Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-17
"s7Ot Shot"

necessary to use hot shot, that very especial
pains would be taken in giving them the
right direction, so as TO hit the objects
aimed at. that the effect should be the more
disastrous otherwise the extra trouble and
delay in heating them would be useless
And especially it would seem important
that the battery be so placed as that allies
and troops upon the same side should not be
harmed by the fiery missiles.
'Or tchuhsr at dRek or piorer.
10 should not rebound and kirk the orcr.'
Now, Mr., Editor, it seems to me that in
discharging your battery of slot Shot, No.
l." you have been very unmindful of these
very obvious precautions. And with your
leave, ! will endeavor in as few words as
possible, to show you wherein. You say
that "the noisy aboltionists here at the
North and the fre-earing fanatics at the
South,are as much alike as are candies run in
the same mould, and that it is more of duty
to pity their ignorance than to laugh at
their folly" Now, sir, suffer me to saw,
and say it with due Difference and re-
spect, that so few words could not be put
together in any other form where a greater
absurdity Il say not falsehood.) would be
expressed. Let us see if it is not so. As
you have it there is no difference in the
Lon Of H.
Union to avoid being accessory TO, or an
accomplice in behalf of Slavery on account
of its snfulness, and those who do so the
better TO secure this system of abomnation
from coming in contact with the principles
of liberty and justice and humanity, which
they very justly apprehend would weaken
and ultimately destroy it. The noisy abb
oltionists, as you call them, see fit 10 com
ply with the Bible injunction TO "come out
from among them, and have no fellowship
with the works of darkness The others
cherish and enshrine it as a divine institu-
ton, and repel with desperation every in
ffuence that would endanger its perpeiuity.
The motto of one is, mo union with
Shareholders" The other, no union with
those who will not bow down and Worship
this their god, or at least refrain from sneak
ing against it or sympathizing With its vie
Tins. Warfare Of the one is not earnal.
but moral, peaceful and spiritual. The
other relies altogether upon powder and
ball and the cutlass, as has been abundant
y manifested of late, in the halls of Con-
gress. The one believes with Wesley and
host OF other great and good men, that
slavery is the sum of all villanies,-and
with the founders of our republic that
slavery is moral and social evil. The
other, that it is one Of heavens best gifts
to man. The one believes that it is a pro.
life source of all the vices and miseries that
human depravity is heir to; the other. that
it elevates both master and slave. and
thereby forming the best possible condition
of society. The one believes that immsdi-
"e emancipation Is the right of the slave
and the duty of the master the other, that
IT would ruin both master and slave. One
believes that the rights of the colored man
are as dear TO him as that of the paIer
face Is to him, and that he has an equal
right TO enjoy them the other, that he
has mo rights that the white man is bound
to respect"
4 In one otfer particular there is a very
great difference. The sbolifions,s are not
politicians nor office seekars. They even
eschew Office that they may avoid COM
Rlle'iy with slavery, of course they have
no occasion for being noisy. The f.Soath.
eFT .t'e-eaters are office seekers by pro.