Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-09-01

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road 10 emolument and 10 office
They suppose their little standard TO
be that Of tho world, II does mol oc'
cur IL them that y majority may en-
terrain q much greater respect Tor one
who has honestly and eoarageously
differed wIIh them IN The past, than
for those who base ~ unsuitable clam
or for Office upon no beller ground
THAI their uniform concurrence with
the majority, and may $50 N The moral
courage that is mol airald> Of mJorl-
ties, and the independence that ID not
to be purchased by office, the very
qualities that Tho public rervlce re-
qalres,
The assertion TINT no ever APPROX
cd or defended the course Of tho
South, ever rejoleed In their successes,
or lamented our own ever desired
any result but success 10 the arms OF
tho North / ever threw q straw IN the
way Of the Government, on Ia favor OF
the rebels, 4, afaisehoOd
The Rutland Herald claims 10 have
discovered the report Of speech made
sixteen years ago. when advocating
the election OF Gen, Mcclellan The
report was certainly not published nj
the time, aud by whom II was made,
for what purpose, where II has since
remained, or by what honorable means
the Herald has now obtained II, does
not appear, That Il was never re-
vised by tho author, but only by hts
recent opponents, Is sufficiently clear,
because il Is full Of blotders aud
mistakes, and pervaded Ivy u muddi-
ness Of style aud frequent want OF
connection which all who know the
author will SEQ ale due not to him hut
TO the reporter or tho rcviscr. Mr.
Phelps opponents will hardly charge
him with habitually obscure and M
grammatical language, or frequent
violations Of good taste. but even in
this production CERTAIN paragraphs
which the editor OF tho Herald would
probably have suppressed it he had
not overlooked, are Of themselves n
reiutation Of the charges that paper
has made. Speaking of the war, Mr.
Phelps, according W this report, de-
clares il to be "A war that ~ not To
''bo justified II war in which that
"Southern people who began IL COM
'mitted II mad and objectionable
''crime ; u war which, besides being
"a mad crime, was great mistake"
Speaking of the army he says
"While we are sending them some
"three millions Of men, as brave men
"as ever lived an army has gone
"down there and laid down their lives,
"and fought as men never fought be-
"forc. and a grateful country will
"never forget these men when they
shave fought AZ they have for three
"years, yet they have fought in vain,'
etc. This is not very grammatical,
certainly, hut the grammar is prob
ably the reporters and the sentiment
that Of the author. :.
II the views thus entertained by Mr..
Phelps make a ''coppelhead,' then he
Is "copperhead )" if they make an
"aristocrat," he is an "Nristocrat. -
He believes in and advocates exactly
the government that the Constitution
provides for-no more, no less equal
and alike, North and South, for black
and white a government of law, of
order, Of peace, of fraternal Union,
and economy.
The question before the freemen of
Vermont is, who is the tittest man for
Governor Of the State-Phelps or
Farnham? The questions of twenty
years ago being fully settled, we don't
think it will take any intelligent free
man long to decide.