Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-02-03
Political Notes.

! 1HE Mississippi legislature mas approNeu
of Gen. sheridan's course in New Orleans.
TnrY don't dcnounce Gen DE Trobriand
as carpet Dagger. lie is native Of Louis
lana and Creole.
ANDREW JOHNSON casually remarks that
he has stood by the constitution" That
has familiar sound. l'.
Tng Washington Chronicle says there was
strong talk at one time Of bringing jeff.
Davis forward as a compromise candidate in
the Tennessee contest
In the vote on the civil rights bill in the
House Of Representatives on Tuesday, four
teen Republicans voted nay, and thirty-seren
Republicans were absent or refused to vote
Tur ferceness Of the democrats in oppos-
ton to the civil rights bill shows what may
be expected Of that party when ii gets full
power. What would Mr. Sumner say If he
were alive now
CHARLES FRANcrs ADAMS, Jr., advises
the conservatives of Louisiana to advertise
the Kellogg government as fraud, and then
keep away from the polls, leaving the rest to
the people Of the whole country in 1875.
TnR Concord Monitor says that the dele
gate to the Dover convention, who declared
himself anxious TO shoulder musket and
90 to the down-troddcn people of Louisiana,
was Canadian skedaddler during the war.
ThRRE was much enthusiasm in Nash
vile over Andrew Johnson's election, and
" Perley" says there is much joy in Washing
ton among the old johnson men at Andy's
victory but the democrats are not jubilant
over II.
IT is said at Washington that the talk Of
an extra session becomes more serious as
the time slips away, but the only members
who appear to favor it are few adhcreuts
of a certain democratic candidate for the
speakership
WOMAN SUFFRAGE has had just trihe
Of a success in Maine. The Rev. Miss llar-
ris, Of IIallowell, oiiciated as chaplain in the
state senate one day last week. being the
first woman who ever performed that service
in the legislature.
The prohibitory vote in eight states in
1872 was five thousand six hundred and
eight. Last year it was thirty-six thousand.
The states are New Hampshire, Connecticut,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Illinois, and Nebraska.
The democrats are congratulating them
selves that Andy johnson will annoy the
Republicans in the United States Senate.
This is possible, but the reverse is likely to
be true, as he has always been more trouble
some to his friends than his enemies.
IT is now claimed that enough votes are
already pledged to secure the election Of Hon.
S. 5. Cox to the Speakership of the House
Of Representatives Democrats are noted
for their inability 10 keep the pledge" and
Cox may yet find his" Sunset under
cloud.
THE report of the House committee upon
the proposed new mode Of electing President
and Vice President is a very elaborate docu-
ment. 1t proceeds upon the assumption
that under the present system the election is
frequently carried against the will of the
majority of the American people and pro
poses the election of President and Vice
President by the direct vote of the people.
DEACON PoGRAM thinks his white league
brethren are in dangerof spelling the game
by showing their hands too quick" lie
says "They should mask their spirit and
designs until we secure full control of the
government, when they may bring on their
war claims, present all their demands upon
the treasury, overthrow reconstruction, drive
out the loyal whites, and kill all the mig
gers they please"
The Republican members of the Vicks-
burg Investigating Committee represent the
condition Of affairs throughout the South as
very serious Two OF the leading members
say that the present state of society is worse
than it was in 1860 and one of them adds
" From the present temper Of the Southern
people, if the democrats should be defeated
in the next Presidential election, the proba-
bilities Of another civil war are imminent"
The recent speech of Senator Conkling on
the Louisiana question has brought him sud
denly to the front as the candidate Of the
Southern Republicans for the nomination in
1875. 1t has long been known that Conk-
ling had aspirations in that direction, and
it is now said he will have the support of his
own state and of PENNSYLVANIA, the latter
through the influence of Cameron, who is
not particularly friendly to Blaine This,
with the southern delegation solid for him,
would, it is claimed by his friends, make
him a formidable rival of Blaine in the
| convention.