Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-02

Special Correspondence.

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nations that their unreasonable and
lawless demands would not be met with
an unquestioned compliance. For many
days, indeed ever since the 9Th inst,
vague hints to the effect that Senator
Gordon, Hamburg. Butler and their CO.
adiutors, who have so constantly haunt
ed the White House, had in their pos
session an agreement signed by Senator !
Stanley Matthews, Charles Foster, M.
c., Secretary Sherman and General Gar
field, for the President and the Republi-
can party generally, STIMULATING that In
consideration of acquiescence in the de-
cision of the Electoral Commission by
Southern Democrats, Nicolls and Hamp-
ton were to be recognized, and the de.
voted Unionists of those states to whose
heroism the President was indebted for
his election, were to be turned over to
the tender mercies of their prosecutors, !
with no other guarantee of protection
than the pledges Of a few men, one OF |
whom is an Chief of Georgia Ku Klux.
and another only known for his leading
part in the atrocious, cold-blooded muir
der of several colored men, few months
since. That paper of the kind alleged
:: =. or:ako0oa fbara saamc no room To
doubt. But the President has, it is said,
repeatedly denied any knowledge of it
and of having ever authorized any one
to bargain in any shape or form for him.
Mr.. Sherman as emphatically repudiates
the whole matter, and General Gordon
states that the precious document is
guiltless of General Gar6eld's signature,
and since IV-~---A~tarmined to send
Commission to Louisiana, the wnoio
matter has become generally known
through the unsparing denunciatiOns of
the President, who is accused of duplic
lty and with repudiating his pledges,
this paper being instanced as proof.
1t has been the engrossing subject of
conversation in political circles. for the
past forty-eight hours, and productive
of no little excitement, and in many
quarters where Mr.. Blaine was almost
Hereby condemned, ls-h now cone to
be as warmly commended for his vigor-
Gus protest, probably founded upon a
knowledge of this damaging document.
At no time since the Cincinnati conven-
ton indicated its choice of candidates
has there been more general and implic-
it confidence in the Presidents patriot
ism, and in his determination to decide
all matters demanding his action upon
their equities and this early experience
will render him more than ever guarded
by indirect means commit him to any
particular line of action, which upon
more mature deliberation his judgment
, would disapprove as wholly wrong oil
unwise, whether they are we'll meaning
but indiscreet friends, or enemies in dis
,, gulse, seeking to take him at NEAR
disadvantage. The almost certain odium
which will fall upon members of the
mixed commission to be sent to Louisi
ana, appears to deter gentlemen whC
have been invited to become member:
from accepting, and ex Governor Brown
of Tennessee, is the only one of the mum
Der who has indicated his acceptance
, while several are reported to have de6n
itely declined. General credence would
have been accorded Vice President Vince
ler's findings had he consented to hav,
gone; but his declination is generally
commended under the circumstances, be
cause he could not have escaped tn,
wholesale denunciation that would hav,
been rained down upon him, regardless
of the facts upon which he founded hi
decision.
1t is generally believed that Chamber
: lain and Hampton will favorably responC
to the Presidents invitation, and boil
are soon expected here for the purpos
of comforting with each other and will
the President, with view to equitabl,
. adjust the disputed Gubernatorial sue
cession. Democrats here were at frs
: disposed to advise Hampton to remain
away, holding that he could legally Gus
his rivals through the Courts, so soon a
the troopssshould be withdrawn from tn
= Capitol but some of them, upon secon'
II .hnreht. shansAd thaIr views and ar
n now understood to be urging him t
: come.
It Among the many rumors prevalent, i
o one to the effect that General B. F. But
o Ter, by some chicanery, caused the as
d signment of Devens to the head of tn
d Judiciary Department instead of tn
6 War Department, as first intended an,
II that knowledge of this having come t
e the ears of the President, he will 500
direct change in accordance with th
original plan; also that Carl Schurz
n content with the honor of Cabinet ap
. pointment, will soon retire and receiy
the appointment of Minister to Berlin
q Many are predicting lively session o
~ Congress when it meets in June. The
% assert that should either Louisiana o
South Carolina has been decided agains
the Damocrntic cla,manta hafa=A Al