Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12

In view of the war complications ncreas.
ing between Turkey, Russia and England,
great benefit would arise from the demand
for American cereals by the latter country,
and the railroads would profit thereby
Wal Street RerieiC.
1t is well worth thinking about whether
the security Of property and public morals
would not be benefited by the enactment Of
law requiring that every marriage should
be registered by proper public officers to
make it lcgal.-N Y. Sun.
But neither party can afford to violate
tho constitution or establish bad precedent
to secure temporary advantage. The ques-
ton of chief interest to-day is whether the
republican party in congress will adopt the
statesmanlike or the bread-and. butter view.
Boston Herald.
Some paragrapher got up right and first
and wrote as follows The smalness of the
negro vote in the southern states is doubtless
owing to the large number of the original
Georgia minstrel and Tennessee jubilee sing
er troops at present devastating the North"
No plan which finds support in the letter
or spirit OF the constitution in the declared
opinion its trainers, or in the practice or
precedents Of the government, or that will
stand the test Of time, can be adopted to
coult in Hayes-Seaator Gordon.
II safety for life and property, and free
dom Of speech and voting are secured ia the
South, that region will go upward with
bound. Its WORKOUT cotton fields will soon
be restored by the application Of skill capi-
tai and labor, and its new lands in Texas aud
Arkansas will be taken up with great rapid
ity by thrifty farmers.-N. Y. Witness.
1.-THE letter of General Barlow upon the
count iu Florida is useful for this, if for nc
other purpose, that it shows the possibility
OIL independent judgment This is more than
was shown by the democratic report Of Mr.
Trumbul and Palmer, AMI the republican re-
port of Senator Sherman aud Mr.. Stoughton
of louisiana. "-HaIperS Weekly.
The negroes have been made the tools TO
accomplish the most damuable ends of the
carpet.bag element and the administration
and have been debarred every healthy inau-
ence. Consequently they are not half so
] llluNu ltnlOuolblt III AuN NOuAiAlbu VI iIVulo-
lana to-day as are the white radicals,-Rich :
mOnd Enquirer.
Strange as it may seem in this country of
free speech and freedom generally, there are
some very ardent friends of liberty who
think that when the triumph Of their princi-
pies is at stake amongst the electors, the
still-hunt way Of supporting them aud innu.
encing the public mind the most elective
Montreal Witness,
A thoughtful Cincinnati publisher has is
sued some cheap pamphlet editions of the
! constitution Of the United States, aud hun
| bred experienced missionaries are wanted to
introduce few thousand copies at the White
House, in congress and among some OF the
prominent politicians Of the country.-BOS.
| ton Post.
Mr.. lloar is, without question: one oil the
best representatives of the hopes aud aspira.
tions Of Massachusetts now in public life.
| He is young, brave and cultured "A true son
of the puritans in every fiber of his being.
We have already senator of patronage !;
suppose now we have senator of the people
Adams Transcript.
I To reconcile the moral sense OF the nation
with its business prosperity, to do justice to
the strong by maintaining the cause Of the
weak, to complete the great uprising by re-
moving every vestige OF the injustice which
led to it--this is a work to which the noblest
ambition might aspire, which Hayes can, aud
Tiljen cannot, Decentralization Union.
The power of the two houses, either in the
joint convention, or as u congress, to deter
mine what votes shall be counted, has al.
ways been asserted, aud never seriously ques
toned. The republican party has, by egis'
lation aud by joint rule, fully committed
itself to the view that the president Of the
senate has no power except to open the GER
tiicates.-hoa. C. w. Willard.
What if the Dorr rebellion had been al
its maximum on the day Of the presidential
election, and two sets Of electors had been