Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-12-06

loyal subjects and not for the benefit OF
traitors. We would abolish slavery ev-
erywhere, from motives Of justice, hu-
mainly, and from sound national policy.
We hope congress, the cabinet, and the
president, will see the necessity of de-
creeing universal emancipation. We
hope they will adopt this course. Secre-
tary Cameron, Gen. Butler, Fremont
and a few others, have gone little ways
in the right direction in confiscating the
slaves of rebels that come within our
lines. This is good as Gar as it goes, but
it does not 60 far enough nor fast enough.
Make it general. Free all. Arm all.
If Union men suffer in consequence OF
such policy, pay them the full value OF
all losses after the war. 1t will be II
shorter and cheaper job than to fight one,
two, and even three years, destroying
cities and villages and thousands of lives,
and still have the evil remain in a more
terrible form than at first.
With rebellion crushed, and slavery
still existing, a bitter feeling of hatred
from those we have conquered ever
breaking forth in mutterings and curses,
J we shall stand in no enviable position
Can any fail to see that if the war is end
ed and slavery untouched, that peace
will never again exist between north and
south =? Abolish it, and when the pres
ent generation has passed away and a
new one arisen at the south, with differ
ent ideas and under different system OF
education, habituated to free labor and all
its concomitants, all danger Of n repeti-
ton of the present calamities will be re-
moved. The new generation will be-
come eminently northern in their views,
and assimiIate themselves to the ways OF
free people. Heretofore We have been
strangely diverse in our opinions, not
only in relation to slavery, but in our
ideas of popular education, and in many
matters of civil policy. We are de-
nocracy fashioned after the old puritans,
who believed in freedom in all things
that pertained to Godliness-free schools,
a free press, free speech, and human free
dom, while they are an aristocracy pat
termed after the cavaliers, or the barons
of the feudal ages, whose notions of lib
city it will be granted were inconsistent
with a republican government like our
own.
We say again, emancipate the slaves.
The times are propitious. The slaves
desire it. The people favor it. And
the rebels have offered us an opportunity
that ought not to be discarded. They
have thrown down the bars. Let free.
dom step over and occupy the goodly
land and give it to her children as an in
heritance forever. We believe that day
is at hand. God bring the hour nigh.
We believe that this is holy war, one
that will terminate in crusade against
slavery. We believe the Almighty is
making instruments o. the Shareholders
to administer their own punishment for
their sins against those in bondage
And when that happy day to our country
shall arrive that all shackles are struck,
the old Liberty Bell'' that has hung in
silence and in shame since the stormy
days of the revolution, because it fulfilled
not its mission, will joyfully obey the be-
hest of its creator and Proclaim Lib
erty through all the land and to all the
people thereof"