Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-07-07
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR.l
WASHINGTON, July l. 1879.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR.l
WASHINGTON, July l, 1879.
We are now suffering through the last
hours of Congress. The stalwart Demo-
Gratis have bulldozed their milder COM
panions into acquiescence in the program
of refusing supplies to the U. S. marshals,
and, unless the President shall find some
way out of the difficulty an important
portion of the judicial branch of the
Government will be without support for
the next year. There will be no second
extra session. When Congress adjourns
to. day it will close until December 4th
to vex the country. Partly through
|skillful management on the part of the
Republican members of the two Houses
and partly through the gratifying firm
ness of the President the enemy has been
induced to provide for all the expenses
of government except the single item
named above. This the enemy has done
Without securing the repeal of any of the
laws for the repeal Of which the extra
session was called.
The lesson of the past, and especially
during this extra session of the Confed-
crate Congress, has been written in let
tiers so plain that none can fail to read.
The course of the ruling Bourbons should
insure the defeat of reactionary Democ-
racy at the next and every succeeding
election till it ceases its warfare on our
free institutions, and eulogize and glorify
those guilty of treason as the incarnation
of all that is grandly heroic and conspic-
uously patriotic. This is not idly spec
ulative, having only a partisan purpose
to subserve We have the word of those
accredited as the best opponents of their
partys intentions, that the governments
restoration to its anti-war status on all
social, moral and industrial questions,
now, as then at issue, as we'll as those of
later origin, is to be the first work un-
dertaken by rehabiltated Democracy.
But for the ghoullsh spirit that prompted
its leaders to 60 down into the grave of
| the "lost cause" to resurrect them, all
| such problems as ante-date the war would
have. been accepted as irrevocably solved
by it in the time of progress towards a
higher civilization. The utterances OF
Blackburn, Beck & Co., on these points
have been applauded to the echo by THEN
fellow partisans. Eaton escaped with.
out rebuke from them for his extreme
4 speech, denying to the Federal Govern
ment single power save those delegated
! by the States and which may be recalled
at pleasure; and the logic of every thing
i of Importance undertaken by the party
! this session is consistent with Democratic
{ optics as interpreted by the three of it
most prominent law -givers named. TIL,
( claiming up of the army; the studie'
: attempt to commit the President to
violation Of the spirit, at least, of hi
official oath, and the many and ingeniou
efforts during this and preceding session
, to indirectly secure in the Federal stat
! utes recognition of the legitimacy Q
the JEFF Davis abortion of government
all looks to the restoration of the oil
dynasty that fell when Buchanan va
! Gated the White House, and to the ulti
mate assumption of the rebel war deb
and losses, or to the reputation of tn
National debt and other obligations in
Cured in the suppression of the REBEL
, ion. But after all has been said tina
may be, it is only those who have ha
the largest opportunities for observation
and ample leisure to study the situation
+ who appreciate in all their deadly sig
+ nifcance the designs harbored agains
our Republican institutions by the Dem
o ocratic chiefs. LOGAN.