Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-12-20
Press Comments.


II the smouldering fires of revolution
burst into a devouring flame, it will be in a
great measure because the Nation, the
Springfield Republican, and other journals
Of their class have done so much, under the
cloak Of independence" to infiame the
prejudices and passions of the people, and
kindled the incendiarism Of the democratic
party Orange (NJ Journal.
MEANWHILE, two facts are clear First,
that IIampton's pretended election having
failed to be ratified by the Senate, lacks, on
any theory of the position Of parties, the
semblance of legal regularity; and second
that no proceeding 10 Dust Governor Cham
berlain under petition quo mardnto can be
attempted without the acknowledgment
that he is in actual occupation of the office
The further Wade Hampton and his parti-
sans advance in their path of lawlessness
the more impossible will it become for them
to maintain the pretensc that their policy is
not that Of organized revolution.-Neu York
Tunes.
IlAMPToN's inaugural was delivered in
loud tone Of voice, that could be heard by
all, and was pausibly-constructed address,
intended for the Northern market but after
the Northern people have read its smooth
phrases about guaranteeing the civil rights
Of people of South Carolina, without dis
tinction of race or color, they will do well to
suspend their judgment until they get the
evidence that will be taken before the SEN
guaranteed by the democratic party here at
the last election. The commentary on
llamptons inaugural, which this evidence
will furnish, will be a great deal more i'm
pressive than the speech delivered here to-
day --Cnlumbin Correspondence Nee FORK
Times.
TuE democratic managers of the House
of Representatives will now have two full
months in which to concoct and arrange
their plans for preventing the Inauguration
of the men elected by the people as Presi-
dent and Vice-president. But of one thing
they may rest assured-that no extent of
usurpation on their part will accomplish
that purpose. The best thing TO be done is
peacefully and quietly to acquiesce in such
result and not undertake to re-enact the
rebellion by which, sixteen years ago they
sought to break up the government they
sanlI oAptipna 10, ka
can people have had enough of that sort of
"bull-dozing," and they would not be very
patient under its repetition-7 'oledo (Ohio)
Blade
GENERAL BARLow's report ton the Florida
election) throws before the country in the
strongest possible light the vital issue of the
whole dispute-the very issue upon which,
in the end, the decision will probably turn
namely, this Shall the decision of official
bodies, required by law and sworn to ascer-
tain the truth, be set aside by partisan clamor,
or er parie evidence, or incorporate asser-
tions, or yerdicts based upon partisan in.
quiries and warped by partisan wishes ? In
all this discussion no one has made it so
clear as General Barlow has that the most
careful observer, acting with the strictest
judicial impartiality, must have found grave
difficulty in answering the questions sub
mitted to the returning boards of the dis.
puted states.-New York Tribune
II seems that Mr. llewitt's pronuncia
mento was merely the tail end of an elabor.
ate address to the people which had been
prepared under the direction of the inven
tive Chairman of the National Democratic
Committee. Greatly to Mr.. IIewett's chagrin
the publication of his lengthy and eloquent
manifesto was stubbonly resisted by mos,
of his colleagues on the committee, and
greatly to the disgust of large number Of
sensible democrats, the matter was com
promised by issuing the ridiculous procla
nation of the election of Tildeu and Hen
bricks. Mr.. Hewitt thinks that serious
reflection has been thrown on his judgment
in the committees refusal TO give to tn,
people their reasons for believing that Til
den was elected, though it does not appear
TO have occurred to him that it was an in.
suit to the common sense of the American
people to make any such announcement
with or without detailed reasons ~ y
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