Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-12-20

the hope of Cancellation, and you will have
no government left to compromise.
This evil spirit Of delusion has been for
years engag' d in deu,oralzing the popular
conscience, weakening the sentiments incul.
cated by our fathers, and lying in wait for
some opportunity TO precipitale the South
ern States into rebellion. Not that they
feared any invasion Of Southern rights,
but they seized upon the pretext Of the
election of a Republican President to COM
mcnce their work. They could but fail in
lheir effort for dissolution, and il might he
crowned with success. The Brahmins be-
licve that the shadow of the degraded p)-
lules those upon whom it falls and the
shadow of these ds,oyal conspirators COW
cred the people of the Southern Estates
with that black spirit Of degradation. If
slavery had been the cause Of this move
ment, it would have commenced in the bor-
der States, where they most feel the infu-
ence of free institutions but they are the
last 10 join in it, and then only when COM
PEELED by force. The prime movers Of the
rebellion were disappointed poliiicians.
sapped by base uses, and SCARED by wear
and tear Of conscience.
There are the evil elements which threat
en- our government. The government must
crush rebellion by force Of arms, or sink
beneath it. The issue is fairly and fully
before Us. 1t involves not merely the in
tegrity Of the government, but its vitality.
There can be no neutrals. Those who are
not for are against. Those who are for the
Union but find apologies for rebellion, who
would yet treat with armed conspirators,
are more hurtful to-day than open enemies,
whether in the Cabinet or field. Gap
plause.) He qnoted the noble example Of
Brutus, who sacrificed his own feelings for
the sake of doing justice. A man may
have many children, but he can have but
one country. The blood bought Union Of
our fathers,
-" Our Country pride,
hhen once destroyed can never be supplied.
We must act together with one heart and
one accord as a people, not as party.
Political parties are good servants but bad
masters. The hopes of the rebellion were
raised on expected sympathy in the loyal
States, and if we but raise the united voice
Of whole people animated by common
purpose, it would at this time carry more
terror to the heart of the rebellion than an
army of half million with banners. ZAP
plause.) In all the ordinary affairs Of
earth our first instinct is TO act in concert,
and in this we must all labor together He
would not abandon properly conceived po-
: litical ideas or questions of internal econo-
: my, but hold them in allegiance. 1t was
folly TO discuss the policy Of the govern
ment before it was certain that we had any
$ government
lie denounced all who attempted to CON.
pare this rebellion with the American Rev
o.uion. The conspiracy is a crime against
heaven. Its purpose is to enslave, whiIo
our fathers sought rather 10 release. The
doctrine that gives the State authority to
make service of all national property with
in its limits, was one that would drive the
highwayman from the field by its vigorous
competition. No true heart should give
way under the severe yisitations of the war.
As sorrow and bereavement strengthens
: the heart and fits it for the struggles of life,
SO these trials will teach us justice, the
blessings OF peace, and frmer and irucr
7 reliance upon God. The spirit of our
fathers tells US better that whole genera-
; hon be swept away than we yield one jot
e or tittle better that our whole material
wealth should be taken away than we con-
e sent to the dismemberment of this Union.
When these conspirators shall see them
e selves as they are seen, how many bitter
3 tears they have caused to How how many
a gentle hearts they have crushed and broken.
} and how many widows and orphans they
have made. they will call upon the rocks
and mountains to fall upon and hide them.
, Stripped Of all disguise, and robbed Of their
stolen insignia, and left to stand in their
, naked delormiiy, they must fly from the
: land they have cursed, or submit to the
gibbet and the dungeon, and ali the people
shall say. Amenl"
He closed with an eloquent peroration.
in which all were called upon to aid in pre-
serving the Union. The gentle Influence
: OF woman was as necessary as the sterner
duties which fell to the lot of man, and by
! their united exertions the nation would #
! last be redeemed and restored. He ended
with quotation from Lonsfellow's poem,
'The Building of the Ship:
Thou, too sail on, O Ship Of State,
sail on, Q Union strong and great
humanity with all IT'S fears
With all the hopes o future wears
Is hanging breahless a thy fatei
i SINGULAR FAoTs IN HUMAN LIFE