Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-07-28

EDITOR OF FREEMAN the last ten
days or so it has been paraded before all
of us that ratification meeting and flag
raising were 10 come off here Saturday
evening. July 9th. The bills hourished
military titles quito freely. as it was an
nounced on them that General Franklin of
Connecticut, Colonel Waddell of North
Carolina and Captain Start of Burlington,
would take part. etc. Of these mouth
pieces of the invincible democracy, the
"captain a" only put in an appearance;
the colonel having caught the infiu-
enza," or something of that nature, and
couldn't come, and the general" was
not heard from, as we could learn.
The meeting $50 the bills said) was to
be an out door one, provided the weather
was favorable; otherwise to be held in
Concert hall. The evening was lovely
one, but the captain was obstinate and
wouldn't "spin thread of his dis
course-out doors; SO into the hall the
faithful were summoned, and the
somewhat pompous ceremony of introduce
ton gone through with. The speaker
emphatically disclaimed any intention of
Throwing mud" and then proceeded,
forthwith, to sling any amount of the
foulest kind at General Garfield. He
hoped to make some of it "stick " by
getting Cakes Ames to assist-as If man
who unblushingly dealt his brides to con-
grcssmen was more worthy of confidence
than james A. Garfield hilnself-a man
kept in congress by the same constituents
for eighteen successive years; and how
much longer he would have been kept
there is among things unknown, had not
an appreciative country sought him out
to "go up higher"
One claim Of the speaker might be
thought by some 10 border close upon the
absurd 1t was this: That it was the DEM
ocrats of the north that put down the re-
bellon and saved the Union! Shades OF
Ellsworth and Winthrop! While it is true
and we admit the fact with pleasure-that
many of that party went bravely forth al
their country's call, to meet treason in
arms, it is equally true that they left the
bulk of their party at home, with feelings
towards the cause for which they had
gone TO risk their lives scarcely less ven
omous and bitter than were the feeling:
of those they were to contend with. This
party, as late rs 1864, resolved in conven
ton, that "the war was a failure" ant
when they said this we charge that the
wish was father of the thought"
When Captain Start came to speak o
Winfield Scott Hancock and he rams
upon the name until it grew monotonous-
; didn't he pile on the praises and the enco.
miums. though? He did. sure. If wha
he said of the candidate of the "soio
south is true, we must not hope to sool
look upon his like; for we ought not te
expect that one century can give our coun
try more than one such man.
Apropos, one of our prominent demo
Gratis was recently asked why the soutl
was solid?n The answer he gave may
seem pertinent and sensible one to some
but to me it seems quite the reverse
} " Heaven is solid" That was the reply
As if anything, speaking generally, hat
taken place there, for the last twenty
wears at oil suppostjve of the onUeli,
abode named. Rather are the doing
there-and especially of those shouting
, for Winfield Scott Hancock" as all mus
do, if they shout at all, or feel the un
pleasant force of the "s shot gun policy ~
suggestive of Pandemonium; and the gen
tleman is respectfully reminded that hi
called the wrong place. d. T. A.
Mortified, July 26.