New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-28

ing no forts to commend himself 10 the voters by
speeches or personal association with them. Then
his record during the war was offensive TO the sta
wart loyal sentiment of the State. He was an ultra
Democrat of the Val!andgham school, who believed
that the South coud not be conquered ana
Ought not to be conquered. A speech he made IN
Burlington IN S64 has been resurrected and printed
by The Rutland H,raM and makes an effective ke-
publican ign document. 1t is no worse than
most CopDerheld speeches of the period but its
denunciatIon of Abraham Lincoln. Charles Sumner
and Horace Greeley as d" miscreants and scoun-
dres aud its laudation of Mcclellan as the great
est statesman aud soldier OF the age are queer read
ing at this day.
came down TO Rutland last night and met first
Frederick f.. Woo lbudge, who used TO be a prom
inent member of Congress. He s1id he had never
seen the State so stirred up since the war The con-
test was purely on National issues. and the old,
earnest Republican feeling Of Vermont was thor-
oughly aroused by tn attempt of the South to maze
use Of a Union soldier as catspaw 70 get possess
sion Of the Government He pred a hepubhcan
majority fully up to that Of 1876.
Tins morning | talked with Mr.. Tuttle and Mr..
B gelow. the editors of The Herald. They SAID the
camuai.n was much more anImlted than that OF
1876. and would result IN a larger majority than
the instant drain upon the Republican vote by the
movement Of young men to the West and the re-
crutIug Of The Democratic vote By the settlement
of Irish and Canadians IN the STATE. They looked
FIR q majority Of % 900 or 2AOOO, however, M
spite of these adverse movements. 10 keep good
the majority 0i four years ago implied, they SAID,
the ma>ine OF 2 large number Of converts from the
other party. and tils was being done by dashlng,
aggressive camDlign. Some nr1ad had already
been made on In Irish vote in the Qu, ,rries OF Rut-
land and the lumbcr-yards OF Burlington By the
Ilish Republican orators Sent hy The National Com
mitlee-Judge Morrison ol Chicago; Dennis f.
Burke, of New-YoiS: OBJ rae Of Philadelphia and
Henry O'Connor II Washington.
"WLat are tha Democrats dongp I asked.
They are holding good many meetings replied
Mr. futile, "aud are doing all they can to reduce
our majority. They have shown very poor
Judgment in their selection Of speakers. however.
Their most important meetings have been mainly
addressed by ev-Confrderate brgad.ers, three Of
whom are trayersng the State. Probably the
Democratic MANAGERS Thought this SOFT Of thing
would be q popular aftegpece TO the performance
in the Cincinnati Convention. where Vermont and
Louisiana joined in presenting HancocGs name.
he Southern brigadlers to return the courtesy
Of Vermont IN helping them nominate their fayorite
candidate by coming up here and aiding the Yer
mont Democracy on the stump. These COnteder-
ntes have not helped their party. Indeed, we could
aft ri 10 pay their expenses 10 have them keep on
talking until election day. We believe IN the ut
most freedom of speech. but don't relish being
told by these former rebels how onght to run
the Government they lately tried to destroy, or
hearing them characterize official .eDorts Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury lying campaign docu-
mruts.'
81 suppose they represent things as in an al
together lovely coalition down South p" Why,
to hear them talk YOU would think the South
political paradise" said Mr. Blgeow. " rhe stories
of outrages aud fraud all ISLANDERS, they say.
EVERYBODY has the fullest liberty of political dis
cussion and the negroes vote the Democratic ticket
from motives Of gratitude and admiration. Such
stuff as this deceIves no one 1t only exctes Ddg
nation that Southern men should try to palm It off
on an intelligent community"
II would take an almost impossible amount of
tact in 4 Southern Democratic orator to make
sDeecb In this latitude calculated to win votes away
from the Republicans. A denial that the Repup-
lean party at the south has been suppressed by
force and fraud insults the intelligence OF an audi
ence in view Of the $4,000 Democratic majority
lust returned in Alabama. An avoidance OF the
subject IS equivalent 10 a con essl0n. Oue of the
Southern orifors VINO Il damagiag the Democratic
party I'm Vermont l. Colonel Martin, Of Natchez,
Miss He draws q beautiful picture of the happi-
ne.s of the negro and the freedom of political acton
in his section. Right across the river from where
he lives is Teusas Parish, Louisiana. where in Oc-
tober 1873, five ak hundred armed White
Leaguers killed twenty-tnree innocent coored men
on pretence that there negro rsiug 70 revenge
the murderous attack on Fairfax, the Republican
candidate for Congress. he real purpose Of the
slaughter was 10 break up the Republican party in
I.nsas. 4 number of Missi-,iDplans were engaged
in Che affiir The Republicans Of Vermont would
ike to know ii Colonel Martin was one OF tnem.
7. Y. :.