Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-11-03
The work 10 be Done.

issue involved has been fully discussed.
The election is to decide the fatS VI
this people and the future Of free gov
eminent the world over-nothing less
Only a few days remain Of preparation
for the great work of the day.
The loyal people are full Of confidence
in the result. They have good GROUNDS
for such confidence and they will giofi-
eusly triumph in this contest-moso
important than many battles--if their
confidence does not slaoken their effort.
They have a desperate and unprinci-
pied faction to oppose. No fraud ap-
pears too monstrous for preparation to
help its fortunes at the polls, 1t de-
spairs of success through honest effort.
Sympathy with treason is its inspira-
tion, and forgery, perjury and violence
are it's allies. Its triumph will be the
destruction Of this Union, and, with it,
of all the blessings of secure and free
government for us and our children.
This is strong language, but it is only
an unvarnished statement of what is
familiar to every patriotic and intelli-
gent reader. 1t is not necessary to re-
peat facts and arguments now. 1t is
enough to know that the falsely called
democrats" are opposed to resisting
traitors who are stabbing at the heart Of
the Union; that they proclaim the war
for its defence failure, and that while
The traitors openly and utterly repudi-
ate any basis of negotiation for peace
except a dissolution of the Union, our
opponents at the polls demand that the
war shall be Immediately stopped on
cur part. 1t is enough to know that
they have nominated for President a
man who as general has been the sor-
riest failure the world has seen who as
q statesman is as unknown as a school
boy; who never held as high an cleo
tive Office even as town representative
or justice of the peace; who as politi-
clan and as president is and would be q
man of wax to be moulded by the reb-
el-sympathizing crew who managed the
convention which nominated him; and
that for Vice President they have nomi-
mated a man who from the outset OF
the rebellion has opposed our war OF
elf-defence, and steadily voted as ainst
all measures necessary to its prosecu-
tion. 1t is enough to know that the
lovers of freedom, progress and popu-
lar government everywhere, on this
hemisphere and on the other, are with
Ms, earnestly praying for our success,
and the lovers of despotism and haters
/ Of democracy in the old world, as here,
are heart and soul with the rebels
4gainst this democratic government.
1t is enough to know that our brave
soldiers are with us and are beseeching
~ not to desert them while they are bat
tiing and dying in defence Of the as
sailed and imperiled Union.
This gigantic contest at the polls
gigantic for its results-devolves upon
rs at home, o work easy Of performance
compared with that of our gallant de-
tenders on the battlefield, but none the
Ness important. If we fail in it, the I'M
told sacrifices, the heroic yalor Of our
soldiers have been worse than useless.
No American citizen is worthy the name
who at such time neglects this easy
hut all important duty. The duty is
merely to get out to the polls every
Union voter and ROLL UP THE
LARGEST POSSIBLE UNION MA
ORITY. The farmer must leave his
farm, the merchant his merchandise,
the professional man his desk, the arti-
san his bench, and ALL devote them
selves for one brief day to their country
a. they would save it from destruction.
We must not only elect our candi-
dates, but we must elect them by the
largest obtainable vote. II the election
is carried by but bare majority, the
sOpperheads of the North may be en-
eouraged to execute their freely made
threats of an outbreak, of civil war,
among US in aid of their southern
friends, the rebels. Rebels and copper
heads alike should be overwhelmed by
the majorities of next Tuesday. There
should be such an uprising of the loyal
people as will convince the traitors
once for all that their hope Of aid from
their northern sympathizers is ground
less and futile. The deluded and suffer
ing southern people will then finally
throw off their despotic leaders, and
the rebellion will crumble before the
invincible determination, thus displayed
in the loyal states, never to give up the
old Union, never to surrender the old
flag.
A decisive Union victory at the polls
next Tuesday, will do more towards
crushing the rebellion and ending the
war than the battles Of year. Let no
. nan fail, then, to be at the polls and
east his vote. 1t is duty he owes to
himself to the brave soldiers IN ,,os+o-