Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
'rclAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoSIroR.l
WASHINGTON, Apr. s, 1879.

ate soldiers and ADVENTURES Chalmers,
Tucker, Morgan, Blackburn. and it is
that all the legislation and all the prin.
ciples established by the war, must be
swept away by the tidal wave of states
rights and sedition now dominant at the
Capitol. "We mean that the army shall
die on June 30th," says Mr.. Tucker,
sunless the President signs our bill max
ing it powerless for all domestic pur-
poses" and the Democratic side of the
House applaud the sentiment of the echo.
But they mean even more than the death
Of the army and the abridgment of Fed
eral power; they mean the domination
of States rights and the elevation of the
Confederacy above the Union, if we may
fairly interpret the language of Chal-
mers and Blackburn. There is no power
above the State, say these men, and on
several occasions they have boldly an
nounced that they went into rebellion
with ''their people" and are not 10th to
declare that they would do the same
again under similar circumstances. In
short the clever foot of the rebel satan
has protruded from this House debate
until staid and conservative lockers on
at the Capitol are free to say that it
looks more like sedition in some form
now than it did in 1S6O-6l. Fortu-
nately however. the experience of the
war was dose which the rebels don't
desire to repeat, and avert acts of vio-
lence may not be apprehended. The
danger lies in their usurpation of power
which does not properly belong to them
until they demoralize our institutions
and provoke heroic remedies from the
other side. At least that is what they
are hoping for. They want war and
| dlssention as much as ever, but they do
not want to begin it. But they mistake
their power for mischief. The American
people are taking note of their acts and
are preparing remedy they little dream
Of The elections throughout the North
this spring show that the electors intend
to hurl the usurpers from power COM
pletely in 1880, and the deeper the
Confederate conspirators dig in the pres
ent political mine the bigger will be the
bonanza which the loyal men of the
country will sieze. By their own ex-
IRENE acts and expressions will the defeat
of the disloyalists be accomplished.
Verify "tall oaks from little acorns
grow" The proposition made by Sen
ator Window, of Minnesota last winter
to settle the Southern question by pro-
viding migration for the discontinued
negroes, and making homes for them
elsewhere has spread until it has become
a vital principle in the problem of the
future. Migration has been adopted
voluntarily as the remedy for their evils
by thousands of negroes along the lower
Mississippi, and thousands of them else
where are awaiting only more favorable
occasions for adopting the same means
of escape. Without generalization. with
out method. without outside aid, and
merely adopting spontaneously Senator
WINDOWS suggestion, the negroes are
hocking to new homes in the West and
leaving their old masters with nobody
to bulldoze and nobody to work theil
cotton fields. But there will soon be
more method in this movement. A Ma
tional Migration Association has beer
organized, with a central committee here
of leading white and colored people, and
larger committee representing all sec
tions, to direct and protect the emigrants
Senator Window has been made chief il
this work, and accepts the trust willing
ly. Indeed, he was forced to do so
willing or not. The plaudits are uni
versal in his behalf as statesman wht
foresaw the wisest solution of the race
: difficulties. A prominent newspaper mai
and pollution writes to his friends here
Elevate Senator Window as candidate
for the Presidency and you'll find tn
popular heart sure?" This is but
sample of the sentiment which is rising
There is no mistake that this negro ex
, odus is one of the most exciting event
t in our history, and the Democrats of tn
l South begin to appreciate it as one o
the visitations of an avenging Providenc
which is likely to have grand politica
| and social results. LOGAN.
The death of Nine. Bonaparte, il
Baltimore, sewers one of the few remain