St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-01-12
Democratic Celebrations.

New Orleans on Monday, by holding
meetings in Washington, indianapolis,
Columbus, o., Richmond, Va, and
Montpelier. The Vermont gathering
appears to have been very tame af-
fair. The Indiana and Columbus meet
ings suggest the propriety of holding a
National Convention at Washington
February IL. The language of the res
olutiOns adopted by the Ohio Democrats
is ofan incendiary character, and threat
ems resort to arms, if there is an at
tempt to inaugurate President simply
upon proclamation of. the President
of the Senate. The Virginians devoted
their energies mainly to a declaration
of the proper manner of counting the
electoral vote. In Washington, Henry
WattersOn made significant utterance
about 100000 men being in Washington
on the 18th of February to see that
there was fair count. This looks like
further attempts at "bulldozing." The
following is the telegraphic report of
the Montpelier meeting:
The assemblage consisted of eminent
men from every county of the state, ex-
cept Rutland and Bennington, which
the heavy snow prevented from being
represented. Every class was repre-
sented, lawyers, editors, capitalists,
bankers, ETC., having representatives in
the caucus. The meeting was called to
order by Hiram Atkins, Chairman of
the Committee, who said that this was
meeting of the State Committee, and
they called representative men from all
parts OF the state for advice. He then
read the following resolutions:
Whereas, free, untrameled and fair
elections are the only means whereby
the will of the people can be explained,
and as that expression can only be made
manifest by ian honest count of the
votes as cast" and whereas there is an
apparently well founded belief among
the intelligent and fair minded of all
parties that conspiracy has been franz
ed to "cOunt in" President not elect
ed, therefore
ReSOlUed, That the Democracy of Yer
mont heartily approve of the action of
Congress in sending investigating com
mlttees to South Carolina, Louisiana
and Florida.
ResOlUed, That whoever attempts to
defeat the declared intent of the voters
of the country is an enemy to the Re-
public and deserving of the most en-
phatic condemnation from every lover
of free institutions.
ReSOiUed, That it is the duty of Con-
gress, as the representatives of the peo-
pie, to see that any attempt to betray
the Republic by a substitution of fraud
ulent Returning and Canvassing Boards,
partisan counts for "an honest count of
the votes as cast" is resisted by every
legal and constitutional means.
Resolved, That we believe that it is
the duty of Congress to count and de-
clare the electoral votes of the several
states under the Constitution and the
precedents established under that in
strument since the foundation of the
Government, and that it does not belong
to either branch of the National Legis-
lature or any one man to do so.
ResOlUed, That the use of a standing
army to control elections and uphold
usurping and illegal State Governments
is gross outrage, entirely repugnant
to the spirit of republican institutions,
and threatens the very existence of pop
ular freedom.
ReSOtUed, That the liberty loving
Democrats of Vermont will give a ready
acquiescence to whatever may be found
to have been the honest result of the
late Presidential election, let that be
what it may, and that they pledge them
selves to persistently oppose, and by
all lawful means do all in their power
to resist any attempt by whomsoever
made at what would be the monstrous
crime of counting in candidates not
elected.
ReSoloed, That if conspirators are now
allowed to succeed in reversing the ac-
tual vote of any state, and counting
them for candidates against whom there
Is a clear majority, a similar proceeding
at any future election can he applied to
any number of states necessary to re-
tain power in the hands of the ruling
party, and elective government in this
country would be at end.
RESOLVED, That all evidence leads us
to believe that Samuel j. Tilden has
been chosen President and Thomas A.
Hendricks Vice President of the United
States by popular majority of nearly
a quarter of million of votes and a |
decisive majority of the Electoral Col
lege, and we appreciate the fact that
honest and candid Republicans agree
with us in the belief.
The foregoing resolutions had been
adopted by Committee and were unani- |
mously approved by the meeting. The
Committee decided not to have any |
mass meeting at present.