Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-05-03
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BELLOWS FALLS. MAY 3, 1861.
The War and slavery.

+ to bring on civil war is very pleasant
pastme. They would he very happy tp
see hundred thousand northern men bite
i the dust, and leave FIVE hundred thousand
women and children TO mourn the loss Of
/ friends, lovers and protectors, but TO lei loose
/ upon southern community slave popula-
/ tion, with liberty TO take such revenge
/ for their long wrongs as they may deem
1 best, is very inhuman. We do not recog-
nize the difference, and we trust our gov
ernment will not The slave power is de-
/ termned 10 de troy our institutions, and
/ win be restrained by no considerations Of
humanity. Our only efficient defense is to
destroy their Institutions, and especially that
institution which is, and has always been,
the bane of the country. They have thrown
off their allegiance, they have voluntarily
surrendered their claim for the protection
of slavery, and now let Us wipe i. out,
wherever our army goes. Let US arm ne
groes from the northern States and Canada,
and bid them march into the South as a
lberating army, calling the slaves TO their
standard Let the scoundrels have scces-
sion to their hearts content. Their blood
and their calamities be upon their own
heads
1t is the habit to say that we have to deal
with no despicable foe, and to magnify the
proves of the rebels. But, in Gods name,
what are we? We are two to their one in
number, and we are two 10 their one in
endurance, we are twenty TO their one in fl
nancial resources, we have everything upon
our side in the moral of the fight, we have
the prestige of an established government,
and the help Of a navy, and are we 10 be
/ despised? The truth is that we magnify
our foe and depreciate ourselves. We
can whip them, and we shall; and the long
er they see fit to prolong the war, the short
er lived will their internal system Of slave
ry be. Ii the national capital cannot be
safe with Maryland and Virginia as slave
states, they will be made free states
Nothing is 10 be allowed TO hinder the re-
establishment of the federal authority, or
to interfere with the permanent safety of
the capitol. If niger breeding, as gene
raj industrial pursuit, is to make Virginia a
dangerous state, then negroes will cease to
be valuable.
1t sometimes seems TO US that the time
has come for the extinguishment of african
slavery in North America. Its devotees
have been led along from point to point
until they have reached absolute insanity.
Leaving the doctrine of the fathers, they
have taken the position that slavery is a
Christian institution, that all who denounce
it are infdels, that labor is disgrace, and,
at last, they have organized new govern
ment with slavery as its corner stone, and
even as the corner stone of human freedom !
This is the work of politicians, and they
have found the Christian church through
all their borders ready to come up, and en-
dorse their horrible doctrine. Is it not time
for a system to be wiped out which can so
pervert the judgment, and blind the moral
sense of a great people? Is it not time for
system 10 be wiped out which rutnlessly
trampes on all that is sacred in American
history, destroys all loyalty and patriotism,
renders all connected with it arrogant and
brutal, and drives men on 10 fratricidal war
fare ? 1t seems as if it were, and as if God
had made these men mad that they might
4 procure their own destruction.
The truth is that foe so treacherous as
that with which we have to deal cannot APP
precate gallant and polite treatment. When
we deal with them cruelty. they will UNDER
stand us, and they will not before. A mo-
ment's forbrarance will be construed into
cowardice, as ii has always been. The fire,
sword, grape-shot, servile war, destructive
and devastating invasion must teach them
that we are in earnest and that we know
what kind of foe we are dealing with.
We must pour down upon them our mil
lions, and back those millions by hundreds
of millions of treasure. We must burn
their capitals and starve them.
Is this cruel talk !? Do you know what
will be done if this be not done? We shall
be overrun. O'T capitals will be burned.
Fire, sword, and devastating invasion viii
be sent among US. II is not time to talk
Of cruelty. All war is cruel. This war
originated in the cruelty Of a set Of diabol-
ical politicians. The country might just
as we'll have been in prosperous peace to-
day as Otherwise. The war Is not Of our
seeking and now let those who have sought
it lave enough Of 1t.
How Long viii the War Last!
/ The New York Herald. upon this qaes-