Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-11-06
Vermont Daily Transcript.
ST. Adams, VT.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, G 1865.
The Press on tn, Elections.

exceeding great JOY over the result of
Z over the result in New Yo.k State,
-~lich it contends the Republicans have
| been cheated oIt of by fraudulent votes.
/ In an article on what We have won,"
/ it says
III the election of Gen. Grant, the
| people have secured tn 1t tof wnic they
| fought - UNION, PEACE, ald Equal
! RIGHTS FOR ALL MEN. Alter seventy
! five years OF strugg cs over the quest Oh
whether the Union is a leIg ie OF a M
/ ton, and alter fifty yeas OF contest "a
10 the right of all men to be free, the
election OF Gen. Grant finally seals the
restor 1t on of the Union, and POUNDS an
indissoluple nationality, on the basis of
universal liberty and manhood suffrage.
/ The next four Years may be occupied in
TART in ge,tibg the machinery of Our
new system into harmonious operation.
Bat the principles on which our nation
il now based admi of no further dispute.
We are one indissolublc nation; all in
habitants are, or may become, citizens,
all citizens have equal civil RICH 8, and
all adult male citizens have equal pO-
litical ii shts. In 1859, none f these
propositions were true. In 1864, two
millions of men were in the field con-
tending on the one side for, and on the
other side against them. III 1868, they
are settled forever by the elect Oh of
Gran. Oh the Chicago platform.
The Herald says:
THE Democratic leaders flung their
chances of success oVcrb BARD when they
made their feeble nominations In July
L., 4 .s.Nlt, l.
brought prominently forward as dele
gates and stump speakers men from the
Southern States, stepped to the lips in
disloyalty to the Government, and fresh
from the ii Ids where thousands o our
Union = ldicrs laid down their lives to
preserve the life of the nation. With
the candidate the Democracy selected
to carry their standard. nothing but oe-
feat was to be expected, and we sup
pose that not even the most sanguine
member of the par y ant .cipated any
other termination to the contest than
the election of General Grant.
The Sun, which did effective service
lows:
The bare success of a candidate,
whose platform and policy are embod-
led in the words, :" Let us have peace !"
will cause tn waves Of passion and vio-
lence in the Southern states to sink in
repose. If, however, after he shall have
assumed the chlir Of state, eX. rebels OF
the school of Hampton, Forrest. Wise,
Semmes, and Tombs, magnanimOusly
spared their lives, and shall not instant
~ refrain from stimulating arson anu
murder and cOgnate crimes, the loyal
people of the nation will do"cand that
they be tried by court martial for VIOLA
ii ~ their paroles. or by criminal tribu-
nails for treason, and, if convicted, that
they be banshed from the country OF
put to death. g. Let us have peaceW
The DO .ton Journal, in spe aling Of
the election of Gen. Grant, says:
He is ind ed, at this moment, the most
potential man in the void. Certainly
no American. since Washington stepped
from the command of the army to the
head ofthe Governn ent, which he may
be S aid to have carved into eXistenc by
his sword, has acceded to SUCH a post OF
power and responsibility as that tc VIII Gu
General Grant is now summoned. We
have entire faith that he will acquit
himself a. we'll in the new career Il. us
opened to him as in that to which his
tory will give him place among the
great captains of the world. Some OF
his enem .es. ii ed OF the absurdity of
calling him al. ignOramus, have marked
out for him the bad eminencc' of a
Cromwell o; Napoleon. The only
shadow of basis for the fabr cation is,
that Ora t, like those his ORIG charac-
'ers, is not a mere sold er, but has equal
; capacity to shine III civil service. But
unlike them, he has, also, pure ! at
riotism, perfect respect for law, sine re
devotion to the rights of mankind.
The World says that ever since the
October elections, the Democrats have
had hopeless fight. 1t declares, how
ever, that they waged gallant bat
tie" and tina. " troops more gallant new
er Were led to any field"
Brick Pomeroy is mad. This broad
continent" he says, "cannot be surren-
dered to despotic military rule, and mad
the home of mongreizad, debased,
low-browei race of political saves :"
We quote further:
"No, never! BY the heavens above
us, and the blood soaked, scared soil be-
Leath our feet, this shall never be ! We
are still men! We come of a stock
which spurns the chain and deties the
tyrant! Then stand to your arms white
men OF America Though the victory
Is not wen the cause is net lost! You
} are still as great, rs stlongas ever! You
have still Il country, homes, children !!
/, Liberty, in chains, still beckons you to
h.r rescue! God of our fathers! can
we hold back from such solicitation :.
: Can we veCver tbs struggle while free
dom is denie us? Shall one half the
Union be surrendered to African barbar-
ism, ana the whole to the tyrants' sway /?
Win we become the Wiling slaves of
money kings, and learn to 81 ea.S