Vermont Phœnix

THE NOMINATIONS.
The nomination of Abraham Lincoln for President, and of Andrew Johnson for Vice President, seem to give universal satisfaction to all but "secesh" and "copperheads." And it is a good omen that these dislike it: almost conclusive evidence that they are nominations eminently "fit" to be made. The platform on which they stand is also generally approved, and it is as far as it goes excellent. We should have preferred one other resolution in addition to those adopted. For ourselves we wish to have all races and all colors placed on the same political footing; that black men shall not only be free, but have guaranteed to them all rights granted to the whites. But all this, we trust will come in due time. The work on hand is to put down the rebellion, and in putting that down, to put an end to slavery at the same time. In selecting Lincoln and Johnson for our leaders we understand what course is to be pursued, and what ends are to be accomplished. The war is to be prosecuted till there is an unconditional surrender of the rebel insurgents. No compromise is to be made with traitors. They are to be subdued, and made to submit to lawful authority, or, else exterminated or driven from the country. There must be left no vestige of slavery or the slave power after this war has closed. There must be freedom and free institutions wherever the flag of the Union is unfurled. And from the Baltimore resolutions, and the candidates there put in nomination, we have the assurance that this is the result to be sought and accomplished, let it cost what it may. The integrity, the earnestness, the loyalty and the patriotism of the candidates, with their ability and experience in public affairs, inspire the people with confidence that they will do their best to bring us out of darkness into light, to end the war, and to establish peace on the foundation of justice, liberty and right. And we shall be greatly disappointed if these men do not have an overwhelming majority at the ensuing election. With these men at the head of the government, and Gen. Grant at the head of the army, and with the blessing of God on a righteous cause, we cannot fail; we must succeed.

What Sort of A Man Andy Johnson Is.
—If any one has any doubt on this subject, in view of the responsible position to which Mr. Johnson is evidently destined, he has but to turn to any part of the noble Tennesseean's record since the outbreak of the rebellion. In his famous reply to Senator Lane of Oregon in the first debates on the subject, when asked what he would do were he the President of the United States, he said :
"The distinguished Senator from Oregon asks me what I would do with the rebels, were I the President of the United States? I would have them arrested, I would have them tried, and if found guilty, by the ETERNAL GOD I would have them EXECUTED."
This was no hasty ebullition of feeling, but the language of deliberation, as is shown by the unvarying course of Mr. Johnson ever since. During the last spring he addressed his old neighbors of East Tennessee in a speech from which we take the following extracts:
"The time has arrived when treason must be made odious, when traitors must be punished—impoverished; their property taken from them whether it be their horses, their lands or their negroes, and given to the innocent, the honest, the loyal, upon whom the calamities of this unprovoked and wicked rebellion have fallen with such crushing weight.
"What has brought this war upon us! Let me answer in one word, let me speak it so loud the deafest man in this multitude can hear me—Slavery! (Hundreds of voices: 'That's so, that's a God's truth.') Men talk about the Constitution and State rights. They sneer at the Emancipation Proclamation, and call it a tyrannical assumption of authority, a despotic usurpation of power. Listen to what I now say : all such talk is the language of treason."
"Sometimes the clouds appear dark and lowering—sometimes I confess to a feeling of gloom ; but when I remember that there is a God, I am encouraged. Though not as religious as I ought to be, I sometimes walk by faith, and I have found it a convenient way of walking when it is too dark to see. And on the whole, though our suffering has been great, our blessedness will be all the greater when the day of our triumph shall come!"