Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-09-01
Our Duty at the Polls.

Next week VERMONT has sgain r. lead the
way as she has led it before. in giving
expression to popular sentiment st her State
election. OF course no one has any doubt as
to what candidates will he elected. The only
point of inquiry is: viii the certainty OF
the result cause many who,n they vote at all
will OF course vote the Union Ticket, to be
slack in their duty. and thus give chance
for the pro-slavery democracy TO beast, not
of victory. but Of = relative gain OF votes Tor
their side II any one thinks this esetion to
he of M great imp 'rtance. We remind INN
that However drci-i,sIy the war on thr- hattie
field has been ended ior ms country. the
war Of opinion. the war OF The hailo'-bo4 is
vet active. and for long time must ne So.
II any doubts this, lie needs Tut 20 refer u
the doings of some oi tie haze political con-
ventions. Notice. for instance. that OF the
Windsor County pperhead-, quoted in an
other article.
Can any hearty supporter # the Govern
ment Of his country during the late bloody
struggle. any belie7er in the natural and IN
allensLle rights If man. any Union soldier
who has pcrilled Gle and health IN his coun-
try's cause, doubt where tie eympethies lie
OF the men wbs drew ny and who voted for
those resolution? l. there one OF them
which the whole host Cf pestilent traitors and
armed rebel leaders would not endorse? Is
there line which can even crate on the feel
of the bitterest OF the whole rebel tribe, from
JEFF. Davis himself down TO the lowest rebel
bushwhaeker, whose chief business has been
10 wav-lay and m,. rider Union soldiers, and
to rob all suspected Of Union sentiments?
Do YOU see there hint towards any
thing to which the murderors Of President
Lincoln, or tie brutal ,coundrels who starv-
ed or shot down for sport ct from dew
ilish malignity, and hunted and tore with
blood-bounds the helpless Union prison.
ers in their power, would make any yhjec-
ton Not one, Not one, Can any one doubt
that the men who draw up and vote Tor such
resolutions, and who support FOR "ihce men
to whom such resolutions are acceptable,
would strike hands 10 day with the southern
rebels. and not only grant to them perfect
immunity from all consequence oi their treas
enable acts but would give pledges TO join
them TO restore slavery to its old dominion
Nay more, would they no, send back 10 slav-
ery the freedmen VINO have fought brayelv IN
der the National flag, nd tor the National
life. If they believed that by 20 doing they
could in conjunction with their old Southern
political associates gain the control OF the Ma
tional Offices and tbc national purse! No
man il his senses can Doubt II. Neither can
anv who observe carefully the language
and acts Of these men, North and South,
doubt that they hope again BY political in
trigue at the North, by false swearing and
lying pretencs and secret combinations at
the South, to regain the ascendancy which
they lost by their appeal to arms. .tr
True hearted men Of VERMONT lovers of their
country for which 30 many lives have been
given. and so much treasure expended, of
the principles Of justice to all men and Of
equal rights for all men, which your fore
fathers proclaimed and fought for, mark
the men to whom we have referred. Show
them at the polls next Tuesday that you un.
derstand them, and that you mean that the
whole country shall understand you as you
have been understood from one end of the
Union to the other years gone by. Let them
all know that your ballots are TO tell on the
same side as the bullets of the brave Green
Mountain boys have told on many bloody
field of the last four years.