Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-29

parties who signed them have been be-
fore him and have sworn that they did
sign them according to law. In another
instance where a senator was thrown
out, he has offered to pay all expenses of
an investigation if he can be allowed to
show up his side of the case, but his re-
quest was not granted. The following
extract from sermon preached in Maine
one week ago, states the matter so tersely
and clearly that VIC give 1t:
Shall its voice be silent now? Shall
fraud, dishonesty and crime be permitted
to impudently and audaciOusly imperil
our national. State and municipal institu-
tons by undermining their foundations,
and the pulpit have no word of rebuke ?
Let pOlygamy and idolatry rest awhile
and let US focus the light of divine truth
upon 4he plague-spot of the hour. Aban-
don Babylon, Jerusalem and Salt Lake
and encamp round about Augusta. The
walls of wrong and wickedness which
have been erected at the capital of the
State by weak and spiteful men will
crumble into dust if the law-abiding
people of the Commonwealth but give
one ringing shout.
Let me state few propositions l ven
ture to say no one will dispute:
l. There is no doubt in any intelli-
gent mind what the people of Maine
meant by their ballots at the last cleo
ton. Whatever may have been their
errors of judgment, whatever NAV have
been the influences brought to bear upon
them to control their action, one thing
is beyond the shadow of doubt. They
intended to place the State under Re-
publican administration throughout.
2. This intention has been thwarted,
this action has been reversed by hand
full of self-constituted guardians of the
voters of tho State. No reason is alleg
ed for this startling revolution Other
than few trivial, technical errors found
in the records of the peoples action.
3. These technical errors are found
| only upon the side of the majority anG
are just frequent enough to put the mi
nOrity into power. 1t is acknowledged
that there are technical objections to the
returns, but permission is asked to cor
rect returns as the law allows. But The
Junta of conspirators promptly say thu
law is unconstitutional and no corrections
can he allowed. Charges have beer
made that the returns of the minority
are correct in spite of their large per
centage of errors in previous years
simply because there has been a crimi
nal connivance by which errors hav
been corrected. To this definite charg
made by responsible gentleman tn
Returning Board made no reply, bu
clustered about insulting insinuatlon
of dishonesty. Is there person in tn
State daft enough to believe that thes
high-minded men, if they had been i
the minority, and if they had found thei
records full of errors, would have i
Spartan justice counted themselves OF
and their opponents in. From the elal
crate plan, its dramatic development an
vital connection with purposes seen i
dim outline, yet only waiting fifth
opportunity, every intelligent observe
who can rid himself of partisanship
convinced that we have seen the con
pletion of the first act in tragedy ell
titled, death to the Union" If pc
mitted to reach its final conclusion, Il
curtain will fall upon a dismembere
republic; we shall be no longer nj
ton, but mass of struggling and a
tagonistic communities given over
blOodshed and anarchy.