Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-08-23
a Word of Advice for which Nothing il
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Inc Democratic party is just now congratuls
t'g Itself on popular political reaction in it's "a
Tor' which, with its hand on the public pulse,
pretends to have discovered. The last Burng
ton Sentinel says;
There s no mistaking the great and radica
change in popular sentiment, which has takeI
place within the past few weeks,-we may almos
say da" Scarcely longer ago than yesterday
ana the Lincoln party were as sure OF his re.eeo
Iioh as man can be OF any reasonable certain fu
ture event. To-day that confidence is gone, and
lhe more candid ones among them do not hesilat,
10 own that his prospects of success at the No
Vemoer election are slender, and are essenine
every day. AL eyes are now turned to the com
ing Democratic National Convention at Chicago
ana no well informed person has serious d0ub
out mat the nominee Of that Convention If il,
nomination and platform are judiciously made
VIII be elected next President Of the United
states. Such Is the concurrent testimony now
from all parts of the country
1t may be hardly gracious to rudely break up
This beautiful rose-coIored Democratic prospect
out as these hopes must be sooner or later shat.
tered, 1t may after all be kindness to them to
e1hl0l! to their charmed eyes now, before their
Anucpatlons have become too greatly excited, the
unfea'onabeness Of their "great expectations. -
Inc Union party, as party, has already made
Two mISIaA,s,-one in not postponiog their
national convention until the first Of October and
tue o'hef IN nominating, as candidate, an ncum.
Dent OF the. presidential office. The first Of these
mistakes, without at all consolidating. FIR tho
'''ne oe'ng' the Union strength, gave the Demo-
Gratis at once candidate to assail the other oe
THESE mistakes, and graver one than the first
piaoe every act OF President Lincoln mark for
the enVenomed criticisms of the Democratic press
ana party. 1t vas impossible that President
i''nOoln should not err,-for be is but man
out since he Is candidate for re election. his g.
rofS' winch otherwise might not influence anv
mind against the Union party ,now become, in
'one SORT errors for which the party are respon.
Sloie, ana against the recurrence of which. while
'ney support him, they can give no guaranty and
these errors his own supporters must condemn.
unless they are willing to see them repeated, vet
IN the very act of doing so, they in some me,.
sure weaken the public onfdence in the can.
u'da'e whose reelection they advocate.
AND while this has been the position Of ,ba
Union party since the Baltimore Conyentioo
'nelr platform made, their plan of the campaj0n
marked out, and their leader chosen. a leader
compelled by the necessities Of his Official position,
10 take great responsibilities, and stand forth con.
splcuous in the imposition of necessary 20,
Sr'e'ou' burdens upon the people,-the Demo.
'fa'' nave been committed to no platform, plan.
OF leader, but have carried on a sort of rresoor-
sole guerrilla warfare upon every weak and q.
''i'oIe point IN the conduct of tn, war, the man.
asemen' OF the finances, or the general policy of the
ADMINISTRATION and the President. That tbey
nave osen, at some points, successful in these At.
scS'' and received encouragement by finding, in
unexpected quarters, sympathy and support. !,
io' strange nor a thing at which they should
eel eIatsd' or the Union party discouraged We
rave seen the severest days of our trial DURING
us presidential campaign, while the day, which
Ill Try heT souls are just ahead. The Cbio,0o
will put them on an equality with US.
hey must there make platform and choose
eader, and the question will no longer be,-as 1t
las been for nearly the last three mouths-Can
'he nation furnish no greater and wiser man than
A braham Lincoln Tor its hour of inns, tbrsatan;,,,
perhF-out, VIII We commit the government for
the next four years to Lincoln, or to Valandigham.
or Wood, or Seymour, or McClellanp Shall the
Republic maintain its honor and its life, or shall
IT, in base and humatng attempt to make
peace, surrender both its honor and its life
And whea that issue is squar.ly made, as it will
be after the Chicago Convention has completed its
laborS, when Mr.. LINCOLN carrying the stars and
stripes, bis platform the Union, the Constitution
and the enforcement Of the Laws" and declaring
his purpose to fight it out On that Gne" if il
taxes another four years, stands confronted with
some Seymour, or Vaiandlgham, fresh from a
conference with traitors, carrying the white aag
of truce and clamoriDg for disgraceful and
peace, it will be time enough for the
Democrats to reckon up the chances Of the battle.
and boast of taeir anticipated easy victory. Till
then, We afeclionaiely advise them not to invest
money largely in betting on a Democratic victory
next November.