Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-23
-7hA tFor We Rutland Herald
A Peep into the Futmre.--Necesstsy
will make Strange HDediellOWs.

and Gen. John Cochrane for Vice Presi-
dent OF the United States. The history
of Fremont Is too well known to need
calculation. The Republican party have
heretofore zealously rallied around the
standard he bore, and suffered u defeat,
in nobly disputed contest. In those
days he stood upon platform intensely
radical for the times, and that contest had
its legitimate influence In educating the
masses Of the people up to nobler and
higher stand point of political and HUI
man rights. Occupying this position
eight years ago, would 1t not be strange
indeed, II he should find himself in this
contest affiliated with the odds and ends
of all the opposition to the present ad-
ministration
Gen. Cochrane commenced his politi.
cal and public life as democrat, as did
Mr.. Fremont. He broke loose from his
party associations in lS48, and stood
with the heterogeneous masses on the
Buffalo platform. He fell back to his
first love after the defeat Of Cass, and up
to the Presidents proclamation of Free
dom was acting with the pro-slavery
democracy of the country. On the an
nouncement Of that proclamation, he
came out publicly in its favor, causing
it to be read to his brigade or division
as the case was, and made an address to
his immediate command on the subject.
From that time he acted invariably with
the Republican Union party. As such,
he was placed upon the ticket in New
York last fall, for Attorney General, did
good service in the cause, and was tri-
umphantly elected.
The platform on which these two cam
didates stand, seems to be adroitly drawn
for contingency, which may, or may
not happen. That contingency is the
nomination of the same ticket by the
Democratic Convention which is to as
semble at Chicago. The liberty of
the press - the liberty of speech the
inviolability of the person-the surren-
der of refugees, are all interpolated
among the radical anti-slavery elements
of the platform, it seems to us, for max
ing the whole more palatable to those,
who, rebels in all their sympathies, they
still hope to induce to swallow the prin-
ciples of the Cleveland Convention.
The unanimity with which Lincoln and
johnson were nominated at Baltimore,
has of course dissipated the hopes of the
contingency in which Fremont fore
Swallowed purpose to decline. The
promise of disaffection which mis- nomi-
nation at Cleveland was expected to
create at Baltimore having entirely
failed, the alternative is presented to the
Chicago Convention Of adopting the
Cleveland nominations, aud thus secur-
ing a respectable minority with which
to be beaten, or try the hopeless expert
ment Of gathering corporals guard il
two insignificant squads, to carry on q
! sort of pop gun skirmish with the grea
Union party Of the nation, under thu
lead of Lincoln and Johnson. What ther
will the Democrats do !?
What they would like to do, would b,
to nominate Gen. Grant for the Presi
dency. 1t is hardly presumable that they
will do this, with the general conviction
always expressed by the people, and 81
understood by men who pretend tt
know, that he would at once decline tn
{ honor. To undertake to run Mcclellan
would be like the folly of Harvesting
dead horse and expecting him to draw
We regard him out of the question a
! present, and quite as effectually shelve,
/ militarily and politically as Gen. Ere
mont.
Would 1t not be a strange spectacle
indeed, to see the venomous copperhead
and the whole old bunker rebel sympa
thizing clan OF the states, with !; Il tn
e odds and ends of pot-hou politicians
dead rabbits, rioters against huma
. rights, and open and secret enemies G
: the liberties of the country, rallyin
r around the standard of the radical Ere
monte Among the shifting attitudes 1
the so called democratic party, a
! strange and unaccountable things a
: this have occurred. and may occu
/ again.
: The beauty and consistency of th
! thing would not proba ly impress us
but after all, it would indicate an ad
vance in public sentiment that every pa
triot would chronicle as the march {
Gods truth onward to that sublim
height of political redemption and puri
ty, for which the wise and the goo
. have long struggled and waited an
prayed. No party would then stand bs
n fore the people, as the apologists or &C
d vocates of the curse of slavery; but W
should appear in the record of the worl
as united nation, loathing the chain
of human bondage, and declaring fror
: every hill top and valley the unanimou
1 edict that our whole land shall be fol
ever FREE. (CoM.