The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
Spirits Raised Which Cannot be Laid

| predict, 10 tall on the infatuated South IN pun
lshment tor her causeless and wicked rebellion.
Nor will she have to blame and hate the North
for that punishment. Out of her own hagi-
tlOus and suicidal policy, will, in all probability,
come her GROWING curse and calamity.
More than three-tourths Of the Southern ar
mics are unQuestionably composed Of the poor
white population, passing under the various
names IN the different sections, of Corn
, Crackers, Bash Whackers, and other like con-
temptuous applications. We have no class of
! people at the North, fortunately, with whom
! tbs misery, degraded set OF beings can be at
all compared. Ihc greater proportion OF these
can neither read nor write. They live IN poor
Lighthouses, or less substantial shantie, usually
situated on the outskirts OF sl4Ve-ho.ding plan
tatlons, where, by sufrancc, they may, perhaps,
halt cultivate smaIl corn, or sweet potato
patch. But dsdaInlng TO work, they spend
thvl: lives III iounging, smoking drinking bad
| whisky, attending shooting malcnes, cock-Gghls,
doe-hghts gambling, stealing themselves, or
| hiring slaves to STEAL for them, from the sur
rounding plantations. And thus they exc out
their pItltu livelihood, honestly earning scarce
" dollar year, but living mainly by plum
derlng either directly or indirectly the wealth.
er peopcarOund them. Such thing as moral
prlucIpe Is almost wholly unknown among
them. They nave no more consciences than
horses, consequently they have no scrupleo in
setting all moral rules at defiance. In short,
they are 80 low, mean and degraded that the
very slaves consider themselves disgraced by
being seen in their company.
This class of men, previous to the present
crisis, had never been at all noticed by the
planters; but were SO dcs pissed and stunned
that they were naturally led 70 look on them
selves rs beng Of no importance to the pup
lie, and az having no part or interest in the
political institutions of the country. But
when tho rebellion was being inaugurated, its
leaders began sedulously to court, aatter and de-
ceivc this reckless and hitherto despIsed set of
men, who then, for the FIRST time, were told
that they were of the greatest consequence to
the country They were then told that the
people Of the North had cOnsplred to come
Sou tn, free all the slaves, and reduce all the
whites, like them 70 the condition Of fee ne
| grOes and That on their patriotism and
bravery must depend the settling OF the qUes-
ton, whether The Insultcd South should be thus
wrested Of her rights, subJugatcd and degraded
in the face OF the world, Fired by these false
hoods, which they readily swallowed, beginning
now to feel themselves men of consequence,
and seduced by promises OF pay more liberal
than they had ever known, and by the further
certain prospect OF the chance to enrich them
selves by the plumber of the rich cities of the
North, they rushed almost en- masse into the
rebel army. And it is of such reckless men, of
such desperate characters, with such expecta
lions of pay and plumber, that the Southern
army Is still mainly composed.
Now who can for one moment be brought to
believe that this interruptions set of savage des-
pera ices, after having been disappointed in not
receiving their stipulated pay, and banked in
their expectations of the promised plumber OF
the North, are ever going to disband for the
purpose OF returning empty handed TO their old
wretched homes? They will do no such thing
but finding themselves deceived and every prom
lse made them by their leaders falsifed, they
will swear they will be, in some way or other
reimbursed for their services and sufferings
And beginning under the sanction Of the wicked
and suicidal policy of their government in en-
couraging guerilla warfare, they will become a
broken army of banded plunderers, who viii
soon prey Unfortunately on both loyalist and
seces4ionlst, till no property holder in the South
without making aD armed garrison OF his house
will be safe from their ravages, and till the whole
land shall become one extended scene Of anar
chy, rapne, murder and desoIation. Then will
the infatuated South see that, in trying to carry
out their Infamous purposes Of treason and re-
bellion, they have raised up spirits of evil which
they have no power to put down. Then viii
they too late see relribution falling on then
for their mad rebellion, more scathing and ter
rible than has ever latterly been visited on {
wantonly and wickedly erring people. II vii
be for the Southern leaders but the reazatio,
of the ancient fable of Action eaten by his owl
dogs.
Col. Cahil Of the Ninth Connecticut Regi
menI, who has had but 700 men until recent Y
writes home that he has filled his regiment t
the maximum standard (lOIM hv racrui,;n,