Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10
LETTER or JOHN H. FLAGG

encourage It's ell orts in some manner nCCeDta-
BILE to its members, have presumed to send
you, by express, q campaign banner, bearing
the names and portraits Of the Republican
candidates for President and Vice President,
which beg the Gu to accept with my com
pliments and sincere wishes for its success
and welfare. trust the organization Of your
club signaizes an active, earnest cooperation
OF its members with like associations through
out the State in an effort to awaken over the
issues and dangers involved in the present
campaign just appreciation of their true
significance and bearing, and that the old
time enthusiasm may be aroused which has
hitherto characterized the Republican party
of Vermont and won for her the proud appel
lation of being, to the political armament,
''We star that RcUCr SctS"
| have said there were dangers and pcrils in
the present situation, which should be ap-
parent to every thinking man, such as to
cause the grayest apprehension of what may
come to pass if the Democratic party now be
invested with the legislative aud executive
departments Of the government. Nobody has
observed the deliberations Of the present and
preceding Congresses without witnessing the
dominant influence and control of the South
ern faction, such as prevailed before the war
and led up TO the rebellion aud nobody is so
blind as not TO see that in the event the Dem
bNihNlNlN NhuhlbhAt lOI lllt executive IS eject
ed, the Democratic congress will then throw
of the mask and demand that tho laws now
on the statute book designed to make treason
odious and loyalty virtue, will be modified
or repealed, and all the legislation made nee
essary to protect the legitimate fruits Of the
war will be gradually undermined and de.
stroyed The questions of the finances: the
tariff reform Of the civil service: internal
improvements and the like, arc subordinate
and Insignificant in comparison with the
greater issues that are TO affect for all time
the welfare and the honor Of the Republic
If four years of bloody war did not deter
mine the relation of the States to the Federal
Union and establish forever the supremacy
of national authority, we had better know now
precisely where we stand II Federal laws
enacted tosecure honest elections Of Congress.
men (who are to legislate for all the statesJ
are to be defcd and disregarded i'll portion
of the Union, let US know it now. II the
President, in the lawful exercise of consti-
tutionel prerogatye, is not to be allowed to
veto AS well as approve the enactmcnts of
congress, let us know it aud understand why
revolutionary measures are resortcd to to com
pei that approval. In short, let it be known
and understood to-day whether ballot.box
stutling, false counts and tissue ballots, shall
prevail in large section Of the Union. render
ing popular suffrage (Which is the basis and
the boast OF our SYSTEM u shameless mockcry
and IA sham, or whether every citizen may 20
uumOlested and without fear to the polls and
there vote as he votes in New England and
having voted, have lis ballot honestly count
ed and correctly returned whether the un-
offending color,d race in the South may be
permitted to own themselves by title as alb
solute as that Of their former masters: wheth-
or they may enjoy the blessings OF life, liber-
~ md tl.a 81 l.. -.
they have enriched by u century Of unre-
Quilted toll, or whether they aud many white
Republicans Of the South are to be the help
less victims of that nhumau hatred that has
tefrorlHtd half its territory since the war and
filled half score of volumes of congressional
reports with the evidence Of the barbarous
scourgings, midnight murders and cowardly
asNaHainatons committed by the masquerad-
ing "chivalry Of the South" Until every cit
izen, white or black, rich or poor, throughout
each State of the Union is equally and sub
stantialy protected in his political rights, uu-
I'll he may without fear, intimidation, or yio-
lcnce enjoy the same liberty known by the
people of Nermont-tho mission of the Re
Publican party will remain unperformed and
ITS responsibilities and promises unfulflled.
The Democratic party now boasts Of a sol
id South-made solid only by the methods |
have rehearscd- wherein 1855 electoral votes
will be cast, requiring but l7 to be elsewhere
obtained to give them majority in NoYem-
bor. Ii has selected for lis comnond,r an
officer in the repular army eminent ord hon.
cred in his INST service 10 his country who
for the first time il uo,y in counsel viii con
fedcr,te hrigodiers how ia win yictor,.
From tbe sbettcrcd rannorts of tho confsJ
eracy he now looks out over the graves of the
countless dad Who f,ll nj his side in tbot i'm
mortal strpoole for liberty and do,nnJs tLot
tha North sbalI now surrender II tl,is hall
be done. and Hancock follow Grant IN the
Whit, House suuport,d by all who were in
rebellion in III, south and Iv most who svm.
.,alhiz-d with tL,m in tbG North ha will
frou, the very nnturs of his nos;tior au1 a
,l-ntI.mo,Iy sense of prnti,ude to tbo.o ,Sho
snnnorted linn he bui IN. obadiant ;nstr,,-
ut,,t whereby the mans nnI uurrosss of ,hose
who elected him may L.. nranoted and cor-
ri.d out An Listorv teaches tb,. fnIIoc, of
believing otborU,isa R.b,l ,yor.c r.clair,s Ly tba
million conf,derat,, n,usions a rsfnn,l of tLf
cotton tsx a rrstor,tion of ,v v.co,,fede,,,os 70
the regular army roll and the mnumernble
train of measures wholly in the interest of tbe
south and TO obliterate the Gttl, that re
mains TO testify n nations rratitnde 10 those
vim saved borIiT, and tLa iost;ro n i.honor ~
thosa ,vbo sougbt her d,str,,ctio1 will tbon
follov will he oassad througb a determined
and inyipeible House of RepTesentatiyrs CON
Cured in bv n willing Senate and pr4sscd nm
ON the executive approval like an ICEBERG
moving AGAINST nlacid waters
To illustrate the expectations of the South
have but 10 quote from Gen Wade Uamn-
TOMS recent speecb--himself now n Senator
and law.maker- wherein he exhorts his Vir-
.pinia audience TO vote as thew fougbt max.
Inc no reserve of what the nendinc eamnoign
means and intimating the ends il nav secnTe
lie soid .sConsider what Lee and Jackson
wonld do were thew alive 7Iess are The
s1D,e DrjncjDLes for ,rLjcL tIey f,,,obt G,vy
Ue1rs Reniember tbe men who Eopred forth
their lfe-bIooI ON Virpinia's soil nnd do not
abandon them now. Remember. that ON
vonr vote denends the success Of tho Demo-
cratic ticket +" II is no wonder that sncb
Sentiments received the yoeiferous anplauso
and NO dissent by the audience TO which thew
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