Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-03-22
From the Philadelphia North American.
PARTISANsHIP MERGING IN
TREASON.

singular and gailty perversity appears
10 actuate most oil the democratic Journals
in regard to the present condition of the
country-a determined purpose 70 Give
strength to the enemies Of the Union and of
peace, and to weaken those who have the
responsibility of maintaining order on their
hands. Even journals protesting to repre-
sent the better side Of that party appear in
capable of patriotic regard for the public
interests. They omit no opportunity to rep
resent 'the two c0nfederacies' as of equal
| merit and equal rightfulness. They cling to
the criminal gathering at Montgomery with
almost exactly the same degree of affection
they gave to the Administration just ended
at Washington. They detract from the
! right of the regular government of the
country to rule, as much as if they were yet
cOntending in an election. The acceptance of
decision by the people in the regular mode
is as impossible to them as to a Mexican;
they know nothing, apparently, but to be-
take themselves to Montgomery or the
mountains, and to fight there, IN half barba-
rous style, against the ehos,n administrators
OF executive power.
The course fjournals which yet stimulate
treason, and 90 their BEST TO induce men to
resist the government by force, is rs criminal
at New York and Boston as it is in Wash
ington, or as was the course Of the abettors
OF secession at Charleston. Ii is utterly
without excuse Or palliatiou. In the excite
ment of a canvass it is 10 be expected that
men will 20 TO extremes Of opposition, and
will DO much that the occasion may in some
degree excuse; bat after the election has
settled who is chosen, it is atrotious 70
incite any section of the country to revolu-
tion. Revolutions, even if unOppOsed by
force, cost heavily to all who participate in
them The whole south Will be almost
irreeoverably injured by the fury into which
demagogues there and talSifers at the north
have lashed it. Yet after al this loss, this
danger and suffering, the cool maliguants of
party at the north continue 70 do their best
to involve the country into 4 war, from the
immediate disasters Of which, towards as
they are, they know they are safe, They
fltter and exalt secession, therefore. They
putt on pedestal as high as the ri5htful
government Of the country. They treat it
as their pet party, and praise it with such
as Is their habit. It is
burning shame, an outrage on the lib
erty accorded TO speech, disgrace to ciyili-
zation, that there shOeld be SO many and
such reckless enemies Of this Government
luc ear Ut tlit uOTLueE1 ruDtlc u Ncil
as the south, daily. Partisan bitterness is
tolerabIo, bat when it comes to the ineite-
meDt to treason, to the driving of misled
people on to civil War, it Is time the public
sentiment WIS decisiyely expressed.
That we have not attached sndue impOr-
tancc to this matter will be apparent 10 any
one who viii take the pains to look through
q few issues Of the Buchanan disuni0n pa
pers Of the north. 1t is not pleasant to de-
vote auy amount of time to such purpose,
and we dare say thousands of citizens have,
like ourselves, been accustomed, FOR months,
to lay these journals by unread, because
they did not care to be reused by what was
simply malignant, what was false without
excuse, and what was intended only to pro-
yoke trouble. But 1t IS sometimes ne
cessary to see what the supports of great
outrage are, to learn on whom criminals de-
pend for success IN crime, TO know what the
root Of great trouble is. If anybody
wishes to devote an hour to this painful
task let him take the accredited organs Of
the Buchanan regime, and read the treason
there written, if he can. If Mexican anar-
chy can be installed in this government We
have SO much loved and Gl0ried In, these
agents Of mischief will do it. Incapable of
what constitutional order Is
themselves, they are doing their best to stir
up the enemies Of order, and to institute dis
graceful armed feuds in the place Of the con-
tests party We have had heretofore.