The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-12
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN, sEPI. 10 loo-.

fewer aspersions on this question involving INC
existence of constitutional liberty. Cheers i
it will cost large amount OF blood ana treas
ure. Already have our sons gone 1or"aro "
the battlefield How many are there alreauy
gone down with violence and butchery W
BLOODY graves You have furnished brave sohs
here o. elsewhere. Before this dreadful war
closes our land may be one vast Ramah OF weep
inc and amentation of our children. Some are
now langushing in Rebel dungeons. Inc
parched sands of Virginia and glades OF mis-
souri, have drank the best hearts blood OF our
land. Others arc dwelling in prisons 1t Will
cost large sum OF money but, if IT leaves
Government and the old Stars and Stripes 1t
will not be maintained too dearly. There Is 10
be taxation. Undoubtedly it will be severe.
Suppose it takes one-half of all We have, but
leaves US law and order. A voice, Better
take it all. Yea, better take it all for II
the Government is not maintained, IL VIII DC
taken by Rebel marauders. The rights OF per-
son, and every right we bold most dear are IN
volved in this issue. You can never DIVIDE this
nation peaceably. You can never find stop
ping place. when once you have rewarded trea-
son, by permitting it 10 succeed Owls wall
boot from your dwellings,; foxes look out OF the
windows of your churches; ruin, darkness, and
desolation, will brood over you. Such assem-
bies will be prevented by hostile troops, under
the anarchy which will ride rous h-shod over
you.
Where are the great sprlts-the Clays, the
Websters, the Bentons Of the nation? They
have been waited away like the prophets of DID,
My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and
horsemen thereof Would to Heaven that we
had the voice of Clay, of a Webster, to cheer
US on now. How they would drive the rebel to
his hding-placo Henry Clay would make him
cover and tremble like deer at the VOLTS
howl And the majestic Webster-what dark
clouds would rest upon his portentous brow
And the logical and the statistical Benton, who
always stood up for the Union, with his sarcasm
and logic, would make them wither like mown
grass. They are gone. They rest from their
labors. They SOW our country's glory, but not
her shame. Peace be to their ashes. voice:
" Fremont? ~ Fremont Yes doing his duty
like a-soldier. Tremendous and ong-continued
cheering.] l never supported him as polltl.
clan but support him as a General. And
God speed him. have no doubt he will do his
full duty and if he does, | will labor unceas-
ingly to stay up his hands, and cheer him on
ward in his discharge of duty. l shall inquire
no man S politics now who endeavors in good
faith to protect the nations honor. And he
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crat, no honest man A voice {" A tory.'']
Worse than tory "a traitor. No our
Ship Of State-happily exemplifed here to-
day, upon these grounds (pointing to ship
which had been brought In the procession
by the boat builders Of Ithaca -although
she has been arrested in her successful course,
let us all rally around her, not inquiring who
is in command, whether it be Lincoln or Jack
son, Republican or Democrat, who are the crow,
but seeing it is our ship, under our flag, preserve
it, whether it be called by the one or the other
empty name let us rally round her, let us 60
on board, let her be Manned weigh anchor,
hoist all SAIL cut her loose, let her steer into the
broad ocesn, to cruise on in this great errand Of
mercy-the freedom Of notwithstanding the
Stars and Stripes to every sea under heaven
carrying peace and goodwill to all men. Let
her
Sail on into the sea, 0 ship!
Through wind and waves right onward steer"
Oh, my fellow citizens, let us all devote our
selves to the service of our country. Amen l.
Every one can 90 something in his sphere. For
myself, am enlisted for this great war-rage
how 1t may-terminate how it will. Give me
poverty, stripes and chains, give me shame, give
me restitution, give me want, give me abiect
misery and distress, give me bcreavment let nv
heart be wrung by every emotion that can agon-
lie and torture man, make me q wandcrer in the
earth, and give NEAR ignoble death, rather than
permit my country to perish. Cheers Soon.
er than that should be done, in the language of
Emmett, would raze every house. burn every
blade of grass, and the last intrenchment Of
Liberty shall be my grave. No, my fellow-citi-
zens, let our watchword be, our country. our be-
loved country! And will exclam with YOU,
" on, my country, may God protect her from
evil " Immense cheering from the audience
of ten thousand, who had become filled with the
sentiments of the speech, greeted Mr.. Dickinson
as he retired,
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