Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-10-03
Good Words.

We have seen nor heard no political
words so good as those uttered by Gen.
Woodford, at the New York State Re
publican Convention last week for long
time - in fact since we heard Gen.
Woodford himself at Union Hall in this
place last year. 1t will be seen that
while he firmly stands by his republican
faith, he also plainly tells them it IS 3
duty all republicans owe to set aside pol
itics for the time and unite in one grand
charge upon corrupt men and rings
wherever found. To those who listened
to Gen. Woodford in the campaign of
1872, it will be unnecessary that we call
their attention to his words below.
He was made the president Of the
convention, and on assuming the duties
of the chair, made an appreciative re-
Spouse, from which we make the follow
ing extract;
"The party name in which we glory
thus to-day may pass into history all
bright with the great achievements and
noble words of our older brothers, and
only furnished by our misdeeds, but the
ideas of our great organization shall live
and rule among men in our State
and nation, if not in our name, then In
some others if not in and through us,
then in and through others. better, man
lier, and more deserving than we. In
the republican column and under the
republican banner we have only fought
the old, old battle of manhood against
class privileges and class claims, of the
many against the few, of the essence of
liberty against the essence of tyranny.
While our human nature remains weak
and erring, and the conditions of time,
sense, and matter endure, that battle is
impending. trust that for many years
we may still fight that battle, and this
same column, under this same banner,
cbeered by our great memories, and en-
ulating the deeds and words of our elder
brothers gone before. When, if ever,
this column shall move out Of its true
position when, if ever, it shall be found
on the side of injustice, oppression or
dishonesty, then / pray that its banner
may 90 down in defeat, and its high
places Of power may be vacant among
the rulers of the land. Such is the
record OF the past such are the respon-
sibilities of the present. As we met the
duties of yesterday, so let us seek to meet
the duties of today. As we deserved
success in 1856 and in 1860 by unbend.
ing fidelity to the rights of our common
manhood, although that manhood crouch
ed in the slave cabin and was sold at the
auction block as we deserved success
from 1851 to 1865, in the words and
spirit of our great leader, by fighting il
out on the old line of compelling abso-
lutte submission to the law and uncondi.
tional preservation of our national union
as we deserved success from 1865 to
1868 by generous charity to our beaten
brothers, and yet by resolutely demand.
ing equal justice to those who had been
our faithful allies in the war and whose
wrongs had brought such terrible retri
button upon the land ; as we deserved
success during all the first term Of tn,
present administration by faithfully
keeping the plighted faith of the nation
in the steady payment of our debt, il
the steady reduction Of taxation, in tn,
steady enforcement Of the law, in gener
GUS effort to deal justly by the Indian
in the settlement of our differences witt
the mother land by the Christian meth
DDS of peaceful arbitration rather thar
10 the bloody tribunal of battle, so lie
Us deserve success to-day by the declar
alton of just and wise principles, by tn
nomination of pure and able candidates
and by squarely living up to our declsr
ations."
He closed with the following:
"Let us, in faithful obedience to la,
and the enforcement of its behests, emit
fate the spirit and initiate the exampl
of our silent but sure president when b
stood anmoved and resolute amid tt
storm of financial disaster that sweI
the avenues and streets of the metropol
on Sunday last. Great amid the shoe