Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-16
Communications.
A Few aucstIon. from - Young voter

a Few Questions from ~ houhg No'er'
Edtors Phgni1: Before deciding TO cast
my lot in with the Democratic party, / wish
to make some inquiries rs to tho antecedents
of some Of those who pretend to represent
its principles For instance, | wish TO know
what position the president Of the Hancock
club in Bratteboro in fact assumed during
the war According to statements in TIE
Pnus1x last week, and what | have learned
from other reliable sources, IL seems that his
conduct then was not calculated to place him
in very envinble position now Is it true
that he then did all in his power to cmbarros3
tho government by discouraging cnlistmenis
Did he openly proclaim in speeches from the
town house steps in Wilmington and elsewhere,
that the efforts of the government to put
down the rebellion would result in the ruin OF
the whole country, aud advise people TO sell
their property for half priceI Did he also
state that he should advise opposition to
draft by the government, and that the only
way draft could be legally made was by the
States, instead of the general government!
Instead of weeping at the news of the wound
ing of Gen. Hancock at Gettysburg or Of any
other officer or soldier, did he hail every de-
feat of our troops with evident satisfaction
And was his conduct and conversation in the
community in which he then lived, touching
the war, Just as odous, and just AS near the
mark and index of secession principles, as he
dared make them, with due regard to the tenn
per Of that community and his own personal
well being? Was he in that trying time hydl,
in the true sense, or did he sympathize with
and encourage the very worst elements Of the
opposition at the North And have his po-
litical notions been such that he has been dis
carded and cut off even by the Democratic
party of his own State, so that for years he
has had no voice or influence in any political
IL bxyf
personal independent" organ of his own
Finally, has he met with any change in his
political opinions, for the betterY If not, it
seems to me he is not justified in asking
young voters to follow such leader, and in
that view the above queries are deemed OF
considerable importance by
A YoUNG VOrER.
July 18th, 1850.
In reply to these very pertinent and signit-
cant queries Of our young friend, we have
only space to give him. this week, the follow
ing extract from a speech delivered by Chas.
N. Davenport from the steps Of the town hall
in Wilmington ON the first Tuesday Of Sep
TENDER, 1861. This speech gives a pretty
good idea of chow WE felt, and how OUR
hearts bled, sixteen years ago." and Of chow
WE fought the war of the rebellion to com
pei the Southern States to remain in the I'm
ion" II it becomes necessary to give this
young Voter or any of his companions,
further enlightenment on the points which he
mentions, We shall be able to accommodate
| him. ED. PHOENIX.
Extract from Mr.. DaVenport'a speech
IL tell you, gentlemen, religiously believe
that it will take every cent l am worth TO pay
the tax that will be imposed to carry on this
unholy war, prosecuted by the bloodthirsty
| Lincoln and his hirelings. The national debt
has already reached such enormous proper
tions that you could not put teams enough on
| tho road between Brattleboro and Wilmington
| to draw an amount of funds sufficient to pay
| it, Neither this generation nor the next will
see it paid. The time is coming when the
| government must fail for lack Of means; when
| grcenbacks will not be worth twenty five tnts
| bushel-no, not the paper they are printed
| on. 1t is time that the war was stopped"
Mr.. Davenport alluded to the fall of Allan
ia, and said that the taking of Atlanta was no
| possible benefit but q curse to the nation.
| He piled historical fact upon historical fact,
to show that n rebellion Of such gigantic mag
| ntude never had been and never could be
conquered, and proceeded as follows The
| history of the world cites no instance where
so many people in armed rebellion upon their
own soil ever were subjugated. l tell you,
| gentlemen, the rebellion can never be con-
| quered. And that is not all the Republican
| party knows that It cannot be conquered, and
the only reason why it longer persists in pros
ecutng the war is that its chief fuglemen may
fill their-bloated calf-skins a little fuller be-
fore the final collapse of the government"