Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR.]
WASHINGTON. Mar. Is. 1879.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIroR.1
WASHINGTON, Mar. Is, 1879.
Despite the whiskey, the brag, bully
ing buster and over-confdent assertions
at the Blackburn headquarters, Randall
walked over the course at the Democratic
caucus with s votes to spare. Wallace.
Morrison and good many other aspiring
Democratic statesmen retire under
cloud with both eyes BACKED in the little
family scrimmage they provoked. Black
burns backing was chiefly from the
South though he by no means lacked
dough-face support. His Southern sup
porters based their claims on the ground
that, as section, the South furnished
by far the largest number of Democrats
in Congress and hence should have the
naming of the committees and the shap-
ing of legislation SO far as it might be
done by the chair. They had the facts
on their side so far as numerical superi.
GRITTY was concerned, but Blackburn has
never lost an opportunity to defend Sc
cesslon and to laud the treason that led
to the rebellion; he has never been
known to admit that it was other than
right and justi6able; and the whole
tenor of his public life here has been to
convince those coming in contact with
him that he would not hesitate to advise
another trial at secession whenever the
chances of success seemed equal to those
of failure. This extreme position oper-
ated against him with the cooler heads
of the party; and momentarily Randall
was regarded as much the safest man of
the two. The Greenbackers who have
already gained an unenviable notoriety
in their efforts to dicker and trade away
their votes on the speakership, affect
great Indignation over the nomination of
Randall, and have determined, it is re-
ported, to tender Communist Wright the
equivocal compliment of their vote for
speaker. One of the many humiliating
lessons which they are fated to learn
before the end of the session, has been
already taught them; and before that
time comes, those of them capable of
learning anything by experience, will
likely leave the Capital with the ideas
of their own Importance very much re-
duced from former estimates. Under
existing circumstances they are likely to
exercise only the most Insignificant in
fuence on legislation. 1t may be, now
looks as though it would be, the duty of
the future congressional historian to
record the presence of the Greenbacker
statesman and the fat fnancier, distinct
lively as such, for the first and last time
in the 46th Congress.
Though to the ordinary vision there
seems no ground to hope that the revo.
lutionists who forced an extra session
will now stay their hands, or will be sat
isfed with anything short of the repeal
of the U. S. election laws which stand
in the way of their gangs of repeaters, il
is said that the President still cherishe:
the hope that he may be able to avert ;
direct conflict by bringing the virtues o.
his peculiar Cancellation tactics to bea
on their perverse minds and obdurat,
hearts. With this view it is intimateC
that several influential Federal position
are held at the disposal of certain Dem
ocratic congressmen-the price to b
paid them for an alliance that will ena
BILE him to stave off the necessity o
locking horns with the Bourbons on tina
particular question. In continuation O
this line of rumor it is said that tn
President has indicated his willingness
to concede every other point at issue,
he may thereby be spared the necessit
g of asserting a vertebral perpendicular
which some fear he may be found lacl
ing. However we are not to be left Ion
IN doubt. Many of the Democrats hav
= thrown entirely aside the cloaks unde
! which they have been masquerade
from prudential motives, and not fe
;, who have acquired the character Of col
. servatives now bloom out as deriders
Cancellation and are never tired of reite
ating that "to the victor belongs tt
spoils." The denomination of all tt
,. officers of the 45th Congress has ease
= the apprehensions of their respectl7
:. subs, and has correspondingly decrease
the chances of the crowd of office seeke
that infest the town, clamoring for
pull at the teat. LOGAN.
Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, mr.