The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-17

Twenty four hours have changed the entire
feeling in the City of New York touching the
secession matter. Judging from the plalnest
and most ou;spOken expressions from men OF,
nominally, all parties there is but one sentiment
in this City touching the duty of the citizen a
this hour to sustain the Government. The most
beligerent in tone, and resolute in the express
ion of their determination to stand by the Gov
eminent now, at whatever cost, are Democrats.
On every corner. yesterday, in every car, on
board every ferry.boat, in every hotel, in the
yestbule of every church. could be heard the
remark 90 am Democrat, dyed in the wool;
| voted against Lincoln, but will stand by the
Government of my country when assailed as it
now is by traitors.-N. Y. Times.
The above is but an echo of the universal
northern sentiment. We have heard again and
again, in our Office from men who would have
as soon cut off their right hands as vote for
Lincoln, the remark -" didn vote for Lin
" coin, but Igo for he Government and while
- Lincoln stands by the Constitution and the
81 laws he shall have my support The pat
riotic nerve that is in every son of the Puri.
tans, in all who have descended from the north
ern blood that runs in the veins of an over
whelmlng majority of the men Of the Free
States, has been touched. Wing, Democrat,
Republican are party names ; but they are tenn
porarly, at least, forgotten. Patriots, iorers
IF country, Freenssn are row the names that
we all bear.
Ex-Presdent Buchanan, and Douglas. stand
Ivy the President. Gen. Batter Of Massachu-
sets, is to lead aregment against the rebels
Nearly the last relic Of sympathy with trea-
son,-which huog round the Office of the Post
aud C0ur'er,- has been driven from Boston -
Providence, with Gov. Sprague at its head, is
in the fore front of the battle. The n Y. Her.
aid, the organ of what treason there has been
in that City, has been forced by stress Of pub
lie opinion to face about and go with the cur
rent. The Key Stone State from Jersey to the
Ohio, rings with the shouts of its mastering
hosts. The Empire State, all through its vast
extent, and among its myriad inhabitants, stands
by the Union with its arms, its men and its
treasure.
And the West, the giant, growing Wost,-
who believes that Tory can now be found in
all that broad e1panse Of fertile praires and
magnificent wheat.felds? And who will stop
her from hewng her way, with the sword, if
necessary, to the Gulf as resistless as the tide of
her own mighty river?
Freedom and Slavery are at war. The con-
fict has now become lrrepressible,' whatever it
might have been before. These hostile tvpes
OF civilization cannot exist peaceably any
longer under the same Government. One or
the other must succumb.
The question is, shall this Continent be free
or shall it be slave? The sword is now to
decide it. And it cannot decide it too
soon. Treason should have short shrift,-
Liberty must now speak by the mouths of
Northern cannon. Her garments of peace are
lald aside. She has been driven to put on the
helmet, and take up the sword Her hosts are
marshallng for the contest Over their heads
float her beloved ensign with its armament
of stars. In their hearts they bear a love of
Country stronger than death. We know thew
will triumph; aud we hope their work will
now be so thoroughly done, that coming gene
rations may rest in tho peaceful enjoyment Of
free institutions.