The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-02
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who had to fee his native country to fDd
personal liberty should seem hungry to
cousort with "liberty killers" in his
adopted home.
The words Of the wiae are as goods,
and as nails fastened by the great Master
Of Assemblies
10 a conversation with Hon. Julius II.
Seelye, the able and impartial representa-
tive from the Amherst district. Massachu-
setts, just before he left Washington, he
said to the writer Of this:
" should consider it worry grave
misfortune to the country to have tho
Democratic party elect its candidates.
My observations during the session has
shown ne two things: That they have
raised a false cry Of economy, under
cover Of which they have crippled the
vital necessities OF governments and that
they have deliberately and continually
sought to blacken the character of honor.
able men, To show how false is their
prcteuscs OF rctrcnchmeut, | had meas.
ure to Introduce, affecting certain part
Of my constituency, and requiring an
appropriation Of some thousands of dol.
lars. talked it over with leading Dem.
Ocratic members, seeking to secure the
most favorable time for its introduction,
and was told by every one of them pre-.
cisely the same thing keep Al back until
after election, and thea we'll support it,"
There is neither sincerity nor honor in
such legislation. Knowing the honorable
professor to have come here as an avowed
Independent, and that he did not act
with the Republicans upon the Amnesty
question sprung by MIR. Blaine, said to
him "Are you moro iavorably inclined,
or less so, to President Grant, from your
knowledge of him in Washington ?" He
said "Sluch more so. | have conversed
with him intimately on many national
questions, and am convinced that he is
sound, clear thinker, and is as devoted to
the interests Of the country now as when
he led our armies in the war lie has
been a grossly abused man."
lnquiring of Martin l. Townsend, the
venerable sage Of Troy who has been
as conspicuous as Professor Seclye in
widning a solid national fame in this.
their first session in Congress, "what do
you apprchend as the chief Republican
difficulty in this campaign ~ he said
pro npty, and with his accustomed lacon.
ic manner, "tnat we may die of too much
reepectablity. As party, we are ap.
parently settling down into calm and
passive faith iu tho excellence of our
ticket, an inviucibiity Of high moral ideas
as txcmplifed in Messrs. Hayes and
Wheeler. Good God we've got to ieorh
for victory and the heaven. appointed
means of securing it arc every fair means
in onr power. It's fght--a GgM! |
have known Samuel j. Tilden year in and
year out. As a reformer be is sham;
as politician he is craitiness itself. Let
the great Republican party wake up and
put on the wisdom of the serpent and the
eternal and omuipotent vigilance of action
which alone will defeat these desperate
men whose hands are at the throat of the
nation
To emphasize the above reply Of this
shrcwd and practical old Trojan, read the
following paragraph from vigorous let
ter written by another distinguished New
Yorker, Dewitt Clinton, in November,
1920, which seems to tinglc and glow
across the gulf Of half century, with
self perqetuating fire.
In political warfare the defensive side
will eventually lose. Energy in a good
cause will carry everything The meek
ness OF Quakerism will do in religion but
not in politics. There arc great and
con-oing views in future. Republican
governmeu: must and can be supported
il lis purity The people are wiser than
the men who attempt to deceive
The lying association of the Democra.
cy have already put their mud machine
to work to blacken the aim Of tho secre
tary OF war in his Scott Lord letter to
General Sherman. The old mud machine
has done service so long that it is grow.
ing shaky, and needs more lubricatng oil
Of probability than the ex.rebcls can at
present command, to make its work effec-
tive i'll the North. The cry of "bayonet
rule by the organs Of Tildcn, besides
being rather stale, is somewhat inconsis.
tent with the positive assurance of Tilden
iu his letter Of acceptance. that ample
authority i lodged by tho Constitution
and laws Of ths United States in the
hands Of the President to secure .duaI
rights io al IGccs mud condition OF pooplc,
ani that. a. elevated 10 the lrcsideney,
hc viii protect all hy the means thus
given 80 the chirl magistrate. No one
who Pretend 'o BE- posted believes this
promise 10 br sincere, but its ackuowl.
edgement Of legal authority to cnforce
equal rights by III, president, aud Of an
Intention 10 enforce protection in every
part OF tho land on his own part, fully
commits his followers to the policy and
justice OF such course by the present
administration. Tildenitcs will not be
allowed to blow hot and cold with the
same breath, or to claim power and
rights in their hopefully suppositlous ad-
mlristraIlon which they deny to that
actually in existence.
The old well-worn methods Of firing the
Southern heart may ftil work 10 meas.
ure among the followers of the "lost
cause" but IN other sections, and among
those who have SO long listened to this
cry OF stop thief" by the masked robbers
themselves, they will not any longer
produce the proper dramatic effect. Peo.
pie ask little rest from such transparent
humbug.
"lf the battlo.cry of tho Democracy is
not anti.resumption, what is it?"
Says the New York Tribune. " We
have been driven to tho record of the
party in Congress, and the only tangible
thing 10 be found in that, is the vote to
repeal the pledge Of tho government to
redeem its promises at fixed time That
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