Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-30
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVEN-
TTOM
The VTIndham County Democracy Nom
mate County Omcers---Nl ingling Of
mIup aud the Gray.

The WindhRm County Democracy Nom
mate County Omcers---Nl ingIing OF the
DIue and the Gray.
The county Democratic convention held at
Fayetteville on the 9th, though not so inca
gre in numbers as two years ago, was still a
small and sober gathering for the presidential
year, considering their boosted confidence in
their military candidate. AT the morning ses-
sion committees on nominations and resolu-
tions were appointed who reported after din
ner The committee on nominations reported
for county officers as follows; For senators,
Dr. Daniel Campbell of Saxtons River and
Azor Marshall of Brattleboro for county
judges, George Porter of Nottingham and
Charles Smith of Rockingham; for probate
judges, II. @. Lane of Westminster and d. P.
Leonard Of Dover; for sheriff, David Stearns
of Putney for high bailif, Liberty Wilder
of Wilmington for States attorney, Milon
Davidson of Newfane. This report was ac-
cepted and adopted as a whole then the re-
port on resolutions was read, accepted and
adopted.
Thus closed the work of the political ma
chine, and speeches were in order, when the
redoubtable gentleman from Montpelier, who
has the honor Of carrying the Vermont Dem
ocracy in his breeches pocket-down so deep
that even G. n. Davenport's long legs scarce
touch bottom-stepped out-the same Hiram
Atkins we used to hear in days of yore--and
spoke touching those early days and his be-
ginning business and political life in Windham
county. He made touching reference to
some Of the old Democratic Fathers of the
County who have gone to their reward then,
leaving the pure and better sentiments of hu-
man nature, he sailed into his natural element
of vituperaton and Stun, heaping abuse upon
the Republican party for its corruption in the
matter of salaries to State officers, claiming
to state facts of definite things, based upon
his own personal knowledge, and closing this
portion Of his remarks with the usual howl
| against the increased taxation Of the State.
Then followed few campaign stories, and
something concerning the national Demo.
cratic convention and the nomination of Han
cock and English closing the whole with the
fitting introduction of an ex-rebel who wore
the gray.
Col Waddell of North Carolina spoke in a
very gentlemanly manner in the interests of
| peace and fraternity, claiming that the South
has had enough of war and slavery, and that
| they had fully and squaroly accepted the re-
| suits of the war, and had furled their flag and
laid it away forever, and simply asked the
North to roll up the bloody shirt and lay that
aside also, Upon the subject of slavery he
said il. was an institution left by the Fathers
and nothing but the ploughshare of war could
up-root it, This the North had effectually
done, and it was open now for us TO SOW the
seeds of peace and national prosperity. Moth
ing, he said, could now induce the South &c
receive back the negro as a slave the eyes
of the people were open; they saw that it had
made all the world their enemies, aud covered
all their business interests with blight and
mildew. He closed with few remarks oil
the carpet baggeI and KukluX. Thus much
for the meat in the shell of windham county
| democracy @.