Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-08-20
County Convention.

We hope every true Republican will
take notice of the call for a convention
of the party to be holden at this place or
Wednesday next, and turn out and take
part in its deliberations, help nominate a
good ticket and give it a hearty support.
We doubt not this will be the case, for
while our friends in other counties and in
other states are so harmonious, Orleans
certainly will not flag in that zeal for pop
ular liberty which she has ever shown
when fitting opportunity presented it.
self. We hope on that day to see a .ick-
ct brought out that we can roll up ma
jority for that will demonstrate as clear
as mathematical proof what our opinion
is Of Lecomptonism and Lecomptonites,
ballot-boX suffers and treasury plum
derers. In short, we hope to be the ban
ner county Of the banner state.
We speak at this time more particu-
larly Of unanimity Of feeling in the
convention, and after it, too, because
heretofore there has been more or less
of jealousy and i'll feeling in certain
quarters, and we confess to having shared
largely in this feeling with others, but re-
joice to-day in knowing that we can and
will support every one Of the nominees
of the coming convention, and hope that
others will lay aside with US their per-
sonM pique, and help to make the con-
vention a unit. All cannot be accom-
modated neither can every section, or
every town in the county be represented.
Where this is the case they must yield
their private wishes to the general good
of the party, and be content to Jide their
time.
Never in the whole political history Of
the country was there greater need for
dSinterested patriotism and harmony
among those who love her and her insti-
tutions, than there is now. With chief
magistrate corrupt enough to prostitute
every energy Of the land to the basest of
purposes, who seeks by every means in
his power to immediate freedom upon the
altar Of slavery, who uses the federal
troops TO subdue freemen, and who dips
his hand into the United States treasury
and robs it Of millions to purchase the
manhood Of those who can be approached
with gold to proclaim their own shame
and base subseryieney to a corrupt party
with such a president, we say, it i
time that every true man should speaI
out his real sentiments, in private, in pub
lie, in the highways, in the public prints
in county conventions, and at the polls
There is need now Of men-men VIII
have ideas above a dollar, and souls be
yond the magic influence Of a half eagle
We know that the people Of Orlean
county and the state Of Vermont. can b
relied on in any emergency where til
interests of their common country are {
stake. She is right. Her great heal
pulsates only for lreedom-freedom fc
all mankind, and she will never so Ion
as her mountains point heayenwar,
throw her influence for man who
known to be tincturcd with slayeoerat
principles.
While the whole Union is being col
vulscd upon this aIl-absorbing questic
Of the age, while the mighty north, IL
industrious east, and the giant west a
ringing in the ears of the world that til
whole continent must be an empire
freemeB, and forever consecrated to Il
holy principle, and when even some
the slave holding states are agitating Il
question Of emancipation, when the sta
of Missouri well nigh gives her voice
its favor, and when Kansas, 50 long OF
ragged by the outlaw minions of mode
democracy, utters her voice as loud as t
roar of the ocean, in favor of truth. FIRE
dom, and eternal justice, when the d
tant Oregon presents a free constitutio
in short, when all men Of principle G
helping to roll on the car of political a
social reform, shall our own loved a
honored state be back ward in the or,
cause which is demanding the attenti
of even imperial Russia? No. !
her rather show to her less favored sist
that the principle for which they are CT
tending, is here gaining ground fr
year to year. and that will bolster
hands Of those not so strong as oursely
Let us in September swell the 27,C
majority Of one year ago, to 10000, +;
let Orleans county give 1900 of that 1
jority.
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