Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-22
Is IL a Revolution f.?

usually advertise - the world the best they
can do, but keep a few seconds in reserve.
70 sstonish the gaping crowd with when the
final - heat " comes of. The Greeley back
ers are either over-elated with the prospect
before them and the time they are making
on, as yet, an uncontested cOurse, OF else
they have So much CO fdence that they see
no necessity for = paying off as it is termed
and ave taken the pole with the expectation
Of keeping it. But they must remember
they have no ordinary 81 horse man TO con-
tend with. lie has walked over the course
once, and if the Philadelphia Convention
so will it, it is quite coLfdently expected be
can do so again.
But TO change this horse-raceish formula,
there is no denying the fact that the support
ers Of Mr.. Gree ey and the Cincinnati plat
form are IL excellent spirits, considering the
early eta re of the Presidential campaign.
Several little circumstances have transpirrd
which though but - ripples." are promoted
60 waves Of political revolution" by those
who will labor for the defeat of President
GIANT, IN case be is the nominee Of tie
Philadelphia Convention The re- ecton 81
Senator Ferry in Connecticut which drew
some seventeen votes from the regular Re
publican nominee ID regarded, by as undo
. ded paper as the Springfield Republican,
one OF these " waves which Is TO be fol-
lowed by more, and still higher ones
The Endorsement of the Cincinnati movement
By the Democratic conventions of Tennessee
and New York are regarded as favorable
Omens by those who wish to view them IN
that light, aud the refusal Of Mr Voorhee~
OF Indiana, and the New York World, to give
approval 70 the Greeley ticket is not regard
ed as damaging by the same authorities. i
is stated uuite authoritatively that major
ity of the Democratic papers are for lndors
ing the Cincinnati ticket, and that the few
that stand out must ultimately give in, or
20 to the wall The Democrats have nothing
TO lose, and being in exceedingly light march
ing order, may well form in the first line
that promises advance, and it requires
but hastY survey Of the field to discover
that there is a general disposition to break
away from old leaders that have SO long led /
them to nothing but inglOriOus defeat. A /
doubtful experiment even, is better than 4
certainty that has but one ending, so often .
repeated as to leave not even the benefit of a /
doubt. But to magnify the first flush of a new
hope into conquest or " revolution - is
a little too Mexican for the average Ameri-
can, who, as a rule, waits for the dem n
stration after he has received the fact, how
ever rapidly he may have come TO q conclusion
OF course ratification meetings are all Cd
one side as yet, aud hats do not 60 up, either
white or black, unless there is somebody to
throw them. If there are mora white hats
than of any other color in the air just at
this time, it is probably because tae wearers
of the latter have their - innings . first,
and the game is not yet fairly under way
But the Greeley movement is not to be put
pru6c ent Mr.. Mast, who has been bunting {
his artistic poignard against several pIoml-
neut statesmen and politicians of late, will
find that with the ample popularity OF {
Harper publication as a vehicle for hlf
lugubri ,us wit, be Will help on more than
he will resard a political .. revolution, - il
there is one a brewing Upon this point
the regular Boston correspondent of the
Hartford Coll ant, an administration paper
Gen. Hawley's paper as it is sometimes
oalled-is sensible. He says
{" Mr.. Gree'ey will have quite number
Of Republican votes, but, as regards any
general organized Republican movement Ia
hls favor IA the State, cannot yet see whom
il is to come from. The attempt TO laugi
him down was begun here the day after hIs
nd HTfrrr H.4t.
AdoerIiser astonI-hed those who passed IT.
Office by a caricature of the farmer OF Chap
D qua ON It's bulletin board. Tnis did vel
enough. perhaps, for an lmpulsiVe Joke; II II
not pr ,bable that it will be carried much
further in { at quarter. Indeed, it is quite
safe to say that Il will be q mistake 10 I'M
dertake to conduct the campaign on such tao
tics. Caricaturing has heen very badly over
done already on the Republican side. Mr..
Nast's attacks on Mr. Scburz and MIR. Trun
bull have ct the Republican party thou
sands of votes In the men whom they have
alien tied, and have much emb TERED the an
imositv which the seeding section feels
toward the administration. The same policy
that senator Chandler Is reported 70 have
advocated in Washington this week Is car
ried out with a vengeance IN these, aud the,
react upon the friends OF the Fresloent with
true boomerang effect.
If Mr.. Mast, or Messrs Harper Brothers
or ANYBODY else, desire 10 AID Mi OreeleN
In the campaign, they can hardly devise a
more eficIent way to do 1t. The iun made
of the author of What l know About
Farming" ian excet DINGHY clever and in
teresting book, by the way, let me assur
those who have not read it, has bad an ele-
ment of good nature in it which even hIr
friends have taken in good part; but 1t hat
aune abJut as lar as 10 profitable already,
and, il it shall be pushed into the campdlg"
with the bitterness that is almost Inevitable
under such circumstances. the chances art
that those who use such a weapon will be
the severest sufferers.
As slready stated in former article. there
IS an educated belief in Horace Greeley
throughout the country, which cannot be
wiped out IN an instant by ridicule, and men
who do considerable of the solid voting are
not quick at seeing an argument in car
toon, however great she genius that conceived
IL. If go venerable authority as the New
York Evening Post thinks it will be no joke
no meet the best known editor in the country
in a PresIdebtial contest, the skirmlshers
had better be sure their heavy ordnance Il
wall in position before they venture too IA
from me base line. We can % laugh = and
make pictures in Vermont if that suits ouI
fancy best. but in the extended line alon.
which this battle is to be fought our com
pspy letter will look like condensed " pearl
compared 10 the whole front. And the
other wing" the colored troops light well
il is true, but lest us be assured on whIct
side they are to fight. before we count ih'
Of f~bt 0f h. I