Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-08-30
AN ADDRESS.

on the questions Of national principles
and policy, this fall. The Union Repub-
lican party in Vermont, is aware OF no
detection in its ranks and no decay in
It's spirit, which in any degree put its
ticket or the common cause in peril |
True to the principles of equal, civil and |
political rights for all men, the Repubh-
cans of this State present an unbroken
front alike to the assaults Of open enc
mics 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 ev-
erywhere.
It's not, therefore, to make more Sc
cure the result Of the near election, that
we now address you. But we ask you
to consider, that the influence Of your
vote next Tuesday will not stop at the
borders of the commonwealth. Nine
teen States hold their annual election in
the next seventy days. Vermont heads
the column, and on the 4th of Septem-
Der the Republicans of these eighteen
sister States will look an2iously to see
how Igallently, 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 consolida-
ted the opposition to Republican princi-
Piles. Johnson men, copperheads, and
rebels, now march under one flag, and
have one battle-cry. They demand the
instant, unconditional surrender Of all
power in the insurgent States, into the
hands of those who for five years hesita-
ted at no atrocity in their war upon the
Government. They demand the immedi-
ate, unconditional admission of repre-
sentatives of unrepentant traitors to
seats in Congress, and to power in the
National Government. In this demand
they are strengthened aud encouraged by
political apostacy in every executive de-
partment at Washington, pouring the
poison of official corruption through ev-
cry chanueli open to executive infu-
ence.
The Union Republican party in Yer
mont, like that party in the nation. does
not for a moment hesitate to take up the
gage which this Philadelphia combina-
tion has thrown down. 1t declares it
to be neither just nor safe, to surrender
all power in the insurgent States into
the hands of unrepentant traitors; and
it points to the atrocious butchery OF
Union men in New Orleans, as but the
faint foreshadowing Of the results of
this Philadelphia policy Of reconstruc-
ton. 1t is opposed to the unconditional
admission Of representatives of the rebel
faction Of the Southern communities,
to equal power in the Government with
those who have never deserted the flag.
1t will never aid in giving over to tor
lures, of which Louisiana furnishes a
startling revelation and prophecy, the
; true Union men Of the South, be their
color white or black. 1t appeals from
an executive, who has turned his back
upon all there is in his record of which
; true lover of Republican Government
can be proud, to Andrew johnson hated
ofrebels in Tennessee, and with him holds
that traitors should take back seats in
the restored Union. 1t does not ask for
confscation or blood it cares little for
indemnity for the past; but it demands
security for the future. On this rock it
plants it's standard. On this line it
proposes to fight the battle through,
until it wins final and complete VIC
tory.
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 bal
lot-box surrender the government to the
treason you have defeated on the battle
field ; to declare again your unconquer-
able purpose to stand by your faith in
equal rights, from whatever quarter as
sailed. A majority Is not enough. A
majority of 10000 is not enough. Let
every Republican voter be at the polls.
Let Republican freemen strike, that day,
one more sturdy, ringing blow for equal
rights, and those who stand by equal
rights, one more sturdy ringing blow
against injustice, treachery and oppres-
sion, and those who uphold and sustain
these great wrongs. So shall the clear,
morning note of your victory sound
cheerily all along the lines, from the for
ests of Maine to the slopes of the Rocky
Mountains, stirring to emulation Re-
publicans in all the States, giving assur-
ance at its first onset, of the complete
discomforture of the mercenary Phila-
delphia conspiracy, and, by this proph-
ecy of victory, encouraging our friends
and dismaying our enemies everywhere.
BURNAM MARTIN,
Chairman OF the Union Republican CON-
mittee.