The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19
The Fall Elections.


The results Of the elections this tall-eections
which have been held 80 lar apart territorially,as
Maine AMI California, Pennsylvania and Iowa,
aad yet occurring in so many States with results
50 uniform as to establish the fact that these re-
suits are the consequence OF the influence of
general truths and principles, and not of mere
~ local suestions-ought to teach Copper heads
at home, the traitors at the South and the enc.
mics OF our Republic throughout the world,
that demagogues and traitors cannot always, or
for any considerable length of time, mislead the
masses OF the people OF the ire States, and
turn them away from their support of the Gov
eminent under which they live. The success of
the Copperheads in the last fall elections so far
encouraged them that they unmasked themselves
anu exhibited their real purpose to break down
the Governm mt in its prosecution of the war.
AS soon as this purpose of theirs became az pa
rent, the people began to fall away from them
in Ohio, which last fall gave Democratic
majority, the crushing defeat of Vallandigham
now is but an expression OF the popular will
that the Federal Government shall not be brokcn
down either by It's political enemies in the free
States, or its ar.led enemies in the insurgent
States. Vallandigham is the foremost man of
the Copperhead party. He had to aid him in
the canvass, the honest belief on the part of
many voters that he had been arrested, tried
and banishld without due form of law and
ia hy froY bol;
Undoubtedly gave him $4,000 votes But he
sympathizsd with treason. He never voted
dollar or man to aid the General Government
to push on the war. He avowed himself in ia
Vor OF Cancellation, compromise and peace, by
granting the rebels what they asked. The re-
suit has been that but few people would vote
for hi - at home, and the Ohio soldiers, with a
unanmity as singular as it is significant, have,
IN thunder tones, from their various camps, de-
nounced this Copperhead friend and ally of the
shareholders rebellion. The people stand by the
Government.
ln Pennsylvania the smaller majority Tor The
Union candidates IS due to the fact that toe Con-
perhead leaders there lodged tie issue, which
Vallandlgham was too honest to evade in Ohio.
Judge Woodward kept still, His friends said
he was in favor of vigorous ton of the
war, and only hostile to the policy of the Ad-
ministration. Gen. Mcclellan, ut the last mo-
ment, endorsed Woodward as a war man. in
hopes thereby, no doubt, to obtain for him
few votes from those honest Union men who
yet believed in the friend of Eltz John Porter
Yet, in spite of this effort to mslead veers, Penn
sylvania has declared by decisive vote that, as
State, she shall have no doubt thrown upon
her loyalty or her devotion to the Federal Ma
tionality and she has only declared this deter
minaton less empbatlcally than Ohio because
the apparent danger from the election of Wood
ward was not 50 great as from the election of
Vallandigham.
And the characteristics of the elections in
these two States may be safely taken for all the
States. The result shows that the masses are
IL yal to the Government and mean to have the
rebellion put down by force. They may not
agree in all respects with what is done by the
Executive authorities at Washington, but in
spite of that they will stand by them while they
stand by the Flag. The verdict of the people ia
against treason, and sympathy with treason.
We hope the Copperhead politicians will consid.
or well the teachings of these elections, and be-
some wiser as well as sadder men.