Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-09
w hStths Paper Say.

or course direct examination j. not
cross examination, and the Titon parry
base high hope upon tie battling tactics oi
Fullerton when il comes 10 that. Bat Mr.
Beecher j. no chicken; his = one Of the
strongest. c.eaTest. most perfectly trained
minds 10 the world, in fullest possession
OF ~ re-oufrs-, aud We shall lie very much
surprised II { lie cTO-s examination weak
eus, 10 any important respect. his tessimO-
ny. II i dOes not. then according to the
frequent assertions 81 the Tiiton uapers
that no false story could endure FulleFtHn's
analysis. the inference - 800 lie overss heinz
Ing that Nj. Beecber tells the truth
Springfield Taios.
Probably investors have >sen the last of
high rates Of interes: or profits for some
years TO come. Even should business re-
gain fair level Of prosperity il is a com
mon belief tina; the high profits that have
ruled since the war will giTe place 10 more
moderate returns. Prices and profits will
90 down together, and We shall work along
on less nhated plan, snd he just a. hap
py, no doubt We have got through the
long period Of feverish business activity
that began with the war, and who i not on
the whole glad OF IL? For two or three
years preceding the present depression the
business prosperity Of the country had
been forced prosperity kept up by slim
ulants. The end ought to have come be-
fore it did. Men got rich before the war
and viii get Ticd il the future, but not al
The railroad speed with which fortunes
have been acquired in the past ten wears.
Nothing in the history OF tie country has
had 50 demoralizing an effect on its morals
a. this money making by express. 1t has
turned the nation into gam blers and filled
our markets and counting houses with the
feverish atmosphere OF the casino. Moth
ing, on the other hand, would exert 80
deep and powerful an influence, to tone
down and improve the public manners and
morals and the temper Of the American
mind, as such a change in the business
level a. seems likely to be the issue Of the
present bong heprcs-iOn.-SP,IH Tn
ION.
In short. Grant is not Likely to be avail
able as a candidate in 1875, and we do not
sec why we should coucern ourselves par
ticulsrly about his aspirations, any more
than those Of score Of men who unques-
tionably have aspirations after that very
hard and uneasy chair of the Executive a,
Washington. Why doesn't somebody in
sist on Dir. Blaine or Mr. COnkling or Mr..
Morton giving vent TO thar aspirations or
their want OF aspiration? Doubtless if
they were to do 50, they would make them
may have been about their intention 10
capture The convention aud carry the suf-
frages OF the people Of these United States
by storm. IL j. a curious fact that The news
papers and individuals who are most anx-
lous TO know whether the President pro-
poses to be the next Republican candidate,
are not themselves Republicans, and il
might be pertinent to inquire what busi-
ness of theirs it is whom the Repu blicsns
select for a candidate. They merely want
a man to defeat, and IL he il the easiest man
TO defeat, as they sometimes intimate, why
should they not on the whole prefer him?
We suppose the process viii! be for the two
parties to name their candidates, selecting
men who they have reason 10 believe will
win the largest support, and then for the
people to elect one Of these, If they like Ell
Their OF them. 1t will hardly be for the in
tSrcsts Of either party in convention to put
up a man ihai they have no hope Of elect
ing, and il either Of them put up one whom
a msjority Of the people will support he
will he elected. A majority of the people
are TO decide this matter, whoever the can
didates may be. How different men IN the
country may feel about il, or what their in
tentions or ambition may be, is OF small
consequence. The people are to settle this
thing, not General Grant or any other am
bilious mqn.-BOsfOR Globe.