Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-08

a1TSt Ballot TOR EEcSf1tfaS on aHe
EuiTCd States.
GENTLEMEN When old men cut
loose from time honored political Gus
toms, theories and practice, and are
drifting and sailing without chart, COM
pass or rudder, to a destination they
know not, and cannot fOresee; and for
purpose they dare not or will not re-
veal and have gone back" on all the
rcvcred theories p7ccepts and examples
Of their ''fathcrs;" Young men who
must be looking 10 these men for wisdom,
guidance and example may well be per
picked and possibly 60 astray for want
of proper "beacon lights hcadlands
and marks, to guide them in their on
ward course; and in not finding wisdom,
Intelligence or integrity in those men
may well despair and conclude it may
. be true, as some mischievously affirm,
that 'poltics is nothing but middle
and a game" ard that in it, as in war,
any strategy is fair, and that the greatest
plausible liar is the best politician.
| beg leave to suggest that there is po-
litical integrity in the land; and that as
the first question in religion ought to be,
"What must do t. be saved ?" so the
first question in politics ought to be
Ike unto it, "What must I do to assist
in preserving and sustaining the liberties
and institutions Of my country"
In any business nothing can be safely
done without earnest knowledge and in
formation. To discharge the duties of a
freeman, and know what to do and what
not to do, every voter should read and
thoroughly understand the constitution
of the United States, and the constitu-
ton of the State in which he lives, and
should be entirely Conversant with
the farewell address of President
Washington, of September II, 1896. And
beg of each of you to read the ''docu-
ments' before the first Tuesday of Sep
TENDER next and please observe how
notification OF secession is condemned
by General Washington in his farewell
address. If you can spare any more
time please read Mr.. Madison's letter to
Edward Everett, of August, 1880, Mr.
Webster's two speeches on the R2sOlu-
tions of Mr.. Foote, of Connecticut, in
1880, and Mr. Webster's reply to Mr..
4 Calhoun in 1888; and read Mr. Web
ster's speech ia Boston in 1885, when he
y was presented with vase by the citizens
Of Boston, for being the Defender of the
Constitution; and read what President
Jackson said and did in the coercion"
of notification or secession of South
Carolina in Calhoun's time.
If you want a little reading on the
other side, you can read the doings of
the Hartford Convention, the Columbia
. Convention, and the Conventions and
Congresses of the 'late Confederacy, "
. and speeches of Mr.. Hayne, Mr. Cal
4 houn, and other speeches of the late
oracles of disunion, and especially the
writings and speeches of Horace Gree
ley, now nominee of the Democratic
party for the Presidency, in which he
Stoutly afitrms and maintains that
these ''nulliffers" had (and of course now
haye) a full and perfect moral right ''to
form an Independent nation" Having
read this much you will be better
posted" than most of your seniors, and
%ill not be very likely to vote ''the
secesh ticket, headed by Horace Gree
Icy, or any other man.
In the present Presidential canvass,
"" have before us, a very singular spec
1scle. At the head of the Republican
party stands Gen. Grant, Democrat of
u old school, whose Democracy was
never doubted, and is now Republic
ca1, whose sincerity and fealty in his
neT relation is beyond question. At
the head of the Democratic party is
Horace Greeley, radical wing of the
olden time, and later Republican, and
who still claims to be a Republican of
the ''most -straightest Sect" and is the,
head of the Liberal Republican party.
1t is conceded politically that Gen
Grant is the right man in the right
place. The same is not conceded in re-
.garl to Mr.. Greeley. Nature does not
admit Of one head being sufficient for
two distinct bodies. Even the Siamese
Twins, whose bodies are joined, had to
have two heads and distinct interests
Revelation is against it. No man can
serve two masters" ''of these twain
(which is Mr.. Greeley going to ''hold to,
and which despise?" Let us examine
Dir. Greeley little closer to learn the