St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-03-15
Comment.


visions of our state constitu ton that onl
Legislature cannot meet Oftener thar
once i'm two years, and that its sessions
are confined to one hundred legal days
San Francisco Bulletin.
We think that the democrats and IN
dependents are doing wrong IN desert
ing Mr.. Hayes at this time. He may
make mistakes, but he has an earnest
desire to do right, and the tendencies OF
his administration are all toward hon
ester and purer politics. 1t is the thieves
the machine, hummer element that are
actively breaking him down, and hon
est men ought to sustain him.-BrGttte-
boro { W. Reformer.
When Col. IngeIsoll has finished bis
crusade, his fire-rocket eloquence and
his unseemly jokes will be speedily for
gotten. We might not care to have
Mr.. Moody draw up system of theol-
ogy for our acceptance, but his plain
earnestness in urging what may be
truth, and what is Gods own truth to
many millions of people, wins over the
respect of the whole community, while
the reckless and calculated levity OF
our new theological light, invites very
The biographer of President Edwards
says that, when preaching on the dan
gers of hell, at times the whole congre-
CATION arose, shifting their breasts,
weeping and grooming. My father re-
jected the idea of literal fire and brlm-
stone torments, but | once heard him in
Cincinnati describe the miseries of the
wicked, shut up together with all their
horrid passions, and l should have been
affected as were the hearers of Presi-
dent Edwards, had | not escaped by
leaving the church, as did my sister,
Mrs. Stowe.-Catherin e. Beecher.
If at any time between 1861 and 1865
anybody had predicted that the man
who was then the Postmaster General
of the Confederacy would within thir-
teen and seventeen years be discussing
postal affairs generally in the Congress
of the United States, and particularly
the payment by the United States of
the expenses of carrying the mails in
the Confederate States after secession,
the prediction would have been laughed
at. Yet that is just what happened in
the House of Representatives yesterday.
In view of this rapid advance to recon-
struction and reconciliation it is folly
to talk of reviving old questions.-NeaC
York E,ening Post.
The gentlemen at Washington need
to learn that the capital is not the ma
ton, and Congress is not the people.
The republican party has vitality and
numbers, but it is not strong enough
to make two parties and promise victo-
ry to either. Those who inspire the
crOaking that .'the president is without
a party" have learned that they cannot
control even the Senate, much less can
they succeed in the party or before the
country on the basis ef war against the
president. If Mr.. Hayes has not yet
conquered the support of the self-cOn-
stituted leaders, the opposition to him
within the party is losing at every step
not only the prizes for which it aims,
but the confidence aud alliances which
only success could promise Utica
IN. ~ Herald.
PRESIDENTIAL TRIUMPH.
From the Utica Herald.
The Presidents nominations are now
confirmed with a regularity which
proves that the back bone of the Sena-
tOrial opposition is broken. 1t can
cause delay. 1t can create divisions.
The recent striking examples demon
strate that the time when it could, on
grounds of personal ambition and fac
tious rivalry, reject nominations, has
passed away. The steady patience of
Mr.. Hayes is hearing fruit. The Sena-
torial combination has been broken
down at several points. and it can be
nowhere stronger than IFS weakest link
The Senatorial leaders have been I'M
able to capture the Administration and
now find that they can not prevent the
confirmation of its appointments. They
will have to determine for themselves
how long they propose to keep up their
unseemly fight for the spoils. At their
defiant demand for patronage the Pres
ident has refused to stand and deliver.
They fail to eXtort the control of nom
nations.