Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-23
Not All for Hancock.

Inc polltlcal changes TINS year, OF which
we hear so much from the Democracy are
not all in favor Of the Democratic candidate
In recent issue Of the Dubuque, Ia, Daily
Times now before us, Col Phineas White
Crawford, n native of this county and gem
tlemAn who has heretofore acted with the
Democratic party, announces himself square
ly for Garfield. Col. Crawford is son of the
late Hon. James Crawford, who removed to
Iowa from Putney in 1888, and was Judge
Of the Supreme Court Of that State at the
time of his death. After reading law with
Roswell Field, Esq. of Newfane, he complet-
cd his preparation for the bar in his fathers
Office in Dubuque. In his letter to the Times
Col. Crawford, after referring to some local
statements which had been made relative to
Gen. Hancock's connection with the hanging
of Mrs Suratt, says
1T is needless for me TO state that | am n
hearty supporter of Gen. Garfield, and earn
estly desire his election. He is n man of
great ability, a brilliant orator and eminent
statesman. He is also n man Of heart as well
as mind, who can sympathize with the masses
of the people and know their wants In my
opinion he is in all respects incomparably bet
ter qualified for the position of President than
his competitor, who has served in the regular
army from boy, and who has had no expe-
rience or training in civil affairs. The record
of Gen. Hancock as q military man is an hon
orable and distinguished one, but we know
nothing of him in any other capacity. II he
should be elected to the presidency, he would
assume the position imbued with all the ideas
and traditions of a military officer, and in all
probability would surround himself with q
clique of military officers, and run the gov
eminent in the arbitrary style of the regular
army. As our country is now at peace with
all the world, il seems to me that we need
statesman for President rather than a soldier"
A significant accession to the Republican
ranks is that Of Hon. Philo A. Orion of Wis
consin, q veteran Democrat Of high standing
and influence in that State who has sent to
the Darlington wis Republican remark
able letter, explaining why he feels bound to
cut loose. from his old political friends and
support the Garfield and Arthur ticket Sew
eral passages from his letter are to be COM
mended as good reading for young or doubt
full voters:
Whatever the Democratic party may have
been in the past, it is essentially and absolute
ly the party of the South to-day. OF the lS5
electoral votes required to elect president
this fall, the Democratic party count the 1875
votes from the solid South, made up of the
States which seeded, or wanted to secede
and dared not, solid in advance for its candi-
date. The other a. votes they hope TO get in
the North. Thirty-five of them they conf
IDENTIFY expect from the city of New York-for
the State of New York outside the city is as
strongly Republican as Wisconsin. The re-
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some OF the doubtful Northern States.
1t matters not who the president is,
if he is controlled by the South.
JEFF Davis said but short time ago that the
principles of the confederacy were eternal be-
cause right. Beyond doubt this is the opinion
of the great mass Of the white population of
the South. They failed on the battlefield TO
maintain these principles, aud now seek the
same object substantially, by political man
ipulations through the Democratic party.
This practical question, then, presents itself
to every honest voter in the North: Is it
wise or just, and ought the American people
to place the Republic in the control of this
party of the South? viii the national credit
be safe in its hands? Win the national treas
ury be safe in its hands, or will not rather its
doors be thrown open to satisfy the greed of
thousands of Southern claimants, whose 10y
atty can be easily established TO the satisfac-
ton of the Southern party9 Will the prin-
ciple that the Republic is nation be honestly
respected and acquiesced in by people who
individually believe that it is lie established
by might and not right. Is the right of all
classes of citizens at the South to vote respect
ed, so that their elections can be considered
fair and intelligent expression of public SEN
timentl or are such results simply dictated
by class, desperate for political power
Will the North be true TO the noble history it
has made, now to pass the government over
to the control of the very men who sought to
destroy it Will this be just to the memory
of those slain in its defence? To
ask the North to yield to the South any of the
substantial results of the war, is asking too
much. This would be an outrage upon the
patriotism which secured these results. 1t
would be an evidence of weakness, and vir-
tual admission that the North and not the
South were in the wrong in that struggle,
which l am not disposed to admit"