Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-08-31
An Address.


Vermont is the first State to hold its an
nual election and take its position on the
questions of national principles and policy,
this fall. The Union Republican party in
Vermont, is aware of no detection in its
ranks and no decay in its spirit, which in
any degree puts its ticket or the common
cause in peril. True to the principles of
equal civil and political rights for all men,
the Republicans of this State present an UNI
broken front alike to the assaults of open
enemies or the treachery of pretended
friends. An election in Vermont cannot be
other than victory for freedom and Justice
and the equal rights of man everywhere.
1t isnot, therefore, to make more secure
the result of the near election, that we now
address you. But we ask you to consider,
that the influence of your vote next Tues
day will not stop at the borders of the COM
monwealth. Nineteen States hold their an
nual election in the next seventy days. YER
mont heads the column, and on the 4th of
September the Republicans ofthese eighteen
sister States will look anXiously to see how
gallantly, with what proud and resolute
step, with how full ranks, she leads the line.
The issue is now made up. The recent
Philadelphia Convention has consolidated
the opposition TO Republican principles.
Johnson men, coppcrheads, and rebels, now
march under one flag, and have one battle
cry. They demand the instant, uncondi-
tional surrender of all power in the insur-
gent states, into the hands Of those. who fro
five years hcsitated at no atrocity~ in their
war upon the Government They demand
the immediate, unconditional admission of
representatives of unrepentant traitors to
seats in Congress. and to power in the Ma
tional Government. In this demand they
are strengthened and encouraged by political
apostasy in every executive department at
Washington, pouring the poison of official
corruption through every channel open to
executive influence.
The Union Republican party in Vermont.
like that paaty in the nation. does not for a
moment hesitate to take up the gauge which
this Philadelphia combination has thrown
down. 1t declares it to be neither just nor
safe to surrender all power in the insurgent
states into thehands of unrepentant traitors
| and it points to the atrocious butchery of
| Union men in New Orleans, as but the faint
| toreshadOwing of the results of this Phila-
delphia policy Demonstration. II is oppo-
sed to the unconditional admission of repre-
sentatives of the rebel fraction of the South
ern communities, TO equal power in the Gov
crnment with those who have never deserted
the flag. 1t will never aid in giving over to
tortures, of which Louisiana furnishes n
startling revelation and prophecy, the true
| Union men of the South, be their color
white or black. 1t appeals from an eXecu-
tive, who has turned his back upon all there
is in his record of which a true lover of Re-
publican Government can be proud, to An
drew johnson hated of rebels in Tennes see
and with him holds that traitors should take
back seats in he restored Union. 1t does
not ask for cmiscation or blood; it cares
little for indemnity for the past but it de-
mands security for the future. On this rock
it plants its standard. On this line it pro-
poses to fight the battle through, until it
wins final and complete victory.
Republican voters of Vermont, it is for
you, next Tuesday, to emphasize at the polls
your expression of antagonism to the policy,
which would at the ballot-boX surrender the
government 10 the treason you have defeat
ed on the battlefield; to declare again your
unconquerabe purpose to stand by your
faith in equa rights, from whatever quarter
assailed a majority is not enough. A
majority of wenty thousand is not enough.
Let every Republican voter be at the polls
Let Republican freemen strike, that day
one more sturdy, ringing blow for equa
rights, and those who stand by equal rights,
one more sturdy ringing blow against in
IJuslce, lreacnery anu oppressloIl' anu thoS'
who uphold and sustain these great wrongs
So shall the clear, morning note of your vic
tory sound cheerily all along the lines, from
the forests of Maine to the slopes of the
Rocky Mountains, stirring to emulation Re-
publicans in all the states, giving assurance
at its first onset of the complete dscomfit-
ure of the mercenary Philadelphia conspi-
racy, and, by this prophecy of victory, en-
couraging our friends and dismaying our Ell
mics everywhere.
BURNHAM MARTIN,
Chairman of Union Republican Com.
GEO. H. BIGELow, Secretary.