Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-22
The State Committee TO the Town
Committees.

GENTLEMEN-In entering upon the
duties of the position assigned them by
the Republican party of Vermont, the
State Committee make this, an earnest
appeal to you for your hearty and per-
s0nal cooperation in the great struggle
in which we are now fairly engaged.
They would have you, with them, regard
the present as the most important of all
the Presidential campaigns that have
engaged our attention in the last few
years. They desire that you, with them,
should freely appreciate the magnitude
and the Importance of the mission of the
Republican party-a mission no less
than that of preserving the interests of
this great nation in the future, as it has
developed and fostered them in the
past.
To this party as a committee the duty
of providing for the complete restora-
ton and perpetnity of the Republic, the
establishment of the rights of all, with
out distinction of race or color, to an
equal protection under the law; to af-
ford a Just and equitable protection to
all classes of labor and manufacturing
interests; to ensure a continued and
certain reduction of the national burden;
to perfect our national finances to a
gradual yet sure return to a sound, sab
stantial basis, and as early as may be
compatible with the great financial in
terests Of our people; to assure the re-
cOgnitiOn of the rights of citizens born
at home and abroad, guaranteeing to all
ample remuneration for the past, and
full protection for the future.
For the defeat of the Republican
party, and the consequent overthrow of
its policy, are combined a party without
principle, and malcOntents with no pur-
pose save that of revenge or greed of of
fee. In our own State this hydra head
ed opposition rears its murky form, and
threatens to make itself felt in our COM
ing State election; it's adherents, not
hoping for success, but determined upon
| mischief by drawing from our time
hOnored ranks, are putting forth every
effort in their power to weaken our
numbers, and so reduce our maiorities
in the September election as to carry en-
| couragement to the same opposition in
the States where the contest is closer and
where they hope to succeed.
In the defeat of this unhallOwed and
wicked purpose, the committee would
call your earnest attention, and invoke
your best personal efforts. They would
impress upon you the necessity of an
earnest, determined and mediate action;
| organize, fully organize, the ranks in
your town; form Grant and Wilson
clubs, if consistent call meetings, in
order that the principles of our party
may be fully understood and thoroughly
discussed rally the faithful visit the
Indifferent, especially those who allured
by former love for Greeley, and the
reading of the Tribune, are inclined to
follow after him and lose sight of those
glorious principles of liberty, equality
and justice, contended for by our fathers,
and so nearly consummated in the benifi-
cent results of Gen. Grants admins
tration.
Let us put forth an united effort, de-
termined to maintain the former pres
tige and integrity of the republican par
ty of Vermont let us remember that
the eyes of an anxious people are upon
US; and that a great political influence
is ours to exert, in that our duty having
been well done, and the result being
known, the spaan shall reverberate
among our hills and through our valleys
and the glad refrain will be caught up
by our sister States, in such notes of en-
couragement as to carry CONSERVATION
and dismay into the hearts of our enc
miles,
Let us, then, 60 forward, strong in the
right, and confident that our cause will
surely triumph over all combinations,
emanating from whatever source, or
however skillfully planned, believing