The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-11
What Treason is Costing the South.

What Treason is Costing the South.
The eonspirators have found out before no"
that if they are to be successful, they wihaye to
pay the price of revolution, which in their case
is already their present as it will be their future
ruin. Reputation, di:grace, little corn-meal'
and perhaps no negroes to wait on them Will
be lot shared BY paricians and plebelans, BY
cavaliers as vel as their own - mudalls, Tor
an age to come Those who have sneered at
labor, looked down on honest calllnes, Identified
all trade with the idea of Yankee peidling, may
be compelled 10 turn their hands to something
more profitable than conspiracy, and ackno"l-
edge, albeit with the groans of the sloih, that
the bread Of industry is sweet They will have
to wait upon themselves, cease to wear the IN
evitable dress coat, make less dash at watering
places and at opera-houses, perhaps even black
their own boots and polish their own spurs 1t
will be great come down for such quality, and
it is improbable that such self-sacrifce ever en-
tered into their calculations as to the practical
workings of the grand plot. So accustomed
have they become for many years to their III
deserved supremacy, that they expected that pol
ticians would again play into their hands in
inaugurating this gigantic treason, and thai
Southern swaggcr, buster and oratory would
carry the day as usual. They reckoned without
their host The grand reserve of intelligent
and patriotic frecmen who prize the institutions
of their country, step into the fore ground and
knock the wire-pulers aside when some thing OF
more value is at stake than the loayes and fishes.
Strongly entranched as the Rebels We're at head
quarters, and in all The departments of govern
ment, after years steady preparation, having
stolen arms and money enough to make the at
tempt, they calculated on the usual division OF
parties and sentiment at the North, and the
want of general organization, to carry out their
we'll laid plans and establish despotism to ag-
grandlze only the leaders. Added to this, the
demand for cotton was going to be so pressing
that foreign governments would break up the
blockade and acknowledge the Confederacy-
Thus they expected to make short work OF de-
veloping to their contamination the doctrines OF
Calhoun, without more damage or expense, per-
haps, than of an ordinary political campaign,
The sons of the chivalry would be amply pro-
vided with office, and the far South would offer
a magnificent field to hllibustering ambition.
When the smoke was cleared away from Fort
Sumter and g nobody was hurt it was sup
posed that the fifth act of the drama had been
reached, but it was confidently believed that the
victory at Bull run only preceded the fall of the
curtain. What is the present status? The
panic. if we look back upon it now, after time
has been allowed to compare all accounts of it
at our leisure, appears to have been two-fod :;
and RUSSELL, of the London Times, who pre-
tends to describe it, ran too fast himself to see
it, as he was anxious to get his letter into the
mail! If the enemy had an advantage, they
either did not know it, or have been obliged to
lie thus long on their arms to recruit their ex-
hausted energies In a week or two after that
event, instead of advancing like men flushed
with victory, they slumbered in Rip Van
Wrinkle trance, almost as sound as that of the
g very dead men who were covered up in the
trenches, or lay unburied in the woods. They
have now had breathing spell enough. They
are now ready, if general expectation is true,
for an advance upon the Capital. 1t is about
the only move which they can make, for they
have only few pawns scattered elsewhere
about the board. We have small fears about
the result. Every day but increases the per-
lection Of discipline, and strengthens the en-
trenchments about Washington. The last weed
ing of traitors out of the Departments has done
good. Spies do not pass to and fro with the
same facility as heretofore expresses do not
carry letters or packages; politeness knows
some bounds fashionable ladies may not busy
their heads about percussion caps; Davis and
Stephens arc both very sick of the business, and
the prime movers begin to feel that it will cost
more than it will come to.
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