Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-04-14

iaticf 10 son, through generations, hatreds
and useless animosities. IL is not the com
mon sense, nor the common humanity of
our nation, TO indulge in such feelings But
this subject, its cause and character, 1t does
not become me here now to discuss We
have other matters before us. It is enough
TO say that it is over-we recognizes that 1t
is over, and as a people of common sense,
and OF good feeling, it is our duty TO our
fellow-citizens of all persuasions, however
their sympathies may have been engaged in
the past, to meet them with conciliaton and
good feeling, and strive together for the
honor and glory and prosperity of our good
old Commonwealth.
among the men with whom have been
trained, we have gone upon the maxim of
making Il good fight, whilst we were at it,
and, when the fight is over, of being friends
afterwards. | struggled for the truth, as |
understood it, and no man can pretend to
say that | have faltered in doing what |
thought it was my duty to do But should
be less than man il, when that conflict is
over, and men now say we are for the coun-
try---that there is no longer disunion party
in the country-if | should indulge in any
chickering's or attempt TO prescribe those men
and not allow them to share in the common
rights of the country"
Mcdonald, the sculptor, has completed his
bust OF Garfield and will ship it to New
York, where the casts are to be made in
bronze at an early day. The bust has been
on exhibition for several days The general
verdict is that the artist has produced most
perfect likeness, even TO the most minute de-
tails of pose and feature These statues will
comprise one of colossal size, to be placed in
the State House at Columbus, Ohio, and one
of life size to be placed in the statuary hall
at the Capitol here
1t is thought that the country has with
stood successfully more violent shocks than
that II is about now to undergo from the
more than one hundred speeches which yet
remain to be made in the House of Represen-
tatives upon the tariff,
Who would think it. 1t is asserted that
President Arthur has said that the Stalwarts
and anti-Stalwarts are one. If we are to
form an opinion from the appointments
that he is daily making there would evil
IDENTIFY appear TO be much truth in the old
saying OF the plantation negro who said,
"My wife and am one, and l am de one"
There is no doubt about it the President is
a popular man, and is receiving more atten-
ton from the fair sex than any other person
in the district of Columbia.
1t is gratifying to learn that the Postoffice
department announces the star route mail
service for the States and Territories shows
reduction in the cost of one million and
six hundred thousand dollars from the old
contract of Gen. Brady. So much for that
investigation.
There is not an honest man in the coun-
try but who knows that Rutherford b. Hayes,
1.-THE late lamented," was fraudulently inaugu-
rated into office, and that he unlawftilly drew
the salary which belonged to Mr. Tilden.
With all this Hayes refuses TO give one dol
lar to the Garfield memorial hospital fund,
whilst Tilden's name heads long list of
subscribers for this purpose. By the way,
the recent letter of Mr.. rilden TO the Jeffer-
sonian Club of New Haven, Connecticut,
upon the occasion of the anniversary of
Thomas Jefferson, has called forth the most
Intense admiration and favorable criticism
from members of both branches of Con-
gress. His friends do not hesitate to say
that it is the ablest production that has ever
fallen from his pen.
Congress has concluded to have limited
number of the editions of the Guiteau trial
published 1t will embrace a book of about
1900 pages.
Senator Logan is suffering from Bright's
disease of the kidneys, complicated with
rheumatism, and his physicians are said to
regard his condition with no little anxiety.
The reports in regard to the condition of
Senator Hill are conflicting-some of his
friends continue to say that he has made his
last appearances in the Senate.
1t is not unknown to your readers that
the heirs of Gen. Lee have, some years
since, brought suit against the Government
for the recovery of the estate of Arlington,
Virginia, which they claim is wrongfully
withheld from them by the Government.
II is also known that when this suit was
first brought the northern press denounced
the attempt as impudent, and intended to
upset one of the results OF the war, but not
withstanding these charges, public opinion
has gradually crystalIized into the belief that
the Lees would in the end establish the
validity and justice of their suit--and the
same press are now trimming their canvas
SO as TO catch the popular breeze The
Philadelphia Tunes says: "The Lee heirs
owe the Government the accumulated taxes
ana costs, and when they are paid the Gov
eminent owes to the Lees the Arlington
estate. They make no demand for the sur
render OF the portion devoted to the dead,
but they ask, as they are entitled to receive,
fair compensation for it. The war is over ;
confiscation has not been the policy of the
Government; many worse men than Lee
have not only been forgiven, but welcomed
TO the feast OF the fatted calf, and the Gov
eminent should obey the demand of law
and justice by the prompt recognition of the
claim of the Lee heirs. And the account
should be adjusted without lifetime of
costly litigation, that can end only in the
success Of the claimants"
The appointment of Senator Teller and
William L. Chandler, the former as Score
tary of the Interior, and the latter as Secre-
tary OF the Navy, complete the cabinet on
the Stalwart basis The only one of Gar
held's appointments retained is Mr. Robert
Lincoln, very insignificant nobody of Hi
nois, who was appointed by Garfield to rep
resent the Grant faction, Lincoln having
been deep in the Logan scheme to steal the
vote OF Illinois for Grant at Chicago, a
scheme that was frustrated mainly by Gar
fields opposition in convention What a
change. Garfield had six HalfBreeds and
and one Stalwart in his cabinet Arthur
sweeps the platter and has seven Stalwarts.
The appointment of Mr. Partridge, as
minister abroad, is regarded here as one of
MIR. Creswell's appointments.
ORION.
Washington, April 18th, 1882.