Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-02-19
POLITICAL.

President Grant is reported to have said
to Congressman Pike: "A man who would
not get enough Of the presidency in two
terms must be different man from any who
has ever held it,"
The Providence Journal states that Senator
Gordon, of Georgia, has announced his in
tention to write a letter to Wendell Phillips,
inviting him to make an extended trip
through the Southern States, and give the
public the benefit of his views concerning
their condition, particularly with respect
to government We hope Mr.. Phillips will
do it.
So lar as heard from, the town meetings
in New York State show gratifying Repub-
lican gains as compared with the last spring
elections. Even those Democratic strong
holds, Chemung and Schuyler counties,
which gave Governor Tilden decided MAORI
ties last fall, have about reversed their po-
litical character in the matter OF Superyls-
ors, while Herkimer, St. Lawrence, Mont
gomery, Tioga, and other counties much
more than hold their own.
The ST. Adams Democrats are on the war
path, with new democratic club" In
the constitution of this awful instrument,
they declare that "the object and aim OF this
club are of q high nature and have IN view
the welfare and prosperity OF our county,
north, south, east and west, and the trans
mission Of the same to our posterity I'M
trammelled and unabridged" and people
ought to believe them.
Mr. E. W. Stoughton replies to GEORGE
Ticknor Curtis on the Louisiana question
His views are outlined in the following ex-
tract
"Tbe troops now in Louisiana. though
BY order of the President. are really present
unly because a law of Congress makes II his
duty to send and keep them there. Ihey
are there. too, for the purpose of prevent
ing the outbreak of that instruction and
domestic violence which the force OF the
State is powerless to suppress and it Is
co ually powerless to expel the cause, Tor
the men who oppose the present State gov
ernment would no: accept the results OF an
election conducted under its authority
The attitude of Congress. then, Is this. II
NAV. and, indeed, must, so long as the hel-
logg government is maintained. do 50 by
bayonets in the hands of its soldiers, when
all men admit that these might be removed.
if an election could be held. in which the
will of the people could be fully expressed ="
Some say the mission of the Republican
party is ended. You might as well say that
the mission of the church is ended because
the Bible is printed, as to say that the mis-
sion of the Republican party is ended.-Matt
Carpenter.
The congressional deficiency bill this year,
calls for smaller sum than any other def
cheney bill since the civil wa-, thus proving
that the reductions made in appropriation
bills. at the last session of Congress, were
not intended solely for political effect, las wa :
charged by the Democrats at the time.
The Temperance men who played into the
hands Of the Democrats, in Pennsy lvania,
have their reward. The Democratic com
mittee in the House, having the subject IN
charge, has decided to report in favor OF re-
pealing the local option law. Such Is Demo-
cratic temperance reform.
The Attakapas (La.) Saline! is Of the
opinion that - to rid the earth Of such
monster as Sheridan would be deed for all
the world to applaud" 1t does not approve
of masked assassination at midnight, but
the people Of New Orleans should rise
in the majesty Of their might, and slay him
in the streets as they would rabld dog IN the
broad light of day" This pleasing sen:i-
ment is echoed in many southern journals :
and has had Northern parallel in the sug-
restiou of the New York T'rbuHe's cOrres-
pondent, that tie assassination Of President
Grant would be great blessing to the eoun-
try.
The Louisville Couney-J0urHa. athrms
that the number Of illiterate voters in Ken
lucky is rapidly on the increase, and that
this increase is in greater ratio than the
increase of population; this, too, III lace OF
the fact that there sre few persons OF foreign
birth in the State, and bGt few Immigrants
There are about ) 200 districts IN the State,
and not more than 100 are properly provided,
even now, with school houses. And yet
Kentucky is the strongest Democratic State
in the Union, and it has no carpet baggers
to blame for anything.
Senator Matt. Carpenter, in a speech in
the Wisconsin State House, after his defeat,
said the coalition which beat him was ne
gotiated By tie - greatest political merchant
Of modern times, james r. Doolittle." The
consideration promised to the Democrats, SAID
the sneaker. was the defeat of the Republic
can party in Wisconsin, next Fall. Of his
successor, Mr. Carpenter said - am to be
succeeded in the Senate by no man Of doubt
full political sentiments, nor by one who VII!
fall into Democratic practices. Mr.: Cameron
il known as true and tried Republican. |
have seen this afternoon, what | am inform
ed is the platform upon which he consented
to be elected As now recollect il, there
is not a word in il that would not be in
dorsed by every Republican Senator in the
United States