Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-11-22

We trust we shall not be charged Win
" Abolition" if we copy an extract from a
speech made OF Wednesday of last week.
by Col. Cochrane, commander of regi-
msnt Of troops, and democratic member OF
Congress from New York, as follows:-
"If you seize their property, if YOU
open their ports, if you destroy their lives,
| ask YOU whether you will not seize their
slaves? ] ask you whether you will not
arm their slaves, and whether you will not
carry them by baltaions into war against
their masters? Cheers What! You
have no sympathy for the white rebels and
vet Won will spare the black slave whom
they use Why, it it be necessary to save
this government, would plunge their whole
people, black and white into one indlScrim-
mate sea OF carnage and slaushler, and
build upon it a government which shall be
The vicegerent of God Let US have no
more of this dallying with peoples dlltant
conservatism, this doubling in cabinet when
orr soldiers are perishing in the field.
Soldiers. you know no such reasoning as
this. You have arms in your hands, and
4 those arms are for the purpose OF exter-
minating the enemy, until he submits to law,
order. and the constitution. Then explode
whatever magazine Of combusibles is in
Your way set fire to and consume the cot
ton export the cotton take property
whenever you find i, confiscate property
wherever you find it, take the slave and
betsow him upon the non-slaveholder if you
I al, lar do n
10 YOU raise up in their midst party in
ierest against the present STAKEHOLDER dis
tract their coansels. Do all this, and If thi'
be not sufficient take the slave by the hand
place musket in it, and bid him in God;
name strike for the liberty of the human
race. (Great cheering.l This, said Col
Cochrane, was not abolitionism or emanci
patton. Aboltionism was 10 place th'
slaves above their masters in the socia
SCALE Emancipation was TO free them
This war was prosecuted for no such puf
pose. The South commenced the war, AM
the North was not responsible for IFS conse
, quences. The speaker then stated the pro
ceedings Of the Charleston convention t
show the deliberate purpose OF the leader
: of the South TO precipitate revolution
: He portrayed the direful effects of the ad
: mission OF the doctrine Of secession. an
T. closed by appealing to the sacred principle
of religion on which our cause rests for il
support, and to that Deity without who's
{, favor we cannot succeed
: When Col. Cochrape had concluded, NJ
e Cameron, Secretary of War, made speec
q as follows -
!, "SoLDIERs 1t is too late for me
:, make you speech tonight, but ] will sa
that heartily approve every sentiment U
tered by your noble commander. The do
trines which be has laid down approve
/ if they were my own words. They a
my entir-ents-sentiment which will NJ
l. only lead you to victory, but which will
. the end reco instruct this our glorious fe'
: eral Constitution ii is idle to talk abo
:, treating with these rebels upon their ov
"a terms. We must meet them as enemit
N and punish them as enemies, until th'
n shall learn to behave themselves Ere
"a means achich God has placed IN oar han
IL is our duty to use for the purpose Of pr
. tectthg ourselves. am glad of the oppo
I'd tunity to say here, what have alrea'
e. said elsewhere, in these few words, that
u apprcve he doctrines this eUening enumciat
!, By Col Cochrane. loud and prolong
cheering"
" All of which is very significant, very.