St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-26
midsummer than some days of the pres
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than some days of the pres
emit Philadelphia Ledger.
A LEGEND THAT WILL LIVE.
The Garfield legend, sure to cluster
and grow around the story of his life,
whether it ends now or when he is old
in years and of longer honors, will
gather about him as his mothers son.
Their relations will be remembered
and told and made the foundation of
tale and story and picture when the
refunding of the 81 per cents or the
struggle at Albany are the dry dust of
forgotten politics. The sons kiss in
auguratiOn day, the heart-broken cry
of the mother over ''my baby" when
the strong man, high in place, was shot
down, the solitary letter which the
weak fingers of the president found
strength to write in the weary weeks
of illness,-these are things for which
the man and the mother will be re-
membered. Linked to an emotion and
a memory which comes home to the
hearts and the bosOms of men and
women, the lasting remembrance of
President Garfield will rest secure
springfield Republican.
GIVE HIM HIS DUE.
1t is an undeniable fact that the negro
is making his way, and is winning a
more forward position than had been
thought possible in the same genera
ton that saw him slave. While that
people can produce a Douglas and Il
Senator Bruce, it is impossible utterly
to despise them. Their children are
absorbing education with a power of
assimilation they had never been cred
tied with possessing, and events are
proving that as working men they are
not to be tied down to the position of
mere hewers of wood and drawers of
water.-[ Memphis Appeal.
Is CONKLING A CONSPIRATOR
Mr.. Conkling has shown repeatedly,
and cOnspicuously during the last three
months that he is ready to stoOp low
er than any American statesman ever
did before to retain his hold on power.
Fancy the Adamses, Webster, Clay,
Calhoun, Seward, Chase or Sumner
men with whom Mr.. Conkling's friends
insist on comparing him-resigning Il
seat in the Senate and then engaging
for two months in a personal canvass
at the state capitol for reelection.
None of these statesmen were lndltfer-
ent to their own reGlectiOn-but every
one of them would have felt personally
dishonored by such course as COnk-
ling, with the actual cooperation of his
friend the vice-president, publicly and
VIGOROUSLY took at Albany. A man so
insensible to public opinion as he has
become is just the. material of which
conspiratOrs are made. For the pOlitl-
cal conspiratOr is not a coward, as some
shallow thinkers have inferred. He Is
more commonly man OF desperate
courage, but with prudence enough to
avoid obstacles that he cannot over
come and so Indifferent to the common
opinions of mankind that he is held in
restraint. If Mr.. COnkling
has ever been in any plot to control the
administration of Garfield by holding
the balance of power in Il close Senate,
or to diSpOsseSS Garfield even Temporal
rily by calling Arthur to the White
House, he will be apt to wish with all
his heart that he had never engaged in
either. He probably sees by this time
how foolish was his senatorial scheme
and should Mr.. Arthur mhappily be
called to the presidency, COnkline
would learn in very few days how in
sane are his present dreams Gf he cher
ishes any of entering the cabinet and
openly directing a policy counter t.
that of Gen. Garfield. The American
people are strangely patient with polit-
ical ambition so long as it can he con
strued as patriotic but they have i
keen sense of the line between patriot
ism and self-seeking, when these di-
verge and they are liable to sudden
storms of passion against men like Burr
and COnkling, who use enormous pow
er in great state like New York, tC
bring national interests into jeopardy
If Mr.. COnkling is n cOnspirator, let
him take warning by the fate of Burr
If he is simply IA desperate political
| gambler, with no faint of conspiracy
about him, let him none the less re-
member the story of Burr. The eyes
of the country are upon him with ne
friendly regard. The accession of Mr.
Arthur to the presidency, so far from
restoring him to power, would be more
likely to complete his ruin for his best
friend would not then dare to be open
ly associated with him in the govern
ment of the country. If he has mo-
committed the objectionable sill
against the sovereignty of the Ameri-
can people, as Burr and jefferson Da
Wis did, he has at least tempered witt
the enemies of our liberty, and is a
any moment exposed to a ''blizzard" o
popular indignation. Let him have
prudence enough not to provoke 1t
Yet it is the manifest lack of common
prudence in his behavior that now al
most alone prevents his countrymel
from thinking of him as a cOnspirator
III Springfield Republican.
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