The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-11
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II seems somewhat quet; that the result of
the election in Vermont should astonish or
surprise any intelligent man in the country,
and yet The Republican journals herald it
forth as a matter. Of grave consequence. If
there be wonder in it, it lies in the fact, that
they should have met with the opposition
which they did. The Democratic party has
for fifty years been in hopeless minority in
that State. no matter by what party they were
opposed, and If there be wonder, we say, lit lies
in the fact, that at this late day the few that
are there should be able to make any fight at
all That these few scattering nlen in Yer
mont should for this long period of time have
kept up any sort of an organization, only goes
to show that Democrats, wherever found, act
upon principle alone. Nor do they seem to
diminish in numbers, even under all the re-
verses which have overcome them in that
State; their vote is about the same this year
asin former years and ifthe Republican turn
out at the polls was a little larger at the
late election than at the former elections, it
shows simply that there were fewer Republi-
cans remained at home this year than there
were last year The Republican turnout
varies the majority in Vermont always, for
every man in and out of the State knows
from past experience how each election viii
result before it takes place. ts
Speaking of the sXermont election, the
Baltimore Gazette says;IiH q Hat nas -
There is something inexpressibly ludicrous
in the manner in which the Radical papers
talk about the result of the Vermont election
The New York E0ning Post approaches the
subject with profound and reverential awe
"Let US respect figures says that journal
with grand severity. And forthwith it is
explained to us that Vermount has actually
gone Republican by an increased majority
Well, Wat Of i , The marvel is not that
the RcplliitTs Lave once more uiurnphed
in that State, hut that there should be any
Democrats left there to triumph oyer For
nearly sixty years Vermont has been every
thing else but Democratic State; the last
Democratic candidate for the Presidency who
received the vote of Vermont being James
Madison, in the year 1919. Since then Yer
mont has been by turns 'almost unanimously
Federal, unanimously Anti-Masen, unani-
mously Wing, unanimously Know Nothing
unanimously Republicanor anything else that
happened lobe going, provided it was not
Democratic THERE'S not democratic daily
paper in the whole State, and very few week.
lies. Almost the entire press is in the hands
of the Republicans. THERE'S hardly the sem
blance of d Democratic organization in the
State, and the Republican majorities only
vary ffonone season to another by the de-
gree of interest (which brings them to the
polls.'' 'ii- Dle3 tTsa 80 Pr
five are to ''respect figures,p that respect
should be shown. to tho fifteen thousand DEM
ocratic votes insg State in whiehno Democrat
for more than half % century has had any
political standing Where candidates are
year after year set up like nine pins only to
be Knocked down again, it shows in the men
who bear defeat SO manfully both pluck and
principle In d State where parties are toll
erably equally divided the contest carries
with 1t, in the midst 6f hopes that stimulate
and fear that depress those incentives which
giyeltoit both animation and interest Bot
In q State like Vermont, where, for The last
twenty yearas here has heef1 IN creaee g!
population, the people having but little com.
munication with the outside lwofldsa are slow
to change their traditions or thor prejudices.
As the Democracy never tor n moment ex-
pected to carry Vermont, the result there
should be no disappoint mep {; whilst the ju-
bilation of the Radicals 0ycf what was a fore
gone conclusion shows that they. appreciate
the necessity Of being thankful for favors
that are even infinitcssinnally small. The al.
legged increase Of the Republican vote in that
secluded 6tate is IN reality mo increase az all
1t simply represents the fall Republican
strength. 81 e i54l1tes sniasi - ~
The Democratic sotoshowsl1o falling of,
but rather ian.incrcasenthan iotheswise, and
these facts indicate that both parties polled
all, Of nearly all their men. tt then, we ars
that isignalize in politics either 50 strong
reaffirmation of the policy. of the dominan
party that there can be no gaipsaying III IA
in the second election Of Mr., Lincoln; \; or, al
equally strong reaction, as in the unbrokeI
series Of Dem triumphs last fall Th'
vote cast in close corporation like Vernon
is Indicative, in general sense, of nothing
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