The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-27
More than Half Of the True Secret of the
Rebellion

AS the rebellion has now begun to assume the
proportions of formidable war, men begin to
cast about in earnest for the true cause of its
being inaugura5ed at this particular crisis, few
or none believing that the presentment made
by the South furnished the real causes, since
those which have been thus furnished, and
which were not built on falsehood, were entirely
inadequate to justify her before the world, for
u movement involving such tremendous respon-
sbilities. But the search for any just and ad
equate cause will probably be ever in vain !;
while the real secret of the movement may yet
be brought out. And if it should be, we be-
lieye it would be found in a much simpler mat
ter than the North are prepared to believe for
it will be one that will place the South in a
light more contemplate, than ,oe ever thought
of placing her. Politics in the South have
long since been made a profession, and pro-
fesson. too, in which, unfortunately, all the
most talented and ambitious Of her young men
early become enlisted. On this class, it seems
there to be conceded and generally expected,
that all Offices State and National shall be
bestowed. They make a business of canvassing
for Office, and living by Office when obtained
They will not work for work is looked upon
among them as degrading. And with the great
majority of them, Office is made their only re-
source. 1t has become the great object.ot their
lives and therefore held by them as necessi-
ty, for which they will clamor as for the most
sacred right, and fight as for their lives On
the election of Lincoln, whom they had failed
to defeat by their buster, Misrepresentation
and menace, they saw what was coming-to
them the great calamity of losing their National
Offices And they, under various DISCUSSES, rent
the political heavens with their outcries. o.
tensbly the cry was raised about some assumed
violation of Southern rights, or pretended fear
of interference with Slavery. But there was
no sincerity in this. The pretenso was false
and hollow one. 1t Was the yell of greedy
savages about to be stripped of their plumber.
1t was the howl of desperation at the prospect
i've loss of Offices, with no hope, as the scepter
had departed from the South. of ever getting
any more thereafter. And to supply these off,
ces after they found that the Inauguration of
Lincoln was not to be prevented, first occurred
to most of them, probably, the idea of setting
up separa Government in the shape of
new Sou thern Confederacy, which they counted
on as furnishing more than they should lose in
the ola one.
All this, to Northern people, will seem in
credible for such thing could not happen at
the North but if ever the truth can be known,
we believe it will be found that in the cause
of the starting of that rebellion which, on such
a pitiful groundwork, has risen to such alarm
in proportions.
The South of course, will never acknowledge
a fact SO disparaging and the North will be
slow to believe it, because the difference in the
social condition of tho people of the South and
the North is not fully realizcd Among the
intelligent masses of the North, who do their
own thinking, no political speaker can exercise
anyundue or dangerous influence. But among
the ignorant masses of the South, where one
man does all the thinking of an hundred, it is
quite different thing. The politicians there,
by training themselves in public speaking in
canvassing for office, soon gain the public ear,
ARE looked to as the sources of information
and the best political guidance. And hence it
is, that they become powerful with the eoplc
for evil, if, as in the present crisis, they chose
to do it, And hence 1t is, also, that we now
SEQ those deluded masses wrought up by such
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which, in the known absence of just causes,
seems, with our intelligent people, to be wholly
inea~p'tbensble.