Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-11-15

ave put the question to the Free Press in |
good faith and not with any intention OF shah
bily insnuating false charge against it,
whether OF it going TO join the antl-slaVery
and emancipation party of the present war. We
thall be pleased to learn from il that 1t Is not,
and that is the point upon which we ask OF 1t TO
sneak out plainly, yes OF no. DO you 60 lor
vigorously carrying the war Tor the sole
purpose of restoring the old Union ana the su-
premacy of the Constitution as it was Ut have
won the interior design of efecting, by means OF
I he war the emancipation Of negro slaves, at
least in the Border States The Free Press must
not say that there has not been line in 1t to
Justify our inquiry. The whole temper ana
spirit Of that sheet has been too intensely anti
slavery in all past tlme not to justify the appre-
henson that its old instincts may prove keener now
than its patriotism and love of country. II, there
fore, it has met with a change in this respect, and
is ready TO take its stand upon national and con-
sentative ground, now, certIinly, is most hitting
moment to announce its change and define ITS
position as to the future. - Darlington SeatlHe.
We shall not let the Sentinel get off 50. Its
assertion was: "the Tribune and all the lesser
lights of that school, such as the Burlington
Times (shall we add the Free Press p are last
coming their lessons and charging their
batteries for opening fire upon Mr.. Lincoln,
his advisers and his generals.
We called the declaration of the Sentinel
charge " shabby made by insinuatiOn'" the
Sentinel " knowing at the time that there
had not been line in the Free Press to JUS
tify it," Unable to meet our assertion, the
Sentinel flies of with a string of irrelevant
questions, and says, if the Free Press has
changed as to its anti-slayery sentiments, now
is a good time t. announce its change and
"deGne It's position as to the future When
the Sentinel says the whole temper and spirit
OF the Free Press has been 4" intensely anti
slduery in all past time, we most .joyiully adj
NIT it; and the Sentinel may safely bet its
pile that the Free Press will be as "in,ease' y
anti slarery not for all time to come
certainly as long as its present owners have
any thing to do with it. Whether that sen
timent is favorable or uulayorabe to "yo.ri-
otism and lore Of country 1.-THE Sentinel, we
take it,considers it unfdrorable, we are con-
tent to leave to the verdict of the civil zed
and christian world. If the Sentinel is afraid
TO trust to that court, we arc willing to have
it try the question by the opinions Of tie
purest and noblest patriots of American
History.
The Sentinel seems to have forgotten who
began the war, and what it WAS begun for.
1t was begun by TKAIToRs-the sun never
shone on more fragrant and shameless
ones-by traitors who by treachery, by sejz-
ure of forts and arsenals, robbery Of minU-,
and by force of arms, aimed to suJgert the Gov
eminent of their Country Government
founded by "the people of the United States
in order to form more perfect Union, estlb-
Ish justice, insure domestic frdnq,aLty, pro-
mote the gcnaal ,eelJare, and secure tie
blessings of LIBERTY to themselves and
"their posterity.''
And what do these traitors, these hosts Of
armed rebels intend to put in its stead? They
say they will have a confederacy, of which
the siauery Of a race shall be the corner stone
Such is the origin of the war, and such its
purpose. The Government Of the country and
all true lovers of those principles on which
it was founded-all real patriots, all hearty
overs Of their country, are resisting,en in
end to resist, with all the force which tho |
Government can command, the s,crlle-
''empts Of these atrocious rebels-it
'wer them hy force Of
Up; "acherous and inf.
-. nent, an to
sstore the Government to its rlghtO.
7er all the land.
That is the .uher7or design we take it,
hich the Government, has; and if in lfccting
slavery shall disappear in " the Border
.ates" or in al the States, We shall rejoice,
] christian and patriotic men in our country
lgh to rejoice; and we believe, in such case,
lat most of them tooud rejoice, and dcvout
thank God that there had come an end
reyer in this land, to a system
nder which msn and ucomeH are
ade Merchandise Of, and children are raised
Ike cattle for the market-a system, because
T which, it has been for a long time less
.Ge for a citizen of the United States,
nown or believed to abhor it, to travel
here it has prevailed, than 1t would be to
avel among the wild Arabs of the Desert
the ferocious savages of the South Sea
lands which is the root and cause of this
sfarious rebellion, and as much opposed TO
,e spirit of christianity and the genius Of
merican liberty, as darkness is opposed to
yht. That is the position Of the Erce Press
Te hope it is defined so that the Senfiael
N understand it, What the SentinePS po-
ton is we have sufficiently intimated here
fore.
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