The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-07
IA Old issue Revived.

rnccc seems to be disposition to revive the
issue on theS!avery question which separated the
Republicans and the various shades Of opposi-
ton in the past political s,ri|es in the Nation.
Nt4stugh this issue is taking in some quarters
form slightly different from what it then was,
it is essentially the same 1t is the question
what and how strong guarantees are in the Con-
situation to protect and shield Slavery from the
cllay,s Of the people to be rid Of the institution
the evils Of Slavery, especially since the Rebel
lion, are pretty generally conceded. and the in
stiJu,ion finds but few apocgists at the North,
and only here and there an adMirer. But there
is cr,ning to be IL large and very formidable par
ty a. the North, who cry out q Let 1t alone:
Won lave no right TO touch IT,, as soon as bold
thinkers suggest that the axe should be laid at
the roo, Of the tee This party is led by those
who wc;c formerly Democrats, and counts in its
ranks the ma jorty Of those once hostile to the
Republican party. 1t has Bayard and Pearce
ana Salisbury and Powell in the Senate, and
Vallandigham, and a few like him, in the House,
who form its advanced guard. But it counts
ais amongst its members many who were APP
parently-while the Republican party existed
ardent advocates OF keeping Slavery within the
smallest possible limits IN this Governments
The papers, formerly Democratic, in this State
are al in this party and rejoice at every evidences
OF It's success Some Of the papers, formerly
all in In into and
share in Its rejoicirgs though it is due tc
them to say that they do not yet seem to like very
much To have their lucubrAtions endorsed as true
Democratic doctrine. and take considerable time
ano space in explaining that they do not mean
VIVA. they say. And yet we believe that their
Democratic contemporaries are quite right, and
the Rutland Courier and the Burlington Senti
". arc entirely justified in quoting these disscr'
taiions on the danger Of treating Slavery as ;
rche that las no rights which the Government
is boun! to prctccl. rs true Democratic doc
trnc.
The truth is, however much we may cndeavo
Nc: 10 sec it, that Slavery is the cause Of thu
war. The fac, that where there Is no SLAYER,
there is no rebellion, and where there is the mos
slavery there is the bittcres, hostility to til
Government, is Il single fact that ought TO b
conclusive upon this point. There are NOR
slave. than lrccmcn in South Carolina, and thi
STATE is the mother OF treason. Western vi,
GINA is nearly free from the institution, an
abe hae cut herself adrift from the blight tina
is Oh the rest Of the Old Dominion Marylan
is slave State, though in lar less proportio
than Georgia, and vet Maryland would hav
been in rebellion had it not been for the deter
min.tion OF Gov. Hicks, and the arguments
Federal bayonets. Little Delaware has nj
much slavery, yet, while she is nominally loya
SHE is represented in the United States by Bayar
and Salisbury, men who are not now open ira
tors, because they think it won't pay. Ker
lucky is also nominally loyal, and yet half he
territory is held by teh rebels, and this apps
reutly without any protest from the inhabitan
Of Inc portions of the State 80 occupied an
the eame is true of Missouri and neither
these States is kept from being overrun by j
own rebels, except by tho strong arm Of I'll
Federal Government with its hundreds Of th0t
sands of troops within their borders. And it
really the free State influence in these two Stat'
which alone is unainching 10 its support Of tn
Unon---the slave interest being loyal, where
10 - u, ali. only ~ II matter Of policy aud sci