Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-08-28

pNNuuHc tHs p1bSluBnL WOulu not interfere 10
save the republic from its destroyers. Floyd
continued his unbushing rascalites. Cobb
continued to steal from the treasury, and to do
all In his power to break down the credit of the
government. All the conspirators continued to
advance their scheme, until the movement of
Anderson from fort Moultrie TO fort Sumter
put Floyd in rage, and brought matters to a
point where Buchanan was compelled to change
his course to escape impeachment But the
mischief was DONE and when the traitors began
the war by bombarding fort Sumter, they had
on foot very extensive and well furnished mil.
itary organization, while the government could
command scarcely thousand men for the de-
fence Of Washington.
In view of these facts, What shall be thought
and said of the northern men wllu have the vii
lanous audacity to talk as if the present admin
istration had originated this lamentable war;
Such men are traitors Of The meanest descrip-
tion. They have not the courage to do what
might expose them to arrest and punishment
for treason. They have not the spirit to Join
the secession army and fight openly for the sue
cess of the JEFF. Davis conspiracy. They dare
not stand out in the daylight End say openly
that they long to have the 'southern confedera-
cy" extend its despotsm and ruin over the
whole country, so that they and such as they
may become its paid agents and lacqueys here
subterranean. They sneak away from overt acts
of treason, and engage in the viainy of aiding
the southern conspirators by means of lies and
false issues. They even pretend to support the
Union and the Constitution, moving under false
colors, just as some of the rebel regiments used
the old flag of the republic, in the late battle,
to deceive the Union troops opposed to them.
Practically they are enemies of the republic and
allies of treason.
1t Is because we have such men in the north
that we had such an administration of the gov
ernment as that of James Buchanan. Their
political rottenness, in which any patriotic sem
timent or purpose they have ever felt was long
ago swallowed up, made them just such instru-
ments as the southern traitors liked. Their
behavior in politics occasioned the southern con-
spiracy, the Buchanan administration, and the
civil war. 1t emboldened and stimulated the
southern leaders to undertake destruction of
the republic, leading them to expect great army
OF helpers in the north, by means of whom they
would expel President Lincoln from Washing
ton, or prevent his Inauguration, and "recon-
struct" the government according to their pleas
ure. Thank God these unscrupulous men do
not represent the great mass Of the northern
democrats, who appreciate the difference be-
tween patriotism and treason, and who have
everywhere shrunk from the latter with indig-
nation. What difference there is between the
reasonable talk of these base northern creatur-
es, and the patriotic utterances of such south
ern men as Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, and
Joseph Holt of Kentucky! Darkness and light
are not more unlike.
The war is an unspeakable calamity, and the
men who have caused it deserve the most ig-
nominous death that was ever awarded to tra-
tors. Never before was there such causefess
and wicked attempt to overthrow government.
The traitors had never felt oppression. They
had controlled the government up 10 the time
when they began the war. Without provoca-
ton, from the promptings of the basest am
bition that ever turned men into devils, they
have undertaken to destroy the frecst institu-
tions on earth and, along with them, the pros
perity and well being of thirty million people.
History will do them justice, and we hope they
may have justice from the gollows, also, where
all their northern abettofs deserve to hang with
them. Every patriotic man must desire peace
but peace is impossible while the traitors con-
tinue the war. The government must submit
to them or conquer them, unless they should
lay down their arms, disband their armies, and
become good citizens, which nobody expects
Under these circumstances every friend of the
government will seek to have them put down
and punished, and every sympathizer with trea-
son will excuse them, apologize for them, and
seek to give them whatever they demand.