Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-10-25

MOI content that we at the north ouietl
o looked on, they undertook to wrest from n,
our birth right. Still we looked co,rlv On
We hoped the return of reason would brin,
them back. We srill held out .he hand q
friendship. But still at Sumter on ;be 2tl
day OF April the flag of our Union. III,
symbol OF all that was dear TO us. of homo
country, honor, was insulted and for IN,
. first time lowered. And when that wa,
done the Green Mountains answered to III,
prmries, and the Rocky Mountains raye
tone to The sounding sea, and the whole
country north rose, as one man. in amaze.
ment at this most horrid form of rebellion
and with arms in their hands our bro,ber,
have marched forth TO put il down. And
IN Tue march there must be no step back
ward till every inch of territory over which
that flag ever floated, again acknowledges
the supremacy Of the constitution. (Ap-
plause)
And it there are any among Us who .ery
peace when there is no peace, ask him if
he is ready TO make peace until Sumter is
yindicated-whether he desires n moLo
peace uHtlluhe honor.of the north. the hon
or OF America, is re-established after the
reverse at Manassas No-until that i
setlled-until the question whether our
blood is as red and runs as clearly and
swiftly in our rveins as ii runs in The veins
oil any southern man--till that question is
settled, we may make contracts and truces.
compromises and constitutions, but there
can be no peace. We will determine that
question by the right arm. And when That
IS determined and acknowledged and that
acknowledgement takes the form of rec
ognltion Of our banner as the banner Of the
whole country-then, and not till then. for
one, am for peace. (Great appIause.)
But ! hear, perhaps, some doubter say
no, sir. hear none in the state of Vermont
where that kind of doubt don't exist NAV
hear some doubter say, perhaps we may
accumulate debt for posterity in this ex-
penditure of treasure. We are piling up
for our children, and perhaps, our children's
children, a load Of national debt under which
they must hereafter suffer-"
Let US examine-for perhaps the doubts
take that form-lvt US examine that doubt
agree we may overstep the present limits
OF taxation in the accumulation of the ex-
penses of this war. But thus far have a
right TO say, in the first pIace-those ex-
penses are owed to no foreign country
they are ewed to ourselves. and to ourselves
only. We have expended the money from
our purses 50 chat we may perhaps be said B
to have shufcd it from one pocket to the
other.
And in the next place | agree that we
ire piling up q debt for our posterity--butl
/ is debt Of gratitude, to which our cbil ,
iren and our children's children shall point
orever. In this day and hour, sir, if YOU
me so far to prophecy, we are j
lighting the battles of posterity, not only as 4
egards our enemies at home, but our enc
mics abroad. i
IT, sir, after we have demonstrated to the h
Iations of the earth, that we can carry on !
var with our public funds rising as the war
progresses, with money offered without stint v
I the common and usual rates of interest a
wien We can say we can carry on war. y
urn breadstuffs in the west for fuel and ex- n
ort them from the east, and raise an army :,
etter fed and paid even than almost any If
ther branch of human industy, that a ma u
y of sixty ships can be swelled 10 three c,
undred in the course of three months ia
nd il would seem that our navy small as il q,
as had been scattered for some purpose u,
10 every quarter Of the globe-when we e,
ave exhibited thar spectacle, and shown s,
at the strongest government isthat which NJ
SITS on the free hearts of free people, L
"a will specify to me what government will pl
Se TO meet in arms the United States Of do
meriea thus demonstrating their power?
We shall thus settle for all time that 70
lich was about TO be conceded 10 us tn
at we were the first nation on the earth. tb
nus, say, our children will have no in th
'tine broiis at home, and no foreign wars fill
which TO withdraw themselves from the n,
S Of peace. And for this settlement of sci
} great question of the strength of our fro
our children viii owe us debt
gratitude for which any amount of treas WA
! will be but as the penny left by the good the
maritan TO take care of the man who fell life
ong thieves. Is
Therefore. / insist that we are fighting wh
battles of posteriiy. But hear again sire
doubt raised,-'' What if England ph,
at if the European powers shall inter the
: and recognize the Confederacy ?" our
sakiny for myself as a citizen of the war
ited States, can give answer" God mer
, those people at the South If England dep
my other foreign nation does interferel" for
are now carrying on this war as If they ovel
e our brothers. Whenever they call in min
ign aid they make themselves what they on t
would be, it would almost seem our for h
, aneuias aud if the fraa d.,,c-r.o,, sc coo,