Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-20
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIroR.]
WASHINGTON. Nav Ia. 1878.

upon the reported demands of Sir Ed
ward Thornton on our government as, to
the last degree, "cheeky." Why we
should establish a system of espionage
upon the Cim6ria. or any other vessel
arriving in American waters under SIM
liar circumstances, or why we should ig-
more the courtesy, even friendship. which
Russia observed toward us during our
long struggle for national existence, at
the behest of a power which was as uni
formly hostile, in refusing the Cim5ria's
passengers transportation over Ameri-
can territory, are conundrums which Sir
Edward. with all his diplomatic resource
es, will find difficult to solve to the sat-
isfaction of the average American citi-
zen. Nor does his other intimation that
we should burden ourselves with the ex-
pcnse of a large army, so that our Can
adian cousins may at once dismiss all
apprehensions of the Fenians, appear
any more reasonable. John Bull may
reasonably expect us to observe every
international obligation, though none
probably better appreciate than himself
how little he deserves the slightest con-
sideration from US. While our govern
ment will have the countenance of every
good citizen in complying with the let
ter of the law, and in carrying out in
good faith every obligation we voluntar-
lily assumed, any gratuitous service to a
power that did its level best to compass
our destruction would be approved by
very few. Our merchants have not for
gotten how English subjects were en-
couraged to build, arm and equip fleet
of piratical cruisers, that destroyed OF
drove under the protection Of foreign
! flags almost our entire merchant marine,
and that wrested from them the large
portion of the worlds carrying trade tt
build up and extend the commercial su
premacy of England and her dependen
cies. We have not yet grown obliviou'
to the fact that in Canadian cities, reb
ell emissaries, plotting the destruction o
our lake commerce and our border towns
by fire, after being sacked, Quilted an(
ravaged, were harbored and lionized
and our wrath is still subject to occa
sional exascerbations over the memorie
of the Black burns and their fellow fend
who were assured of protection Will
planning to innoculate the Federal armie
with loathsome diseases, and to plunde
and burn our large cities. Under al
the circumstances, Sir Edward Thornto
may be none surprised to find that tn
pro- Russian sentiment at South Yves
Harbor is the prevailing one over larg
portion of this country. Observable
, tends to confirm the belief that larg
majority of representative Democrat
here would cheerfully give all the mi
lions they have saved the governmeI
by economy" had McLin and Tilden
other eaves-droppers been we'll out {
, reach of their late candidate befol
t plunging the party into the ugly qual
mire of doubt and distress where it is
. present foundering. But as the mischl
has been done, it seems evident the
: would be willing to deprive themselv
e of the society of the little handful
Tilden marplots, and the little knot
! malcontents who have united to rotte
egg the party on to an investigation tn
: promises to yield Roland for every Q
liver they may be able to detect in !
:. prosecution. Although Springer al
t Lockwood and those of that kidney a
P shouting in their glee over the wherea
x es and resolutions based on the Florl
y confessions which Democratic membe
d of the House Judiciary Committee a
/ to report for the concurrence of
House, and which it is expected to su
plement by ordering an investigate
u the majority take hold of the matter
W such gingerly manner, and with su
:. lugubrious faces, that it may be doubt
'' if they really have any heart in
work Tilden, Blair & Co. have set tn
~ to do ; and the hesitation, the aim
IN frantic efforts to bring excuses for del
l. and the evident disinclination to und
20 take the responsibility of formally
" handing an investigation. further c.
Us firms the belief that it is looked upon
D. detrimental if not positively suicidal
CT the party and to those who may be fo
III ed by circumstances to become pro-
iu nent in the matter. The Syndicat
y demand for the 4 l 2 per cent. boz
~ has far exceeded the expectation of tn
Vi most sanguine of the success of
nc Sherman's plan for resumption; 81
~ 100000 have been absorbed in less ii
70, than it was expected to dispose of 81
II 100000. The demand for the 4
uo cent bonds is said to increase rat
than diminish, and the sales of all
sues Is given as above $2,0O0,O0O, {
m ly. Mr.. Sherman and his friends
at lieve resumption at the time fixed
lily tainty. while those at the Capital Cpl
Tor ed are doing their level best to frustl
gil it. AS if to preserve the equilibri