Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-08-31

] one piece ~ tue pOnilCal programme ARRANGED
for amusing and diddling the dear people
IL is to be followed by another, called Sold
iers and Sailors Convention" which j.. "a
be played at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 7tb oil
September With the provotbia impudenoe
Of theatrical managers, who are in the habit
Of inviting great men to attend their silly per-
formance. As a bait 20 draw ia a full house,
iust as Lincoln was drawn into Growers
Theatre and to his grave,) the managers Of
the new political opera company have invited
the ga liant soldiers and sailors of the Union
army and navy to patronza their play at
Cleveland. And far ,obose benef Who
constitute the party to be benefited by 'his
support Of the soldiers and sailors First,
and most numerous Of all, there are the rebels
Of the South, who fought these soldiers aud
sailors for four years, and if by chance they
captured one Of them, turned them into the
hells which they called prisons. Next in
order and number are the copperhead- who
abused the soldier. and sailors at home. and
hoped for their defeat or death in battle
Next the bounty Jumpers, and spectators
upon the soldiers aud sailors pay-roll- and
last, and iewest, and meanest OF all, men who
urged on the soldiers and sailors to fight
who talked loudest Of . crushing out rebel
lion" of making treason odious," AMI Of a
reconstructed Union, all glorious with Uni
versal Liberty and Loyalty, but who now
have deserted their banner and gone over to
the rebel camp, just at the moment when all
they nave professed to talk and fight for was
within their grasp. DO these men think the
brave soldiers aud sailors periied their lives
for nothing that they are wiling TO confess
that their tolls and sufsrings we're all in
vain; that they were and are fools
Now let us imagine even large assemblage
of really genuine Union Soldiers and Sailors
at Cleveland, gathered no matter on wta
pretences or by what means: who will honor
them in that position, Will be the real
loyal men Of the country, who heartily sus-
tanned them in all their warfare, prayed for
them in all their peris and sym ,athized with
them in all their suFsring.; No! twenty
millions Of loyal citizens Of the Union will
only be sorrowful at such sight, and pity
the weakness that has permitted such degra-
dation; but behind these, kept far in the back
ground by artful politicians, will be found
tneir admirers now, in the ten millions Of
Southern rebels-in the rebel officers and
soldiers who fought them--in the rebel civil
ians, who starved them prisoners Of war
in the rebel women and children who usulted
them. We do not thiek he soldiers and
sailors to any great extent, are to be -educsd
into such di. graceful show AZ that Out Of
drafted democ as. who served against their
Will--bounty Jumpers, who enlisted for peIf,
sad democratic officers, who took commits
sions for political purposes--a large Conven-
ZION can and doubtless will be gath red al
Cleveland but when all these shall be gath
cred from all the loyal States, the genuine
Union soldiers Of Ohio alone can outnum5er
them three times over, and we suggest that
il will not be bad hing to swamp the whole
flair by genuine Soldiers and sailors Con-
vention on the same day.
We have examined the list Of officers'
names appended to the call for this Cooven-
ton, aud we do no fod the names Of Gen.
Grant, Gen sherman, Gen. Meade, Gen.
Sheridan, Gen. Howard, nor ;he name even
Of one very highly distinguished General; but
we do find long list Of subordinate Generals,
Of Democratic antccedents, who sre doubtless
very willing now to reorganize the Democrat
io party, and take the offices as their own by
virtue Of their military service. For in
stance: : Gen. Dix, dem, who wants to be
President of the United States, and is a bet
ter man for it, too, than Johnson or Seward
Gen. Steedmsn, dem. Gen. Frank p Blair,
who will be anything for fat Office Gems.
Sickles and McClernand aspiring democratic
politicians both and Gen. Rosseau Of KY,
who sill uses the slave-driver's whip and
glories in plantation manners. We personal
ly know all these men, excep. Rosseau. and
believe they are justly to be ranked as Poiti-
cal Generals, and treated accordingly by every
true soldier And now for picture of a Po-
litical General, drawn by copperhead long
ago for the purpose Of damaging Lincoln's
Administration, but which most admirably
fits the present occasion. AS if inspired for
the purpose, the writer of this racy article
actually predicted that the Political Generals
would be "THE SUPPORTERS OF THIS (JOhn-
SOM GOVERNMENT"
We commend the following racy piece Of
copperhead writing, which now comes back
to plague its author, and is therefore accident
ally made really valuable:
A POLITICAL GENERALS SOLILOQUY.
Whir-r-r-r
How like rocket | went up, terrifying
the Innocent
Spatl
How like a stick falling in the mud did
come down
When the late rebellion began | did not
amount to enough to add up aad give one to
carry. | was sort Of second-rate loaier,
begging tobacco, standing around the saloons
and barrooms, waiting to be treated by lib
eral strangers. ] had no clean stockngs--
no neat home-no money saved--no credit
no fine food. and but little coarse. But
suddenly star arose - Brave men were