The national Republican., 1861-07-06
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.
REMARKS OF SENATOR FOOT,
OF VERMONT,

hEMAhAS We SbShlOh FOOly
OF VERMONT, ...r.. ..r.t. |
To the Second Termon, Regiment, on the oceI.
sioa Of their departure t"om the city ct ieeto
York Jorths seat of Uar, on Tuesday, TIE ZSm
HliinO. r. ..
OrrIcIRs AND SoJDIsR5 OF THE SECOND
VERMONT RssINENr-FELLow CITIZENS ALL:
You will accept my thanks for this kindly and
generous salutation. You will also accept my
Congratulations aud my sincere and earnest
commentator for the promptuess and the
spirit with which you have responded 10 your |
countrys call in this hour Of her trial. hesi-
tate not to say that history itself does not point
US to the instance of m appeal to the spirit and
the pride Of loyalty and patriotism Of any people,
when such an appeal has been more promptly,
more enthusiastically, or more unanimously
met than upon the present occasion. This is,
indeed, as it should be. 1t is on encouraging
and most gratifying omen. In my Judgment, it
is significant and decisive of the ultimate issue
Of the present controversy. 1t is full Of promise,
Of hope, and Of confidence in respect to the yet
unrevealed future Of our beloved country. This
popular demonstration furnishes us the best,
the surest, the most reliable pledge which ever
has been or ever can be given of the preserva-
ton and Of the perpetuity Of the Republic.
The fat Of the American people has gone
forth, that this Republic shall stand. The voice
Of the American people hath spoken it, and
this Republic shall stand against all conspiracy,
against all treason. against all rebellion. God
himself has this Republic in keeping in His
own right hand, and it shall stand against all
the powers of darkness and of evil. This is
our confidence. This is our reliance. This is
our abiding faith.
Soldiers and fellow.ctizens Novel and
strange events are passing before our eyes. A
new and a strange spectacle is now being pre-
seneed TO the eyes Of the American people, and
to the eyes of the civilized world This country
Of ours, but lately, and for many years, so
peaceful, so quiet, so prosperous in all the de.
partments Of industry and Of enterprise, pre-
sents to-day the appearance, and to us, the sin.
gular and startling appearance, Of grand,
national, military encampment. The busy and
bustling preparations of war are right before
Us. Martial strains salute the air all around
u. Troops Of armed men are marching to
and fro through our streets. Weapons of war,
everywhere, glitter in the sunlight. The very
earth beneath us trembles under the tread Of
mighty srmies gathering to the field of conflict.
And wherefore is all this martial arrsyP
Wherefore is all this hurried mastering of
armed legions Of our fellow.citizens? The
answer bounds from the beating heart of every
loyal son of the Republic That answer is,
. rebel foe is at work to undermine the fouuda.
tons Of the Republic--the slave power of the
country, no longer able to rule it, has risen in
its might and in its madness, in open and armed
rebellion against the Government. After hav.
ing ruled the country for sixty years. when at last
defeated at the balot.box, it raises the standard
Of revolt and of ruin. This Government Of
ours, the freest and the most bene6cent the
light Of heaven has ever beamed upon, and
hitherto the most favored the God OF Heaven
has ever smiled upon-this Government Of
ours, % long fixed and so deeply censecrated
In the hearts Of the American people, is now
mensced with disruption, and overthrow a,
the hands of rebel domestic foe--at the
hands Of men born and nurtured in its bosom
and who have drawn its life.blood in their sup
port, and who are indebted for the very power
Of doing it harm, to its abused patronage and
its misplaced confidence. The spoiled and
petted child Of fortune turns and strikes the
dagger of death at the heart of its own nursing
mother. Treachery and treason, foul, and
"black as the damning drop that falls from
the denouncng angels pen," are plotting the
arrest, the disaster, and disgrace Of the sub
imest and the most hopeful experiment O
free constitutional government the world has
ever Witnessed In short, we are now called Il
meet and to deal with the great public crime o
the age.
Soldiers and citizens, need l excite your in
dignation-need stir your blood and nerve
your arm by a recital of the long and re
voting catalogue of injuries and insults which
have been perpetrated upon the loyal States ant
upon loyal citizens Of this Government by the
instigators and leaders Of this rebellion? NeeC
remind you Of the seizure Of the forts, and ar
senals, and navy yards of the Government b,
its armed rebels and traitors Have they no
stolen the public property, whatever and where
ever they could lay their hands upon it? Hav
not plunder and robbery, grand larceny ant
petit larceny, in high places and in low places
been the order Of the day? Has not the mos
shameless betrayal of high and solemn publ
trusts been connived at, yea, and countensncet
and practiced, too, by men sitting in the higl
places Of powerP Need remind you that arm
and munitions Of war had for months been Sc
cretly transferred from the Northern to thu
Southern States, under the orders of a lat,
Secretary Of War, himself the reputed prince o
traitors2 Need you be reminded of the gros
indignities, the insults and personal violence in
hicted upon quiet and pesceable citizens, guilt
Of no offence and chargesble with no Offence
other than that they were Of Northern origin
Shall I remind you, that in this spirit, repu
diation Of the most confidential pecuniary OBJ
legations to the people of the North, amount
ing, in the aggregate, to no less than 5000,
100000, rules the hour, and by solemn procla
nation, Governors of Southern States declare
it an act of treason to pay Northern debt
Like Cesar's ghost, roaming DER all the land
crying "hapoc, havoc, they let slip the dogs o
war;" to prey and to pirate upon Northern
commerce wherever it may float upon the grea
"highway of nations Need call to your
recollection the bombardment of Fort Sumter
where, with an army full ten thousand strong
they actually overcome little garrison of some
seventy famishing soldiers under the gallant
Anderson? Great and magnificent achieve