Vermont

Abstracts: 2

288

Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 December 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

288 - L Dec. 14; ed:2/2 - The national boor, Garret Davis of Kentucky,
having abandoned the constitution as it is, propose to amend it, and
has submitted a lot of trash to the U. S. Senate. He proposes that
Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire shall be run into one state, and
Massachusetts. Connecticut, and Rhode Island into another, etc.; that
the President shall be chosen alternately from the free and slave states;
and that no Negro shall be a citizen of the United States.
"In these three years, the nation has ceased to prattle about division
of power between free and slave states, for it has decided that there shall
be no slave st: tes.... Your amendments, Sir, are incoherent murmurings
of a sleeping dotard and should be treated as such. Cease groping for
the relics of a past which can never be resurrected and open your eyes
to the glorious rising sun and be silent." (11)

Constitutions / Amendments

Index terms:

Connecticut; Davis, Garret (Kentucky); Kentucky; Lincoln, Abraham; Maine; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; Rhode Island; U. S. constitution; U. S. Senate; Vermont

659

Cleveland Morning Leader, 17 September 1864 (4 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

659 - L. Sept. 17:2/1 - The Democracy has become angry over its defeat
in Vermont and Maine. Some of its organs have covered up its failure
by asserting that the issue before the people in Vermont and Maine was
not the same as the present issue with McClellan's letter of acceptance
before them. -
"The idea that Mr. McClellan, by his absurd letter acceptance,
can induce War Democrats to vote for him is absurd. With all its pro-
fessions of devotion to the Union at all hazards, the people distrust
a man who is pledged to miserable surrender to rebels in arms." - (4)

Elections, Campaigns and Candidates / United States

Index terms:

McClellan, George B.; Maine; Vermont