Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-06-06
Pickings at the Capitol.
Especial Correspondence Of Me Sentinel.


The yetoes of the President continue to come
and go without provoking a ny comment, Gre
ating any surprise, or disturbing for u mo-
ment the equilibrium OF either of the political
parties. Every day his excellency sinks deeper
and deeper Ia the estimation Of all honest and
conservative men. Every day furnishes sad
and startling evidences Of the fact that he is
but the plant tool Of few corrupt, dishonest
and desperate polticians-this and nothing
more.
The history of the civilized world exhibits
no parallel of cruelty, hardships and endu-
rance as compared with that which the South
ern people endured aud underwent during the
war between the STATES. Seeing that the
| Alsace and Lorraine OF her borders were hope
iessly gone, her private fortunes shattered and
wrecked, her fields devastated and laid waste
to from tho bloody conflict of contendihg
armies, the torch OF y british and iiendish
soldierly applied TO her homesteads, her
hearlhstones buckened with sorrow, whilst
upon every hillside and in every valley are
bleaching the bones of her brave dead, ex-
hausted in all the SHOWS OF war, worn out,
| overpowed by numbers who brought to bear oil
| the appliances of modern warfare, she yielded
and promised submission 10 the Constitution
aud the laws But from That memorable day at
Appomaddox Court Hodee, when that chival-
rous people laid down their arms to the pres
ent per iod, they have had extended to them by
the Radical party every indignity aud insult
which could possibly be imagined, every bar
rier 10 their recupetation has been placed in
their way, every legislation which would
thwart their enterprise has been speedily anti
cipatcd and enacted, they have taken all, en-
dnreu all, and sui the leaders OF the Republic
can party are not satisfied ltnow appears that
that grim visaged monster and Shylock Of the
| treasury wants more blood more money In
his vaults, and has declared that he will soon
take some steps towards collecting the direct
taxes alleged TO be due the general govern
ment by the Southern States, payment of
which was suspended from 1861 up TO 1869.
He claims that this tax Is II direct lein on the
land upon which 1t is levied, and that II Is an
unjust discrimination against the States which
have paid 1t, TO let payments due from the
South 30 uncollcctcd any longer. The collec-
ton Of this tax will be another griovous bur
den on this unfortunate people.
The sale of tho ten dollar certificates is only
another one Of Sherman's tricks for contract
ing the currency. Another ten millions Of dol
lars is Withdrawn from circulation by the sale
Of these bonds aud placed in the treasury.
These certificates are convertible into
larger bonds, per cont. bonds. They
now command premium Of So Is upon
tho hundred dollars, the people of moderate
circumstances, for whose benefit 1t wes in
tended they should DO issued, cannot afford
to hold them, il Is only the monied men, the
bond-holders who derive any Advantage
When Pericles, the Athenian statesman, saw
that duties had so swelsd his treasury as 10
drain the channels of industry and paralyze
every branch Of business, he had the good
sense and taste TO build the Acropolis, which
not only elevated the nation In the eyes Of
the world, but by fostering industry in sculp-
ture and architecture again caused the money
TO how back into its accustomed channels
thus producing national wealth, plenty aud
prosperity to the people, and leaving the
columns, porticoes aud Statutes which have
been the admiration aud wonder OF all ages.
But when this government was shaken to Its
foundation by great war, i, poured out its
treasure with the greatest profusou in its
defence. AS soon as the war ended, its chief
officials commenced a system OF robberies by
taking from the people, through contraction
of its currency, the bounties il had so lavishly
paid, and has inaugurated a system Of interest
bearing bonds, taxless in the hands of the rich
bond-holders, whilst the honest, Woodworking
people are taxed to pay this very interest.
Congress adjourned over from Thursday to
Monday, as Friday was Decoration day." a
National holiday. The motion was made By
Gen. Joseph &. tombstone, OF Va. Il was
graceful act coming from a gallant and dis
tingushed Confederate soldier-it was the olive
branch held up 10 assuage the bitter passions
and prejudiccs of sectional animositics--it
was practical demonstration Of that maxim
which struck its roots deep into the hearts OF
men before Christ taught his divine charities
on the mountains, before the founders of the
Academy taught The Alhenians the precepts
Of noble living, before Confucius far remote
into the denser obscuri,y Of antiquity illus
tra,ed the civilization Of tine by the doctrine
Of peace on earth and good will TO men-of
the dead speak nothing but good"
The nomination of Charley Foster as Gov
ernor Of Ohio By the Republicans is regarded |
very generally BY members and politicians as
q strong one. BIS nomination is q triumph |
Of The ADMINISTRATION over the friends Of
Grant. The Democrats, as the convention |
meets soon, are hooking about for the mos, |
available man, and it is now thought that
Gen. A. v Rice viii be agreed upon. Gen. |
Rice is q new man in political life; was q
member OF The Forfy-foarth and Foriy-hfth |
Congress, has never been idenu6ed o. taken |
any pErf in the fight between the hard and |
soft money men Of Ohio, and was probably |
not mnch known Until after the passage Of
the lais bounty biIl, Of which be Was the |
RuthDr, and this il il claimed viii give him |
the undivided soldier vote Of that State.
The frisnts u Tllden have had tremeniu- |
uuB setback in Mr. Hendricks refusal 10 ran |
he ragarded Rs The sEme said iicke,, . bet the
samr wire-wDrksr9 wbO managed TO mAnipu- |
late mntturR III ns 10 capture The Convention |
at ST. Louis and persuade Hendricks 20 take /
the Eerune place, my be able 10 Do 90 again. |
Hendricks like
'JulIn swearing Bhs never would conseat
Al last consented
There certainly is grnha and growing feeling |
against Tnden mol ONLY with the PEOPLE bat 1
with the pDiitiCiEns- Your correspondent |
overheard prominent and Distinguished pol- |
itIciRr Of Virginia life long Democrat one
WIN has fungh1 lis SnsIles to- more thxn bali
q century, ind who has filed almost every
pnBitipu his State cDuld girs him, say the |
olhe- day in speaking 0. Grant and Til3en |
that between THE Two be had no choice, that,
indeed, be isl5 like thh old woman when she
hooked upon TIRE battle 5tsweea The bear sad
hcs hushRn6-she never fell lass interest ia q
Eghi il her life and she did noi care a damn
which whipped. Willis; not going this far,
we ceEtEinly have eut Little lore for Mr.. Til
den and s~t little desire 10 see hin noniassea,
and Il dominated and elected be would bring
ruin ana distraction upon the party. NspSle-
on The First, said, 'sThe Empire mezn AZ peace"
and when Ulysses declined the Offer Of the
B1lgariAns be was in al probability looking
forward 10 the TACT thar he would have Tildea
10 oppose, the iriampA would be an easy one,
aud he would be Grant The First. Let Us gath
e. wisdom from the experience and example
which history furnishes. Louis Napoleon
took an oath 10 Support the Constitution Of
France and execa,e the laws Of a Republic,
and 50 he did until the convseient hons arriv-
ed, when he hsG his gems planted and his BAY
oneis fxed and ne proclaimed that France
was Al SuPire." u Tldea should be noni-