Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-28

FCCUtHO 1OHHV HOODtS.
We learn that extensive preparations
have been made by theopponents of Mr.
| Barlow and Mr.. Place-but more espc-
cially of Mr.. Barlow-tO flood the COun-
ty with circulars and handbills for cleo
pioneering purposes, at SO late an hour
that it will be impossible to examine
their statement in the public print, or to
permit any authorized contradiction
from the proper person to be circulated
This electioneering dodge indicates to
thinking men as strongly as words could
assert, that the cause is bad which these
men support, and that they are using
means which they know cannot stand
the light Of truth and fair investigation.
They wish to start, at the last moment,
some wonderful stories that will make
people open their mouths and swallow
the stories whole, without stopping to
reason about the matter. If they can
thus place themselve in the position of
old birds, and the voters in the position
of young ones, greedy for food they will
feel great delight in cramming" their
unheeding and credulous tiedglings.
With their labors thus appreciated, you
may be sure they will furnish no end of
worms.
But let intelligent men stop and think
a moment before receiving those docu-
ments as containing the truth. In the
first place, a candid and well-mcaninr
Republican should view with distrust
any movement to bolt regular nomina-
tons. The causes of a bolt should be
scrutinized carefully, for it is move
ment which must, in any case. carry
with it some injury to the party. If
the men who favor such a movement
against regular nominees are men who
are usually among the dissatisfied and
disaffected, the movement is still more
worthy of suspicion; for that fact shows
that they have less love for the party
than for their own ways, and support
principles only when their own private
views are thereby carried out. And
when these men, who bolt nominations
for their own party, not once only, but
often, try to support themselves by as
sertions and arguments which they .fcay
to hare eranincd, and which they cir
culate at the last hour, that they m a3
not be fairy investigated and allowed to
stand or fall by the truth there may be
found in them, it is the duty of those
who have the success of Republican
principles at heart to entirely disregard
those skulking assertions and argu'
mcnts. Those who desire men to act
the party to which they belong, arc
surely not selections for the public good
, Their object is not to convince by truth
but to succeed. Hence they fearto have
their statements calmly and sufficiently
Investigated, and therefore they pu
them forth at the last hour.
Now this is not the way to treat mel
who desire the success of right cause
more than the success of reVengeful in
; dividual schemes. Those who are will
ing that their cause should stand on it
real merits, court investigation, ant
J make their assertions in a manly way
before man, in the open day and Will
= honest light in their eyes. "Their OpeI
eyes desire the truth" No examining
: with stories at the last day and hour
: can win them from sustaining thei
, cause and Representatives forthe TIM
! ! being. They know that men with thei
+ imperfections pass away, but that prin
= ciples remain and that in sustaining
principles there need not be, nor il
there any endorsement of the i'm
projections of the men who represen
them. Keep your eyes, therefore, upol
the real point at issue, and do not be lee
to look at false issues. Look through
telescope, and not a magnifying glass
and see the grandeur of principles rath
er than the necessarily imperfect MAKE
'of their supporters ; and then sustain