Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-23
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
.oIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIroR.l
WASHINGTON. Sept. II. 1873.

WASHINGTON, sept. II, 1873.
Your correspondent spent some days
just before and after the election, that
has just occurred, in Maine. in those
portions most notorious for the preva-
lence Of the greenback craze. 1t was
honestly endeavored to get down to the
causes underlying the remarkable revo-
lntinn in nnhlio nnn+i-,nn+-- hel Lao
taken place during the past three months,
as indicated by the vote cast on the 9th
inst. The campaign was fought almost
exclusively on financial issues, the Green
hackers forcing the fight as though anx-
ious to divert attention from the un-
deniable purpose of the leaders now
supreme in the counsels of Democracy,
ignore the verdict of the late war, wipe
out the constitutional amendments adopt
ed after its close, and return to the reign
Of the bowie knife, the pistol and the
mob. Those who remained staunchly
loyal all through the dark days of the
war, including the most intelligent ele-
ments, felt they had been forced into a
false position by making matters of f.
nance, vital as they were conceded to be,
the only issue. But they had no choice
but accept the gauntlet thrown down by
an opposition that grew more blatant
and domineering from the beginning of
the contest to the turning of the polls at
5 o'clock p. m. on the 9th inst. 1t was
noticeable that the same classes who
supported the war at first, but gradually
arrayed themselves under the banner of
disloyal Democracy as the price of their
tea and coffee increased, and as draft
became more certain, and the voters who
have grown up since under the tuition
of that style of patriots, fell one by one
away from their allegiance to the cause
of honest money and the preservation of
national faith to its creditors, as the
Democratic Greenback voters became
more profuse in their promises of an
abundance of money provided their can
didates were elected. Ridiculous and
absurd as it may appear to dlspassionate
eIse~-ers, lerso proportion Ur voters,
esteemed as whole exceptionally in
telligent, talk and appear to believe that
money under the membranes named,
will be as plenty as the stones in their
fields. The one leading idea every
Greenback orator seemed most solicitous
to inculcate however much they differed
on other points, was that of '.fat" mon.
ey. The delusion that Government can
give intrinsic value to piece of rag OF
paper by the impress of its stamp is. in
many localities, overwhelmingly preva-
lent. 1t seems to strike an outside OBJ
server as a sort of epidemic craze. More
financial wisdom, such as it is was gath.
cred in two weeks visit there, than
has been accumulated in a ten weeks
residence here among the representative
men of the nation, part of whose bust.
ness has been to know something of ma
tional finances. Men heretofore credited
with knowing next to nothing, have sud.
denly acquired celebrity as the ablest
expounders of the new science. Boys
sixteen years old and usually occupying
ounces place in their classes at school
can reel it off by the hour, SO constant
have they been in their attendance al
the rallies that have been held in nearly
every schoolhouse or public hall in the
State. 1t is dire confusion and demon.
alization all over the State. The ole
system of finances founded on silver ano
gold as the only standard of value which
the fathers devised. and was never be-
fore seriously questioned. has been re
ported and rejected for the new one by
the amatuers. But the day is not dis
tant in the future, likely. when tn,
teachers who have acquired such sudder
prominence will be estimated at theil
proper value; and the crude and revo
lutionary doctrines they have SO indus
triously dessimated will be spewed up.
The work of relieving the yellow few
er sufferers is still the one occupying
/ the greatest share of our attention. TIL.
ingenuity of every one has been stimu
lated by the rivalry to do most, and new
methods of raising funds have been re
sorted to with fair success.
The Star Of a recent date says: 9Th,
Republican Congressional Committe.
will forthwith take the necessary step,
to secure Photographic report of tn,
speech made by the President in Mime
sofa, yesterday. and will give it til,
widest circulation. The speech is gen
orally accepted, even by the persona
and political enemies of the President
to be an able one, full of sound logi,
and incontrovertible facts. The Repub
licans recognize in it speech which
will enlist the interest Of the average
readers, and for this reason it will b
extensively circulated. UND1NE.
We have but one solution of har,
times. one way to get out of hard time