Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
Political JOttlngs.

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GovERNoR CHAMBERLAIN is on at Wash
ington to talk over South Carolina with the
President.
The New York World is advising demo
Gratis to "stand firm" It is temperance
movement
The Nichols legislature of Louisiana has
adopted resolutions commencing the South
ern policy of President Hayes.
THE official count of votes in the first dis |
trict of New Hampshire, reflects Frank |
Jones, democrat, by forty-dve majority.
THE position of assistant secretary Of state
has been offered to Frederick Seward, son
of William II. Seward, and has been accepted
by him
They think it will be an eloquent Cabi-
net, if nothing else. 1t is not often that in
seven men there are found four such orators
as Eyarts, Schurz, Deyens and Thompson.
IT doesn't help man to be relative of
the Presidents but it helps the President
when he refuses to appoint his relatives to
Office Nepotism is not popular with the
people.
VICE-PREsIDENT WHEELER is the sixth
New Yorker who has held that office. Preyi-
Gus to him were Aaron Burr, George Clinton,
Daniel d. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, aud
Willard Fillmore. This is greater number
than appears from any other state.
The malicious suit which some of ex-
Secretary Bristow's enemies brought sSaiaStu,
him in the District of Columbia courts, un-
| der the pretense that he had secured the
payment by the Court of Claims OF fraud
ulent mule claim was summarily dismissed
on Saturday.
The Washington correspondents follow
the new President closely enough. One tel
egraphs to the Philadelphia Times: Hayes
broke through another of the court rules of
etiquette by walking over to Garfed's house
last Wednesday afternoon, ringing the bell
and walking in to consult that surprised
leader of the House. The plan under the
Grant regime would have been to send for
Mr.. Garfield to call and see him. Hayes
jocularly remarked upon it, after his return,
as being quite relief to stretch his legs
ALTHOUGH not particularly friend of ex-
President Grant, nor of his administration,
the New York Evening Post has this kind
word to say of him "The President has
lived frankly in the general eye. His biog-
rapher will have no secret faults to expose,
no underhand political schemes to describe.
The President has taken the whole people
into his confidence even in respect to his
most annoying blunders. We believe that
when party passion has abated this conf.
dence will be repaid with generous popular
regard"
The country will not deeply mourn Mr.
Camerons retirement from the Senate. lie
is veteran politician and nothing more
He is profoundly shocked and grieved at the
Presidents conduct. 81 feel Inundated,
he is reported to have said. lie could moi
endure the unpleasantness of arranging the
, Pennsylvania postoffces with Mr.. Key, 8
former rebel, but his son Don, late secretary
of war, is now out of business; he is
younger man, and can bear up better undel
these severe Affections So Cameron senioi
retires, and Cameron junior has his place.
The record of the new Postmaster-Gen
= eral, since the war, shows him in favorable
light. When the struggle was ended hi
! animosities seem to have been buried IL
!, was born in Green county, Tennessee, Jan
e uary Goth, 1924 graduated at Hiwassie Col
a lege in 1850 and has long been recognized
e as one of the ablest lawyers of Tennessee
n He commanded an East Tennessee regimen
d in the confederate army, and was a GOO
e soldier He was appointed Senator to fl
= the vacancy caused by Andrew Johnson
: death. He is liberal thinking democrat.
/ THE Louisville COWier-JoWnai has tn
following: "Judge Key will be sustained b
the best part of the South in accepting
position in President Hayes Cabinet. Her
: and there in the South may lie found som
- person or journal that will raise an outer
~ against such a step, but, for the most par
l. such objections will come from those VIII
L have some personal objection against judy
:, Key because of past political difference, o
u from some hot-heads who discover in til
70 event an opportunity for popular agitation
u The South is not so mad as to reject owe
'e lures of Cancellation.
i THE following is from the speech of Co
Ingersoll "The President took the rigl
hand of the North and put it into the rigl
a hand of the South and said, Let us
II friends. We parted at the lannon's moutl
If we were divided by the edge of the drippir
If sword We must become acquainted agai
- We are all citizens in government of til
n people for the people, by the people, an
i there shall not be a down-trodden elias
m whether white or black. To this fea
ia every child of the republic shall be invited
ne 1t was a grand thing grandly done. If IL
,c President succeeds in his policy it will
is an immense compliment to his brain. If
20 fails it will be an equal compliment to
heart"
THE first week of Hayes administratic
" has settled one thing-he is not to be he
mt in leading strings by any one. Wheth
no his administration is to be success or
,st failure, it will be stamped with his own i
w dividuality throughout, and those, if SUE
of there were, who hoped to see him a me
he puppet in the hands of some leading po
tn ticiaus are most bitterly disappointed. ii
Dr. "amiable stubbornness has thus far co
es- quered all opposition, while the policy
to has announced is received with unmistak
BILE favor by the people everywhere, regar
less of party. In its first week the ne
OF administration has gained a prestige tn
as will do much toward making it a succe
cy throughout.
i' AND now the Philadelphia Times, viii,
Wy has printed very bitter censures upon e
&C. President Grant, applauds the suggestion
TO- his appointment as minister to Great Br
'ss ain. The Times says; n he man who h
ia reached the highest rank ever created in t
w. army by his own achievements, and h
iiS twice been chosen to the highest civil tn
of the government, should not be sent in
.rd retirement. President Hayes would hon
ew his administration and honor the count
is by promptly rendering the mission to Graz