The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-24
Missouri and her Treason.

entrencnments thrown up ny Ine young ooii
mander around the hostile ramparts Of TIT
PRESS, we give our readers this evening, shor
chapter on the treason of Missouri, in which
we expect to direct their attention to a few foot
prints of rebellion and coar-marks of treason
not often journalzed.
1t is only few years, five if we mistake not
since Kansas was gored and bled somewhat ex
tensively by Missouri, and other States nearer
akin to King Cotton's royal family. Now
while history will probably display and dignity
that contest with no more just and accurate
title than partisan fight, or the most magnif
cent swindle ever attempted by political experts
of the rule and ruin school, it nevertheless a0as
the initial pont--the first real and designed
sanguinary engagement between loyalty and re-
bcllion. 1t may not, however, have been so I'M
derstood by the people Of Missouri For them
it may have been step in the dark, set, marked
and measured by the line and plummet of po-
ltical architects engaged in building more re.
gal edifce for the King Lords, Dukes, Earls and
lesser dignitaries of the Cotton Dynasty.
AS such step, showing us what Slavery tried
to do in and with Kansas years ago, and at a
| time when rebellion first resorted to the torch
and the sword for argument, its history becomes
important, inasmuch as it uncovers much COR
ruption. and reveals vast amount of treason
and treachery IN The germ, which, through the
agency Of subtle and mock diplomacy, was
dealt mildly with. In fact the peace then ne
gociated by subordinate agents of our diplo-
matte bureaus, was simply an armisticc, giving
traitors all they asked for, namely: time and
opportunity to flch and steal the necessary arm
ament for an open, bold, blood-thirsty revolt
and they haze done it.
But the fires kindled by the torch of treason
upon the plains OF Kansas are not yet extin-
guished, They still burn, and their blistering
flames are spreading CONSERVATION, suffering and
death among the marts and homes of not only
one but many nations. We have no space for
details as testimony against this first rebellion,
and wthal no necessity to unroll the crimsoned
parchment of war in Kansas
Missouri is the bleeding victim now. Her
veins are full and bursting with the hot and
clotted gore of treason-the same savage, re-
lentless treason that is responsible for the muir
ders and arsons of 1S55--56. More than this
The same men who nursed and doctored that
treason for the avowed purpose of protecting
Missouri, her "rights and Institutions" are to.
day the attending and consulting surgeons upon
those same delicate rights and darling institu-
tons. Their new patient, however, is to be
bled more profusely. So to speak, the lancet
and scalpcl sufficed for Kansas, but the desper-
ate and critical case Of Missouri demands the
broad axe and the battery.
What a chapter in the history of worthless
cause, vain, imprudent, deuded people and
proud, imperial State, can here be written.-I
Proud, unhappy Missouri. The righ: arm of
an interior commerce, surprising the sea-board
traffic of continental Europe-the key to our
national domain Of millions of acres Just ready
to bring their harvcsts to her granaries, their
gold to her vaults, and their mountain products
to her store houses Missour-rich with noun
tains of ore and strata of minerals, sufficient to
supply the world with lead ard iron for
thousand years-Gelds, pastures and prairies
pregnant with all the essential and virgin in
gradients Of fertility--her cities and her valleys
darkened and .deafened with the smoke and roar
of engines Of art and industry, and last bat not
least, the Union, with its money and its fayors
eifecting more for the welfare Of her people
and the development of her material interests
than for any other people or interests beneath
its flag look at her, - there she is-shackled
with the cumbersome chains of Slavery, bound
with the calling cables of treason, eating.
sleeping and praying with the foulest
iiends of He'll, yoked and haraessed to the
bloody car of tyranny that is whrlng her
people, their rights and their institutions into
tho vortex of murder, massacre and destruction.
Such in few words is Missouri as, she ,vas and
as she is
GLOW Ikea mounting devil in.the heart
Rules the unreigned ambition.''
The armstce expires, and now being all
ready for the blow, where must treason strike ,
The busy tribunes and bold captains of rebellion
soon sett'e all questions of that magnitude
The goth of December arrives and Carolina
quietly and deliberately breaks the icc The
Gulf States follow with their plumber, their
arms, their soldiers and their Foreign Consul f
hus giving to treason local habitation and
lame The drowsy tyrant by his minions !
ed, having done noble part in defence of o
chattels," boldly but reluctantly seizes the sa-
red soil of VIRGINIA and tho ,,;norol 1l ri