The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-03
War and Business.

War, and IA war perhaps for many years, is
NOW all established fact in this Country; and
this fact sholla be taken into account by all
our peoplein their commercial enterprises, bust
ness arrangements. ard Industrial pursuits.
while We ;rre looking ior peace in few days,
weeks, 81 months, Wa snail be waiting, and
making MANY of our hasiness arrangements
wait, fer the termination Of the conflict and the
return Of the currents of business to their old
channels Of prosperity. But when the fact of
war that may possibly last several years is set
tiled in our nlinc!e we shall very soon see that it
will not answer to put so far into the future
our business enterprises. and shall accordingly
devote our energies and invest our capital in
the kinds of business that must live and pros
per in war as we'll as in peace.
And if we settle down in this belief, it will
not only prevent Ills from listening to any pro-
positions for disgraceful peace, but will very
soon give us the advantage of bringing order
and methsa out of whht lis now, or at least has
been very recently, chaotic or transition state
v.
As soon as we find that it is not only possible
but easy and natural for communities and indi-
giduals to live and prosper while the Govern
ment is carrying on war stupendous in its
magnitude, we shall have less anxiety that the
war should be brought to an end next week or
next month, but shall rather be devoting our
energies to making the best of our present con-
dition.
And in Vermont, at least, we need not be
much concerned but what the ordinary indus
trial pursuits of our people will 60 on and be
rewarded as usual, notwithstanding the war
Our crops, our cattle, our horses, our wool will
find a ready market as heretofore. While
thousands of the young men of the State are
serving the Country which generously pays
them, those who remain at home in the peace
full pursuits of hnsbandry, manufacturing, or
trade, demand and receive as ample compcnsa-
ton as ever before. There will be little heavier
burden of taxation, to be sure, than we have
been accustomed to, but the amount of it can
be easily saved, if we are so disposed, by little
retrenchment in useless or extravagant expen-
diturcs.
Then let US all set ourselves cheerfully
about the serious business of making the
best Of the disturbed condition of the Country,
regarding it as state of affairs that very pos
sibly will last several years. Let US accommo-
date our business to the condition of the Coun-
try, rather than be waiting impatiently for the
Country to accommodate itself to our business.
Let us take into account what may now be re-
garded as settled fact, that the Country when
it is restored to peace and unity, is never
again to be the same in it's business relations as
heretofore. The South will undoubtedly achieve
through the discipline of the war, an independ-
enoc Of which it did not and does not now
dream,-an independence of its own thraldom
to the Incidence and barbarism of Slavery
King Cotton will be stripped of his royal robes,
and will never more make his power ana the
Slave power felt as tyrant over the Old and
the New World, but will yield the kingdom
and the power to the wheat and the corn of the
great Northwest Slavery will fail to accom-
plish purpose to make itself master on this
Continent, for which it has taken up arms,
but instead thereof will be itself strangled on
the gibbet it has built for the Free Labor of
the North; and the South, freed from the heather
institution of aristocracy and caste, will start
at once into new life of rewarded labor, and
benehcent and intelligent industry, and will
thus become, in better sense than it has ever
desired, free from subsection to and dependency
upon the North. Whatever, in other respects,
may be the issue of the conflict, the business
of the Unicn will never be the same as before
The South will no longer be, as it has been, a
market for Northern manufactures and North
ern products, and let US be wise enough to &C.
sept this conclusion now and adapt ourselves to
the new order of things in which we live. Let
US live in the present, and for the future, and
not waste our energies in mourning over the
golden days of the past. These years of revo-
luton are for US, for the men of this genera
ton, and while we are looking forward to see
our free institutions come out Of this terribl .
trial like gold from tho refner's fire, lot US