Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-10-28

were received from that Government which il
now seeks to overthrow and destroy The Re
bellion had its origin in that section OF the
country which has controlled the Legislation
and disposed of the patronage OF the General
Government Tor seyen-eights OF the time since
It's organization. For the greater part of the
tne for more than seventy years, IT has been
the boast of the South that they made the Pres
idents and Cabinets and Judges and Foreign
Ministers, and all the local Federal officers, Us
well as the Federal statutes And it is. after
all the same section, this rebellious section that
has rcd elections and defeated elections, for
times not few, by menaces Of disuni0n. From
time to lime when any law has been passed or
proposed when any measure Of public policy
has been adopted or proposed to be adopted
when any Federal election has been made, or
pending a proposition that it should be made,
which did not exactly tuit the views on the fan
ces, or coincide with the schemes Of the south
ern chlyalry, they have been IN the habit Of
threatening dsupIon Of the Government as the
consequence. That sort Of argument | am sorry
to say, has too often prevailed. Thank God,
rs power Is now spent Applause.
This rebellion, in its spirit and j. its purpose,
has a remote origin, aud dates much farther
back than the incoming OF the present admins
tration, or the election OF Mr Lincoln to the
Presidency. 1t lifted its lead and challenged
the authority of the Federal Government 10
1882. Thequestion OF the tariff was then used
as pretext but Andrew jackson was then at
the head of affairs and before bis stern
rebuke, notification skulked away and hid its
face. [Applause.
A few years aiterward, in TIE time Of one
John Tyler, Of uDenviable memory, we were
again threatened with dissolution Of the Union
unless Texas should be annexed to the United
States, as a vast slayehoulng Territory. A lit
tie later and We were again threatened with
disruption of the Government if California
should be admitted as a free State and again
II the jefferson ordinance OF Freedom should
be applied % the vacant territories; and still
again II the Missour COMPROMISE line OF slavery
restriction should not be ab.ogaed In 1856,
you remember how rebellion was threatened
against thus Government, II majority of the
treemen should presume 10 elect j. c Fremont
over james Buchanan aud last in the list, you
re member how 10 1860, the chiyalry threa tened
to tear this nauon all TO tatters if we should 50
| Ear disregard their Wishes OF diutation %
elect abraham Lincoln TO the Presidency. These
| threats have this once talei OF their purpose
| And the assassns OF the rebellion, lying ln wait
for his life, tailed Of their intended victim
and by the grace Of God, Abraham Lincoln IL
! President Of these United States to-day Ap-
plause.
The sceptre of power, for the time being a
! least. departed from the hands of the Southern
Olgarchy who had so long swayed it, and nov
like Luclfer, the fallen angel, it rises IN grea
rage to destroy the realm which it cannot rule
But entertain no manner of doubt tha
these same scenes of rebellion would have beer
enacted, these same capers would have been Gu
up by the Southern Chivalry, had Stephen a
Douglas been elected to the Presidency, who by
his opposition to the great Lecompton swlnd
had rendered himself little less obnoxious to lh
Oligarchy in the South than Mr.. Lincoln him
self announce only an authenticated and vel
known fact in saying that 1t has long been tn
cherished purpose OF this Olgarchy to establish
an independent Southern Contederacy compose,
exclusively of Slayeholding States. And as
first step to the accomplishment of this end, j
has long been their settled purpose upon som
pretext and at the earliest opportunity to breal
up this Union, and to sever themselves from tn
Free States.
Tins is the origin, such is the purpose which
moves, and such Is the spirit which animates thi
accursed ana hell born Rebellion. This puT
pose has beel announced has been publcl
avowed, time and again, in the Halls OF tn
Federal Congress, IN popular Conventions, il
Legislative Assemblies and in the Public Pres
OF the South, by the leading and controllIn
spirits of the Rebellion. Ii is idle then to say
il is an empty and false pretence, that the Sout
have revo!ied ON account of any oppression, q
any wrong or itjury, OF any grievance whateve
from the Federal Government, when they hav
controlled the Legislation and the patronage c
that Government In pretty much their own wa
ever since Ito foundation. 1t is equally val
and false pretenee that this revolt was provoke
by any unconstitutional State Legislation, as fO
instance the personal Liberty bill, so called {
this State For let it be borne in mind ,hu
this Rebellion was in contemplation, and becou
fixed purpose, long before such acts had a plaC
upon our statute books. Besides this, the S0ut
has never lost slave through the operation {
these acts
It's equally false preIence that this rebellio
is the effect or consequence of any preyalin
schemes of Abolilionism in tho North. d
not speak OF that Abolltionsm imputed to us
INC oOuVn, "ho utuOuucV US all as AOOnUOnls
who do not regard the institution of Slavery
an nestImable blessing, who do not agree
tie divinity OF its origin al to the henelcen,
of It's Influences, as ciyil1inp, humanlziug an
ehristanIzng | tru we all come withn tn,
cltegory. But speak Of that Aboliiioniem
which Wm. Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Pin
lips are acknowledged representatives of the
ana such as these who would verthrow Il
Constitution because of its recognition of Slav
ry. speak of that AbOtionRm which wou
interfere, or claim the right to interfere, uud
the Constitution, and interfere by legislation
other direct and aggressive action, with the il
sttutun OF Slavery IN the South, as it the
existed IL has not been by this Abolitiouis