News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-12

loving his life more than his right t.
vote even with the Republican party
until he has almost forgotten tina
there ever was a proclamation o
emancipation or constitutional'amend
ments, that once made him q either
and voter. Are we not justified in oul
faith that every genuine civil service o.
temperance reformer, every lover o
personal liberty in its noblest significa
ton, every defender of free ballo
for the most defenceless citizen of the
Republic, silently, but most heartily
sympathizes with us to-day as will
more than priestly JUNCTION we pray
Good Lord deliver u.s." and as with
angelic fervor we sing:
believing we rejoice,
| To see the curse removed"
But our forced retirement by the
accidental loss of few hundred votes
in the Empire State" while it has
been the nations loss has been
our gain. In the cool and quiet
of our retirement we have reviewed
the principles and achievements of the
old party, we have listened to its
promises and its prophecies, until
with a zeal, courage and certainty
of hope we come forth once again as
strong man to run a race. With
becoming modesty we are to re-
member that numerically Vermont is
small in territory, in population, in
voting power in the national conven-
ton and the electoral college, but in
moving the heart and stirring the con-
science of this great nation no Re-
publican State has been mightier.
Out of her Republican homes, ner
schools, her colleges, her churches,
have gone race of noble sons and
daughters carrying the seeds of new
Republican States and Territories.
Never, till they forget the graves of
their fathers, can they cease to re-
member the State of their birth, or to
revere her institutions, her advanced
Republicanism and her devotion to
personal liberty, immoyable as her
own Green Mountains. To-day they
are silently listening to catch the first
and ruling sentiment of our conven-
ton, its harbinger of certain victory.
'sBehold how good and how pleasant
it is for political brethren to dwell
together in unity. In the spirit of
this perfect harmony let Us fill our
delegation with men unpledged for
or against any candidate whom the
patriotism and wisdom of the national
convention may name, and who, after
their work with like harmony and
fidelity 10 the Republican party has
been well done, will return to US full
of fight and faith and victory. Twenty
eight years ago our fathers assembled
in such a convention as this. Many
of US were then mere striplings in the
tents of the party. Then our fathers
hoped and believed that some where
among the toiling millions of the Re-
public, a captain of the hosts of free
dom might be found, rough hewn by
the hand of Providence, covered with
the dust of honest toll and the smoke
of life's earnest battles, who would
lead them to their first national vic
tory. Then as now their faith in the
virtue, the patriotism, and the con-
science of the common people was
surpassed only by their faith in the
God of the republic. Honored men
wise and prudent in counsel, brave in
execution They wrought better than
they knew! Our own delegation was
the first TO plant the banner
of Vermont Republicans at the feet of
that great commoner of the American
people-Abraham Lincoln-who gave
his last care and last blood that the
government of the people, by the
people and for the people" might not
perish from the earth. AS did our
fathers SO we hope and believe that
rec people there may MAY be fou tna q
second captain of the cohorts of Re-
already anointed by the
same unerring hand, to lead us a |
second time to sure and certain VIC
'ory against the old foe, again by |
accident in the citadel of the nation
| second Abraham Lincoln under
whom grateful people will again
honor US with the care and custody of |
hat republic which % years ago we
from Democracy, slavery and
ebellion.