Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-05-19

PRiNG TIME AT THE cAPITAL-NyEsTIcATio
AND INPEACHMENT-Tnr PRESIDENTIAL


CANVASS.
WASHINGTON. May y, 1870.
To the Editor OF the Free Press and Tiees
Spring has come, almost with bound,
to this city the air is bland. the sky is
genial, the verdure is suddenly abundant,
and all the airy spaces are full of pleasant,
happy sounds. When King Arthur suffered
under the influence Of giant wizard, and
could not be released therefrom until Sir
Galahad married the one-eyed ,haggish sister
Of the giant, things looked rather hopeless
for the King and his Knight Of the Round
Table. Bat, a. Yoltaire has said. might
discovers all secrets" and Sir Galahad
found las may other mem that marriage
released his bride from al deformities, and
gave to him at once a princess supremacy
fair. So few days since Washington was
a city brown and cold aud moody in many
ways, and no Sir Galahad came to make
bride Of her. But one night May came
with a sorrowing rain, as the knight went
saddened to his bride, and at lie next dawn
the city was in bloom, "a thing Of beauty
and Joy" And now there Is no ioveller
city bride Of the season and princess Of the
land
And vet remember certain country
beauty with regret-a city in the midst of
more beautiful scenery. with broad, blue
ezpanse Of lake, dotted with some islands,
and not far away the inspiriting vision Of
mountains This scmi-Southern city Is
a little voluptuou- with "a SAINT
ne-s Of beauty not unpleasant, and in
May really superb but there are wanting
the elements Of yigor which give foreground
and background u the " Queen City OF
Vermont for here VIC can never look up to
heights around which the winds trumpet,
nor out upon a St0rm-smitten lake. There
is always something wanting in scenery
which has DO mountains. as there i- DO com
pctc Ig,d-capo without water
THF INFE-rIlAIIo> WILL
Whether the blandue-~ o. the season has
come over our legislators. or some other
reason lies ut the bottom, Jle fact has be-
come apparent that the great Investigation
mill is grinding very slowly. After rnnuInc
over four months. viii some one be good
enough % sam up the amount OF It's valuable
rri,t2 Has is accomplished half as much as
the mill managed hv Republicans. turned
out 40 time when there Wa work of the
kind necessary L. be- done Dla the Re
uuh'icau Cunrre-sc~ ever hesitate 10 expose
CORRUPTION and punish il. wherever found.
and Do not the Democrats st1T snort when
thoy come o. thc traces of their own wrong
doing Oi all the accusation made hy the
r-c4- araiu~. prominent men. from iuiorma-
U1n Furnished hy these d" -mnt-committcc-.
how many have been sustained When the
object of these invest CATIONS is remembered.
il must DE clnies-cl tnlr nearly all have i--
naaIv failed They talela- O. the President,
the Secretary of the Navy. the Secretary Of
the Treasury. tle Po-tma-Ier-Gcn the
Interior Department., General ~elenck.
the Real Estate Pool the DE-
tric- Commissioners and in mos, oi
;gc charges thrr -et living clnccrnu-
irdlyiiua.- like Blaine Morton. d.
Nichols. and members I'd the B1a-i of
Ha,ih And they have spent more tlan o
million dollars 8. tArseu character sul
make political capital. Without political
cla-acter Itself. tao democratic ri-rV can
oniv succeed hv lelraeuou. LIS something
o. make the blood t.. with Indignation. 81
see men whose .-Valitica. ii~ahaIae- have
been removed stand un and accuse those
who only hal the power AMI me-.T g ~
move thcm a. a manner oi clrrer1ian and