Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03


and they are going to conhscate all the prop
erty in the Southern States they are going
to put this people down into the mud, and
they are going to select the worst miscreants
they have got-their Buffers and Schencks-
and set them over il. Well, how are you 60
ing to do It'll Why, we have got to go on
with the war. Every man that knows the
sentiments Of the Southern people tells you
that on those terms you have got to encounter
the last man aud the last woman in that coun-
try. Well then they have got to raise troops.
No man is fool enough to believe that this is
the last call. CA voice, MOI You have
been told times enough before that this is
the last call, 'they are utterly broken down."
"they are starving" zone more blow will fin
ish them," etc. put it to you If that has
not been cried with every single call that has
been made and now comes up that-highly
respectable Mr.. Stanton-I was going to say
something else-aud in n telegram to Gen.
Dix informs us that 1--WE don't want all Of that
800, 600 after all we have routed the army of
the southwest, and Grant says he only wants
100000 more TO take Richmond, and until
after election that's quite enough for you, for
after election we shall be in for four years
more and then we should like to see you help
yourselves" Now, is there any ybodyhere who
is SO lacking in intelligence as not to see that
if the war is to 60 on, and these troops are
gone like the wood cast into furnace, they
have got to have more How are they going
to get them How long is it since one single
legitimate volunteer has ceased gongI As l
told you before these men at home are not
going They have got to raise them by the
draft of course as they are raising men now.
Well, Congress has already abolished the COM
mutation, and how about the substitute bust
ness Why, we are ransackihg every part of
the world to buy niggers and Hessians for
substitutes. That's where you are getting
your troops. You have had about two mill
lions Of the best men in the country and you
can't get them any more. You have got to
buy your troops, and the men that you are
able to buy are pretty miserable set. Now,
it is proposed to exterminate these Southern
people with that kind of stuff We have not
succeeded in doing it with our own native
stock. We are going to do it now with these
Hessians that we have bought up, every man
of whom requires two men to guard him.
was at Windsor county court the other day, at
the trial of Gen. Partridge. who was tried for
treason for expressing doubt of the lmmac-
ulate character Of this administration. While
was there some substitutes were being taken
away to camp. Well, they marched of about
twenty, and before they got to breakfast nine
of them had escaped. Well, the point l am
coming TO is this If you propose to prose-
cute this war to this extremity, you can't do
it with that class of men. And you can't do
it with niggers, either. Well, then, gentle
men, this is what was coming to If you
propose to go on with this war Congress has
got to repeal this substitute business altogeth-
er. You have got to 60 yourselves. The
consequence will be that the next draft will
be one from which there will be no escape.
| Then you have staring you in the face, from
that next call which must inevitably come, a
| draft from which no man eau escape. That
is the conscription which you have got to en-
counter, and that is the price which you have
! got to pay for carrying on this war for the
abolition of slavery after it has ceased TO be
necessary to carry it on for the abolition Of
| the Union
OF Gen. Mcclellan, as compared with the
immortal Lincoln, the orator said
They admit that he is pretty good officer,
but he is no statesman. Well, how does lie
| compare with Abe Lincoln daughter
The question is Which of these two will you
elect Everybody laughs-that is all the an
swer there is to it. How does he compare
with Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Silas Wrigh,
| or Andrew Jackson? If you asked that ques-
ton, people would not laugh but when you
say, How does he compare with Abe Lincoln
everybody laughs. Everybody can't help it.
And can tell you one
| thlng more about Zen. McClellan, ana that ls
| that 10y the grace of God--if the God of our
fathers has not utterly deserted us, and don't
think He has-I think that the God that plant
ed this colony in the wilderness, and led it by
the hand till it was the first nation on the face
of the earth, till its plain destiny was to gath
er together all the nations Of the world-thC
God that did that is not going to let it go &c
ruin for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of miserable,
dirty knot of politicians-and if he has moi
utterly deserted us, Gen. Mcclellan is going
to give US on the 4th of March what this
country has longed for in the last four years
a president of the United States. ZAP.
plause.) And these gentlemen that are max
ing themselves merry in their offices and theiI
contracts had better look out Don't let any
one misunderstood wha; say. We are going
to have fair, Legitimate, free election. If il
goes against US, We are going TO submit TO il
but it won't 60 against US. Aud if it is 60
ing to be attempted TO surround the ballot bo2
with bayonets, then they are going to see the
biggest fight they ever saw. (Uproarous ap
plause.) And don't say that in the spirit OF
those abolitionist leaders who are always hur
rahing for war that they don't dare engage
in. don't say it in that light"