Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-04-05

II
/ THE WHITE HOUSE AT MONTGoNfFpv
Some correspondent at Montgomery saws
that President Davis has rented a verv hand
some White House" there. Wbv sba,,I5
1t be white house, Is it 10 keen alive 70
collections Of that White House thew bavo
lost: Doubtless there be warnings for tho
flesh pots in Egypt, and it is a dreadful thine
TOT those who have been attening all their
lives upon the national spois at Washinoton
70 see them pass away from their grasp. per
haps never more TO return. Hence To giva
them something to do they have started a gov
ernment of their own at Montgomery. and
have got white house" Poor grown up
children If they had dozen such the essen
tial things which make Washington elo-
rious would be wanting. Their government
at Montgomery is but O moot court and their
white house a childish fancy
There Is but one White House on earth.
1t IS that which is identified with the grand
est republican empire the world has ever seen.
lte walls have been lraliowud By the residence
OF men entirely great under whose pater
nai sway the mighty Union has gone on her
splendid career, covering vast regions with
her increasing States and territories. and
rendering her name the symbol of human pro-
gress. The White House has been the centre
oil democratic liberty, and men have learned
10 LOOK up to 1t as the summit of political
ambition. But from the would be white
mouse at Montgomery the very name of lib-
erty Is banished as a condemned and nroscr;h-
ed thing. Their government represents moth
ing and means nothing but the mere attemnt
at power. 1t is American republicanism strip-
ped of all sublime precepts upon which IL
has been based by the fathers of the Union.
and surrounded with a Venetian secrecy and
terror to prevent its acts being known or un-
derstood. The business Of the Congress ia
all done in secret session, and no act or reso-
luton is allowed to be known until finally is
sued in an official manner.
But why should Jefferson Davis Presiden-
tial residence be white That is the emblem
OF purity, while its occupant and all the men
who surround him are the blacklist Of traitors.
They swore featy 20 the national Union as
members Of Congress and Of the Cabinet and
while resting under the solemnity of that
oath plotted the foulest and most damninp
treason. White might be the appropriate
color for freedom, but how can it for oppres-
sion The White House at Washington was
typical of the supremacy and nationality of
the free white race. But in the cotton re-
public white labor is at discount, and black
slavery is held the primal necessity.
We submit, therefore, that they have made
mistake in the color of that house. Let
them build Davis a new one Of black Egyptian
marble, and place either side of its portals
statues in The same material of Aaron Burr
and Benedict Arnold, the great exemplars of
secession. 1t is true that men like Davis feel
great need Of a whtewashing process, and so
probably his presidential house has been
whitewashed with that view. But the sins
of democracy and secession are past white
washing. All the efforts made at Washing
ton for that purpose have been failures, and
SO they will be at Montgomery. Ii black
does not suit them, let them make the white
house red, in view Of their sanguiniary pur-
pose, or yellow to suit the imperial aspirations
of its occupant, or green to symbolic tho
verdancy of the whole affair