Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-19

The result will show that we trusted to
broken staff
But Mr.. Sumner says Grant was a
Democrat. So he. .Was;~and so. were
whom the war, and that alone, |
woke to a realization Of tie true situa-
ton. We are now, politically in the
same attitude as that of the war. It is
a battle of ideas now, not of swords
We depended on him then. We can de-
pend ON him now.
= Midsummer says that each was nomi-.
mated by Republican convention. This
is a mistake. Grant was nominated BY
a convention of Republicans, the noble
and notable of the land, men tried and
true, men known and honored the world
over. Horace Greeley was first nominal
ed by convention composed mainly of
men who had been Republicans, but who
then and there sought the destruction of
the party. So successful were they that
the old enemies of Republicanism adopt
ed platform and candidates for the sole
object Of defeating the Republican party.
Not in any sense was the Cincinnati
gathering any more of a Republican con-
vention than was that at Baltimore. or
that at New York four years ago.
Mr.. Sumner says the two platforms
are alike in substance. That may be;
but one is honest, the other is a cloak
to cover their grand design to destroy
the Republican party and Republican
principles. The history and action. of
the Southern Democracy, taken in con-
nection with the. history of Virginia,
West Virginia and Missouri, abundantly
prove my position, :
+. Mr.. Sumner says the election Of Gree
ley will not be. the return of the Demo-
cratic party to power. What else, |
ask, can it possibly be? Greeley must
reward with place those who support
him now-and they are Democrats main
ly. He has already made his promise
on that score in black and white over
his own signature, and he will not be
allowed to retract. Greeley surrounded
by Democrats will make Democratic
Administrations make no other,
| might 60 on in this way to meet ev-
cry point made by Mr.. Sumner, but |
have already exceeded the proper, amount
Of your space and perhaps the patience
of your readers. One word to the Re-
publicans of the North. wish it were
possible to convince you that this is no
idle contest. We in the South see it
and feel it. You of the North, as in the
war, are removed from the immediate
scene of the vital conflict. The result
of this contest comes home to every one
of us in way that no one raised and
living in Vermont can appreciate. L
involves for you an abstract idea oul
rights and privileges as citizens hang OF
its decision. You look on much as upoI
a lawsuit between your neighbors-no
much concerning you. We are engaged
in the contest ourselves, and its decis
ion affects our rights and property. Hal
Seymour been elected four years ag
Republicans would have been so perse
cuted in the South that they would hav
been driven out. Even under Repub
lican administration the kuklux has don
its terrible work in hundreds of home
and bereft hundreds of families. Thi
is the same old fight 1t has change,
its external aspects little. Internal,
it is the same. 1t means about the same
The change is in degree, not in charac
ter. The Southern Democrats supper
Greeley because through time they Sc
the way to the success of their old prir
ciples. The Republicans of the Mort
must not now desert their principles an
) aid those who were so lately enemies i
arms against the government. Ever
, Republican who votes for Greeley wi
, vote for the defeat of all the gloriou
, principles on which the war for the Ur
: ion was fought will vote for secessio
J and rebellion, will vote for the kuklu
| and their rights, will vote against a
i: lowing the United States to protect ht
own citizens in her own territory, WI
/ vote in favor of the Tammany ring
7 New York and against the payment
r the national obligations, in short wi
r vote for the downfall of everything whie
/ has made the record of his country
the last dozen years a glorious one. l.
e them pause ere it is too late.
s A. M. c.