Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-15
Correspondence of TIE HERALD
Political EssueS---1 S72---SsraHt's
Administration. etc.
Troy, n. Y, August 12.

correspondents OIL LIE IlERALD.I
Political Essues---1s 72---Grant's
Administrations. etc.
Troy, n. Y, August 12.
Editor RutZa7ad Herald - Another
Presidential year has come, and the great
Republic is now in the very midst of a
political struggle for the filing of the
highest office in the land The Union
Republican party, by its regular and
duly constituted committee, issued call
for national convention of that party,
for the 9Th day of June last, at the city
of Philadelphia, for arranging a suitable
national platform, and to nominate
candidate for the office of President and
Vice President of the United States, and
also to devise ways and means to carry
forward to successful results upon the
political fields of 1872, the greatest of
all Presidential campaigns and party
contests since the organization Of our
| government.
1t was generally admitted by Repub-
licans in every part of the Union, who
were loyal to the party, and devoted to
the best interests and prosperity of the
country and of the people, that General
L. S. Grant, during his administration
as the chief officer of the Republic, had
honorably and faithfully earned, and
was justly entitled to a denomination by
the Philadelphia Convention. Indeed,
''the signs of the times in all parts of
the country, not only indicated that
such would be the result, but that the
people expected and demanded it. l
now speak from observations CLEANED
from among them in my extensive
travels made throughout the several
States and in the different sections of
the Union, just before the meeting of
that convention. There is, there can be
no doubt, the wishes of the people hav-
ing been duly considered, by his re-nOm-
nation, not only by the unanimous vote
of that convention, but by its enthusiasts
tic reclamation. Nearly all of the States
and Territories had chosen delegates to
the convention, and by united-unani-
| nous vote each instructed or requested
their delegates to vote for Gen. Grants
denomination. and all this in perfect
harmony of action within the Republi-
can party, where the will of the people,
during-the past twelve years, has been
observed and respected, and great re-
suits achieved. President Grant being
renOminated upon broad and cOmpre-
hensive national platform, will be re-
elected by a much larger vote than that
which made him our President in that
great contest of 1863, when the whole
power of the Andy Johnson administra-
ton and its Office holding Republican
followers allied to the Democratic party
were brought into the field against him.
Then the State of New York was lost to
the Republican party by shameful frauds
and by rank yillany, having no precedent
or parallel in the history of States N0lo
it is believed that the State Of New York
having wheeled square into the line of
States for denomination, will also give
its great electoral vote for Gen. Grant in
the coming struggle of 1872, for Tam
many has gone into its political grave
and taken the Democratic party with it,
and it cannot reappear and recover in
time to work any substantial injury to
the Republican cause, and there are no
honest Republicans in that State who
will dare to take the responsibility of
bringing that party from its grave Of pO-
litical infamy Each and every voter
who has hitherto been identified with
the Republican cause and enjoyed the
victories. and shared in the honors of
that party, will be called upon as never
before, to decide the gravest of all politi-
cal questions whether he will continue
on with that grand old Republican party
that amid fire and smoke, amid the rattle
of musketry, the thunderings of cannon,
and the sufferings of the wounded and
prayers of the dying, saved this the best,
the grandest,, and greatest of all the
nations upon this earth, or whether
through disappointment, in the distribu-
ton of loaves and fishes, and not having
reached and filled official place inperson
or by proxy, or having failed to attain
power to control the administration in
official appointments, they will cut loose
from their moorings in the Republican
party, drift away in their discomfort
and disappointment to become the allies
of the Democratic party-that party
which never yet has lifted its voice
against slavery, treason, or secession,
but so often declared the emancipation
proclamation of the immortal Lincoln
unconstitutional, and in the same man.
ner denounced the reconstruction tsof
Congress and all acts of the Republican
party instituted to suppress the great re
bellion, and to preserve the constitution
and to maintain the integrity of the
Union, and thus and thereby desert and
abandon, in the face of its political enc
my, the great principles of liberty, of re-
form, of exact justice to all men, and of
progress in all things as well as in the
annual reduction of the nations great
debt, and in the bringing of peace and
prosperity to the people in every part of |
the land.
for one do not believe there are
many in the Republican party who are
willing to make such great sacrifices of |
principle, of party honor, of political in
tegrity, and run such risks, for no other |
cause or motive to Justify such |
action than to please a few
sore-headed, crippled, and disconnected,
not to say, dishonest, politicians They
will not suffer themselves to be drawn /
from Republican lines by a pretended
third party movement to divide the Re
publican Party, and thus let the old
Democratic Party come into power for