Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-27
COUNTY NOMINATIONS.

The ELECTION. - As the Weekly
HERALD, issued from this office to-day, is
the last which will reach its readers before
the day of election in this State, we take
the opportunity to urge upon them, as
well as upon the readers of our daily is
sue, the great Importance of an attend
ance at the polls on Tuesday next. The
result of the election is, of course, fore
gone conclusion. For this very reason
large numbers, we presume, will deem it
of little moment whether they cast their
votes or not. To such we wish to sug-
gest that it is of vast Importance that
every voter be at the polls.
The squelching of apprehension at the
North should keep pace with the squelch-
ing of treason at the South. The former
is Of as much Importance to the perma-
nent restoration of the Union as the latter.
While the brave soldiers from Vermont
are doing their duty SO nobly against the
traitors in arms, let not one Vermonter at
home fail in his much easier, but all-im-
portant duty against those whose labors
are directed to embarrassing the Govern
ment in crushing treason, who are thus
aiding rebellion and rendering so much
the more difficult the task of the soldiers
of the Union
The copperheads perceive the impor-
lance of the coming elections. In Ver-
mont they have been recognizing and
and making extraordinary efforts through
out the State. They do not expect to
elect their candidates, but they are striv-
ing to poll larger vote than usual.
They hope to lessen the Union majority of
the State, and so to encourage their poll
teal brethren in the elections to come in
other States with what they may Claim as
tantamount to copperhead victory in the
sturdy, freedom and Union loving state of
Vermont.
Vermont "opens the ball'' IN the Fall
elections. Her voice will first be heard.
and It's influence will tell upon the elections
n
to follow. 1t is the duty of Vermonters,
then in the present condition of the ma
ton, and in view of the schemes of its
enemies, to see to it that the voice of the
Green Mountain State be more emphati-
cally heard than ever in the rouslng ma
Jority which she shall roll up on the side
of the Uuion and free government. To
fulfill this duty, it is only necessary for
every voter to deposit his ballot on election
day. We have the Union majority now,
as ever. Let it be manifest on the day of
election. Let there be no copperhead ex-
ultatlon over an apparently lessened sup
port of the government in this time of the
nations trial. Let no pressing business
at home detain one man, whatever his oc-
cupation, from this paramount duty of re-
cording hisavote for the Union against
treason. 1t is duty which in this time
he owes his country, and which nothing
but absolute physical disability should
excuse him from performing,
Remember that elections IN Maine,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Massa-
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, etc.,
follow the election in Vermont, and that
Every vote cast here for the Union ticket |
S verdict against treason and treason
sxcusers and sympathizers, which will en-
courage to greater effort the Unionsts in
hose states, besides cheering on in their
noble and patriotic work the sons of Yer
mont in the field, who are lighting the
battles. Let every voter in
Vermont consider it his first duty next
tuesday to go to the polls, and help swell
he majority to a larger number than ever
given before and one which shall by its
,otent voice, drown the last disgraceful
Hiss of apprehension in the Green Noun
ain State.