Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16
Notes and Notions.

Notes and Notions.
New YoRK Graphic " If Grant is to be
nominated and elected, it will be because he
is, all told, the most available person-and
not primarily because of any fear of a new
rebellion"
CINCINNATI Enquirer: "Three-fourths of
the Republicans of Ohio believe in Hayes
still. The stalwarts, who are running the
machine now, will learn this when the con-
vention meets"
ATLANTA Georgia. Constitution: "The
soidity of the South to-day is due to the
fact that the more intelligent of the colored
voters are alive to their own political and
material welfare"
| CHICAGO Tribune: "Between now and
1880 the unanimity for Grant will have
borne down all opposition. 1t will not be
confined to the Republican party alone. 1t
will be a popular uprising"
If, as indicated by advices from every
state in the Union to the New York Times,
the candidates next year are to be Grant and
Tiden, we may as well put down ncther
great Republican victory in advance.
A POLITICAL club in Pittsburg, where
millions of property was destroyed in the
railroad riot has declared for Tilden for
1880. Coming from city so distinguished,
it ought to give the aspirant good send off.
MEMPHIS (Tenn.) Avalanche: " Fourteen
years after the war the leaders of both old
political parties in Congress have no higher
conception of public duty than clawing at
each other like Infatuated Thomas cats.
The spectacle is dsgraceful.'
THE appointment of the standing COM
mittees of the House and the virtual de-
cision of the confederate democrats to open
the sluice-gates of general legislation will
send cold chill through business and in
dustrial circles throughout the whole country.
OUT of three hundred and sixty-two mem
bers of the present Congress two hundred
and forty-one are lawyers, ten are editors
and eighteen are gentlemen of leisure. In
the Senate there are nineteen ex-confederate
soldiers and four Union soldiers In the
House there are fifty-eight confederate sol
diers and fifty.one Union soldiers.
SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, caused much
amusement in the Senate debate on the ad
mission of Mr.. Bell by saying, in his earnest
way If the governor of New Hampshire
has the power TO fill vacancy in the confed
crate Senate" etc. Though his audience was
largely composed of confederate Senators, the
expression was thought inappropriate.
VIcKsBuRG (Miss) Herald: "If there
ever was time when the Southern people
should labor to break down sectional and
race prejudice, that time is now. We don't
want solid North against solid South
and it is very hurtful to have race arrayed
against race in the South. The conserva
tives of both races in the South have grave
responsibility on them. viii they be equa
to it?"
ATLANTA Georgia. Constitution: To
day Georgia has class of colored aborer.
as happy and as contented and as comfort
able as any peasantry in the world. Tit
great mass of negroes in Georgia are NOR,
prosperous, freer and receive far more con
} sideration at the hands of their employer
3 than the factory operatives of New England
: Indeed, the conditions of the two classes ar
i not to be compared"
A WHATEVER else may be said of ex-Sena
r tor Barnum, of Connecticut he is a coo
e and experienced politician. He is chair
9 man of the Democratic National Commit
i tee, and has gone through many campaigns
\ His opinion that the forcing of the extr
|. session and the tenor of the debate at WASH
G ngton have cost the democrats many vote
n is that of shrewd observer and friendl
k critic. 1t is undoubtedly right.
;, Now that the i'll treatment of the negroe
It by the people of Louisiana has made theI
8, leave that state by thousands, its citizen
n propose most preposterous piece of tyrann
D. in order to keep them in their midst. 1t
70 proposed to call a special meeting of til
=. legislature to pass law prohibiting til
~ carrying of emigrants out of the stat
:, Comment upon such piece of brutality
" unnecessary.
RICHMOND (va) State: The democra
re are treading on dangerous ground when the
ar coquette with the Western greenbackers, i
hationists aud silver maniacs. They shou
not so soon forget the lesson of the last ia
a, elections, but beware how they throw aws
tha;, ohapcao ar JorLan THAR prauant hri ol
ire prospects by selling out on a long credit
t. bankrupt concern, which has no prospe
vel of ever being able to fulfill the contract"
ler THE trial of between two and three hu
to bred leading South Carolina democrats
in fore the United States District Cou
M at Charleston for violation Of the ell,
'a' ton laws, which is now in progress, W
ns command unusual interest, both from
"a Importance of the trial and the determir
In ton of the democratic Congress to rep'
ew the laws. Judge Bond, of Baltimore, is p
OBJ siding, and fortunately the jurors test Ca
SUI is to be rigidly enforced.
I'm The Republicans will ask the Senate
no instruct committee to inquire into
OF causes Of the present movement of negro
nth from the South, and what obstacles, II al
nav are being placed in the way of the mo
A.. ment by the white people of the South'
vs.. States affected by the movement. Evidel
NV has already been placed in the hands
~ some Of the Republican Senators show
'a that outrages have been perpetrated on so
' .a of the negroes to prevent them from leav
;cb the localities where they now live.
The Canadian tariff is making itself
:. on New England trade with the Domini
anv and for the most part after prohibit
nay fashion. SO far as cotton goods and HI