Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-11-28
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approaching struggle through which we are
now passing. and few lines may be worth
pace in your columns, and remind you,
readers that the writer, though in Dixie,
finds it much changed and not pecu iarly
pleasant for secession sentiments.
| We were accustomed in gone by days TO
make semi-annual visits to 4" The land OF
cotton end can !" and TO ga her up a rich
recompense from King Coton; then hope
frightened up the fares Of all we knew, and
plenty filled every home--f,on the meanest
cot to the most elegant mansion.
But, alas how changed the picture
Eyes and hearts then happy and cheerful,
now weep with deepest sorrow, and heave
with bitter anguish. Brothers and sisters
who were lhenhappy, bound to each others
bosoms by ties 10 earthly hand could weak
en-, have since been severed forever
Fathers and mothers whose iairest hopes
were their children, have OILY live to see
their noblest sons perish and forever pass
away. To-day, scattered OF the various
battle fields fom Texas to Marylanl, hur-
ried into massive piles lay the b asied hopes
Of thousands whose proud, boasifpl ambi-
tim knew no limit when last we saw them.
Mourning has come to almost every home
and every day brings US fresh aews of more
bloody contributions to a cause dying grad
ually but surely. To-day the reiribution
of just God who never fails to visit justice
upon his eIemies, is making every rebel
home smart and groan under the severe but
legitimate fruits of their own foly,-seces-
sion.
While we pity them for their folly, we
must punish them for their dsloyalty until
only the very skeleton Of the monster is
left for history Of the past. What means
the frequent toing of our church bells, and
hurried rattle of namberless hearses through
our streets? What agency has been so
busy in carrying on this dreadful work of
death and destruction? What has draped
in mourning many of our fairest mansions,
and clad its inmates in the drapery of death
and consigned the highest object of their
affections to mother earth? Who has turn
ed into retirement the Wall street of New
Orleans and shat up the once profitable Of
fees of the proud, boastful, staggering cot
tanoeraey,-shat up their splendid resi-
dences and sent their rebel owners coward
ly flying up Red River, and 10 as remote a
part Of Dixie as possible? Who gave their
rich homes filed with elegance and comfort,
to oar brave officers. as quarters? Who
burned up our wharves, cotton and sugar
destroyed our homes, depopRlatea our city
aud &lled it with Yankees, who are restoring
it to its mother under which il gained it,
: strength for resistance ? What has SEN
confusion among all the planters,--fear Of
a second St. Domingo's being their fna
history,-cleared their plantations of lhei
negroes, arme and put in the field thou
sands of blacks 10 fight their masters, an,
placed on the very eve Of emancipation tn,
: whole black population of the Souil2 An'
who is responsible for dreadful vast
/ of blood and treasure? He who voted TO
!, secession alone " chivalry Of the South
. any one of which, few months ago, coul,
y "whip five Yankees Experience keeps
Il IL
Turn your eyes wherever you will through
she whole South, and you witness only tn
: same withering blast Of destruction whicl
the war they were so eager to inaugurat
t has brought upon their own heads, Will
the Free States, with few exceptions, saw
: in contributions of men and money, hav
d and wall suffer no such desclation. VIII
e would not be loyal?
Long has this proud Crescent City boast
ed of her independence, little dreaming
Massachusetts Yankee would soon rule il
humaniz. and bring tc justice its villainou
,eonspirators. But alas their sins hay
: found them ont, and summary justice no,
p0ugs Ills sharp rebuhes upon as gully
people as crime and sin ever knew.
The great change produced under tn
a very able management of Gen. Builder, ha
II given our city such thorough cleansing a
3 n xer va known before. Many desperat
e men who have exer been a terror TO GU
ETY., have been assigned ahcir proper place
u in Forts jackson, Pickens, Parish Prison
D. &c., with bali and chain in some instance
and thus the policy Of !" rule or ruin" hi
&c suddenly been changed, and once in tim
nj civil law rules instead Of bowie knife an
pistol. Thanks to Gen. Butler; may VI
> have many such Generals.
Many have takenit the oath honestly; SIT
we know some who have done SO only
save their god-their pocket About coo
- who did not. but subscribed themselves el
v efnies 10 the Government, now feel eui
y uncomfortable, a large number of whic
V are trying 10 get through our lines, know
" ing that for them day of reckoning is
hand, and that Gen. Duler never fails
rs make good bis word to rebels.
nd The old business houses are me stiy clase
an and what few are open hardly pay expense
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