Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-12-13
Political lettings.

ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS says calmly.
al want peace more than anything else. |
shall threaten nobody
TuE New York Herald admits that I" it
is altogether probable that Governor Hayes
will he the next President"
JoHN MoRRIssEY has declared off all the
pools sold in his house on the direct result
Of the Presidential election.
or Tilden's one hundred and eighty-four
| electoral votes, one hundred and nineteen
came from states lately in rebellion.
Tnr New York Tribune says; ain spite
Of Oregon il won't be waste of time to
practice on saying President Hayes"
Amour one-thrd Of all the money staked
in the Boston pool boxes on the result Of
the Presidential election has been returned.
Tur Tribune says as the House Of
Representatives competent to elect Presi-
dent unless three candidates at least have
been voted for by the Electoral College
BIS llILL told his associates in the demo
cratic caucus that the men who are now
talking of boodshed are those who were
"invincible in peace and invisible in war;
BosroN Globe: "The Hon. Abram S.
Hewitt has offered a chrome TO the Judge in
South Carolina or Florida who will claim
the most spacious jurisdiction"
Mn. HEwIrr and his brethren have Just
found out that President Grant can neither
be coaxed nor bullied. Everybody else dis.
covered it long ago. "Mr Grant is very
obstinate man."
TnE Brooklyn Union says: "SR~Tab-
lican desires the counting in of Hayes"
as the term is in the democratic sheets But
they are resolute that he shall not be counted
out by New York city politics made ma
tional'
TnE attempt to make Wade Hampton
martyr to his opinions, on account of the
burning of his sisters residence near Colum.
bia, has been abandoned. The building
was an old frame one, and those living in it
incline to believe that the flames caught
from defective stovepipe
IT is rumored that Tilden will issue
statement pledging himself never to accept
the Presidential chair by means Of any such
device as the Oregon affair, but that the
democratic claim rests on the right of the
party to the vote of Louisiana, and that on
that they will defend to the end
A GENTLEMAN having occasion to inter
view one of the distinguished visitors in the
democratic parlor at the st. Charles Hotel,
New Orleans, put his head in at the door
and asked, "Govemor, can | speak with you
a moment ?" Seven men Immediately rose
up and said Certainly, sir
ALBANY Journal: The mass of Republi.
cans would prefer defeat with honor rather
than victory stained by any fraud. They
will firmly claim all they have rightfully
won, and strenuously insist upon all their
just rights under the law-they will not
claim or accept anything more"
HERE is the difference. Governor Hayes
says ANY man fit to be President, or even
a candidate of a great party for the Office
would prefer to be counted out by fraud
rather than be counted in by fraud of which
there is a reasonable suspicion" Governor
Tilden says: " | guess we've got them this
time
THE President is indebted to the democrats
of both houses of Congress for the oppor
tunity to lay before the country the reasons
which induced him to order troops to various
points in the South. There is no doubt
that the action Of the President was fully
warranted in every case, and the facts are
such as the democrats would be only toe
glad to keep from the public
A DEMOCRATIC politician in Monroe
Louisiana, told friend in Aiexandria, be
fore the election, that the democrats haC
things fixed to carry the state. an tel
you how it is, said he, "the Republican,
have registered majority in my parish o
about one thousand five hundred but In
id if we shant carry it. We have go
the niggers badly scared, and mean to keel
them So The day after the election he re
ported by letter to his friend, as follows
"Ihe form Of an election icas gone hrougj
cih yesterday cery quietly. The negroes per'
roted chiefly By our old caisens."
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