The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-21
Reconstruction of the South.

nat Snau we 10 WIN the SOutu, "Hou coh-
quered? is question often asked. If the
Southern States will not send Senators and
Representatives to Congress, if they will have
nothing to do with US, what il to be done ?
The logic of events is rapidly answering these
questions. Maryland is answering them In one
way. aud Western Virginia in another ; and
yet we fear not quite satisfactorily. We must
remember that the South has been placed in
by the artful intrigues of political leaders
and military chiefans. After years of the
political teaching of Calhoun and his school
in the interests Of Slavery, the South has
become widely dcmoralized its political prin-
cples debased from those cherished by
the Rutledges and Draytons, the Lees and
LIenrys of the Revolution, and the one
business of Slavery has become the great,
all-absorbing intesest of the State, of the
Church, and even of educational institutions.
The exclusion of all papers and books from
the North, by which juster views might have
been incucated and cherished, has left the
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the blindness Of an ignorant selfshness. The
border States, including Western Virginia.
have shared in tie light of the North to some
extent, and hence the more marked division of
sentiment in those States. Slavery has not
had entire control Of the minds of men-juster
estimates prevail of its ruinous results to all
the best interests of society, and are ready to
manifest themselves upon the first opportunity.
4 similar class exist throughout the entire
South, decreasing in numbers as we leave the
border States, yet still present, and ready to
take part in the reorganization of society upon
sounder principles. Now it is necessary to
drive off this entire class, composed of the best
and worthest portion of the community, and
declare war upon the whole South, and upon
Slavery as its great institution, and make it
practically a war of determination, with all
the horrors of servie instructions, and with
the indiscriminate destruction and misery of
the innocent and tho guilty alike OF it is nee.
essary to wage war only against the secessionist
proper, and that the Federal armies appear as
the delverers Of loyal men, and to uphold the
integrity of the Constitution and the Laws
In this latter case, the North must insist upon
and secure by adequate guarantees, and by
changes in the organic laws of the several
Southern States, its own construction of the
Constitution, as made in the interest of free
dom and not of Slavery; it must provide for
the absolute restriction of Slavery within its
present limi,s, and for lis ultimate abolition, by
doing away with the tyrannical laws which
now uphold it, and by securing set time of
emancipation, and system Of education for the
children and youth of the colored race
The North must thus carry out in good faith,
at the lannon's mouth and bayonet's point if
need be, the expectations Of the founders of the
Constitution and the hopes of all good men,
Let the rights of good and loyal men be re-
spected and secured; but let it be proclaimed,
that the slaves of all men found in arms against
the Government, or who shall hereafter be
lie serviceI; to he apprenticed after the manner
Of the emanoipated slaves in Jamaica, with
view to their Ultimate freedom. The lob is
uow fairly on our hands, and we must make
AN end of the business. Western Virginia
would hail such scheme as this SO would
Eastern Tennessee, and thousands in Kentucky
Texas and Nj issouri And the advance of an
of an overwhelming army followed by free
press and free speech, would make converts to
this doctrine ali the way to the Gulf; whilo
the more infatuated followers of Calhoun and
his school, would perish by the sword, or sub
init as conquered let US reconstruct the South
CHLHohLL .:jn.ANs IN TIE REBEL ARMy.-tt
is stated by a philadelphian just arrived in that
city from Norfolk, that 5000 Cherokee Indians
had arrived there, all well armed after their pc.
cular fashion, to take part with the secession
forces, and to be brought out as an offset to the
Iouavos of the North 1t has been known for
months that the secessionists have been tamper-
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