Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-29
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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 put its ticket or
the common cause in peril. True to the prIn-
cipes of equal civil and political rights fer oil
men, the Republicans of this State present an
unbroken front alike to the assaults of open en-
/ emies or the treachery of pretended friends.
! An election IN Vermont cannot be other than a
victory for freedom and justice, and the equal
rights of man everywhere.
| 1t is not, therefore, to make more secure the
result of the near election, that We now address
YOU But we ask you to consider. that the in
/ fuence 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 COL
umn, and on the 4th of September the Re-
E
/ look anxiously to see how calamity, with VIII at
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, copperheads, and rebels, Cow 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 hesitated at no atrocity in
their war upon the Government. They demand
the immediate, unconditional admission of rep
resentatives of unrepentant traitors to seats in
Congress, and to power in the National Govern
ment. Ia 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 party in the nation, does not for a
moment hesitate to take up the gage 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 the hands of unrepentant traitors a;
and it points to the atrocious butehery of
Union men in New Orleans, as but the faint
| foreshadowing of the results of this Philadel-
phia policy of reconstruction. 1t is opposed
tives of the rebel fraction of the Southern
communities, to equal power in the Govern
ment with those who have never deserted the
| flag. 1t will never aid In giving over iC
| fortunes, of which Louisiana furnishes a start.
ling 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 Govern
ment can be proud, to Anirew johnson hated
| of rebels in Tennessee, and with him holds
| that traitors should take back seats in the
restored Union. 1t does not ask for confsca
ton or blood; it cares little for indemnity
for the past but it demands security for the
future. On this rock it plants Its standard
On this line it proposes to fight the battle
1 =. LOT.
victory.
| Republican voters of Vermont, it is TO
you, next Tuesday, to emphasize at the polls
your expression Of ansagonisn to the policy
which would at the ballot-box surrender tn
government to the treason you have defeated
on the battlefield; to declare again you
unconquerable purpose to stand By your tait
in equal right, from whatever quarter assailed
A majority is not enough. A majority o
twenty thousand is not enough. Let ever
Republican voter be at the polls. Let Reput
sturdy, ringing blow for equal rights, an
those who STAND by equal rights. one mol
sturdy, ringing blow against injustice, treacl
ery and oppression, and those who upho
and sustain these great wrongs. So shall Ii
clear, morning note of your victory SCUM
cheerily all along the lines, from the fores
of Maine to the slopes of the Rocky Mou
l. tains, stirring to emulation Republicans
all the states, giving assurance, at its fiji
Is onset, of the complete discontinue of Il
Is mercenary Philadelphia conspiracy, and.
,e this prophecy of victory, encouraging o.
friends and 1ismaying our enemies ever
=; where. BURNAM MARTIN,
. Chairman of Union Republican Com.
r GEO II. BIGELow, Secretary.
Z Bread and Butter.
We last week alluded to the modest reQue
Of the hungry delegates from New Hampshi
r, to Philadelphia, who after the adjournment oft
L convention, went to Washington and made the
= bows to President Johnson. This is the for
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