Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-03
THE LATE COUNTY CONVENTION.

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word to you, my honest reader, on the late
Convention aJ Hyde Park. There are
several things to be noticed.
/. The eagerness of the convention to
destroy public confidence in the present
government of the United States is PROM
inent. ..rr.
This, in other times, would not seem SO
wonderful, as a shameful hostility has
marked parties heretofore. But such hos
tility now,when our government is strug-
Cling for existence; when powerful mon
arch is erecting throne on our border for
the destruction of free government on this
continent; when Great Britain is fitting
out and filing the seas with Pirates, to
ruin our commerce, and empying at home,
her great arsenals to supply the munitions
of war to the states seeking the overthrow
of "liherty and equality :" when those
two great powers are waiting only an op-
portunity to disintegrate our nation, that
its political prestige, on the continent may
be destroyed, and its commerce may cease
all rivalries with theirs. Such hostility
now, say is. pardonable on no political
or patriotic principle but open to unmiti-
gated reproach, and in a strong govern
ment, would meet the just doom provided
for traitors
II. The convention says, it is alarmed
at the idea of emancipation, as avowed by
the organs eff the Republican party.
Reader? one of the most scholarly, one
of the most incorruptible and far seeing
statesmen of the age, Robert Dale Owen,
was the man, above all men in this repub-
| lie, who was influential in bringing about
the proclamation of emancipation. But
the chairman of the resolutions Of the
convention we'll knows that Robert Dale
Owen has been lifelong democrat, and
is 50 at this hour. Reader read Ovens
letter to the President, on this subject, and
you will need no remark from me to show
the unfairness of ascribing that measure
to the organs of the republican party,
| But more, Banks. Butler, Thomas Stan
ton, Halleck and indeed, large humber
of superior officers, III civil and military
power are democrats yet they see the
necessity Of that measure,if the rebellion
is to be put down. Reader while there
were four million blacks to meet the do
nestle and public need of the revolted
states and their armies, when would this
war end? The convention on this vital
point, showed great blindness or some
thing much more discreditable as to the
violation of their pledge by the republican
party. The chairman of the committee
on resolutions (being lawyer knows all
such pledges were on condition that the
rebels would comply with certain meas
ures. TO all such pledges they turned the
most defiant abuse.
III. The convention says that when
the rcvolted Estates shall express their de-
sire to return to the Union, to be represent
ed in the Congress of the q. s., the dem
ocratic party will hail their return with
Joy, and will freely welcome them back,
with all the dignity, equality and rights
of the several states unimpaired.
Reader have you bled in any of our
country's battles? Have you lost your
health in the exposures and fatigues of
our camps? Have you lost father
brother, son, in our tragic strife. Wo-
man have you lost husband. who has
left you the legacy of broken heart; and
I do your little fatherless children 90 out
in the twilight and ask for the return of
father, with tears of artless innocence ?"
How must it stir your distressed heart to
reflect, in that sad moment on the tender
words of Thompson, +" Nor wife nor chill
dren more shall he behold, nor friends
nor sacred home" No, afflicted madam,
if his bones are not bleaching on the bat
tie field of his country, they are moulder-
ing in some unadorned grave, into which
he and his noble countrymen, who persisted
like himself defending the flag of their
country, have been rudcly tumbled, deri-
ded by their savage and insulting foe.