the best Trend and truest member of the
organization who most scrupuiOusly labors
to preserve Its true mission, by avoiding toe
slightest interference with political affairs -
GOv. PendletOn swallows his Pen Teton
ism Tor the present. Speaking of coin pay
ment OF the five twentles, he says Z" Bot
nevertheless 1t is the law and We must obey
1t. The terms of the law have now entered
INTO the contract and we must comply with
them. The bonds have changed bands and
the present owners are innocent The bonds
have been retained On the faith of that law,
and We must sustain our country's plighted
faith" This would sound very wei. if Pen
dleton had not said iust before of tn law
requiring coin payment. d" 4 more unjust.
unnecessary. unlu>tihable law was never
passed.
The Salem, Ala5aml. Times says: I'VE
are not cauvas>Ing for negro votes nor the
-
white votes, and thank God that there are
enough in number In Alabama to redeem
the State. Old issues have passed away
Old feudS have been forgotten. The sole
absorbing question now Is one OF blood
and, IN the language of the immortal Tat
nall when he rushed to the rescue of the
English IN Chinese seas, blood is thicker
than water The white people of Alaba-
ma feel 1t, and woe to the white man in
this State who has forgotten his race and
lineage. lie may be successful, and in this
section he may get the petty Office and the
emOlument for which he sacrifices himself.
but he will stand for all time to come, brand
ed as an apostate TO his race,a traitor to his
State and the seller of his birthright. The
white man now who can go with the negro
p srty, has no right TO expect white man
to speak to him, and he should be made to
fee, to its depths the degradation and dis
grace which he has brought upon himself
Heretofore the lines have not been drawn,
but now the mark is made, and the man
who selects the negroes as his companions,
should be made TO associate with them for
all time to come, in church, state, and So
cial life"
The Hon. Alexander ii. Stephens has
every reason to be fiattered with the esteem
and appreci alton which his constituents
have for him. In a letter to a friend, which
was read before the nominating convention,
he replied as follows to an inquiry to
whe her he won Id accept denomination
d" 1t is true that have entirely recovered
from that severe attack of rheumatism from
which was suffering when | wrote to the
Greene County Committee, and just at this
time n in as good health as | have been
for the last twelve months ; but so precari
Gus is my general condition that feel no
assurance of long continuance OF my re-
cent improvement, and have no hope what
ever of that restoration of physical vigor
and self-locomotion, without which can
not perform the duties of Representative as
| could wish to do. Still, as l have said, if
the Convention should, from any considera-
ton whatever, take me as | am, for better
or worse and | should be elected, it would
be pleasure to me. ii life be spared, to
serve the people of this District to the best
of nv ability, though not up to the full
standard of my wishes. SO long as can
raise my voice or WELD PEN" There are
very few Congressman who could be renom-
mated after such letter as that.
Does il never occur to those who loudly
call upon good men to come out of the cid
parties that the tact Of their continued and
vigorous organization, and the impossible
lity of forming a new one, shows that the
reason of the parties still exists? We are
sill Republicans and Democrats because
the question upon which those parties were
gathered into form is still unsettled, be-
cause the conscience and the intelligence of
the country are not satisfied to entrust the
government to those who cherish sincere
and bitter hostility to the actual equality
before the law of oil citizens Of the United
States.-Hepers Weekly.