New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-03
THINKS TO VERMONT

There was never, OF course any uOuDI tHdV
VERMONT would cast her vote for Grant and
COlfax by very large majority; and yet her
State Election just held was regarded with
deep general, and rational interest The baro-
meter incites no storms and averts none; but
if is nevertheless watched intenuy by those
whose fortunes are staked on the calm or tenn
pest of the next day or two. The set of the
| popular current may be indicated as clearly,
decisively by the vote of Il certain as by that of
a doubtful State. Nobody expected Kentucky
to vote otherwise in 1853 than as she did in 1864
vet the fact that her Democratic vote and
| majority were last month sweled by the full
! strength OF her returned Rebel sOldiery Opcr-
ated as q signal encouragement and aid to the
partisans of Seymour and Blair throughout the
Union. And so the splendid majority just
rolled ND by VERMONT is worth much more
10 the Repubican cause than the five Electoral
Votes which she is certain to cast for Grant
and Cofax. Not that it settles the question
as to VemOnt-thcre was 10 such question to
settle--but that it shows beyond cavil that
those who supported Lincoln's reelection are
rallying with unbrokon ranks to elect Grant
and Colfax. There are very few individual
defections, OveIbalancod by conversions to the
! Republican side; but the very few desertcrs
and stragglers affect neither the sOlidity nor
the momentum of the mighty column that Is
| moving to reiteIate and confirm the past tri-
umphs of Freedom and the Union over Rebel
lion mt the South and sympathizing DislOyalty
at the North. Such is the moral of the Yer
mont Election.
The scattered aud peeled champions of The
Lost Cause among the Green Mountains have
for months insisted that they were receiving
vast accessions to their ranks in sympathy with
the Great Reaction boosted of i'll other States
They had young John Quincy Adams at their
capital last Winter, to receive a grand ovation
from those who inherited a belief that his grand
father achieved the Presidency by shameful
bargain, and that his more illustrous great
grandfather was mOnarchist, British tool,
and an implacable foe of popular rights. They
boosted then of their great gains from the Re
publican ranks and the vast increase on their
former votes that would be shown at the next
election. They deceived their allies outside of
their own limits but they did not deceive nor
mislead the yeomanry of Vermont
To that yeomanry, we tender the fervent
! gratitude of at least two-tllrds Of the Ameri-
can-born voters of the United States. They
| have struck a gallant and timely blow, for
which we all feryently thank them. They
| have shown that we have but to beat the long
roll and the men who saved the country from
| blood thirsty treason will save it from those
who. throughout our long agony, constantly
predicted the triumph of that treason, and did
their best to fulfill their own dOleful prOphe-
ces. They have shown that of the Half
Million Voters throughout the country who are
hardest and last to be brought to the polls, at
least Four Hundred Thousand will vote fOr
Grant and Coliax if they can only be induced
to vote at all. They have done this by effort
for the Vermonters are widely scattered on
their farms and in the glens of their noun
tains, and must often travel miles to reach the
polls which the INDECENT excuse themselves
from doing by the plea that it is of no use
the majority will be large enough without them
Honor and praise, cheers and blessings, for the
stout hearted, free souled yeOmanry Of I'M
hinching VERMONT