Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-08-30
From the Springfield Republican.

III northern sympathlzer Win secession
should meet Mr. Jefferson Davis, and i'll
quire what could be done at the. North to
help him, that distinguished rebel would
be apt to answer very much like this, pro-
vided he should say what he thought
"You cannot, under present circumstances,
"do very much; but you can do something.
You can keep up the old party organiza-
"tions. am aware that there is no ex-
"cuse for this, save dead issues and an old
"hatred and jealousy, but you can manage
sit. know that all talk about political
principles is humbug until you decide
whether you have country or not; but
1.-The people can always be fooled. We
propose to make war, but you can call for
peace. We will have no compromise, but
1T would be well for you to advocate it.
"Denounce your administration, Charge
"thc republican party with the RESPONSE
"bility of this rebellion,-and by all
"means do what you can to hinder the
consolidation of the people upon the prop
"ostion to support the government, in the
prosecution of the war; Don't let the
people come together. Nothing will trou-
"ble US so much as this; for just as surely
"as the people of the North are allowed to
unite in one party for the support of the
government, our ruin is scaled. Indeed,
"there is no way by which you can give
$50 much aid and comfort to us, rebels, us
"by dividing your people. The way our
friends are endeavoring to operate in New
York suits us exactly
We put it to candid men whether such
an answer as this would sound unnatural
from the lips of Jefferson Davis. We ask
them to remember that this rebellion would
never have been undertaken but for the
confident expectation that the North would
be divided. The conspirators were prom
Used that it should be, and promised by
those men who are now most prominent in
the call for peace and most determined in
their opposition to union of the people
on the single patriotic issue of support to
the government. The readiness of the
people to divide on issues entirely irrele-
want to the present crisis, or utterly insig-
nificant when placed beside the question
Of preserving the government, will meas
ure to the southern mind the exact amount
of our determination to put down the re-
bellion, and our willingness to sacrifice
blood and treasure for that end. We shall
find, without fail, that those men will most
oppose union of the people whose loyalty
is most open to suspicion, and that those
who are most honestly opposed to the re-
bellion and most determined to crush it
are those who are willing to sacrifice and
subordinate everything to this one end
men and means, parties and platforms.
We should furnish to the enemy no NOR
al aid and comfort. The war would be
materially heightened and strengthened
without a doubt, if the rebels could see the
North divided on any question at all con-
nected with the war; or any questions that
showed that the war was not uppcrmost in
the northern thought. If, throughout cv-
cry northern State, we should come togeth-
er during tho approaching autumn, and,
as a united, patriotic people, cast aside all
minor questions, and select for our capdi-
dates for office those who are true to the
Union, and pledged to the support of the
government through every emergency, un-
til the rebellion is quelled, the back of Sc
cession would be broken. Nothing can be
more certain than that secession cannot
possibly succeed against united North.
The thing is impossible, and the rebel
leaders know it. They will spare no en-
deavor to operate through their northern
sympathizers to divide us. 1t was the
mission upon which Breckenridge and Val
landigham started when they did not sue
coed in getting beyond Baltimore. They
were expecting to come North, for this par
ticular purpose, when they discovered that
it would be dangerous for them to do SO.
Let it continue to be dangerous for any
man, imported or living amongst us, to
undertake to divide the loyal people Of