The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-05
More about a Compromise.

For the last ten days. various rulnors and IN
timatons have been reaching US of intended
movements to be made with the view of cifecing
q compromise with the South, on the Crittenden
! p an, or through the calling Of a National Con-
ventlon. These rumors now appear to be taking
a more tangible form; and begin to disclose the
sources from which they emanate. This peace
or compromise effort has now become traceable
mainly to two classes, both located in the CITY
of New York. The N. Y. Post vouches for the
fact that petition has been addressed to the
President, calling on him to adopt the policy of
an immediate National Convention, as the only
honorable position he can now take to avert the
horrors of a civil war, with the object of q
peaceful compromise with the seeded and bor
der States, or arrangements for recognized sep
aration This movement evidently proceeds from
limited combination Of the capitalists and
commercial men Of New York City. The other
source of this embryo compromise effort, is dis
closed in the assembling last week, in the same
city, Of u dozen city and country, Democratic
editors, who, with the same object in view
doubtless, together with squirting towards
future party policy, do not venture on very spc~
ciic recommendations, but content themselves
with the general declaration that the Union can
only exist with the voluntary consent Of its
members, and then proceeds to denouncc the
Administration for assuming unconstitutional
powers, and making strides towards despotism,
&c.
Now what does this mean? On the fail Of
the free States, without the least apparent
distinction of party, rose up with " unanimily
that astonished the world, and fercely deman-
ded Of Lincoln and his Administration to put
down the rebellion, at every hazard and every
sacrifice. And now, when, with a promptitude
that has scarce a parallel in history, two or
three hundred thousand men, in response to
that loud popular demand, have been called
into the field, and the Rebels are just beginning
to quail before the up-riscn and determined
men Of the North, up come these cowardly and
reasonable croakings about peace and compro-
mise, and that, too, while not q concession has
been made by the Rebel States, and not wrong |
that we had suffered but what has been ten-fold |
these recrcant men have the President place
the Nation before the world? Would they
have him now disband his armies and send them
home before single object of the war is OBJ
tanned, and listen to such terms OF peace as
jeff. Davis and his traitor Cabinet would be
likely to dictate? The South have branded the
people of the North as cowards cutthroats,
thieves and paupers, with every other term of
reproach and insult they could muster from
their Newgate vocabulary; but not rcproach
have they uttered, not an epithet of disparage-
ment have they bestowed, that will not be !
richly deserved by the North, if she now wavers
one hairs breadth from her righteous purpose
if she pauses TO listen to the first word of COM
promise till this hagitious rebellion is crushed
into the earth beyond all the powers and posi-
biities of human resurrection. With the fate
of republican liberty in America hanging on the
issue, and all that is good and sacred to US as
men and freemen now SO evidently at stake, |
how can it be possible that any, except the
most pltltul minority, can be found in all the
free States, who will venture on such damning
propositions!
Congress is now about to assemble, but we
should like to see the member from the Free
States, who shall dare to breach the covert
treason at Washington, and then return to his
outraged constituents. We have no pillory in
the North high enough on which to place a
Congress member, who shall venture thus to
betray his constituents and his oountry-and no
political disgrace to which he will not be con-
signed by an indignant people. Let the tempt
ed, if any there are, Be,oare.