Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

Vermont might be nominated by one party,
and Mr. Bayard of Delaware by the other
while there would still remain political differ
ences to be concerned for, the country might
have the happiness of being sure from the
first that its next chief magistrate W ould be
at least a man Of integrity and personal hon
or.
The Kind OF Man Mr. Edmunds rs.
From the Rutland Herald and Gobel
The anti-Gran faction seems to have sud
denly awakened TO deep sense of the abil-
ties and patriotism Of Senator Edmunds. We
heartily wish that gentleman was in any real
danger Of nomination by the Republican par
ty, for, if elected, he could be safely counted
to ply his stnlwart switch on the back of the
turbulent and lawless South 80 vigorously that
the independent" phlanthropists would
soon fall to sniveling again about mercy aud
magnanlmity to our erring countrymen."
Sixty days of Senator Edmunds would make
all these preachers of the gospel according to
Saint Sobber think that Oliver Cromwell or
Edwin NJ. Stanton had come back to life and
labor. II there was anybody in 1872 who
hated "the Greeley movement with any
more heartiness, or expressed that hate with
any more bitterness than Senator Edmunds,
we would like to learn his name there is no.
body to-day who despises and distrusts the
Independent Republicans that are sounding
the anti Grant slogan more than Senator Ed
uunds, and We only wish the 'anythingto-
beat Grant crowd could only once have Ed
munds why. the memory of that policy of
Government which would coax a man with
offers of candy and oranges into obedience
to the constitution and the laws, would be ef.
faced so sternly that the statesmen, who
would make no answer to murder but TO sit
Ipxpn nd prN II upul1 And tho
ton of their weeping vein" gone.
from the Burlington Free Press, commenting on
the aboye.l
The Springfield Republican copies the
above paragraph, heads it, Senator Ed
munds as pictured by an editor who has lived
in Burlington, VT. =" and evidently accepts it
as an accurate likeness. 1t does not strike us
rs altogether such. Mr.. Edmunds would not
be a fit Representative of Vermont. if he were
not ''stalwart' in the support of Republican
principles of National unity of civil free
dom and equal rights for all before the law,
of obedience to the amended Constitution
and of wholesome law rs opposed to lawless
violence and prescription for opinions sake.
OF the technical independence which is so
often independence of truth, common sense
and justice, and which consists chiefly of
carping criticism, impugnment of the motives
Of others, and trimming concessions of prn-
ciple to prejudice he undoubtedly has very
little. But with some opportunities to under
stand him, we have not come to set down Mr..
Edmunds as a very bitter hater either of men
or classes. We believe that his long service
at Washington has given him truly National
sympathies that he realizes that the men of
the North fought the men Of the South, not
in order that thereafter they should forever
hold each other at arms end but because
tha,, intended IN live with tl.pn anil I.giraA
to do so under conditions of law and civliza-
ton aud civil society South as well rs North,
which should make mutual respect and conf
dence and sympathy possible; that he con-
siders the maintenance of what ought to
have been the results of the war. as necessary
to the peace and prosperity of the South, as
of any other section and that if he should
ever become President of the United States
he would carry into the office no vindictive-
ness towards any section. Firm resistance to
folly and wrong is one thing; vengeance is
another thing, and bitter hatred of fools and
wrong doors still another And we are quite
mistaken in our Senator, if he is not an expo
nent of the first rather than of the latter sen
timents.
A Man 60 Receive Every Republican
Vote.
from s. B. Pettengnl, late Editor of the Rutland
Herald.l
There is no necessity certainly at present
for closing the case and accepting it as a fore
gone conclusion that Gen. Grant must be
nominated. 1t does not seem to me prepos-
ferrous nor absurd that in the present posi-
ton of affairs Vermont Republicans should
proclaim as their candidate, their first choice
for the presidency, Senator Edmunds, and
send delegates to the Chicago convention who
will vote for him and, if possible, secure his
nomination. l believe that his nomination
would do more to solidify the Republican
party than any other. He did more than any
other man to secure a peaceful settlement of
the last presidential controversy, and if he
had done no other signal service to the coun-
try, the service which he then performed en-
titles him to the highest honor in the gift of
the people. His record is not only utterly
unassailable but brilliant. He is stalwart
Republican and at the same time popular
with the liberal element in the party. If
he should be nominated he would receive ev-
cry Republican vote, which is more than can
be confidently claimed for Gen. Grant.
An Available Candidate.
IA Retired Journalist MI J. B. Bowditeh to the ST.
Adams Mossonger.l
George F. Edmunds stands in the front
rank of the nations great men his preemi-
nent abilities, integrity and unspotted reputa-
ton are known ana appreciated by all : why
not nominate him. He is not only one of
the most able, but is one of the most availa-
BILE candidates that could be named. We are
given to understand that Carl Schurz and his
Uhlans will oppose Grant and that the 20, 600
Republicans of the George William Curtis
school in the State of New York will not vote
for him. Both of these elements would sup
port Edmunds. As 10 Secretary Sherman, all
of the auditory aids invented by Edison
would prove inadequate to enable him to
hear very loud call from the country for
him. Edmunds would command more votes
in the State of New York than either Grant,
Blaine or Conklng. 1t is not certain but he
would carry Maine easier than Blaine him
self While thinking minds in the country
at large are suggesting the advisability of the
nomination of our senator, our own people
are inert or are discussing the relative strength
of Grant and Blaine in the State. II is time
that we awoke to the fact that it is no pre-
sumption on our part to hoist the standard of
one of our own sons, who is the peer of any
man in all the elements of true statesman
ship.
VermOnt's CIaini"---the Hest MAN 30
Garry New York.
[From the st. Adams Messenger.l
In one sense il may be said that no State