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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
March
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tho Washington oorrespondent of the N. Y. Ecening Pont, who bas boon scerctary to a Sonate oommittee, has been discharged. Reason : the Pont - like SüMnf.i: - opposes tho San Domingo schemc of GraT, and besides talks plain English about the Butler Ku-K1ux bill, as follows : " If such an act werc passed, " tending to interfere with civil order, to " dLsturb tho authoritics of the peace, es" tulilisliing commissioners in every coun" ty to wrest his prisonors from tho sheriff " and stop his process, what would bc tho "dutyofthe State officors? Plainly to " resist such men at all hazards. Wcre it " attempted in New York or Massachu" setts, the army and navy of the United " States could not enforce such a bill " for an hour. The law-abiding mind " and conscicnco of every freo citizen " would sustain the Constitution and the "principie of free govornment against " tho usurpation ; and this rcbcllion " against the Union, though expressod in " an act of Congres and sustaincd by an " administration at Washington, would " be put down as rosolutely as was the " last." Tho Pust mvist oil its words if it would be considerod " loil" at Washington, and entitlcd to any favors, official or otherwise. It IS now chargcd that President G&AST is a part owuer of the " Séneca redstone quarry" from widoh the government is buying largely at enonnous prices. TLis is the spcculation to which Gen. Log.VX rcf'cricil in his attaek upon tho appropriation bill in tho last days of tho last Congress. It is, porhaps and howcver, only just to say, that tho stock owncd by GltAXT was given to him - as the surest way of securing the govcnununt patronage lor tlic quarry. Ti n: rrineess LouiSE and tho Marquis of LoiiXE. wero married at Windsor Palaco chapel on. tho 21st iitst., the Bishops of London, Oxford, Winchester and Woroestei offioiating. Jenkius will do the " magiiificent sceno" in good timo. - Lonl Wat.ter Campbell, brother to tho bridegroom, who resides in New Yorlí, gave a banquet to tho Traveler's Club, Tviesday tvening, in honor of thf erent

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Michigan Argus