St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-27
Public Opinion.

Sef'S''''eNNNN
(Dem.)
The real Bourbonism of our political
era is to he found i'll New England. MI:
Hayess troubles, as peacemaker, VIII
come from the East, not from the South.
I-LOuiSUilLe Courier journal, (Dem.)
We notice that Senator Morton is not
telegraphing ''stalwarto letters. Nor
ton is ii man it is necessary to quarrel
with at times, but he always had good
deal of sense Cincinnati Commercial,
(Ind.)
Thus far, unquestionably, the Adj
ministration of President Hayes has
the cordial sympathy and support of
the most intelligent, humane, and patri-
otto sentiment OF the country. And
that is the surest and most lasting
fOundation.-Harper's Weekly (Rep.)
Nj. Blaine was not always so fiery
and untimed in his Southern policy.
good many Republicans out this way
do not forget that while Speaker of the
House he virtually defeated the Force
bill. Had that measure passed Con-
gress the present middle would have
been spared, for at least six Southern
states would have been saved from the
temporary triumph of the Mississippi
plan.-IndiGndpOliS Journal, (Rep.)
This is not new policy. 1t is an
old policy revived Mr.. Hayes takes
up the work of Abraham Lincoln, and
in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, where
he laid it Christian Union.
We venture this prediction Six
months will not elapse before every
opponent of Hayes's policy now in
office in Maine, will have given place
to IA bold and outspOken friend of the
administration. Fighting shy on the
part of the office-holders will not an
swer the purpose. Those who receive
the patronage of the administration will |
be called upon to advocate and sustain
Hayes's policy of pacitication. AS soon
as Mr.. Morrill's health will permit him
to take charge of the custom house in
Portland, the purgatiOn will begin
Bangor Commercial, (Dem.)
Secretary Sherman declares that, if
Congress will leave him alone, he will
bring about specie payments by the
first of January, 1879. This would
seem to be good opportunity for Con-
gress to keep its hands otf.-N. Y. TIi6-
une, (Ind)
Hayes keeps doing wrong. He APP
points acquaintance to Otfice-peOple
whom he likes and has confidence in.
This is as vicious as can be. If offices
must be filled he ought to appoint
either people whom he never knew be-
fore, or else his personal and political
enemies. Here he has appointed his
old ma iOr to the Melbourne consulShip.
This is dreadful. 1t recalls the condi-
ton of Rome in her decadence, and all
that.-Graphic.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams congratu-
lates Mr.. Tilden upon his dignitied
bearing, and says, 81 would never have
been recOnciled to the elevation, by the
smallest aid of mine, of Il person, how
ever respectable in private life, who
must forever carry upon his brow the
stamp of fraud first triumphant i'll Amer
lean history" That is just what a good
many Jackson men said when Mr..
Adams's father was made President by
the Clay electoral votes in 1924. The
alleged bargain followed Henry Clay
through life, and was one of the main
hindrances that kept him out of the
White HOuse.-BOStOn Transcript.
A meeting was held III Brooklyn last
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ticipate IN the memorial services of
Decoration Day.
Benz. b. Halleck, who was indicted
with Gilman for the larceny of S47 900
from tie United States Treasury, and
appeared us witness against Gilman,
has been released.
The Washington Star is authority for
the statement that the President is pre-
pairing message to be presented to
Congress recommending an apprOpria-
ton for the representation of this coun-
try ut the Paris Exposition.
A bill before the New York Legisla
ture provides that pr0prietOrs of hotels
and boarding houses must keep in all
sleeping rooms more than two stories
from the ground Il knotted rope, at least
thtee-ei9hths of an inch thick, ten feet
longer than the height of the windows
of such room from the ground. A fail
ure to provide such ropes shall lender
the proprietor of any hotel liable to a
pegalty of $50.
The Port Henry iron company tried
to explode the 5000 pounds of vigorite
1t has been placing i'll one Of its mines
at Minersville, n. Y, Thursday, and
had 300 guests to witness this spectacle.
but only $500 pounds of it went oft.
Philadelphia has another case similar
to that of Charlie Ross in the abduction
of Mary MaStersOn, seven years old, and
Mary Emerson has been arrested as one
of the abductols, but no trace of the
child can be found.
At the graduating exercises of the
Hartford high school, Friday, Whong
kai keb, one of the Chinese bows now
being educated i'll this country, took the
second prize in defamation over six
American competitors.
More outrages 10y Apache Indians are
reported i'll Southeastern Arizona. Set
tiers are murdered and stock stolen.
Messrs. Robert NJ and Stephen A.
Douglas, jr., sons of the late Stephen
A. Douglas, are now living in the
western part of North Carolina. The
Young Stephen is studying law with
Chiet-Justice Pearson of that State. He
is said to be Il young giant Intellectual
ly, and an eloquent orator
"The force is to he reduced to il bus
mess basis" say the Washington dis
patches. Now business basis is
proper sort of Il basis for the force to
be reduced to, but what business had
the force to get on any other sort of
basis?
This is melancholy. Democratic news
papers which have been most indecent
IN charging the President with obtain
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