The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-07
Can Vermont do no More ?

The Tribune in a recent article urging the
loyal States TO send forward moro troops to the
seat of war stated that Is 900 troops would be
no more for Vermont to contribute to the Army
of Freedom. in proportion to her population
than the number that Arkansas had already set
in the field to help make up the Army OF oia-
very. This is unquestionably true, and it Ger
tainly may with proprlcty boasked OF Vermont,
as of every other Free State, Why she does not
give as freely 81 her resources to save the Gov
eminent as the Slave States give Of theirs to de-
stroy the Republic
There is need Of every man that can now be
spared from our farms and workshops to IN
crease and strengthen the army Of the North.
That army does not yet reach 5O0,0 men
and until it exceeds that number. speedy vie
tory is by 40 means certain. Beauresard
army, if it is not increasing III numbers, is GER
5ainly every day becoming more formidable
from the drill and discipline which 60 SO lar in
making efficient soldiers of raw recruits, and
WILL when no1t engaged, be even more difficult
to conquer than 1t was at Bull run. 1t no"
requires large force Of Federal troops to guard
the fords, and ferries, and bridges along the
Potomac from attack by the Rebels, and every
day brings rumors Of alarms for the safety OF
Washington. The traitors are unmolestedly
throwing up cArth-wo~ks, and mounting large
cannon almost within rife shot Of our defences
on Arlington lights. and if they should cap
ture those delenc3s, the Capital could not be
held day. Do Vermonters fully comprehend
this position in our National affairs =?
We complain much OF the GOODNESS of Foreign
powers toward oar Government, and Of their
lll-concealcd sympathy with the Rebels. We
scold at the special correspondent OF the Lon
don Times for mercilessy laying bare our weak
nesses and exposing our foiblcs, to the quick OBJ
servatlon Of foreign readers But is there rea.
son in this? Suppose last November o portion
of the French nation had rcnouncod its allegi-
ance to Napoleon ILL.,, and taken up arms
against his authority. Then let each steamer
have brought Us news that the rebellion in
France was spreading, province after province
leaving the side OF the Government and joining
the traitors, until nearly one-third Of France
had taken up arms against the authority at
Paris. Then suppose we had heard that an ar
my Of 100, 900 Rebels were encamped within
thirty miles Of Paris, with their outposts al
most within sight of the Tuilleries. Next let
us have heard that Napoleon had sent an army
against the Rebels, but had met disastrous de-
feat, his troops being driven back in disorder,
little better than routed mob, to the walls of
the Capital. Let the same steamer have brought
news that 600 Of Napoleon my,-the time
for which they had volunteered having expired
had turned their faces at once toward their
homes, reducing by so much the army Of the
Government, and taking from 1t its very best
material. Let the next mail give the informa-
ton that the Rebels were continually advancing
toward Paris, andwere planting batteries within
five miles Of the residence of Napoleon, and
were at the same time in almost undsturbed
possession of every acre of territory that they
had assumed to set free from the authority of
the nation. Is it not barely possible, after such
a history of nine months successful rebellion
in France, special correspondents and newspa-
per writer's might have occasionally sneered at
the magnificent strength, and the >. Grand
Army y Of Napoleon, and intimated that tho
business Of putting down rebellion in France
wasn't getting on very swimmingly? And
isn't this just ouv easel
Butthere are other questions than these to
ask Vermonters. Is there any need that these
things should much longer be SO? II not, what
and where is the remedy
There can be but one answer to these ques
ions rs far as Vermont is concerned Yer
mont ~ able to do more than her proportion
of the labor of saving the Government, and il
she and the other loyal States contribute but
half as freely to support the cause of the Repub-
lie as tho reyoled States do to support their
treason, the rebellion will be crushed out in six
months. Both az morciful aud an economical
me thod Of pursuing the war on the part OF the
North, 500, 900 troops, at the very lowest figure,