Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-01-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Especial Correspondence Of tie Sentinel ]
WASHINGTON, D. c., jan. II, 1871.

WASHINGTON, D. c., jan. II, 1871.
Congressional proceedings the past week
were Of no public Importance, nothing but
routine matter being INDUCED in by either
House, both wings Of the Capitol evidently
waiting for reports from the investigating com
mittees in the South. Every important com
mittee having from TWO TO five of its members
either absent from the city or assigned to spe-
cial duty, ii is almost impossible to secure a
quorum Of the Senate or House.
The readers of the SENTINEL will do US the
justice to admit that for weeks we have tried
to demonstrate to them that Grant and The
leading Radicals in and out Of Congress con
template a revolution, and that they will put
Hayes into the White House, if necessary, by
force Of arms, though the majority against him
may be ever so Urge. We have appealed to
congressman both Democratic and Republic
can, 10 come forward and save thed2epublic
by simply lifting their voices so rs to arouse
the people from their lelhargic state. We
have called attention TO the unusual and I'M
necessary accumulation Of troops around the
Capitol, and almost begged them to compel
Grant to remove his threatening bayonets and
seems our appeals have met with deaf ears
70 the country he Counting in" Of Hayes
and his Inauguration, by overriding the House
of Representatives with military force, would
be an immense disaster. The attempt to count
in Hayes has already cost the country in the
stoppnge Of business, in the enforced pauper
ism Of laboring people and the general decline
in values, at least one thousand millions Of
dolars.
Ia the event OF a row on the 4th Of March
next we are told that the Governor Of Penn
sylvania with 20, 600 organized and equipped
volunteers, stands ready TO take sides with the
Grant usurpaiion If such be his intention,
would ii not be well for him. as well as % Die
alor Grant TO see about this equipment bus
mess ? In Ohio we have 80 company organ
zalions and 8, 900 stand of arms, and it hap
pens jus. now that New York Mary land and
Virginia are each better provided with arms
than Gov. llartranft's Pennsylvania militia
Fully one-half Of the enrolled militia of Ohio
is Democratic The Democratic States aboni
the Capitol have nearly 100 900 soldiers, with
improved orms and full regmcnial organza-
lions to say nothing of New York, and we
will back the District of Columbia up 10 take
care Of Grants troops now here.
The hearty cheers given by U S. soldiers in
New Orleans when the militiamen passed the
custom-house, VINE on their way to jackson
Square 10 take possession Of the public build
ngs and inangrste the Nichols government.
shows how much Dictator Grant can rely on
his soldiers.
The "Bombastic-furioso" speech Of Sherman
in the Senate yesterday amounted 10 and
had as little weight and indeed was listened
to with so little respect, even by his ow n party
that ii deserves no more than q passing notice
from US, MS he was so ably contradicled at
every material point by Democratic Senators
that, in common parlance, his props were
knocked from under him completely
By way Of conclusion, we take the liberty
Of propounding he latest American Centennial
conundrum, and will give TO any one Of the
numerous readers Of the SENTINEL life-sze
chrome portrait Of the next President OF the
Urited States that solves the problem Sup
pose Grant should die before the 4h Of March
and the Senate should recognize HAYES and
the IIouse should elect Tilden and the Indians
should scalp Sheridan, and the House should
mpeach Sherman, and the bull-dozers should
capture Don Cameron, and the European war
should homoogate Sccor Robson and the
Supreme Court should 90 crazy over the com
plicalions, then who would be President?
nEMoCRITgs