Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-09-03
TIE RUTLAND HERALD
THURSDAY, AUGUST y, 1sdS,
The issues OF the Campaign.


taxation" payment OF bonds in green
backs" abolition Of National banks,
Ac, the f,llacy and criminality Of which
il as apparent to the advocates Of the
schemes proposed n to the masses Of the
Republican party Such course Is sim
ply hobby on which they intend 10 ride
their party again into power, and none Of
the cries involve the real issues of the cam
lajg
While the result Of the war Is doubtful
while the issues for which the Union
prmy fought are unsettled, and the con
Vucrca rebels refuse TO accept defeat,
there cam be- but one leading question in
yolyed in the campaign, and that Is the
efficiency, the legality and the justice Of
the Congressional plan Of reconstruction,
in comparison with which other ques-
tiuns are secondary and insubordinatc.
When Frank Blair advocates another re-
yolu,ion, and avows his willingness 10
attempt its precipitation upon the ooun-
try, upon hi, access to power, and for his
elevation To that power has the cordial
endorsement of traitors whose hands are
still red with the blood Of loyal hearts
are W. not justified i'll believing. the coun-
Try in imminent danger of war if their
purity triupphs at the polls
When Wade Hampton, before South
C.ralma rebel audience, boasts of the part
.he took in framing the Democratic plat
form in New York SO as TO conform 70
rebel demands by inserting in it the as
>ertiun that the DEMONSTRATION acts arc
revolutionary, unconstitutional and void,
AMI then endorses Blair as a man in whom
'l>rcbrl- can place implicit confidence,
mI 10 whom they can pin their faith, are
We uo, right in cuuicciariug thar the site
.,~> of Seymour and BMir>will he q signal
iora new revolutions
cen Grant, though no man did more
iur th, prosecution OF the wartoa a success
..u, termination than did he. say in hi,
et'or.oi acceptance, now that the sections
r.n no longer in arm. against each other
las "a, hsy. peace" seymour ana Blair.
.nl the platform ,u which they stand, In
Woke, and favor another v.,r ,a,,I threaten,
., violent .,h,ii,, of ,h. ai.,lili,ie. n,
n.iI.E..,, called down u,..u tl.s,,.,Iys.
b., reDr ,rna>nuablc acts. What further
r,ra-~,r, tn show the ro~iti-n Of the
1850 7,4r,;,s lrfurr the reople, and what
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,...,.,rsn.tl,,r fratrir.a.I war,
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