Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-28

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certainly be a candidate for governor again
next Fall.
MEMPHIS AUdionche: An exchange says
Mr.. Tilden is not favorite in Texas as a
presidential candidate. Nor is he anywhere,
But the bari is quite popular"
| OKoLoNA States: "The Yankees forced
us back into the Union, and we propose TO
give them enough Of that Union before the
curtain rolls down. We have got them just
where we want them"
PrTTsBuRG Commercial: "Is that bayo-
net which see before me asks the intm.
dated Bourbon voter, with two revolvers in
his belt, boweknife down his back, and a
shotgun sluug over his shoulder"
| VICE-PREsIDENT WHEELER is troubled
with chronic-sleeplessne the disease that
killed Horace Greedy. lie has Just started
on his annual trip to the Adirondacks, and
will not return to Washington during the
session.
JEFF DAVIS has endorsed a petition in
behalf Of Colonel CD. Wright for a pension,
observing with colossal impudence that "our
representatives will not allow the fact that
he was opposed TO us in the war to deprive
| him OF what they can consistently allow"
BuRDETTE, Of the Hdokeye: Our breth-
rem of the Southern states can't mend their
own levees, nor build their own railroads,
nor take care of their own sick but they
can build more confederate monuments in
month than we of the North could pay
for in year."
Ex-SECRETARY boutwell, firmly be-
lieves that General Grant will be the next
President. lie says "rhe country is the
now in the same situation as in 1861. The
same enemy is to be contended with, and his
armies are the same, but are being pushed
in different way
PORTLAND, Me-, Press "The Springfield
Republican says Sherman's success in re-
Stunning and placing the four per cents
has won the hearts of greenbackers in Min
nesota, and they are returning to the Repub-
lican fold. Not few greenbackers in
Maine are doing likewise"
The latest deliverauce of Fernando Wood
is that unless the election laws are repealed
the democrats cannot carry New York.
Well, as the election laws will not be re.
pealed, and as the democrats can't carry New
York anyhow, Mr.. Fernando Wood aud
his party may as we'll make an uncondi.
tional surrender.
NEW ORLEANS Times. "It is in the Fal
and Winter after the cotton shall have been
gathered and baled, that we may again feal
that the exodus will reopen. We had as
well recognize this as an impending result
To treat it otherwise may be fraught with
serious consequences. Let us sneer at the
movement, and this exodus may become a
stampede"
CHICAGO Times: 1t is not a reasonable
presumption that those who foughtly des
perately TO destroy the Union are the best
qualified to govern and preserve the Union
1t is perfectly well known that these people
who hold the balance of political power
have made their states solid by prevent
ing the freedmen from exercising their polit
ical privileges"
LOUISVILLE Courier-Journai: "The vett
power is as conclusive as the legislatinl
power. We cannot constitutionally coerc,
it. We can only by two-thirds vote set /
aside. That two-thirds vote we lack. TIL,
Republicans are perfectly right in saying
that refusal to vote the appropriations is
revolutionary. 1t is more. 1t is revolution
1t is more. 1t is ruin"
lr is said that crafty politician a
Washington approached President Hayes a
few days since with an intimation of a sec
ond term for him being among the possibili
ties of the future. "Sir," said Mr.. Hayes
" have you ever read my letter of accept
ance ?" The tone and manner of his say
ing it We're quite sufficient, and the subject
of the conversation was changed.
The recent birthday anniversary of Queer
Victoria has raised the question of her age
Captain Tucker says she was born May "a
| iO-Vi anu was cloWitu Ill 1901. ACCORD
ingly it was her fifty-ninth birthday which
was celebrated with so much demonstration
on Saturday Henry Ward Beecher an,
mis- regiment joining in the jubilee. The par
son made speech and prophesied tina
Canada would remain a separate Provinc,
by our side for thousand years to come.
HARpER's WEEKLY: "The extra session
which was forced by the democrats will turl
out to be very costly to them. 1t has re-
vealed the democratic party as the cham
pion of state sovereignty as against thu
Union. 1t has united the Republican part,
enthusiastically in defense of the principle
which was established by the war 1t ha.
given the Republicans patriotic, constitu
tional and conservative platform, upon which
all intelligent citizens will gladly stand"
Mr.. BrEcuER's late Southern trip seem,
to have been perfect ovation. At Mem
phis and Vicksburg cannous were fired il
his honor and he was escorted TO his hote
by the chief men of the city lie explained
to his audiences why he had never visited
the South before, saying that when he die
ascend, he had never been ambitious to dC
it at the end of a rope. 1t would seem t.
have been the era of good feeling; anc
among Mr.. Beecher's hearers could be seer
ex.President Davis.