St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-02-09
Public Opinion.

t Public Opinion.
1t was Salmon p. Chase who first salt
"The way to resume specie payment
is to resume" Does anybody doub
that if he were now alive he would Civ,
the most energetic encouragement t,
President Grants proposal to do jus
that thing9 Here is gold towering
about SlO5. On one or two days this
week IA decline of four per cent. in the
premium would have practically equal
lied gold and greenbacks. The bal.
ance of trade is in our favor Business
is so dull that the slight jar and shrink.
age of the plunge to hard rock would
hardly be felt.-N. Y. Tribune.
Arbitration is good thing, when you
know your arbitrator. The electoral
commission seems to have been favor
ably regarded by many democrats when
they supposed that Judge Davis would
have the casting vote, and they ex-
perienced thrill of dislike for it when
he was taken out of the way by his
election TO the Senate. They have lost
enthusiasm for the plan. This change
is great injustice to both Judge Davis
and Judge Bradley, for it suppOses that
both of them would act like partisans
rather than dicially.-Hdrtt0rd COur-
ant, Republican.
The almost absolute decision of the
Presidential question is left to Judge
Joseph T. Bradley, ii partisan to whom
his party never looked in vain. Hayes
being counted in, the frauds by which
this result is established will be covered
with the quasi mantle of the supreme
court; and if Tilden should possibly be
declared elected, the republican party
will yet have been preserved. The
gain to the republicans in this electoral
bill is something immense and unparal-
leled, while the democrats have been
slgnally circumvented. The democratic
House of Representatives had the de-
termination of this great question in
their own hands; and nov it is in the
hands of Joseph P. Bradley.-N Y. Sun,
Democrat.
The democratic newspapers are ex-
tremely anxious just now that every
body should hold party subordinate to
! country. We suggest that they begin.
Troy Times, Republican.
L would buy those fellows 1.-THE Louisi-
ana returning board) as readily as |
would pigs, as the interests of forty
millions of people ale at stake. These
are the sentiments of Gambler Nor
rissey.
One of the best things said in either
House in the debates on the Electoral
Bill. was this, by General Garfield
1--WE have been told to-day in this
Chamber that there is danger of civil
war if the bill does not pass. [ was
amazed at the folly which could use
such a suggestion as an argument in
favor of this or any other measure.
When you tell me that civil war is
threatened by any party or state in this
republic, you have given me a supreme
reason why an American Congress
should refuse with unutterable scorn. to
listen to those who threaten, or do any
act whatever under the coertion of
threats by any power on the earth.
With all my soul despise your threat
of civil war, come it from what quarter
or what party it may. Brave men, GER
tainly brave nation, will do nothing
under such compulsion. We are in
trusted with the work of obeying and
defending the Constitution. will not
be deferred from obeying it because
some one threatens to DESTROY if. ri
dismiss all that class of motives as un-
worthy of Americans
Referring to the florida case. Senator
Sherman says that, as the evidence
stands, Gov. Hayes has a sure case 4:
but if the commission conclude to 90
behind the returns, he is confident that
the case will be made still stronger.
and the republicans ale therefore not
opposed TO their doing so. The dis
cussion in such an event would in all
probability last till the 4th of March.
When asked what, in that case, would
be the result, he said 'Why, that
makes the president of the Senate the
next president of the United States.-
Washington Dispatch.
What would any patriotic American
have said, in 1865, had he been told
that, not IL years after Abraham Lin
coin was assassinated by a democratic
open sympathisers with re-
bellion like Charles O'Coner of New
Y ork and j. S. Black of PennsvIvania
would boldly appear in the supreme
court of the United States, demanding
from that body the declaration of the
election of another sympathiser of trea-
SON as president of the United States
F0rney.
Judge Black does not conceal his be-
lief that the verdict of the commission
will be against his party. His speech,
Saturday, is generally said to be fail ,
Ire. He seems conscious of this HIM
'elf, and intimates that his heart is not ;