The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-22

,,;ve functions of the government are all
t1 s,u and harmonious action. The whole
ID 49, is turning into a camp. but never,
cVDD" he first army was set on loot, was there
''D' S.s GENTLE and humane body of men em.
D ';ad IN one. Never was there in any army
D'I little cruelty, or raplne, or outrage. 1t is
vast body of Christian freemcn, engaged in
'be support and establishment OF constitution.
'p' r ;rit Five hundred thousand volun.
y, obey their ohicers as though they had
y 's REGULARS for generation, and the Amcri-
''1 camps are places through which child
~" woman may pass, not only scathless, but
~ words of cheer aud kindness. The TWEEN
w. "' millions of the North this day are as obe-
3ent to law as any twenty millions on earth,
ND need far less force to keep them in order
'D the inhabitants Of the British Isles.
What means this trash, then, about the re-
,rblican bubble being burst, because certain
.,veboldels have rebeled against govern.
mont that was only too mild and gente to-
rsrIs them We should like to hear the
,n,b Of derision that would break from Mas.
..cSuse,ts to California, over the mountains
Il Pennsylvania and the prairies of Illinois,
y, the suggestion that republicanism being a
allure. we had better set up some English
,ocsney as our king! The bubble burst, in
5sfd Does not New York stand shoulder
"A shoulder with Indiana Is not Vermont
.1e BY side with Oregon? Is not Michigan
4pcamped close by Pennsylvania? Does one
Northern State hold back its contingent g.
Do they not volunteer from mountain and
main, valley and stream, city and village p
VIVA, solitary State is backward? Name it ?
Such an army of volunteers never sprang on
Inn, in eight months since the world began
And if Congress wants an army as large as
hat of Nerxcs, they have only to say the
word. The bubble burst Why, twenty
millions Of people are moved by single i'm
rysc, Not one of them can raise his eyes to
our American flag without having them dim
med with moisture, and not sister whose
countenance does not beam with joy that her
brother is going into the very midst of dan
gey There is no thought or feeling upon us
Sa, an infinite spontancity Of patriotism. In
Philadelphia every soldier that passes through
he city--and they come by tens Of thousands
IS fed without money and without price, not
py the government, but by the free hands and
-aIts Of loving countrymen. And all over
the North tie busy hands of myriads Of wo-
men az sewing and knitting for our soldiers,
garments ~ the thousand being given without
.loo.hi Of reward. The very atmosphere is
radiant With patriotism the children fill the
air with our national songs; every banner IS
sacrament; heavy rifcd cannon arc locked
upon as something cudeared to us, and our
.reat laval castles are our pride and joy
Never was every form OF authority more i'm
lictiy obcye1. From our young General
rChief TO the humbIest corporal, from the
President to the policeman pacing the streets,
the power OF Jaw, military and civil, is recog-
liMd, aud the only strife is as to who can
most thoroughly yield himself up sacrifice
ior bis country. We tell the London Times,
We inform Bulver Lyttop, that Greece, at
the battle Of Marathon, or when Leonidas fell
the Pass of Thermopyla, was not so unit
ed SO dislnterested or SO obedient to the laws
4s America is now.
The bubble burs. Why. when did afilic'
Ton ruin free people! Did Scotland per
lsh under Wallace and Bruce, or Swtzer
and under Tell, or Rome under Camillu:
and Cincinnatus, or England from the wars
otthe Roses, or the Commonwealth Every
American is law unto himself, and every
State is a commonwealth that would be a
ge,m of empires if all the rest we're dead
The likelihood of England, and Scotland, ant
Germany, and Scandinavia, has passed lntt
America and when our foolish old beldame'
Or stepmohers are mumbling out their cur
IT'S over the cadrons of some blasted heatl
'heJouth and brightness OF this land are gath
emg mulltudinous as autumn leaves. N
Ioubt many Of these bright young heads
We sadden to say twill tic low, but llk
ae glorious dead of every age, they vii
nave given themselves 10 the imperishabl
.al,e OF freedom. Ten thousand times tie
'aolsand will raise up to call them blessed
'h4 mynadS will catch holy Inspiration
'Fom their names. Their battle-ields WI
~ao glorious that their households will b
Noldcr Of their dead son and brother, tina
VI all their living relatives God only gran
hat iais republic may never be less nobl
han low