The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-08-30
Election.

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County officers, and Member of Congress,
occurs one week from to-day. The Re.
publicans Of Vermont are TO strike the
key note of the fall elections The result
of this election will be accepted as the
verdict of the people of Vermont upon
the national issues, and the ideas and
principles Of the administration. If we
allow apathy or Indifference, or local is
sues to keep us away from the polls or to
scatter fire, the result may be more dis
astrous to the cause of right and justice
and economy and faithful execution of
the laws, than we may at first thought
suppose. Suppose thousand Republi-
can voters, each by himself, reasons that
his vote is but one and will not material.
ly alter the result, therefore he will re.
main at home or start on his journey be.
fore election, or allow some other trifing
cause keep him away from the polls the
aggregate result is falling off Of the
majorities one thousand, a result which
would be taken up and exulted over, and
used to make capital of previous to
elections in other states. 1t would be as.
serted that Grants administration causes
no enthusiasm, that his course was re-
buked by Republican Vermont, that the
people are beginning to see the corrup.
ton Of the Republican party, and host
of other equally absurd and untrue state
ments, referring to the result of the cleo
ton as proof. Mistakes may have been
made by the administration and by prom.
inent members of the Republican party
but the people feel that the party record
has less Of corruption, of recklessness in
expenditure, aud of partisan prejudice
and passion than that Of any other party
which has ever had ten years lease of
power. At the same time they have a
glorious record to show of purity and
principle, of justice and right, Of progress
sive ideas, of a proper use of executive
patronage, of the spirit of true democra-
cy as shown in what has been done for
liberty and equality, and of public econ
omy and thorough enforcement of the
laws. Born of the spirit of justice, when
the hand Of oppression strove to rivet
more firmly the chains of slavery upon
the necks of four and half million of
our fellow men, the Republican party had
fortunately become power when the
madness Of disappointed ambition plunged
the nation into the miseries of civil war.
1t proved equal to this new responsibility
laid upon 1.-THE responsibility of saving
the nations life. In the fiery process Of
this crisis, it devolved upon this same Re.
publican party to break the letters of hu.
man chattelhood and secure the rights of
citizenship to the freedman. This was n
herculean task, because they had to con.
tend against party of obstructionists
organized to defeat these measures of JUS
tice and headed by demagogucs who
wished only to accomplish personal ends,
who to do so had secured the combination
Of social, political and ecclesiastical Or
CARNATIONS which also had ends of their
own to accomplish. This task of recon-
struction performed with unexampled
success, they have now to meet questions
Of finance and the national indebtedness,
to lift from off us some of the burdens of
taxation, and to reform the military and
civil service. These knetty questions
rendered more complicated by honest diff.
terences of opinion, the Republican party
are now graphing, with all honesty and
earnestness Of purpose to effect the great
est ultimate good to the country. In
this patriotic effort they call for the uni
ted support Of all those who appreciate
former services and present intent Let
the Republicans Of Vermont rally at the
polls next Tuesday! We have candi-
dates worthy, and issues all-impor.
tant; it is our last opportunity to throw q
bombshell into the camp of the enemy
for two years. Let us improve it.