Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11
Public Opinion.

publicans were allowed in the last election |
to carry just three out of one hundred and
twenty-four representatives.
WE agree with Ben Hill that nothing can |
kill the democratic party; and yet lack of
sagacity on the part of its representative
men can make it powerful weak" as they
| frequently observe in Indiana Wash Post.
The New York World is informed that
several of the Southern democrats in Con-
gress threaten that unless the democrats of
the North vote for their schemes of internal
improvement they will bolt the party and
try to get the help they want from the Re-
publcans.
GOVERNOR NICHOLAS visit to the bull
dozed Louisiana parishes has already borne
fruit. Seven citizens of Concorda parish
have been held in $4,000 bonds apiece on
charges Of election outrages, and half
dozen have been arrested on similar charges
in Natchitoches.
BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, is announced
as candidate for the speakership of the
next House. He is Thoroughbred demo-
crat, aggressive and impetuous, and has
some qualifications for the position. He
was guerilla during the war, and will,
from sympathy, attract the support of those
who are political guerrillas in time of peace.
WE have heard good deal about the
indignties, intolerance and tyranny i'm
posed upon the South by the radicals of the
North" emanating from Northern demo-
cratic sources, but as Southern man we
confess we have seen nothing of Them COM
pared to those measured out to the Southern
Republicans, both white and black, by
Southern bourbon emocrats.-NorfoN, Va,
Day Book.
THE South Carolina gentlemen have
knocked the colored voter senseless, and are
now sitting on his head When the consta-
BILE bids them get up their great Southern
hearts are stirred and they exclaim, " You
ought to be ashamed of yourself to come
here and disturb the quiet of the family,
just as we are beginning to feel good Go
away, you sectional and oppressive person,
and don't reopen the wounds of the war"
-New York Tribune.
REALLY, there is little to prevent an era
of good feeling this winter The great
questions which divided the parties are
tons should appeal TO one party as strongly
as to another. The situation in the South
is much improved; the currency lunacy is
passing away like midsummer madness
we are at peace with all the world, and our
foreign trade shows a large balance on the
right side. Let US have peace.-BostOn
Herald.
Or course there is no truth in the charge
that Massachusetts capitalists bulldozed -
the poor voters and forced them to vote
J.. against Butler. No doubt brains, enter
: prise and wealth had their influence, as they
D do everywhere, and the preponderance OF
t these forces was arrayed against Butler
= But we have not heard of a single case OF
D the coercion of voter on either side, and
have no reason to believe that one man in
0 the whole state had his liberty interfered
I
y boston Herald.
. The South cannot remain solid. The
t trouble has been that the races have beer
d antagonized. The carpet-baggers were, per
$ haps, the best men we would get, but they
were as a class selfish and INSCRIPTIONS
!, and they played on ignorance and prejudice
Now that the Southern whites have reganed
;. political power it is impossible that they
can long agree. There are among them, OF
will come forward, men of consequence
ambition and ability, who will form opposi
-. ton parties. Enforce, then, all constitu
= tional powers, and wait for time and refec
. Fred Douglass.
r REPUBLICANS who regard the prospect o.
r such candidacy with rather less complacency
r than Senator Bruce would do well to rehec
4 on the significance of Grants hold over tn,
y imagination of the Southern freedmen
!. There are sixteen Southern states who's
! representatives will cast two hundred anC
'e sixty-seven votes in the National Republican
J. Convention, but none of whose votes ar,
likely to be cast in the electoral college fol
a Republican. Assuming, what is by nc
|. means improbable, that Southern delegations
at to the National Convention were solid fol-
lie Grant, they would lack but ninety-thre'
m votes of majority and the candidate o.
Il the Republican party in 1880 might b'
W forced upon it by the representatives Of