Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-11-22
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

ISnso,n 70 Weld mn. as speedily and gracefully as
70 oan u. old Abolition procliylties and turn the
cold shoulder TO the whole tribe OF antl-slaVery
Ieotur ers and sectional agitators. 1t mus, either
do this or else long break friendship with the
'povers that be-" and find itself in company with
that perhaps noisy but certainly hopeless minor
ity, into which the abolition wing Of the late
Republican party is doomed to sink.
SeHhnd, Nor. Is.
Coming as it does from a sheet which oflate
considers the present Administration to be
under its especial protection, this advice ought
to be worthy Of some attention. But before
taking it implicitly it will be proper to in
quire whether the sheet which gives it. is
fully posted. And to throw some light on
the question, we collect one or two of the
signs of the Times.
On the 18th of Nov, INST, John Coch-
rane, leading democratic politician of New
York, in an address to bis regiment at Wash
ington, said
Suppose tbc enemy advances against you. would
YOU from any squeamishness, from anv false deli
cscy, refrain from leveliing the hostile gun and
prostrating them in death No 1t is your OBJ
ject. 1t is your purpose. Thenif you scize their
property, if you open their ports, il YOU destroy
their lives, | ask you whether you will not seize
their slaves? ask you whether you will not am
their slaves, and whether you will not carry them
by bsttalions into war against their masters,
& What You have no simplify for VI ito
rebels, and yet you will spare the ba. slave
whom they use Why, if II be necessary b. save
this Government, / would plunge their whole
people, black and white, into one Unfortunate
sea Of carnage and slaughter, and build upon il a
shaI he ne VIC mi. { 81
Let us have rf this dallying with
dilletante vatsin, this doubling in G. hinet
when your soldiers are pcrishing IN the field
Soldiers, you know no such reasoning as this. Gu
have arms in your hands, and those arms are FOR
externinsting the enemy until he submits 10 law,
order and the Constitution.
Ihen explode whatever combustibe IS In your
way set IRE to and consume the cotton; export the
COTTON take property whenever you find it, confs-
cate property wherever you ndit; take the slave
ana bestow him upon the non-slaveholder if,ou
piesse-do unto them as they would do INTO v,,,,-
raise 10 IN their mid apsrty inter, st against ne
present STAKEHOLDER; uir,Tvo: ts1 ; S3@2sels 10
all this. and if that be not sufficient, take the
slave by tho hand, place a musket in it, ami ii
him in Gods name, strike for the liberty Of the
human race.
Now the individual views Of JONI Cocu
RANE may not be Of great consequence, but
be is a shrewd observer, and one who caicu-
lates as carefully and correctly as anybody
how the political cat is going to jump. Th's
was no hasty expression of his sentiments.
ii was but the repetition Of previous speech
in New York in which lie declared that for
one he was ready to put arms in the hands
of four millions Of slaves, and he believed
the people were with him.
But Mr.. CAMERON, Secretary of War, wls
present at Col. Cochrane's address. aLd
having been called for he came forward and
said
SoLDIERs-It is too late for me to make you
speech to night, but will say that heartily APP
prove every sentiment uttered by your noble
commander. The doctrine which he has laid down
approve as fully if his words had been NV
own. They my observation-disclosures which
will not only lead you TO victory, but which val
in the end reconstruct this glorious Federal
Constitution. 1t is idle TO talk about treating
with these rebels upon their own terms. We must
meet them enemies, treat them
mics, and punish them enemies, until they
shall learn to behave themselves. Every means
which God has placed in hands, it is our GutY
20 use for the Irpose of protecting ourselves.
am glad of the opportunity 10 say here, what |
have already said elsewhere in these few words
that approve the doctrines this evening cnuu-
cistcd by Col. Cochrane.
Nor was this any unconsidered declaraticn
Of the Secretary. The official instruction,
issued to Gen. Sherman from the War De-
partment Nov. IA. and which are understood
to have been adopted in fall cabinet meet
ing, direct him to avail himself "of the &C.
vices Of any prisons, whsthr fugailr1s fran
labor or mol, who may offer them to the
National Government, and to employ such
persons In such services as they may he
fitted for. either ordinary employees. or u
special circumstances require it in any ofhcr
oopcofy, with such organiz ition in squads,
companies, or otherwise. as you may deem
most beneficial 10 the service" This WAS.
OF course. 10 stop short Of general arm
ing" of the slaves, and to be accompanied
with promise of just compeusa ton to loyal
masters-but otherwise the above iaStruc-
tions were unqualified and with full ter
mission to employ the slaves by companies,
n any capacity, which we take it melodies
that of soldiers, Gen. Sherman is sent INTO
the very heart of the blacklist portion oi the
domain Of Slavery, where the slaves are as
siI to each one OF the whites and is follow
ipg out his instructions.
There is one more circu instance which has |
possibly, some signifcance-It is that the |
latest foreign appointment announced by the
Administrati n is that Of HINToy Rowan
HELPER, auther of the Impending Crisis"
TO be U. S. Consul TO Buenos Avres.
Now these things lo-k to US as If cur
sdmoni:ory neighbor hai mi stakcn little
the position, both Of the people and the
The truth i the people
are fully up to Gen. Lanes motto. ave
march to crush out treason and le; Slavery
take care of itself" They 81 farther even,
most of them; recognizing in slavery The
poisonous root of the rebellion, they are
Tse::dy and willing to have it made an in
strument Of confusion ana ruin to the rebels
And the Administration is not far behind
the people. i
This being the case, even on merely lgu-
iential grounds We can afford to disregard
he advice of the Rip Van Wrinkles, who,
While the Nation has been rolling on and
gathering light, remain back in their former
darkness, for whom Cochrane, Dickinson,
md Butler, arc too ultra whose sympa- :
HES, if they dared express them, are to-day
given more freely to the prisoners in Fort
Warren, than to the strongest and heartiest
defenders OF the government and who for one {
vord Of patriotic devotion to the great cause '
4 Constitutional liberty and free government |
ave ten of fear and trembling les. .Shrery a
mot the Republic-receive some detriment v
POLICE items. Richard Newton, living l
ear the camp ground, was arrested by Sheriff
flanagan for breaking into the store of Mr..