Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-08-27

REMARKABLE SPEECH or TIE PRESENT DEMO
CRATIC NOMINEE FOR GoyEENoR-sECEsH
DEMOCRACY HATRED OF LINCOLN A:D
THE MCGEE Union soIDIEEs sTiG-
MATTED AS ''HEssIANs ''-TuE wAE De
CLARED To BE FOUGHT II VAIN.
From the Rutland Herald Aug. s4th.
On the 9Th OF August, 1864, the Dcao-
cratic nominee for Governor, f. j. Phelps,
Esq, made long address before the Demo
cratic Association Of Burlington. We have
obtained full report of the address, and the
liberal extracts We make may he relied upon
as entirely authentic, as The report was made
geographically and the carefully written
manuscript is in our possession. The speech
opens with an eloquent sketch of the blessed
peace and prosperity and National happiness
that existed prior 10 the election Of a Re
,..-,,i..s, r-.--:I--. IA 1870, whose lnauSuia-
ton was succeeded hy the great civil war.
The orator then described the contrast which
the red lc.ic: Of 1864 presents TO the happy
days, when the SoGth owned slaves and hal
pack oi Federal hounds in every Northern
State TO hunt them. After declaring that
1--WE have got a National debt piled up which
all are beginning 10 see We cannot carry,
and nobody is going Ia say how We can re-
pudiate it," Mr. Phelps discusses the origin
and progress Of this dreadful change from
the prosperity Of slavery 10 The chaos of
war
You can remember us well AZ how long
ago il YVES when there used to he set OF
long haired, miserable creatures around the
country peddling what they called abolition
Daughter, and II dirty little set they were,
as YOU all know. Renewed laughter }
They would come around the country and
stick up their dirty little handhlls and have
a meeting Well. there would not bc many
there except few slrong-mindcd women.
daughter Well, they would have a good
time if they could get rid of The boys but
they could throw rotten eggs. and they
teouM ride one of them out of town once i'll
a while on n rail, and then there would lie
an awful row about free speech heIng IN
vatled, etc. Still, we did not hear much
about it, We heard about as much about it
as Won do now of "wGmans rights But
in process of time this thing was taken up by
u set of politicians in the State Of New
York. who had the saracity to see that by
diligently working away ihcy might make
something out of this Ii began to inslnuate
itself into a certain class Of pulpits and into
a certain kind Of rcligion-snch rs il was
and by and by a certain set ni political man
ayers began 10 say, We must conciiatc
these fellows We must have ihci. SGic.
Said the Wings We must conciligte these
fellows or the Democrats Will get their vote.
1..,t.
them or the Wings will get their vote. Let's
pass some sinking resolution, or pass some
Unconstitutional liberty bill through the
Legislature, and humor them in that way"
Time and again some men would rcmon-
strate They saw that on any subject in the
world when you desert your principles ;ou
are lost but they were Ovcrrulcd. Well,
gentlemen, it came TO pass that, IN disregard
Of the very warning TO which | referred Il
little while ago, the last words of Washing
ton, to beware of sectional controversy,
which is kind of fire that once started you
cannot stop, d,srega-ding that the last prcsi-
DENTAL election saw a great party arraycd,
and saw il succeed, too, in clecting Il Presi-
dent by the votes Of the Northern States cx-
clusively against every individual vote cast
s,u;h If Mason and DiAon's line. We saw
Il party successful and putting into the seat
of Washington and jefferson Il man vino was
hostile TO their institutions, which they had
no authority TO NEEDLE wilhat all. Ncll.even
then when Abraham Lincoln. this twentieth
rate back country stturncy ,npp!di,so and
laughter the man imposed upon Il pcO-
pie who did no, know him 10y set of polti-
clans who did know him, without one
single qualification for IA statesman, moi one,
not one when he was inaurCratcd and stood
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