Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-08-31
An Address.

party in Vermont, is aware of no defec-
ton 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-
ciples of equal civil and political rights
for all men, the Republicans of this State
present an unbroken front alike to the as
saults of open enemies or the treachery Of
pretended friends. An election in YER
mont cannot be other than victory for
freedom and justice and the equal rights
of man everywhere.
1t is 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. Nineteen States
hold their annual election in the next sew
enty days. Vermont heads the column,
and on the 4th of September the Repub-
licans Of these eighteen sister States will
look anxiously to see how CALAMITY, with
what proud and resolute step, with how
full ranks she leads the line.
The issue is now made up. The re-
cent Philadelphia Convention has console
dated the opposition TO the Republican
principles. johnson men, copperheads,
and rebels, now march under one fag,and
have one baltle-cry. They demand the
instant, unconditional surrender of all
power in the insurgent States, into the
hands of those who for five years hesitat-
ed at no atrocity in their war upon the
Government. They demand the imme-
date, unconditional admission of repre-
sentatives Of unrepentant traitors to seats
in Congress, ssd 10 power in the Nation
al Government. I'm this demand they
are strengthened and encouraged by po-
litical apostasy in every executive depart
ment at Washington, pouring the poison
of official corruption through every chan
mel open to executive influence.
The Union Republican party in Yer
mont, like that in the nation, does not for
a moment hesitate to take up the gage
which the Philadelphia combination has
| thrown down. 1t declares it TO be neither
just nor safe 10 surrender all power in the
insurgent States into the hands Of unre-
pentent traitors; and it points to the
atrocious butchery of union men in New
Orleans, as but the faint foreshadowing oil
the results of this Philadelphia policy OF
reconstruction. 1t is opposed to the un-
conditional admission of representatives
of the rebel fraction of the southern COM
munities, to equal power in the govern
ment with those who have never deserted
the flag. 1t will never aid in giving over
to tortu res, of which Louisiana furnishes
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 a true
lover of Republican Government can be
proud, to Andrew johnson, hated of rebels
in Tennessee and with him holds that
traitors should take back seats in the re-
stored Union. 1t does not ask for confs-
cation of blood it cares little for indem-
nifty 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 through, until it wins a
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 TO the treason
you have defeated on the battlefield to
declare again your unconquerable purpose
to stand by your faith in equal rights,
from whatever quarter assailed. A ma
jority is not enough. A majority of TWEEN
ty thousand 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 injus-
tice, treachery and oppression, and those
who uphold and sustain these great
wrongs So shall the clear, morning note
of your victory sound eheerily all along
the lines, from the forests of Maine to the
slopes of the Rocky Mountains, stirring
to emulate Republicans in all the States,
giving assurance at its first onset of the
complete discontinue of the mercenary
Philadelphia conspiracy, and, by this
prophecy of victory, encouraging our
friends and dismaying our enemies every
where. BURNAM MARTIN,
Chairman of Union Republican Com.
Gro. II. BIGELow, Secretary.
A JusT CoMPLIMENT.-The Caledo-