Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24
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The Political Reform Convention.
AppREss ro Tnr rKorIr.

TO serve the best interests Of the American
people, beg leave TO submit 10 your candid
consideration the following appeal
A national election Is approaching under
circumstances ofpcculiar significance. Never
before in our history has the public mind
been so profoundly agitated by an appre-
hension Of the dangers arising from the
prevalence of corrupt tendencies and prac-
tices in our political life, and never has there
been greater reason for IL. We will not dis
play here in detail the distressing catalogue
Of the disclosures which for several years
have followed one another in rapid success
sion, and seem to have left scarcely single
sphere Of our political life untouched The
records of courts, of state legislatures. and
of the national Congress, speak with terrible
plainness. and still they are adding 10 the
scandalous exhibition. While such state
Of things would under any circumstances ap-
pear most deplorable It is peculiarly so a,
the pesent moment We are about TO cele-
brate the one hundredth birthday OF our ma
tional existence. We have invited the ma
tions of the earth on this great anniversary
10 visit our land, aud TO witness the evi-
dences Of our national progress, as well as
the working and effects of that republican
government which century ago our fathers
founded. Thus the most inspiring memo
rics Of our past history are rising up before
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