The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-09-02


40 nNArs ~ rec
Alter the poser q the fsbellos b
beea bFoks1 AID he s~outhersens uer
almost ready 70 lsy dovu thsir Arnu
their Gully hope being tie election {
Mcclellan by the Democratic party 9
the North on the "WAr = iailure' pls,
ioum, Mr. Phelps The presen. Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. made
speech in Burlington Which shows con
siusively that he wassneiiber q patriol
/. nor a Statesman. The speech hAs beer
recently fe-pubisbed "a some of II,
pApers aad we would Ike to give ID,
whole otitte cur readers but limited
space iofbi3s Weeaa only briefly re.
ter to- IL IN claiming TOE! war ought
% bare been prevented 81 c9ncIliAting
ibe south and referring "a Mr. Lincoln
be raid
Well. even then wbeu Abraham
ldneolB, this tw~entieth-rate h~aek.coun.
try attorney the man imposed upon a
people who did not know him by a set
~ politicians who did know him.
without one single qualification Tor a
Statesman, not one. not ~one-when he
was inaugurated aud stood there ou the
capital steps aud received the oath Of
ONCE at Tue hands of the venerable
chlei justice, il was bot too late then.
even though the people Of the South,
excited, alarmed were looking this way
aud that, and each one asked bis neigh.
Dor what il going TO be done 7"
Later on 10 comparing Mcclellan
with Lincoln be says
They admit that be is a pretty good
officer, but be is no statesman. Well.
how does be compare with Abe Lin
colnl The question is, which of these
two will you elecli Everybody laughs
that is all the answer there Is 10 il.
low Toes be compare with Daniel
Webster, Henry Clay, Silas Wright,
Andrew Jackson II you asked thAtl
question people would not laugh; but
when you say, how does he compare
with Abe Lincoln I everybody laughs.
Everybody can't help it,"
He calls Charles Sumner, Horace
Greedy, Henry Ward Beocher, &c.
mlscreants, calls it a niger war" aud
demands that the South be asked to
back with slavery guaranteed to
them We quote a portion of his re.
marks on this point, and in regard to
The blacks be holds the same sentiments
low as is shown by his speech at the
-ecent Burlington convention: T,
snow, then, / say, not to Democrats {
merely, but to Republicans-men who /!
honestly, periodically voted for, {
,ald Tor, fought for, bled for, and who
gone on thus far and supported !
his administration, but simply because a
hey believed that the administration @
vas c%ontcnding for what was vital and 1
to US ALL ask those men candid ;
y and dispassionately, whether or not
hey have got enough OF this attempt to
'reak down the distinctions that the :
llmighty set up, and to whitewash the :
igger in the tears and blood of mil.
Of the peoplei Have you got A
nough Of in Look at the ~prospect /,
efore you and answer for yourself the
uestion. II you have you had better
sc the privilege while yet The day re. =
lains to you, before the way to the y
allot box is hedged up by bayonets
ere as il is 10 Maryland and Kentucky 4
nd Missouri You had better use your
riyilege Of helyour oping ountrymen
laugurate a better state Of things. q
at II you have not got enough OF il. .
zen 90 straight on 10 the path which
us administration proposes to you If y
can acquire a new lease of power Q,
your hands. Send The rest of your y
lildren down to the slaughter, from e.
hich there are so few returning foot ~
cps carry up the expense Of living, =
your daily bread. until you have a g.
'pulation most Of which is beginning =
find out what starvation means sur. =
nder to an administration which al. :.
ady possesses every element Of CD. -
.ession but lis dignity give the rest y,
your property 20 istten the rest of =
is mess Of Williams that is hanging on ~
the skirts Of this war"