Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-04-23
A PLEA FOR HARMONY.
Views of Strong Blaine Man About
senator Edmunds.
To the editor of the Rutland Herald

To the editor of the Rutland Herald:
Please allow me space in the Herald
to request the Republicans ofVermont "to
dwell together in unity of purpose and
feeling, that "our good old party" may and
shall recover from the disaster of 1884 ;
remembering our principles were then
substantially endorsed while our candi-
dates were defeated; and further, that
"united we stand, divided we fall" and
should most care for measures, not
men,"
General Leslie Coombs, in 1852, wrote
me when the Southern shareholders be-
gan their political rebellion against the
Wing party, that Robert Toombs, a. II.
Stephens, Thomas i. Clingman, and
Meredith p. Gentry have started to go to
the devil and we have got to get along
without them" Well, they brought up
where General Coombs predicted, but
they and their friends were so many that
the Wing party was wrecked that year
In 1924, less than railroad passenger
car of mugwumr5, entirely from personal
i'll will against our ticket, raised a greater
howl than Gen. Grants Two wolves, esti-
mated by the noise heard by him at one
hundred, and those of us who heard the
mugwumps of 1854 feared there were
millions in it, These fellows in 1855
were counted and it turned out that, be
ing hated by all good Republicans and
dies pissed by all orthodox Democrats, they,
like barnacleS attached to ship, impeded
the party to which they fastened them
selves. They are on the road and bound
for the destination pointed out by Gen.
Coombs. | write them down as a bad lot
of political pharisees and appeal to history
to sustain me.
BY fraud, force, and an unfortunate
combination of events, which in all pro
liability can never happen again, we were
defeated and our cause, and the cause OF
good government was wounded in the
house of its pretended friends. Treachery
to Just principles Is a bad basis to build
upon The instances of Andrew Johnson,
Horace Greeley and Charles sumner are
sad warnings. Gen. Grant will 90 down
through history as an upright man, base
slandered by the mallgnity of Mr.. sum
ner i'll his terrible Indictment which the
American people endorsed, This bill not
found" James &. Blaine will live in
pleasant remembrance in history when
every mugwump of 1894 shall be dead,
damned and forgotten
Every person of full age in 1854 is con
versant with the combination of untoward
events and happenings which defeated
Blaine and Logan, and | think it very un-
Republicans and say, Thou art the man
who defeated us"
| am panied to discover an attempt to
single out our distinguished legal senator
from Vermont, as scapegoat for this
disaster and to ostracise and punish him
because we We're defeated that year
trust no man will attempt to punish Mr.
Edmunds until he is proved guilty OF
being false to the Republican party in
1851 When he is tried have some items
of evidence which | trust will be consider
ed before the verdict is made up.
Mr. Edmunds at Burlington presided at
a Blaine and Logan rally and terribly ar
raigned the Democratic party as utterly
unfit to be entrusted with the government
and commended the Republican party in
general terms of confidence, SO that any
man not Il fool could discover that he
wished the Republican party to succeed.
Further, he travelled from the city of New
York to Bennington in order to vote for
Blaine and Logan. Still further, | have
before me Mr.. Edmunds's letter to me, of
September Is, 1854, in which among other
things he wrote 81 hope that our good
old party will pull through as usual. "
These are words of love, endearment and
hope.
Mr.. Edmuds's eminent talents and SER
vices are a credit to Vermont, and if we
were passing the honors of election around,
we cannot educate any of the distinguish
ed citizens in II years to fill his place. Ours
is a small State and we want great and
strong men to make up in power what
we lack in numbers. We want brains to
contend with neck
Messrs. Edmunds and Blaine have more
legislative ability than the whole Demo
cratic party, with "the Continental liar"
and other mugwumps thrown in. If Mr..
Blaine was now president we should not
be witnessing labor strikes, the pastme of
killing Cinnamon or the Democratic
amusement of killing noffensive colored
people in Mississippi Morrison would
not be fooling around with his tariff
tinkerng, and Randall would not be laid
up with pretended govt, and Hon. F.;
j. Phelps, our minister to England, would
not be extraordinarily hobnobbing with
the English aristocracy in opposing a
State government for Ireland, and in
short and in substance, in after dinner
speeches telling the English people that
President Cleveland and Queen Victoria
look near enough alike to be twins, and
| that their interests and feelings are iden-
| tical
To reverse the past we are not able, but
let us be wise in the future and treat
Messrs. Blaine and Edmunds kindly. We
cannot all have our personal friends in
Office. Where there is a diversity of pre-
ferences, to succeed there must be con.
cession and compromise. To test the good
sense of Vermont Republicans, | move
that we elect Mr.. EdmunGs senator in
1896, and do our best to elect Mr.. Blaine
in lSSS.
All Of which is respectfully submitted
by NORRIS ii. Cook.
Castleton, VT. April II, 1856.
p, S.-Before the motion is put, | wish
to remind the brethren that IN 1853 the
Democracy of Vermont, by our dissen
sions, elected their governor and lieuten
ant-governor. David Davis was elected
senator in Illinois through Republican
contention, and last and not least, We
lately came within an ace" of losing the
senatorial Office so ably and nobly filled
by Gen. John A. Logan and We're saved
only by extra providential circumstances
Don't commit "hari-kari," Remember
what our mothers taught us, i. e., "Chil
dren of one family should not fail out ant
chde and fight" NJ III. G.
A PUBLIC BENEFACTION.
How TO laundry linen as il is done in Troy
| N. Y, has been kept II secret long enough i
can and should be done in every family. Thu
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