Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-28
Vermont Daily Transcript.
ST. ALBANS, VT.
Tues DAY, JULY %, 1865
B,oir's Revolutionary Letter.

ter, but IL Is Il luct WHiCii C'iho', WIN
truth, be denied, that it meets the APP
provai of the leading men and presses of
the party throughout the country. The
National Intelligencer says "it is docu-
ment which ought to find its way to
every hamlet and voter in the land"
There is little fear but that the docu-
ment in question will obtain wide cir
culation the Republicans will take care
of this; for it cannot fail to do their cause
good. 1t is argued by Montgomery
Blair and others that there is nothing
revolutionary in the letter, but that it
is simply an appeal to the ballot box
This will not do. We must take the
letter as written and printed, and not as
Democratic mporators would have it,.
The Memphis Avalanche, which right
ly interprets the meaning of the ietter,
says, afterquoting from the letter. Had
the above extract appeared in the Ava
lanche as editorial, the political fossils
would have raised their hands in holy
horror and stigmdtized as q rerohhon-
ist. We would have been tainted with
the worn out stereotyped complaint that
such Independent expressions. injure the
Northern Democracy and the Southern
people in the North. But strange to
say, ii Uds the publication of the letter
from which we take the above extracts,
that secured Mr.. Blair his nomination
for the Vice Presidency. Thus it will
be seen that the North is far ahedd Of
the South They are ripe for rerotu-
tiOn."
The N. Y, Ne,Os, Ben Woods organ,
thus speaks of Blair and his "bold let
ter to Col. Brodhead:"
BLAIR.
The most striking feature of the cam
paign, thus far, has been the effect pro-
duced by Gen. Blair's manly avowal of
the bold and fearless policy which he
counsels the Democratic party to adopt
with reference to the carpet-bag govern
ments, which have been imposed upo II
the South by the fragmentary Congress
at Washington.
The party has been accustomed, those
last seven or eight years, to cOwardly
counsels and timid leaders, that not on
ly its chiefs, but its rank and file, were
almost frightened out of their wits when
the brave and wise statesmen, whom we
have nominated for the Vice-Presiden-
CIV, first snatched from the trembling
hands of its bearers the old flag, which
they have so long trailed i'm the dust and
feared to raise, and CALAMITY bore it to
the front, emblazOned with its ancient
principles and radiant with success.
He at least knew, that to advance, to
attack, to fight boldly for the right,
would insure victory, and the fruits OF
victory. He had learned, in the better
days of the Republican party, when he
was one of its foremost and most trusted
leaders, that the sympathies of the peo-
pie ever cluster around those that are
aggressive and progressive, and that
they fall away from the timidly conser-
vative. He had seen that old Democrat
ic party, which had been glorious in the
days of the reformer, jefferson, melt
away beneath the conversation of n
Monroe. He had seen it rise again
greater than ever and more glorious, I'M
der the leadership of that king of men,
Andrew Jackson, to fall once more into
nOthingness under the conservative
counsels of timid leaders. He had wit
messed its gradual decay under such pru-
dent statesmen as Cass, Buchanan, and
their cOmpeers, and finally had seen it
Stanton and the Radical party, that,
when its Convention met in this city on
the 4th of July, most of its leaders and
many of their followers were ready to
abandon their ancient principles and
their own chieftains, and to adopt the
measures, and swear fealty to the lead
ers of the Radical party,
1t was at this moment that he start
led them with his bold letter to Col
Brodhead, wherein he declared that il
was the true policy of the Democratic
party to vow the utter overthrow and
complete destruction of the carpet-bae
governments of the South and the rees
adjustment Of White governments in
those States. The first feeling which
this letter excited among our party lead
ers was one of fear and doubt. We our
selves heard many delegates to the Con
ventiOn declare that they regretted eX
tremely that such letter had ever been
written for though it was right, it was
nevertheless, imprudent and impOlitic
and could only result in mischief.
These We're the groundless fears OF
men whom repeated defeats had demon
allied. The Missouri statesman anC
soldier knew better. He had been the
petted pupil of Benton. He had beer
one of the most popular chieftains of the
hepuDllcan party III tHe uty > vi its pro
gress, and when it was marching on tC
dominion. He had saved Missouri tt
the Union at the outset of the war, by
hts bold, defiant, and brilliant manage
ment of the Federal means in that pow
erful State. He had been one of Sher
mans ablest and most efficient corps
commanders in the "march to the sea-
and no man knew better than he thai
the popular heart is to be won and sue
cess to be achieved by boldness, decision
and aggressiveness.
The result has proved the correctness
of his view. His name was no sooner