Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-11-18
The Temper of the Country.

Although the Republican party both IN
it manifest that opposition will be but fac
tious, yet the kindly manner in which the
whole nation seems to acquiesce in the result
of the election augurs favorably for its politi-
cal tranquility and prosperity. Nearly four
years ago, after the surrender of the rebel
armies, Grant said there was a hearty dis
position throughout the South to accept the
situation in good faith Then the modern
Moses assumed the reins of government and
SO conducted affairs that nothing but the f.
deity of the people of the North to the
principles for which they had fought saved
from anarchy and revolution. The stout
confidence of the party of freedom is stead
fast as ever. but it gladly will hail the ces-
sation OF ultra partisan feeling and action,
and will welcome all who are willing to
assist in making reconstruction thorough and
harmonious From recent appearances it
would almost seem as if they conducted the
campaign with an antecedent determination
10 be beaten and then 10 chime in as grace
fully as might be with the inevitable results.
Not only is there an unusual want of vi
tuperation and assault on Gen Grant, but
we hear nothing more of the doleful cries
about the ruin that must follow the defeat
Of Mr. Seymour The South especially ap
pears to have revived the latent LOYALTY that
prevailed after Appornattox and to have con-
cluded after all that the dangers which its
lively Imagination conceived are scarcely
real. The negro has voted-where he could
with satety-and the world still stands The
Freedman s Bureau continues its operations,
and yet the South is far more prosperous
than since the beginning of the war, and its
people see that the more the measures of the
Republican party are carried into effect the
more rapid is their return toward material
thrift and comfort Their fnanceers, shrewd-
est of all politicians, recognize these things
and are calling for Northern enterprise and
capital to aid in developing their resources
from all quarters comes up the cry, we are
satisfied with Grant and will do our best to
facilitate the work before him
Many Northern democrats exhibit the same
feeling; they have confidence in the irmness
and wisdom of the man we have chosen his
administrative ability has been proven beyond
n doubt Some affect to qualify their en-
dorsement by claiming that though not with
them he is of them. They are welcome to
all such comfort they can manufacture. 1t
may be said that all this acquiescence comes
too late that it is the death-bed repentance
of party, and of doubtful value. We do
not care for the motive; it is evident there
is reaction, strongest at the South, that bids
fair materially to aid in what of reconstruc-
ton remains to be done. OF course it is not
universal, for there is yet some tenderness
for the lost cause, but change has certainly
come over many
We do not think the millennium has ar
rived or is approaching, hence We shall ex-
pect to meet opposition enough to keep our
party in vitality, but it Will not be such OPP
position as that of the last two years. which
has found its expression in violence, riot and
murder.