Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-14

good in setting Southern whites to thinking
and holding conventions TO reform the labor
system of the South"
HARTFORD Courant: "The democrats are
considering the subject of having some of
the secret crypts under the capitol arranged
for holding caucuses, and then they will
have to watch carefully TO see that no tele-
phone communicates with that CELL
A DEMOCRATIC Congressman having sug-
gested that it would be folly for his party to
refuse to pass the appropriation bills, Mr..
Blackburn answered, fercely; Z" The demo-
cratic party has no room for towards, SIR"
To this the other retorted And il has less
use for fool"
THE people of Des Moines, Iowa, have
voted in favor of law licensing liquor sell.
ing by five hundred majority. The signif.
cant fact about the election, however is that
women were allowed to vote, and out of four
hundred and eighty who cast their ballots
only three voted in favor of license.
CHARLESTON Neps and Courier " To the
negroes the supremacy of the democrats in
the South is cause for uneasiness, if not
alarm. Curiously enough there is a steady
flow of colored people from other counties
to Beaufort county, the only one in this state
which the democrats did not carry at the
last election"
New York Times 1T is to Secretary
Sherman that the country looks for the com
pletion of so much of the work intrusted to
him as may be possible during the present
administration. His chances in 1880 may be
left TO themselves. If he would meanwhile
serve his party he will remain at the head
of the Treasury"
The places where the refunding certifi-
Gates and four per cents are sold are crowded
because sensible men of all classes know
that no scheme to cheat the public creditor
can become law while there is Repub-
lican President, and they propose to see to
it that President Hayes successor shall be
the nominee of the Republican party.
PRESIDENT A. d. WHITE: "Of all the
mistakes which a taxpayer can make, the
most miserable is the mistake of stinting
provision for the very best education of the
people. Nor in my judgment are primary
schools sufficient. Primary schools and ad-
vanced schools are closely knit together, and
if one is wanting the rest will be weakened"
LOUISVILLE Courier Journal: "The Pres
ident has failed to assign any valid reasons
for his veto. He has evidently been stuffed
by the stslwarts, and is coached to veto
both appropriation bills, and thus block
the wheels of government by Withholding
the $45,0OO,000 involved in the bills. For
this he and his party will be held responsible.
GENERAL GRANTS departure from Luck
now was exceedingly stately. A long line
of big elephants was stationed along the
railway track near the station, battery
fired off royal salute, military guard was
drawn up facing the station, and played one
of our national airs, while the British of
ficars and civilians stood with uncovered
heads.
MERIDIAN (Miss.) Mercury: "The pub
lie school system is a Yankee importation,
forced into our system, as other novel inven.
tons of reconstruction, to afflict Southern
men and women These Southern States
owe it to themselves to abolish these sys.
tens with ruthless hand, and put the ne
gro upon defraying the expenses of his own
education"
AMONG the bills introduced in Congress
on Monday of last week were several by DE
La Matyr, greenbacker, to fund municipal
Indebtedness in United States greenbacks
providing for greenback currency to the ex-
tent of Sl,00O,0O0,000, and providing for
the payment Of interest on the public debt,
and for funding said debt in United States
paper money.
CINCINNATI Enquirer: "The national
banks, the money power, own the federal
bayonets 1t is against this entrenched and
almost omnipotent force that the democratic
party is compelled to fight over again the
questions pertaining to suffrage that are
set like gems in the Declaration of hide
pendence and in the constitution, which
was its product
RECENTLY President Hayes appointed
James Hill, well known colored man, col
lector of internal revenue for Mississippi,
and he was required to give a bond in the
sum of $22O,000. The Vicksburg Herald
points to the fact that white men readily
went on his bond for this amount in order
to show that deserving colored men get full
recognition in that state.
CHICAGO hdudnce "Most of the Repub-
licans Of the South, and especially the ne
groes, think there is no hope for them ex-
cept in Grant, and when confederate hands
are almost in reach of the treasury, and it is
seriously proposed to obtain politically what
was lost in war, thousands and thousands in
the North are again turning TO Grant as one
who knows how to deal with rebels"
THE Charleston, S. G., News says that
those who are familiar with the character of
the negro know that when three thousand of
them are waiting on the banks of the Miss
issippi for transportation, the movement is
not sporadic. Their peculiar religious tenn
permanent and enthusiasm will inspire them
to march over the dead bodies of those who
fall by the way to the land of promise.
OKoLoNA (Nliss.) States =" David Davis
made speech in the United States Senate
on the 22d ult., in which he alluded to the late
notorious Abe Lincoln in terms of fulsome
flattery. We hope that the Senate chamber
will never again be disgraced in this man,
ner. The day ispast for eulogizing the in
famous traitor who plunged our country into
bloodshed. Let us have no more of it,
HARpER's Weekly: "The President is
well known to disapprove any other resort to
military power than such as is made neces-
sary in the execution of civil duty to enforce
the laws. Any bill which requires him to
renounce the right of the United States to
enforce its laws by the whole power of the
country, we presume he will veto, and tn
country would unquestionably sustain him.
PENNSYLVANIA follows Connecticut, Mass