Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-09-10
RU LAND HERALD
THURSDAY, SEPT, 10, 1863,



THE ELECTIONS SO FAR. The friends
~ the Union have great cause for rejoicing
Nj the results of the State elections SO far
Bed Their most sangaine expectations
have been exceeded. The slave State of
kentucky rolls up a majority of fifty
oasand against the copperhead Wick
alfe, A Union victory in Vermont was of
\ odrse anticipated. The most violent
N perheads Tout Of the State) beforehand
n Snowledged the task of inducing Yer
Don't to bulge an inch from her sturdy
fiehty TO free principles and her unwa-
ferng devotion 10 the Union in its time OF
Isni, as hopeless as to remove her green
aountains from their foundations And
N the way we know of nothing IN the
hso"y of any state in this Union, of
whicn / can justly be more proud, than
Vermont Of the grand compliment to her
sons embraced in the very fact that the
result of an election in her borders has
come to be regarded as a "matter of
m1rse" on the side of freedom and Union.
n Take into consideration the great trials
Hcient to this war, as to all others the
tcr.hce Of life, the rdens OF taxation,
M hardshps necessarily connected with
u inscription however mild ii It's char
ar; remember the unusual opportuni-
N ~Nr malicious clamor which all these
NJ have afforded to the copperheads,
81 t"e intense eagerness and industry
r. whica they have availed themselves
ii them, consider also that the vote of
u is wear Is less than that of 1860, when
e last rally of the democracy Of this
STAT was made; that in state so over
whelmugly Union as Vermont, decrease
In the aggregate vote, when effort is made
r. the opposition, tells almost entirely
against the domman party, and especial
q SO when the decrease is owing in con-
i leraBie measure to the absence of Union
Soers in the military service of their
suntry bear in mind, too, that the So
4aled democracy this year were full
E organized in every district, county and
apwn, and made unusual exertons to get
Sut every voter of their 'party"; and
1nally, that there is, Notwithstanding all
a. things, undoubtedly relative gain
~ the Union majority this year over that
IN 1860 allowing for the difference in the
aggregate vote cast and fair apprecia-
bon can be had of the net esults of all
H. copperhead efforts in tins state since
Ahe beginning of the war.
M But Vermont is a miserable abolition"
STAT which means just now that she is
overwhelmingly for abolishing treason to
the Union. How is it with California
Are we to have another "New England
s0p the Pacific coast? Must the golden
slate be left out in the cold aohen New
England is? On the I'd of September
she did three things: she gave a clean
ITnou and Administration ("abolition"
yon know majority of, say 10000; she
completely upset the tables of the New
8York Herald, whereon that sheet had set
ID opposition majority for the next House,
by electing all her members to sit on the
administration side; and she as COM
|Petely dumfounded the New York World,
which the other day while admitting that
Vermont "of course would go Union, as
serted with simple confidence that Califor-
MIA would "of course 60 democratc.n Cal
ifornla's fate is sealed. She too must be
left ont in the cold.
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