Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-10-31

II seut by mail the money must accompany the order.
For BustSess Cams in the rs column $500 to $500
per year according ~ the space they occupy.
20 out against the brother in the Confederate
army, when the wife SAYS to her husband, 20
forth and fight for the Constitution and Union.
cannot the partzan and politician be made to
giveup so much as his party and party schemes?
The reply that comes up from the avaricous and
ambitious leaders, in union with the fierce fam
atics, is selfish and unfeeng No, What care
they though the country is sinking2 They
either have got Office or contracts and mean TO
keep them they want Uficcand mean to get il.
1t is depiorable that two Conventions should
have unlurletl the party banners and so lament
ably failed OF walking in tie line Of true patriot
ism. 1t is deplorable that they have present.
ed issues which in reality have been swallowed
up in the momeDtous issue Of national existence
beyond question the greatest that man was
ever called to determine; and thus. instead of
recognizing the dividing lines Of opinion as they
really are, should have endeavored 10 create ar
tifcial lines. What, in brief. is the reality Of
things as to parties We mean here in Mas
sachusetts. ID is not precisely this that one
class of minds desire to stand By the Federal
Constitution as means of sustaining the I'm
on, while another class design to use the Union
only as al instrument to emancipae the slaves.
Every one can verify the trutA Of this classif-
cation by talking among bis neighhorS No
body can Justly deny that tie supporters. in the
late Presidential election, of Douglas. Bell and
Breckinrldge, are u fpan N Favor of suslain-
ing the Constitution, and tAey, Of themselves,
united, would make powerful party il not
majority party. Those WHO voSed for Presi-
dent Lincoln or the Republicans may be divid-
ed into TWO classes, 1st. those who held that
the cause Of the Republicans was, not hostility
Ia eln 81, -, ho Gtnta hut
that it was opposition to an extension of slave
ry into the Territories and who averred that
they not only never upheld any movement that
was levellcd against the institution in the States
but abhorred ii; ard this class now hold that
war hi,ing disposed of the Territorial question,
and therefore the obieoe Of the party no longer
exists, that there is 10 occasion for further
tion against slavery. but that it should be let
alone. This class sustain in good faith, Pres
Gent Lincoln approve Of his modification of
Fremont's proclamation and desire to close
up the slavery question and leave it just where
it is. ID, The class who have exterior designs
on slavery itse.f, and who all along ha e used
the Republican party and the Union as mask
eel battery, intending and lcyelliGg their blows
against slavery itself. This class is represent
ed by such as Phillips, Bird and Sumner.
Their inspiration is from British Exeter Hall.
They are now fat-tooted emanciDationists.
They curse President Lincoln. They hold that
the Constitution is coyena t with death.
Their object is war for the abolition of slavery.
Such are the two main divisions of opinion in
this State; one class resolved to stand by the
Constitution, and the other class tanatcaily re-
solved, Constitution or no Constitution, to var
to the death on slavery.
The small politicians, by inging in side is
sues, keep the Constitutional men apart. But
were these men to act together, at the polls.
there can scarcely be doubt as to what would
be the result. We believe, and as our columns
will attest, have long believed, that the MAORI
ty of the people of this State desire to stand by
the Constitution and they bear no hatred to
the South. This majority s-stain the
stand Of President Lincoln approve OF the de-
clarations of Congress as to the war, and will
freely spend money TO effect the restoration Of
the National authority.
/ Is it TOO late 10 combine this Constitutional
sentiment? Is it tco late Il make nominations
that shall representa-? Is it too late to respond
to the appeal we cite? In such an hour as this,
! nobody can wish 10 see petty contest for Off
/ ces struggle TO determine whether every clerk
| or petty justice throughout the Commonwealth
/ shall or stall not he dismissed from place. The
| demand is to see such an expression Of opinion
/ at the ballot box as shall represent the bullet:
/ that shall say to President Lincoln, Massachu-
sets is Enthusiastically witE'him, not only against
| the terrible dogma of Secession as represented
! in Jefferson Davis, but as 70 the terrible he'll of
! s2rNile lnsur ection as represented by Senator
! Sumner Never, it seems to us, was it more
apparent than it is at this lour that, could the
National men but act together, they would bury
aboiionism so deep that plummet would not
/ be able TO sound it.
The IFAc.liBg NeicS, beyond doubt speaks
! the voice of the loyal men of the slaveholding
J tan nj hp but of 40
| Confederate States. They implore, as on their
knees for country, a manifestation of unity
through the North in support os ,Ae stand which
! President Lincoln has taken for the Constitu-
ton and for restoration of the National au-
tlorty. 1t is as rightful, as touching as man
" an appeal as patriots ever made. How can
true lovers of their country resist it How IN
tense must be the partizanship which, instead
of such bread of political life, gives the SER
pent's tooth in such terrible party speech as
| that of Charles Sumner to his brother abolition
partizans, 1t vii be all in vain to say, what
honest Republicans have assured US, that ma
| iority of this Convention heard il with disgust
| The enemies of the Cnion-the secessionists-
, will say that the Convention actually heard it !
| How these destroyers of our grand country will
seize on it as a God d-send will gloat over it ;
will set its abominable part,sm against the
broad patriotism of such as Holt, and Harvey,
| and Prentice and Irttenden and the President,
will ring out the changes on il; will say that it
supports all they have said about the abolition
designs of rhe North. 1t is horrible that seces-
sion here, should thus continue to feed seces-
sion at the South. Is not this speech as far
from the Constitution on one side as anything
John {. breckenridge has said on the other
side? The noble Legislature of Kentucky,
which is wreathing itself in laurel greener than
Grecian or Roman assembly ever knew, has just
called upon this recreant Senator to resign his
high place. 1t is we'll. Admiration OF genius
and eloquence, when they became disloyal,
should pass away like the dissolving view.
Ought anti-constitutional men to fare any bet
ter in Massachusetts? How could her patriot
ic voters more cfectually serve their generation,
than by eecting Legislature that will call up
on Mr., sumner to relinquish post in which
he stands arrayed against the President, the
Constitution, and the constituted authorities of
his country P-Boston Post, Oct. L.
SECRETARY SEWARD'S CIRCULAR.
Secretary Seward has issued a circular TO the
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