Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-12-24
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
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WAsH1NaroN. Dec. II. 1877.

ASHlNdTON, OcC. IL, AOiss
In view of the charges of deliberate
murder that have followed
Hamburg Butler into the United State
Senate, his intense solicitude to be in
vestigated concerning the relatively i'm
portant matter of corrupt bargain be-
tween himself and Patterson whereby
the latter bound himself to vote and
work for his (Butler's) admission, is GER
tainly very suggestive of the gastrono-
mic inconsistency of straining at a gnat.
whereas any number of camels of the
most astonishing bulk were previously
swallowed at one gulp. without the sus-
picion of grimace to indicate that deg
Tuition in that instance was rather
painful or unpleasant. The resolution
looking to an investigation was introduce
ed Saturday; but the request of Thur
man and other apologists for an immen-
diate consideration, in the few moments
left the Senate before the holiday ad-
journment, was objected, to and it goes
over as unfinished business. Whatever
doubt existed as to the truth of the al
legged bargain. has been dispelled in the
minds of many by the action of the '.re-
FORM Democratic South Carolina Leg
islature in ordering the discontinuance
of all prosecutions against Patterson,
thus condoning his alleged crimes. So
far as can be learned, the talk between
General Ce.kling and Gordon last Fri
day came about in this way. Gordon
had urged taking up nomination out
of its order, and its rejection, because
it was not approved by the two Senators
from Georgia Gordon and HilD. With
out addressing any one in particular
Mr.. Conkling remarked; Oh, let US 60
on with the calendar. Gordons 'honor"
was at once wounded and in an insult
ing tone he accused the New Yorker of
debating to the Vice President. Mr..
Conkling then addressed the chair, and
pointing to the man with lacerated hon.
or, affirmed tho statement to be false.
The Southern heart was at once fired,
and the Senate was appalled, by the
words of deadly import that Mr.. Conk-
ling might as well attend at once to
those mundane matters requiring his
personal Suppression, including, as suppos-
ed, his last will and testoment, as he
had got to be settled with for his i'll
advised utterances. Flying directly in
the face of Providence, Conkling de.
clared his readings to pass the trying
ordeal then and there; but Georgia in
an ominously sepulchral tone, intimated
that the process would be of such q
shocking character that the Senate
chamber was no place for the enactment
of such tragedy as was certain to com,
!, off. Now Mr.. Gordon's language wa
susceptible of only one construction
namely a duel. If that was not it
purport then it must be accepted as tn
frothy vaporings of bully. Tn
matter furnished topic for much ex
!, cited conversation and speculation 70
), the next "a hours but mutual friends
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cation of the wounded honor" by en-
tering at large on to Legislative jour
nal of the Senate statement to the Ell
feet that the heat wolved was who'll
!, due to misunderstanding, which wa
subsequently explained, satisfactorily t
! all concerned. 1t will be regarded b
many as pretty small hole for lettin
Mr.. Gordon out of very ugly predics
=. ment into which his staggering plar
tation manners had betrayed him.
is too late by fully 20 years to attemE
: the rufian regime here at the Nation;
Capital. After the civilizing and chris
tianizing influences which superseded
= at the beginning of the war. such re
rograde movement would be abhorrer
to all but the comparatively few WI
still refer to that period, anterior to tt
war, when men, women and childre
r. were marched, through the streets
r the slave pen and auction block, iii
s. so many cattle on their way to Il
II shambles, '.as the good old. times"
: Democratic rule. The victim of Sen
s. tor Conkling in the matter of Arth,
at and Cornell, as collector and Naval O
g. fcer at New York, and the rejection
- Roosevelt and Prince by whom it w
ar sought to supercede them, is regards
b. In the light Of personal triumph of Il
ut Senator over Evarts, George Villa
" Curtis and others of that faction WI
have sought to wound him, and in t
Is. process have only Inundated themselvt
sis 1t is noticeable that Mr.. Conkling car
lr- fully abstained from any reflection
#. upon the President in his eloquent a
of peal for justice, that would have barr
at the way to reconciliation. 1t is thong
a however, very generally here, that
all full restoration of harmony betwe
Id Republican Senators and the VIII
"a House. will necessarily be preceded
sh two or three Cabinets changes, One
m the gratifying results of the present s
90 natinn IL the ranorted burial of