Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-11-22

trading politicians, Tie election is triumph
Of principles and no. OF men. 10 far as per-
sona popularity is concerned, Mcclellan had
decidedly the advantage Of AIr Lincoln. There
is no doubt Of the genuineao.i Of th3 great al
mlration of, and enthusiasm for Mcclellan,
which very many Of his supporters exhibited
aud many men voted against him. who would
gladly have voted for him, if he bad not been the
candidate of patty standing On the Chicago
Platform. If Yaandgham had been the Chico
90 candidate instead Of Mcclellan, ho would
haye been defeated by tens Of thousands, where
Mcclellan was beaten by Thousands, because
Valandigham is nothing and nobody except
as be represents q principle which the people
most sincerely detost. And the great maJ)r-
ity Of those who voted lJr Mr.. Lincoln did
80, not because they wanted Mr. Lincoln Of
all men to be President, but becluso at last
there was no other way Of preventing the Gov
eminent from falling into the hands Of the men
who engineered the Chicago machine, and con-
troed the Democratic party. In ordinary, peace
iul times, MIR. Lincoln could no. have becnEo-
elected, as there would have been q dlsaif3ction
as great az, or greater than, has been felt with
him tho last summer, with no such imminent
and great peril to force those who loved their
country to vote iot candidate whom they
greatly disked, and whose conduct IN many
respects they had felt obliged to sharply crlti-
else and condemn but whose deieat would be-
come national calamity because II would put
10 power men infinitely worse in their prluc-
pies and practices. Mr.. Lincoln owes bis e3c
ton to the fact that the Chicago patty was SO
manllestly dIsloyal, its platform was 80 un9poak-
ably cowardly, that the great majority Of the
people felt that the party must be defeated at
any and every sacrifice Of private opinion, or
personal preference and therefore men who
preferred Chase, or Fremont, or Dix, or Butler,
-mon who believed the Baltimore Convention
IN assamblage Of trading politicians and repre-
sen;atiyns Of ofi3c-holders men who thought
Mr.. Lincoln had done many things be ought
not to have done, and left undone many things
he ought TO have done, still voted for him, and
now roJico, not 10 much over his election as
over thed3ieat Of the poace-and-surrender party
which had it's base at Chicago And the only
politicians who have any right to take credit to
themselves for the result Of the election, ara
those Democrats who were so much encouraged
by Mr.. Lincoln'5 apparent unpopularity in
August, as to suppose the people would take
anything rather than another four years Of the
raiLsplitter, and who accordingly suffered VAL
landigham to prepare a dose which caused every
loyal stomach to rebel, and which the people
would not take.
And Presldeat Lincoln will make a very grave
mistake if he CONSTITUTES this results as an endorse
ment of all he has done for the last four years.
Bon Wade of Ohio and Winter Davis of M'ry-
land took the stump against Mcclellan but
they have not taken back single paragraph of
their famous manifesto in which they 80 forc
bly, condemned many Of Mr., Lincoln g acts and
they are but representatives of a largo class Of
voters, large enough unquestionably to have de-
feated Mr.. Lincoln, who have voted for him al
most under protest, and as the oaly choice lef;
the citizen who loved his country. Aad wC APP
prehead the President will G1d, on tho re-asscm-
bling Of Congress this winter, even a drmer pnr-
pose on the part of those Republicans who have
hitherto opposed the executive me.hcdso Of re-
construction, and tho executive Interference, Us in
the case of Gen, Blair, with the rights AM pre-
negatives Of Congress, than before. These men
understand the verdict of the peoIl lie to b ius'
what it real ly is, decision in favor OF crushing
rebellion by armed force, and crushing slavery
along with it and if the President understands
the election to be an endorsement O all his acts
and proceed, complac3ntly to continue the same
advisers and suffer the same influence to lead him
to the exercise Of doubtful and dangerous pow
ers, be will Gnd himself very lsely without
strong party in Congress or in the country.
We have said thus much respecting what is
the real decision OF the people, because wO End
many newspapers of the opposition, as we'll %
many of our own, asserting that the people
have approved Mr.. Lincoln's course L every
particular, great and small which isno more
unreasonable than to say that the people have
at the polls expressed their admiration Of Mr.
Lincoln's altitude, the beauty of his face, his
comeliness Of person, his gracciulne.s oGcarriaso
or his lnyoterlte habit Of telling " little story
Mr.. Lincoln has faults, and the people know it,
none better than thousands who vat, for him.
and those who have criticised him hitherto, do
not mean to DO stopped from sim,hr criticism
hereafter, by any ploa that they helped re.ele,t
him Tor al.hou 81 they did 50, they find a fall
justification for voting Tor aay5ody who would
defeat the Chicago conspiracy. And that con-
spraoy having been defeated, let the people
keep right on in their grand progress toward
freedom, freedom tba, shall not DO a namo
alone, but substantial blessing to the people,
aud which shall briug to all men beneath our
dlg equality Of rights.
jeff Davis an Ablltionist,
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