Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-08

from the various papers Of the day. showing the d Of pub
lie opinion all topics Of current interest," irrespective Of
creed or party wish readers know what the poo
pie think and say Of passing events
Adam and Eve we're favored in one par
ticular. They hadn't to wait fortnight for
election returns-T'urnerS Falls Reporter.
If the attempt 10 hold a portion Of our
country under military rule is persisted in,
il will end in the destruction OF the republic.
The Late Chief Justice Chase. .-.-.-.s
II the republican party adopt and push
the policy now urged by certain rash leaders,
there will not be q fragment Of itleit when
the people get chance to vote it into exile
and disgrace.-Gen. Butler.
Can the republicans afford to give the
democrats the advantage which they have
given them in South Carolina Can the re.
publicans afford TO be not only wrong but
ridiculously wrong ?-Ne'o York Euening
| Post. i
Mr.. Blaine is making prodigious efforts to
prevent re-opening of the investigation Of
his railroad jobbery and, through his friends,
is trying 0 induce men who know the facts
to let up on him, but the prospects are not
favorable for him. - Washington Dispatch.
There is talk in Washington even Of
Blaine's coming out in the role Of an honest
politician, aud objecting to the Louisiana
process for making Hayes president. 1t will
be wise thing for him to do, but it isn't
quite in his lino.-Sprinqfeld Republican.
The ballot is better means of redress
than the bayonet. If any great wrong is
clearly done, it will be remembered by all
good citizens of broad, impartial views, and
il will be punished at the earliest opportuni-
| ty. We pity the party that shall dare to
build its transient success upon unrighteous
foundations. Christian Register.
The real mistake in South Carolina on
Tuesday was in setting United States troops
to do the work of policemen. 1t was moi
their business to guard the state house--not
their business to grant admission to the leg
islative chambers, to examine certificates oil
election, to receive orders from doorkeepert
or clerks of the last house.-N Y. Tribune
The people Of South Carolina have good
reason to dread another term of Chamber
lain as governor. 1t is to him, more thar
to any other man, that their deplorable con
dition is due for from his first appearance
in the state as penniless adventurer to thu
present time, he has been the real leader anC
chief of the vultures who have fattened upoI
her misfortunes.-N Y. Sun.
have never in my life said an il.naturet
word of President Grant, and l would b.
the first man to shoulder musket now Il
I defend the inauguration of Gov Hayes, i
! he were elected even by an honest majority
of one vote but, if President Grant perse
veres in interrupting the lawful courseof thing
in South Carolina, we must impeach him.
Congressman LuttreU of California.
The Louisiana board go on as though they
really believed that the republican party il
the north was as lost to all sense of decenc,
and fair play as themselves. They do no
appear to see that they are making it impoS
sible for Gov. Hayes, who is a reputabl
a citizen with character to lose, to accept tn
presidency at their hands.--NeO Yorl
, Heard. .... ...
|, From Louisiana we have the same oil
story, and the same end is steadily kept i
view by the Kellogg returning board. Either
Y has been one manly act on doubtful or dis
, puted point that the board has done to in
spire confidence in its integrity, we cannO
), now recall it, while each days history of it
sitting is blistered with the most coward
o or violent outrages upon both truth and JUS
tice.-Phladelphta Times.
, The whrlgig of time is becoming particu
larlY malicious, of late. Two years agt
Mr.. William A. Wheeler was one of cor
Q gressioual committee which found the Loui:
o lana returning board corrupt, possibly illega
] dangerous, and very bad lot generally
6 Now Mr.. Wheeler is looking to tina
same board to make him vce-presider
of the United States. 1t is not strange tina
b he maintains vigorous silence on the que!
s tion.-Pr0Uidence Star.
c If the northern people are willing to Sc
, our republican system of government Mex
canized by handful of Enthusiastically pc
iticians, their will be done. We can stan
It it, if they can. We have stood much an
G can stand more But let there be no mol
q talk of free ballot.box if this conspirac
d, achieves success. Let there be no NOR
- drivel about the people correcting the ev
s. four years hence by civil process.-LOui
i UMe Courier Journal.
10 The only difference between these PR
e ceedings IN South Carolina and those in Lol
| isana two years ago is that in the first ca,
. the troops were used to drive members CLAIM
II ing seats out of the state house, while the
y are used now to keep them from coming i
1t and that there is not in this case the Sigh
It est foundation for the pretense that there
a any domestic violence in the state. TT
people in South Carolina are displaying gre
moderation and self.control under circur
s. stances which put these qualities to as S
j. we're test as any community accustomed
l. free government was ever tried by.-T
Nation.
1t is also to be noted that just now mar
d prominent republicans. men whose republ
o canism is Of the DID, original kind, men wi
!. whom Gov. Andrews was wont to consult al
. who were the friends and supporters Of Sun
) ner and Wilson in the old days of the spar
g of moral IDEAS" and who have RENAME
l. within the party, giving their money al
r, their time in support Of Gov, Hayes durir
; the recent canVass-it is to be noted, we sa
that many men of this stamp do not hesita
- to say that it would, under all the circuE
ID stances of the case, DO better for the count
10 and for the republican party to have NJ
,s Tilden declared successful.-BOStOA Ira,
l.. script.
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