Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1861-06-11
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MONTPELIER, VT.
Tuesday Morning, june II, 1861.
. G. H. Clay's Letter to the London Times
10 Ac Eliiots Of The London Times.

Y. IA, clay Letter 10 Lle London Times
10 The Elitofs Of the London Times,
SIR. Allow me your Journal 10 make afew
remarks upon the complications Of thp United
States Of America, which, ana surprised TO find,
aro SO little understood this side Of tue Atlantic.
T. NAal arr noe fighting lorY' We the
pcopi o.. tbe United States Of America 60
us9 th1 language OF our Cous,iCution) are fight
ing to maintain our nationality, and the lr,aci-
pies Of HbcriV upon which 1t was founded, that
nationality which Great Britain has pledged her
self both by past comfy and the sacred ohllga.
tons Of treaty to respect those great principles
Of liberty, that all power is derived from the con
sent Of The governed trial by jury, freedom Of
speech and the press that "wIthout law there IL
no liberty which we inherited from Great
Britain, and which, having been found to lie at
the base Of all progress and civilization, we de-
sire to pcrpetulte for ourselves and the future Of
all the nations. The 50 called " Confederate
States Of AmcricA" rcbolagaln5t uS-against our
nationality, and against all tho principles Of its
structure. Citizens Of the United States Of the
one government, (uot Of C0ufcderated States, as
thew would have the world believe, but Of "us
the people they propose, not by common legal
consent, bat by arms, to sever our nation into
separate undergraduates. Claiming to be " let
alone they conspire against us seize our forts,
stores and arms appropriate to themselves our
minis moneys, and vessels at sea capture our
armies, and threaten even the capital at Wash
lngton.
The word accession" is used to cover up
treason and dolude the nations. They stand to
Us in tic relation OF one "peoplo." The idea Of
" State sovereignty" is utterly delusye. We
gave up tho old 3" Confederation" to avoid such
complications as have now occurred, The States
are deprived Of all the rights OF independent SOW
ereigns, and the National Government acts d.
rectly upon the citizens of the States themselves,
10 that highest power, the right Of life and death.
The States cannot keep an army or navy or even
repel invasion except when necessity will not al
low time for action can make no treaty, nor
coin money, nor exercise any OF the great powers
Of sovereignty" In word, they can no more
''secede' from the Union than Scotland or Ire
land can secede. from England.
The prolessed friends of the independence Of
nations, and popular rights, they have not only
oyerthrown the Constitution Of the Unite d
States, but the Constitution of the " Conieder-
ate States themselves, refusing in every case
to refer their new usurpalions to the votes OF
the people, thus making themselves doubly
traitors to both the States and the nation. The
deSpotio rulers over l,000,0 600 of enslayed AT
ricans, they presume to extend over us, the white
races Of al nations, the same despotsm, by ig-
norug the political rights of all but their own
class, by restrictions upon the popular fran
ohise, by the suppression Of the freedom of
speech and of the press, by the terrorism of
- Lynch law, - or crush out the independence
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world wide humanity the atrocions dog
~. s'.s d aias PROGRESSIVE efziton, and
that capital should own the iaJorr, whether
,Uliitc or black
The success Of such demands would send the
tide OF barbarism not only over the millions of
the New World and the isles Of the Western
oceans, but roll it back over England and eman-
cipated Europe, and blot out from history this,
the greatest glory of our times,
/. 2. +" Bat can you Subdue MereUOhed STATES? -
OF course we can. Tho whole seven reyolted
States (2,l73 ,000) have not as much white
population as the single State of New Ycrl-
1851 ,563) by 100000 If all the siay,
States were to make common cause. they have
only 1907 1914 whites, with 1900, 900 slaves
while the. Union has 10000, 900 Of homogene
ous people, as powerful in peace and war as tn,
world has seen. Intelligent hardy and " many
sided ''their late apparent lethargy and weak
ness was the self possession of conscious strength
Whom they had made up their minds that force
was necessary, they moved upon Washington
with such speed, numbers and steadiness as i
not surpassed in history. Wo have the none,
(ata lower rate of interest than ever beiore)
the men, and the command of the seas and tn,
IN, al 10 ].
soa, and invade them by land, and close up th
rebellion in a single year, five are 3" let alone
For the population Of the slave States is dydet
perhaps equally for and against the Union, tn
loyal citizens being for the time oyerawed b,
the organized conspiracy OF the traitors Will
the North is united to II man-tho late allies o
the South, the Democratic party, being nov
more IN earnest for the subjugaton of the rebel
than the Republicans.
BRt can y0a goreiR a Subjugdted' pC0pi
aud reconstruct the URiOa2" We do not pro
pose to put down simply the rebel citizens w
90 to the rescue Of the loyal Unonisls Of all tn
States. We carry safety, and peace, and liber
ty to the Union loving people OF the South, VIII
will of themselves (the tyranny overthrow
send back their Representatives to Congress, an
tho Union will be " reconstructed without tn
change of 4 single letter in the Constitution o
tho United States Did England subiugate Ire
land and Scotland Are the United Kingdom
less homogeneous than of old, before the war
against rebellion So will the United State
rise from the smoke of battle with renewed sta
hility and power In turn, now let us ask tn
British public some questions
|. Where should British honor place her i
tbs contest? We overthrow that political elC
ment in America which has all through GU
history been the studied denounccr and res
hater of tire British nation, while we have beo
always from the beginning the friends Of Eng
land Because, though under different form
of Government we had common sympathiC
and common cause, asd therefore commo
interest. England was the ccnservator of lii
erty in Europe-thc old world we in the new
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