Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-08-28
Address of the Republican State
Committee.

member of the new party does not expect
that the electoral vote of this State will be
given to Horace Greeley, in November. What
is hoped, however, by the managers of that
party, is that the new movement, set on foot
at Cincinnati and approved at Baltimore, will
so far capture Republican voters in Vermont
as 70 reduce our old-fashioned majorites in
September If this hope should be answered
by the result Of the election next Tuesday
It will be trumpeted from one end Of the
country To the other, as an indication of The
strength and popularity of this partnership
between Democrats and those recently Re
publicans.
To prevent this is easy. A full vote vii
certainly do it. Vermont has not cast hel
full vote by at least $4,000 for many years
Seventy thousand votes ought to be cast this
year. IF the Democrats and Liberals to
gether cast 10000 of these, they will dc
better than any fair canvass promises them
This will leave 81, 600 to the Republicans, OF
30, 600 majority. This is nearly > 900 more
than the majority for Governor Page four
years ago. If every vo ter goes to the polls
and votes, next Tuesday, that majority will be
reached. If it is not reached, it will be the
fault Of Republicans who support General
Grant, and not OF. those who support Horace
Greeley.
Such is the simple statement of what Re-
publicans of Vermont can do. To do less is
not only to come short of our duty; it is to
fail to answer the expectation of Republicans
everywhere, who are looking to this staunch
Republican State for the keynote to the
grand music of Victory which will swell
from Maine to California in November We
are in the front of the line. We open the
battle. Every man should be in his place
nd our Vi Glory then will be decisive and
inspiring.
And Republicans of Vermont never had
more reason to be proud of their position or
jealous of their fair fame. They have al
ways been in the van of the army of freedom.
In its victories, whether in war or in peace.
their place at the front has never been ques
toned. No man doubted our LOYALTY. no
man questioned our devotion to the rights of
man. Mr.. Greeley has borne testimony to it
a hundred times. Let him be obliged reluc-
family 10 be a witness to it once more.
The single and commanding issue Of the
campaign is a simple one. 1t is not reconcile
alton; it Is not reunion. it il not reform.
These are only the glittering generalities of
the orators of the new party. The RepublI-
can party Is the true party Of reconciliation,
Ofre-uniOn, of reform a reconciliation which
establishes justice and equal rights, and main
tains them, and is at peace with all who obey
the laws; a reunion which has kept every
State IN the Union, a. well as restored it to
Its place IN Congress: a reform which has
Disguised corrupt Republicans and Tammany
Democrats alike, and united them in oppo-
sition TO General Grant. The single issue is
Shall the new Constitutions the Constitu
ton of freedom and equal rights be enforc-
ed by appropriate Congressional legislation,
or only by State and local law? Shall the
Democratic party, which opposed the three
great amendments, be entrusted with their
enforcement, Or shall that work still remain
IN the hands of the Republican party, through
whose persistent efforts alone the amendments
became a part Of the Constitution?
If the Government is now surrendered TO
the Democratic party and their new but not
numerous allies, these great amendments be-
come only words. Slavery may not be re-
stored, but equal rights and impartial suffrage
will be denied. These amendments have no
self enforcing power. If the men in posses
sion Of the Government will not enforce
them they are but dead letters in the Consti-
tution-as impotent at the South as the old
clause respecting the rendition of fugitive
slaves was at the North Can any Republican
tail TO see this or, seeing it, can he fail to
vote, as he always has voted, in favor of
making these guarantees Of the Constitution
the protection and the defense of the Union
men of the south, white and black alike?
We need not recall the brilliant record Of
the Republican party. What the Republic
has So we'd, as well as what it has gained in
the last twelve years, is the achievement of
this party. When others wavered, it was
steadfast when others clamored for truce
or a surrender, it kept it's face to the armed
foe, when others negotiated for peace at any
price, it demanded liberty and justice, and
through that peace when others attempted
a reconstruction without universal liberty,
equal rights and suffrage, it demanded and
obtained all these when others talked of re-
pudistion, it stood fast by the honor Of the
nation, and its policy has amazed the world
IN the rapid payment of the public debt 1t
has increased the revenues, while it has d.
minished taxation 10 has settled grave diff
ference with foreign power, by the peaceful
methods of arbitration it has adopted an
Indian policyat once humane and successful;
and during its administration of the Gov
eminent 1t has not only carried the Republic
successfully through terribly destructive
war waged by traitors against the Union, but
its policy in peace has contributed to an ad- |
vance in the prosperity of every industry of
the country unprecedented in our history.
We ask every Republican to give one day
TO the country. TIE nation has learned.
through the terrible experience of a civil !
war, the cost of a Government and policy |
unfaithful to the liberties and rights of the
whole people. One such experience should
be sufficient for generati,n. The people
see and feel this. From every part of the |
State comes the most cheering intelligence. |
Republicans who at first hesitated are every- !