Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-10-28
The Great Battle on Tuesday next.

The Great Battle on Tuesday next.
Taught by the State elections Of September and
October that the sentiment of loyalty to Liberty,
the Union and the Constitution still predomi
mates in the hearts of the people the leaders Of
the combined army Of Southern tpitors with
Northern sympathizcrs who have disgruced the
name Of democracy by assuming it as their title
were staightway filed with disgust Some were
disguised with Seymour, some with Blair, and
some with their platform, while the rank and file
were disguised with their leaders for tying them
to dead weights such as these. A week ago they
felt they were going to the bottom, and all hands,
like drowning men, began to catch at stows
Their candidates must be withdrawn and new
men put into the field who, if they had no better
claims upou the favor Of the party, or even much
less, would still be less Objectionable to the mass
of the people The suggestion was confession
Of defeat, and the subsequent determination Of the
leaders in New York to stand by their ticket, does
not avoid that confession. 1t only shows that
they have chosen to die deiantly rather than to
surrender gracefully SO they are to fight, and
we doubt not they will fight desperately. In
Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylya-
mia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, they will do their
utmost, though it be in vain. Their aim is to
show their strength and thus, though beaten,
to prove to their Southern allies that they are not
badly beaten--that they great and hopeful
party, determined to recover in future the losses
OF to-day, and 50 encourage the Southern rebels
to persist in their mad and murderous war upon
the loyal men of the South, till they have reguined
their old political ascendency by driving out OF
numbering every white Union man, and by dis
franchising and subjugating every black
This is our understanding of the case. They
began the counter revolution towards savocratic
democracy when, with Andrew johnson, they
whistled on the South to resist the reconstruction
acts their last national convention continued il
by declaring all the reconstruction acts to be
unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void p
and three Of the Northern States, which have
Democratic legislatures, have given the strongest
confirmation to the South of the revolutionary
position Of the party, by attempting to withdraw
the consent of those States to the ratification Of
the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.
Let Seymour and Blair be elected, and treason
would again be rampant; the reign Of terror, al
ready inauguated, would fear check from the
hand of the Executive, and every Southern State
would be soaked with the blood of men slain for
no other reason than that they have dared 10 love
their own liberty and the Constitution and the
Union Blair openly counsels revolution by force
and threatens the murder of Grant if he he elect
ed and Seymour. timid. if he he nat Mt heart
traitor would No more dave IA enforce the laws
than did Buchanan in 1861 or seymour himself
in the murderous riots Of July. ls63 in New
ed lv the daily renorts Of murders Cr noliticol
causes. and the actual resort 10 force 10 nreyert
measures for the enforcement Of the laws As
eight Years ago. the steam Star or The IVest.
laden with proyisions for onr starving garrison in
the barbor of Charleston was fred upon and
driven off by rebel batteries. inst 50. in Octobe,
1865. the steamer Hesper. laden with arms mr
defence aoainst murderers was seized bv rebel.
in disr,ise Mt Men,nhis. and the arms were hurried
beneatb tho waters or tho Nrississ;nni The snir.
il oe r,lell;on that was romnant eigbt wears a,a
i inst ne ramnont now Give nc timid man il
tho Presidential chair in March 1890 mat os ~,
had in December 1850 and Ian Fob and March
1881 and disorder viii he the result Sevmou,
couId not mt If down without forfeiting tbe SIM
mort of his marty and Congress- would have IN en-
ter unon the difficult task OF slupressinn n secon,
rebellion withont the sympatby and support oftb
Exeeutiv,
These things must not be. Patriotism. human
ity. religion. all forbid We cannot escape tn
r,ilt of blood if we vote 50 as to encourage thes
things. We cannot escape condemnation if W
NEGLECT to vote apainst them. So. then. let ever
lover of LOYALTY and liberty and order. and peace
clear himself of all responsibility for such wrong
10 his country and to his countrymen. by yotin