Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-10-17

The Boston correspondent of the Republican
("Warrington') has habit of "calng things
by their right names y and his manner of
qualifying his approval of good many of the
performances of the "big guns" of his own city,
is often highly spiced. In relation to the exer-
cises preceding the departure of Col. Wilson's
regiment, he says:
"Mr. Winthrop's speech, on presenting the
flag, was eloquently worded and delivered. 1t
was after the regulation pattern. also, had the
usual ausiOn to 'our misguided southern bre-
thren!' misguided Davis misguided Wigmll /.
misguided Martin Green misguided Yancey |,
misguided Ben Mccullough misguided pirate
captains, one and all and your followers are
shooting our pckcts Spike tho cannon
with which you are destroying our armies I,
Come TO our fraternal arms, mguided men !
Your Winthrop, your Seward, long to embrace
you! Come come, come Colonel Wilson has
fallen into this same cant, to a certain extent.
He says he don't hate the rebels Well they
hate him, and the sooner he comes to hate them
the better. Hate is the very thing we want /;
hate, on the southern side, supplies the want of
money, clothing and munitions of war; when
we hate the rebels as the rebels hate us, we
shall soon make an end of it. And such hate
as we ought to have is not incompatible with
Christianity, if it is a Christian duty to main.
tain this government and our own rights and
liberties. The most Christian army ever orga.
nized, perhaps, was Cromwels, and it was com
posed of the best haters who ever got together.
The Boston journal says if we do a certain
thing, "the people of the South will defend The r
homes and fresides to the last extremity"
reckon they intend to do that now at least
have seen no evidence to the contrary. If they
have got any extremity, in reserve for us, worse
than is indicated by the burning of Hampton,
the destruction of railroad bridg IS in Missouri
and the poisoning of victuals and drink, should
like to know what it is. At any rate, there is
no indication that we shall compel them to ex-
tremities if we have not already done So The
war, on our part, is growing more ard more
rose-watery every day. If we do so-and-so. the
journal says. sit will come to this that we must
subjugate or be subjugated." Iapprehend there
has been no other issue than this precise one
for the past eleven months, and that our Tissue
cess results from the fact that we persistently
refuse to see and recognize the fact. Right I'M
der this Journal paragraph from which quote,
as find it in the Herald, there is an article
headed "Barbarous treatment of federal prison.
ers," in which it is stated that Capt Allen of
the schooner Atwater, who was captured by a
rebel craft call the Spray was with his men sub
jected to all sorts of indignities and barbarties
at Apaachicola, for term OF four months left
for three or four days at a time without food,
and frequently threatened with death by his
drunken captors. At Richmond he Jared no
better. Even the Herald comes to the conclu-
sion that the rebels who came under Capt. Al
lens observation are ''lhe most cowardy and
barbarous set of scoundrels in the world" Oh
no; Only misguided BRETHREN" that is all.
Reason with them! Send them tract or two
Above all, don't NEEDLE with their nggers
And be sure to abuse Charles Sumner if he
dares to suggest that it may be well to take
from such set of scoundrels one of the most
effective of their weapons against u.s."