The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-20

Delleyc tnat the ''tLlru term pohcy ID ohV
of them senseless and ridiculous pieces
of folly that ever found its way into Amer
lean politics, we believe that 1t has been
seriously entertained in certain quarters,
but we believe that a, or the, third term is
buried so low that its de' d carcass will
never seriously confront the country again.
All, however, do not so think, neither do
we think the idea is entirely abandoned,
although, as we have SAID, 1t is past all
power of harm except to the republican
party. We, therefore most heartily agree
with the vice-president, when he says that
the republican party must, 'at once and
explicitly declare against third term, and
thus relieve the public mind of painful APP
prehension and put TO rest at once and for
ever fear which does more than aught
else to ALLEVIATE the people from the party"
Proceeding. he says that the party must
adopt conciliatory, though firm, pol
icy" toward the south, that any Irritating
federal interference must be AVOIDED, and
the "hcavy hand of the government must
be taken off and that while the blacks
must be defended in their equal rights, all
unconstitutional acts and measures of
doubtful constitutionality ought to be
avoided, and the public opinion of the
north must not be Offended by violent acts
or language toward the SOUTH Hold
hard, Mr. Vice-President. Are you not
letting your love of truth run away with
your caution? Are you not making ter
rible arraignment of the administration and
of republican leaders Is it possible you
have forgotten Sumner and Schurz? Have
you not heard that Phil. Sheridan calls the
southern whites "banditti" d? Have you
not read his last dispatch wherein he states
according to Major Merrill, that because
certain blacks, up Shreveport way, voted
the kellogg ticket "at least two thousand
''peope, of all ages and sexes, are wander
''ers without means to go elsewhere, pow
''erless to find other homes where they are,
land are on the verge of starvation,
''and that tie white people are not slow to
''set afloat inilammatory rumors of intelli-
''gence of organized violence on the part
''of negroes and where revolver and mob
claw are common resort in such cases
- disorders more or less extensive are
''sure to result etc. Perhaps, however,
you know this notorious Major Merrill too
well, and know as the country knows, that
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"outrages" spring up wherever Merrill
goes. Perhaps, moreover, that you prefer,
as the country does, to pin your faith on
the report of such men as Messrs. Foster,
Phelps and Potter rather than on 'nfam
ma Dry" dispatches. Perhaps, too, you
have forgotten Belknap's dispatch, and
fail to remember that he is still secretary
of war, Williams still attorney general. ant
de Trobrand still in New Orleans unre
buked and tacitly endorsed. Have a care
Mr.. e-President, or you, too, will be
placed in the same category as some Of
the rest of us. and be classed as $50
called" "weak kneed" or "wcak minded
republican, if not as an out and out dem
ocrat.
In concluding, Mr. Wilson insists that i
is necessary to throw open the doors to TIT
liberal republicans who, while voting TO
Horace Greeley, did not cease to be repub
lcans. These men, he says, Unjust b
conciliated, their leading men must b
taken into the confidence of the party, an
some should be called to high places" r
this end, he declares, in public converse
ton--not in the letter,-that he woult
"clean out the cabinet" and place thereil
at least one prominent liberal republican
and one prominent southern man VIVA
can the Vice President be thinking of
Has he not read that Vermont 'organ
declares that If the liberals "aie permitted
to return to the republican party they mus
take back seats" and do acts mete for re
pentance? Perhaps, however, he ha
heard that the republicans of Vermont re
pudiated this sage advice, and that the lib
eral republicans are and have been treated
as sound in the faith, welcomed with opel
arms and given their share of the "spols
The advice is sound but is it not danger
Gus? Does Henry Wilson, after serving
generation us republican leader, want T.
''take a back seat be placed on the stoo
of repentance, or be read out of the part,
and made full-fledged democrat? Tina
is the way the Vermont "organs" treat me
who entertain similar views or refuse to phi
their faith to any one mans shoulder. Tn
Vice Presidents advice is sound, his rem
edy for existing evils is excellent, if til
advice is promptly followed, if the remed
Is, at once, applied, there is hope for tn
party in the future. We have all alon
given the same advice, we all know tbs
the remedy to be sure must be speedily ar
piled; it is our province only to advise,
belongs to others to act. Would that Henr
Wilson had the same power to act that h
has wisdom to advise, and then his and o,
hope for the future would be realized.
: however, his counsels are rejected, as sim
lar counsels have been in times past, thel
i indeed, is the republican party in articu
u morris. We commend the Vice President
words of wisdom to the careful considers
, ton of the administration and of the repu
u lican majority in congress and ask them
S act at once, if not for the country's SAX
y then for the interests Of the republics
l. party and that it may be saved from iisel
II TiltOn.
:, Mr. Beach ex-Judpe Fullertnn NJ