Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-08-30
COUNTY TICKET.
The Suecotash Convention.

Inc SUGcObdSl CONVENTION.
We publish elsewhere the proceedings
of the so.called Union Convention held
at Barton on last Saturday, and the tick
ct then and there nominated. With the
men upon that ticket we have not a word
of fault to find ; as men Of ability and
moral worth they stand upon par with
men in general; but with the Union fol-
de-rol and constitutional clap-rap of those
who engineer its movements, boss its con-
ventions, and accept the empty honors Of
being placed upon their ticket, we have
a word to say.
Their call truly said "TLese are times
that try mems souls" In every depart
ment of human life, whether we regard
the occupation of the soldier who periIs
life and honor for country and home, or
the schemes of the trading politician who
is ready to barter even the pillars of our
temple, for place and pelf this remark is
painfully true. OF these two classes
however, the trading politician is most
sorely tried, for the soldier has but one
object in view: to drive back and hang
every traitor to the flag; while the Union
jockey is troubled to SO guage his actions
as to be upon the popular side, and hay
ing discovered the majority pulse, his
next object is to gain place upon the
ticket Of the ruling party--tLe goal of
his ambition. Those who called and
controlled the State Union Convention at
Montpelier, and the Union Convention at
Barton, are either trading politicians or
the fossils Of defunct parties, eBete de-
chalmers, producing nothing but discord
and wrangling, and who do nothing but
throw projectiles into the ranks of those
who are endeavoring to bring order out
Of chaos they are the political Ishma-
elites of our state and county, their hands
are against all men, and the hands Of all
men are against them.
These men claim to be the true Union
parry, banded together for the high and
holy purpose of saving our country, Ct
rescuing it from the hands of traitors, Of
sustaining the constitution and enforcing
the laws. These are principles to be
admired, loved, and enforced they are
our principles they are the principles OF
the republican party; they are the prin.
ciples OF the administration, and Of thou
sands OF our brave young men who have
taken arms as an earnest Of their Union
procliyites And that great army now
bivouacng on the banks of the Potomac
is the most honest ard disinterested Tn
ion Convention that has assembled this
season. Why Because they sustain
the constitution and the laws by defend
ing and upholding the administration o
Abraham Lincoln, against the govern
ment of which he is the head are now
leagued in arms thousands of tratorou,
wretches who have drawn all their sup
port from its beneiicent patronage. They
sustain the administration at the point Of
the bayonet theirs is no fawning, syco.
phantic support; they did not first ask
office in the federal army, and failing il
that join the rebels to break it down =
Not they. But our Union disorganizers
many Of them, figured largely in both 0
the conventions lately held in this county
aud one Of the gentlemen on The succo
fash ticket was a prominent candidate fol
the same place in the republican conven
ton There is a specimen of disinter
ested patriotism for youl How very
meek and lowly to be sure lie wa,
willing 10 ride horse if he could get one
for the want thereof the oal Of an ass
would answer! Verify be has il.
If the Onion Convention had adjourn
ed TO Arlington Heights or to Newport
News, instead OF going home to hatch
mischief to circumycnt aud endcavor ia
place the republican party and the al
ministration in a false position before tn,
people, they would have taken action for
which the people would have largely
commended them The Union party
claims to sustain the administration il
this war, and that is the basis OF all theil
requests that there should be a union o
both parties at the republican state con
veniion, and at the late republican coun
ty convention. If they are anxious &c
support the administration, as they say
they are, why do they not Ike honest