Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-16
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MONTPELIER VT.
WEDNESDAY. MAY 16, 1877.
A Quiet Summer.

A Quiet Summer.
The course of the president in not in
Aicting session Of Congress upon the cour
try during the hot months will be approx
ed by the good sense of the country. Flo
year and halt to say the least there ha
been the noise of contention in the land
The eloquent Blaine waved his letters i
the air or the bounding Beebe pranced up
on his desk to the great distraction of tn
minds of persons who needed to hav
them upon their ordinary business matters
There is to be from these things rest.
The American people can get along YER
we'll with u little less Congress they will
find. The men who want railroad pro
iects carried through, and rely upon the
aid of legislators who themselves feel tina
they will not prove dead heads in the en-
terprise, will feel badly, but the average
citizen will get much satisfaction in attend
ing to his own business that does not de
pend on an appropriation.
There are good many things that will
work themselves into better state with
out the excitement of political discussions
The democratic party and u large part o.
the republican party had good deal to
say about reform last year. 1t is true
good many who mouthed the word have
forgotten even the sound of it, which was
I'LL they ever cared about it. There is tot
cradle certainty that the President and
his advisers have quite an anxiety to know
if the public business cannot be carried on
cheaper and better. The examination
into the conduct of the New York custom
house and other kindred Something's are
indicative of quiet ovcrhauling of things
that will, we hope, leave the public SER
vice in better shape-with more of bust
ness and less of politics in it.
Then, too, the new departure as 10 fed.
eral interference in the southern states will
have shown its fruits by the fifteenth of
October. 1t ought to have as long time
to develop itself as an ordinary corn crop
has. The new policy has against it all the
dense prejudice and rowdy brutality of the
whiskey drinking classes ofthe south in this
way-fellows who have no respect for law
or life will be from time to time col Getting
in bands and committing those ouiragcs
which half civilized frontier has in COM
mon with half civilized communities found
scattered throughout the south and west.
These acts of the reckless classes can
be largely controlled by firm action on the
part Of state governments, and it will be
by the exertions made by the educated and
law-abiding citizens of the south to up
hold an energetic prosecution of all this
class of offenders that the judgment Of
the country as to the presidents success or
or failure in his policy will be made up.
There are men in South Carolnl who do
not care for Wade Hampton Or anybody
else except so long as they lead in the d.
rection these men want to 60, There are
many of these fellows who, in spite OF
Hampton and his government, may be ex-
pcctcd to do brutal things in brutal way.
The country will have time to Judge calm
ly whether this sort of thing has the APP
proval of the better men of the south. The
late Mississippi tragedy was partly politi-
Cal and partly an old-fashioned southern
feud, and altogether the sort of thing that
every southern state will find its account
in condemning, furnishing and roofing out.
The bowie knife, the shotgun and the re-
volver should be banished from politics
and from society.
While we are to have political quiet
there is every prospect that the producing
classes will be able to sell grain and other
things for more money than they have
been able to get for some time. The war
will be of much more benefit to the west
ern than the eastern states, but in a mere
business view it can hardly fail to be Of
some benefit to all parts of the country.
But without reference to the good OF bad
effects of the war, there are indications Of
better business rather than poorer. The
foreign importations, sales from factories
and various other signs indicate a slow re.
vival of business which this winter and
spring seems to have run down" to Il
very low degree.