Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-07-03

LIBERAL RepuDllcans
70 the Editor orthe Nation
SIR . In company with thousands of young men
in this section who desire to do their duty TO me
country, have grave doubts what course 70 LIZ
was for Grant in lStS / do feel that vote
t,y Inn, lain Mr. GREELEY can but regard as the
most thoroughly unfit OF all our public men for the
Office OF President. The chances now are that the
Baltimore convention will either indorse him or
nominate some regular Old-llne democrat Whom
should be equally unwilling To vote ior.
Under these circumstances have written 70 you
aud know that words from You upon TINS matter
would be read thoughtfully and carefully by almost
the entire body of Young and educated ne uullvtns
throughout Massachusetts. come m daily contact
with great number OF young Repubhcans, ana .ile
same story Is heard from all - can vote LOT
Greeley, and ! don't want TO vote for Grant, bur
what can do - We don't like To be outsiders and
not vote at all, although feel that such w be inc
only conscientious course unless new hight Is gwen
Boston June li. bOsloN'
We have received good many letters of
this sort, and have in reply only to repeat
what we have said in substance already,
that in politics our ideal Is never attalnable,
that after reaching as high as we can, we
must all take what we can touch that
whether one ought TO abstain from voting al
together If no candidate in the field be
acceptable, is a nice question in casulstry !;
but it is at al! events = probable opinion, -
as the Jesuit fathers say, that, your vote
being trust as well as q franchise, you owe
It 10 your fellow citizens to make selection,
and 10 assist them IN avoiding as much as
possible whatever evil there Is in the
situation. however Indifferent You may
Yourself be 70 the result that our belief Is
that. except on the points OF nep0tlsm and
~ gift taking and ignorance, Greeley would
be open to all the objections which have
been raised against Grant, surpasses Grant
in gullibility, and is far inferior to him in
executive ability; that Greeleys advent
would be marked by redistribution of Offices
which would plunge the civil service into a
far worse condition than that IN which 1t Is
now, as he Is surrounded by even lower
class of politicians than those who surround
Grant, and il now daily contracting
obligations TO them which nc viii be forced
10 discharge by quarterlng them on the
Treasury, and that am,n NJ them would be
4 hunger of ten years opposition ana full OF
contempt for him that he would, without
+ his knowledge perhaps, be managed by these
men and Tor their benefit. that his advent TO
power. too, would stimulate all the worst
tendencies of the day, and those which make
most strongly against rctOrm-contcmpt tor
training ana for experience OF all kinds :;
/ faith in blatherskite and bawllng as
! instruments OF human regeneration, disregard
/ of character as "a social or political force
/ farcical views of government and legislation !.
] rcck lessncss and Indifference 70 details IN
administration and that subtle but never
thelcss potent hindrance TO civilization which
consists IN the cultivation OF grossne>s and
vulraritv OF manners as things IN themselves
desirable.