Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-23

English opinion of American capabilities
and shake English faith in perpetual insular
supremacy, more than dozen warnings OF
Gladstone.
LEXINGTON (Ky.) Transcript: Even some
of the mothers of Kentucky chivalry, which
means, in plain English, Kentucky's love of
blood, tell their boys "Don't be coward"
Don't take anything off of him" knock
him down if he troubles you" 81 would
beat the life out of him." What can we
hope for in the future under such vicious
training, but the Preparation of crimes and
murders ?"
A RUSSIAN author who dared to publish
a volume fearlessly criticising the iniquities
of the government, has been compelled to
literally eat his own words. The Judge of a
Moscow court gave the author the choice of
eating his book or suffering the punishment
of the knout and on three different days the
man of letters ate his production leaf by leaf
until the quarto volume had been chewed
and swallowed.
PHILADELPHIA North american: " The
Republican party has refunded over thou
sand millions of the national debt, and re-
duced the cost of carrying it S20,000,000, or
almost ten per cent of the entire cost of the
administration of the government; and yet
every act by means of which this magnif-
cent triumph of financiering has been &C.
complisbed has been passed against the
votes of the democratic party"
BY the laws of Kansas, women stand upon
an entire equality with men in regard TO
property. If an owner of property dies in
testate, leaving widow aud children, the
widow takes half in her own right, and the
children the other half or if the wife is the
owner, the husband takes half and the chill
dren half, and neither can deprive the other
of such share by will In every respect as
regards trading and sueing and being sued,
there is no difference.
Soon after the surrender of Lee a con-
vention Of Southern men was held, at which
Alexander Stephens, Vice-Presdent of the
confederacy, said: "Comrades, we staked
our all on the gage of battle, and we lost.
Now our only plan must be to regain in the
halls of legislation what we lost oil our
tented fields" And looking to Washington
now, with confederate rule in both houses,
we may say they are achieving fair degree
of success in that plan.
A PART of the explanation of the immense
demand for United States four per cents by
bankers is doubtless the fact that the banks
of England are overloaded with capital that
cannot find employment in business enter
prises. In addition to the great depres-
sion in all sorts of industry, Beaconsield is
shaking confidence by his foreign policy, and
the British are looking to the land of the
free and the home of the brave as a safe
custodian of their spare funds.
New York Sun: awe do not think that
General Grant will accept third term of
the office of President, because we do not
believe the opportunity will be offered him I;
but to pretend that he would voluntarily de-
cline the office, or decline the nomination
with any reasonable show for an election, is
absurd. We will not say, which would be
one mode of expression, that Grant is dying
to run but we do say he is living to run,
and fully determined to run if he can get
the nomination"
VrCKsBuRG, Miss, Herald: "If our North
ern friends who consider it their lifelong
business to interfere in our affairs will leave
us alone, all will be well. The negroes will
be secured in all their rights, and We will
solve the race problem by an exercise of
patience, honesty and justice. But, if they
do not leave us alone, and persist in enticing
the labor of the South away, and furnishing
it the means to go, they may rest assured
the South will prove herself equal to her
representation"
THE Charleston Is. c. Neps urges dem
ocrats to stand by the stalwart democrats
now under indictment who run the machine
in that state last Fall, since g the plain truth
of it is that the democratic party will be
badly beaten in several counties if this is
not done. 1t also remarks that "there will
for some time be vast amount of unpleas
ant work to be done at every election"
Calling ballot box stuffing and midnight
assassination unpleasant work" is phrase
worthy of their palmiesst days
A FEW days ago two military companies
one from Virginia and the other organized
in the District of Columbia, marched through
the streets Of Washington without display
ing the stars and stripes. 1t was regarded as
an intentional disrespect, and one hundred
and fifty Union soldiers met in public hall
to denounce such unpatriotic conduct. The
captain of the Virginia company denied
that any insult to the National flag was in-
tended, and it may have been so, but recent
events have had tendency to make the
lovers of the Union suspicious.
On the first page of the last Harper's
Weekly, Mast has a good picture bearing on
the negro exodus. A gentleman of color is
represented as bidding representative of
Southern chivalry an affectionate (O adieu
in these words "Massa, | leave you be
cause you kill us with KINDNESS There
is too much FREEDOM al The polls, and | am
going where the bad Yankees live, aud
where there is WICKED BAYoNET RULE
Niggers can't stand so much kindness it
makes them 'impudent and ungrateful.' !"
Mr.. HEWITT, who was chairman of Mr.. Til
den's national committee, says that aside
from the fact that Mr.. Tilden was wronged
in 1876 and that the democratic party was
wronged through him, he has no claim, no
right, to the nomination of that party next
year" This is what the World calls a
somewhat peremptory suppression of Mr..
Tilden's candidacy" 1t is certainly equiva-
lent to saying he has no claim of merit; no
claim of craftsmanship; no claim of fitness (;
no claim on any of the grounds which
should enter into the choice of President.
ACCORDING to the annual report of the
New York Bank Department, the amount
due to the depositors of the twenty-nine
savings banks that have failed in eight years
was Sl4,9l0,l07, of which they have received
SS,l37 ,59l, leaving S6,772,5l6 yet due, of
which they stand a chance of getting 81 1885,
42l, There will, therefore, be divided among
the swindled depositors a clear loss of more
than $5,300,000. Figures are generally I'M
interesting, but in these cases they furnish
food for meditation, and there is no wonder
that not one new savings bank was organ
lied in that state last year.