Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-08-26
Are You Ready!

| Art lOu ACday
The first Tuesday of September is at hand,
when Vermont is to lead the grand army OF
the Union, and open fire upon the enemy,
At the beginning of a great battle, Nelson
best speeches ever made: England expects
every man to do his duty" And in the
spirit of that sentiment the Republicans OF
the Union are now addressing Vermont
They expect every man to do his duty-every
true Republican Vermonter. They expect
you are ready, that every man will be at the
polls, that every vote will tell, and that the
result, in a sweeping Vermont majority, will
carry assurance of victory in the Presidential
contest to every corner of the land 1t is
true we have little necessity for hard work,
so far as Vermont is concerned. No neglect
will peril the State, and for that reason we
urge every Republican to remember that it is
not the State, but the Union, that expects him
to do his duty. Go to the polls, then, every
man, as if you were confronted by every
rebel in the land, and in danger of losing all
the fruits of the victory your noble soldiers
nave "oH- AS ii-Htiy YOU ut COiiii Nii'Ou
by every rebel, by every bounty-jumpcr, by
every deserter from the Union ranks, by
every sympathizer with tyranny and treach-
cry in the land. These are your foes now,
as they were in the dark and cloudy days of
the war; and even now they would plunge
the country back. if they could, into all the
horrors of those days. The reconstruction
acts are unconstitutional, null and void, says
the Democratic platform the confederate
constitution is better than ours, said Sey-
mour; and said Frank P Blair, 3 the Prcsi
dent elect must declare these acts null and
void, compel the army to undo its usurpations
at the South, dispense the carpet bag state
governments, allow the white people to re
organize their own governments, and elect
senators and representatives. These are
their confessed purposes, and they imply the
undoing of all that has been done to give
freedom and peace to the country. Now,
freemen of Vermont, are you ready to take
the back track? We say-ncver and so
we trust will you all say.
On this topic the Boston Journal gives
every Republican voter
Vermont heads the list of fall elections
She votes on Tuesday of next week, and will
be followed by California and Maine. If she
does we'll, therefore, she will send stimulat-
ing impulse to the Republicans Of those
States, which will be taken up and repro
duced with augmented effect, until the infiu-
ence of the Green Mountain Boys shall have
made the entire circuit of the fall elections,
eliminating in the grand triumph of Gen
Grant in the Presidential contest. We trust,
therefore, that our Republican friends in that
State are fully alive to the Importance of
their action at the polls, and that now. as
heretofore, they will not fail to completely
match their exgency.
We sympathize with them, too, for this
reason, that they cannot enjoy the inspiring
contact of sc foemen worthy of their steel.
The Democratic party of Vermont amounts
to nothing-it can hardly keep up the APP
pearance of a respectable contest. The Re-
publicans, therefore, have to act from an
inherent sense of duty and from an enlarged
consideration of the requirements of the
country. But these are sufficient. They
teach that the practical duty now before the
Vermont Republicans is simply to get ont a
full rOte Give that, and noble victory
follows as matter of course. Let Maine
hear of that, and she will easily add thous-
and or two to her majority for Chamberlain
Let all the Republicans of the Union hear it,
and their efficiency in furtherancc of the good
cause will be immensely strengthened and
advanced: Let the propogandists OF the new
Revolutionary ocIUnioo iioss- - 49,. I'LL
begin to feel that the people are awake, and
that the day of the rebel plottcrs has gone
by. Let us have, then, by all means, a full
Republican vote in Vermont at the coming
election. If steps have not yet been taken
to bring it out in all sections of the State, let
the neglect be repaired instantly. One week
of thorough, energetic work will accomplish
wonders especially where the people are al
ready right IN sentiment. We entreat our
Vermont friends to renew once more their
own inest Unable service to the cause of equal
rights