Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-06-27
The Liberal Republican Manifesto

T.e Liberal Republican Manifesto
We, yesterday morning, published,
and thus aided in giving currency to,
the address of the, so-called, Liberal
Republican State Committee. We did
this fer two reasons. First, as a matter
of courtesy, which has always been ex-
tended to our opponents, in publishing
the proceedings of their conventions,
their resolutions, etc. Secondly, as
matter of curiosity; that eight respecta-
BILE men could be found, in Vermont,
who would act, under Jed. P Ladd's
appointment, as State Committee, with
out any authority to appoint them, or
any constituency to back them.
The address is full of unmeaning plat
itudes and sounding mot glittering) gen.
eralities, and is mainly a condensation
and rehash of Tribune articles and Sum-
nel's speech. 1t requires no particular
comment at our hands, and we should
allow it to pass unnoticed and sink into
obscurity with other similar political
fulmigations, but for some palpable
mistatements of history bearing upon
the contest at hand.
Bat before passing to notice these,
we would call attention to the gentle
manner in which the cooperation of the
Democrats with the handful of ''Liber-
Ills is solicited. 1t is needless to quote
passages to this end. In one sentence it
appears to be afraid the people win not
believe them to be Republicans, and in
the next it refers to the Democrats, as
if only the Democrats were the people.
The document states that 1.-The Repub-
lican party was made up of wings and
democrats" This is news to us, and we
presume it was never heard of by any
one except the writer and signers of the
address. Our recollection is, and his
tory so records, that the "Abolitionists'
played a very prominent and important
part in the organization of the Republi-
can party Did not these gentlemen
know it? Or, were they fearful of its
effect on the expected matrimonial re-
lation between them and tho Democratic
party Were they ignorant or did they
remember the ''time-honored' hatred OF
the Democracy for Abolitionists?
Again, they say, the convention which
placed Horace Greeley and B. Grat2
Brown in nomination, was composed en-
tirely Of men who were identified with
the infant organization of the Republi.
can party" etc. Is this true? N0td64
so, in the case of the chairman of the
Vermont delegation. And so you might
go through the list of delegates to the
Cincinnati Convention, and with here
and there an exception, you would
scarcely find an individual who had been
prominent in the councils of the Repub-
ican party, or who had even acted with
them, at all, until at a late day.
Why multiply instances? The argu-
ment, the spirit and pretended facts OF
this wonderful document are all of a
kind. We have said enough to indicate
its character, and will close by giving
the following short, but brilliant, NOR
csau, as indicative of its peculiar force
and beauty. Speaking of General Grant,
it says:
1T was a fitting .fnaye that he should
be presented with great enthusiasm &c
the Philadelphia denomination c0nyen-
ton on horseback.
Here is beauty, sublimity, sense, ar
gument and clcaness, all in a nutshell.
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