The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-04
Thanks TO Vermont! {!
From the ~ Y, Tribune.


There was never, of course, any doubt that
Vermont would cast her vote for Grant and
Colfax by a very large majority; and yet her
State election just held was regarded with
deep, general, aud rational interest. The baro-
meter incites no storms and averts none; but
1t is, nevertheless, watched intently 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 a certain as by that
of doubtful State. Nobody expected Ken
lucky to vote otherwise in 1868 than as she
did in 1864; yet the fact that her Democratic
vote and maority were last month swelled by
the full strength of her returned Rebel
soldiery, operated as signal encour-
agement and aid to the partisans
OF Seymour and Blair throughout the
Union. And so the splendid majority just
rolled up by Vermont is worth much more to
the Republican cause than the five electoral
votes which she is certain to cast for Grant
and Coltax. Not that it settles the question
as 10 Vermont-there was no such question
to settle-but that it shows beyond cavil that
those who supported Lincon's reelection are
rallying with unbrollen ranks to elect Grant
and ColfaX. There are very few individual
defectiOns, overbalanced by conversions to the
Republican side; but the very few deserters
and straggers affect neither the solidity nor
the momentum Of the mighty column that is
moving to reterate and confirm the past tri
umphs of freedom and the Union over Rebel
lion at the South and sympathizing disloyalty
at the North. Such is the moral Of the Yer
mont election
The scattered and 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" boasted of in 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 grandfather achieved the Presidency by a
shameful bargain, and that his more illus
trious great grand ather was monarchist, a
British tool, and an implacable foe of popular
rights. They boasted then of their great
gains from the Republican 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 teuder the fervent
gratitude OF at least tWO-thirdS of the Ameri-
can-bOrn voters of the United States. They
have struck gallant and timely blow, for
which we all fervently 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 fulfil their own doleful prophe-
cies. They have shown that Of the half mil
lion 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 Colfax 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 trovel miles to reach
the polls, which the indolent excuse them
selves from doing on the plea that it is of no
use-the majority will be large enough with
out them. Honor and praise cheers and
blessings for the stOut-hearted, free-souled
yeomanry of unfinching Vermont.