Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
vERMONT's VOICE.

On tuesday. september Ith, vermont
speaks through the ballot. She is a
little State, located up among the hills
on the border of Canada, and makes al
most the smallest patch upon the great
map of the country. But the voice of
Vermont will be heard in every metrop-
oils and hamlet of this nation on the
day of her election. Vermont has a
good name and a creditable history.
Her sons have wandered into all parts
of the Union, and wherever they have
made their homes they have spoken well
for the honor of the old State. The
names of Allen and Warner are familiar
to the world, and the fame of the Green
Mountain Boys is national. Every lover
of his country is proud of the record
that the soldiers of this little State made
in the defense of their country against
treason. Afar South where the news
paper does not reach every home, and
the common school has not taught the
rising generations the history of the
common country, there is large body
of men who had an acquaintance with
Vermonters during the years 1875
that will not soon be forgotten. And
there is another and larger class there,
though black as Africa, that know full
we'll that Vermonters breathe freedoms
purest air, and vote for honest men and
fairest methods in politics. All over
the vast country there is knowledge
that up in Vermont is the home of
people almost all of whom descend from
Puritan stock, who were trained from
early childhood to manhood in the COM
mon schools and academies, taught in
the way of virtue by intelligent and re-
ligious parents, and who are uninfuenc-
ed by the wicked things that make pol
tics despicable and uncertain. Here,
perhaps, more than anywhere else, will
an unselfsh, honest, and enlightened
class of voters voice their sober opinions
through the ballot. The matters of
local and national Importance have been
we'll and Thoroughly weighed during the
animated discussions of the past weeks,
and thousands of voters, the country
over, will watch with great interest the
work of Tuesday, Sept. 9TH. Those
wavering in opinion, catch the drift of
sentiment here, and fall in on the side
which our voting indexes as right; 9th
ers, seeking to be on the winning side,
will count the republican majority here,
and take position according to its char
acter. With an unusual republican
majority, new life will be enthused into
the party the country over, for it is
we'll known that Gen. Hancock is per-
haps more popular IN Vermont than 10
any other section. Here his boom orig
ated, and here every effort will be used
to swell the votes of his party.
In ordinary times thousands of repub.
lican voters remain at home, and with
out some effort many will not vote this
year. Every man who is republican
ought to look first to himself. and mex
to his neighbor, to see that he is pres
ent at the polls, not that there is any
danger here, but that the wave of vic
tory that is to sweep over the country
may roll down from these hills and val
leys to swell majorities in Maine, ant
sweep on to other states before the DC
tober elections shall make sure predic
ton for November. In the contes
} before US, not of less Importance thai
Gettysburg or Cedar Creek, let Gen
Sedgwick's order be repeated, "Put Yer
monters ahead and keep we'll closed up.