The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-13


made an end Of Let any man in this country
try to restore the Heptarchy. Do you think any
Minister in this country would think 1t thing
to be tolerated for Il moment? But If you Will
look at the map of the UnUed States you will see
that there is no country in the world, probably,
at this momen. where any plan Of separation
between North and ouuju 50 tar dis the question
OF boundary is concerned, is so surrounded with
insurmountu Bile difficulties. For czlmp!" -
Mary.and is Slave STATE, but Maryland has,
BY very large lna lorily, voted Tor the Union
Would Maryla 20 North Or South ken-
tucky is IL Slave State, ana 0n2 Vi the finest
States IN the Union and Containing fine Fco-
pie Kentucky has voted ior the Union, and has
been invaded from the South. MISSOURI is a
Slave State Missouri has not seeded, bHt has
bean invaded from the South, and there Is u
Secession party in that STATE There arc
parts of NIrg mia which form themselves
INTO c new State, resolving u adhere to
the North and there is no doubt a consldera-
bic Northern and Union feeling in the State OF
Tennessee and have no doubt that there is
IN every other State--Indeed, am not sure that
there is not now within the sJunt OF my voice
a citizen of the United States hear, citizen
of the State OF Alabama. who can tell you that
there the question OF Secession has never been
put to the vote. and that there are great NUN
bers Of most reasonable, thoughtful, and just
men in the State who entirely dep,ore the con-
dition of things there existing. " ELL then,
what would you do with all these States, and
with what may be called the loyal portion OF the
population of these States? Would you allow
them to be dragooned into this instruction, and
into the formation OF a new State, to which
they themselves are hostile But what would
you do with the city of Washington Wash.
ington is in a Slave State. Would anybody
have advised President Lincoln and his Cabinet
and the members Ut the Senate and the House
of Representatives from the North, with their
wives and children, and everybody else who was
not in favor Of the South-that they should set
off on their melancholy pilgrimage northward,
leaving capital hallowcd by such associations,
having its name from the Father of their Coun
try-wouId you say that they should travel
northward and leave Washington to the South,
because Washington was situated in Slave
State!
Again wha. do you say to the Mississippi River !!
Have you seen it on the map, the father OF va
tiers. rolling that gigantic steam to the ocaan-
do you think the fifty millions who will one
day occupy the banks of that river to the
northwar1--do you think they would consent
thai tila, stream should roll through foreign
and it might TO /. hostile State? CLEAR, hear,
and c,lcer And more, there are four mill
IONS OF negroes in subsection. For them the
Amer,c4n Union is directly responsible. They
are not oecessivnists Tsey are now, as they
always were legally not subjects nor citi-
zeps, but under the care and power of the
Gov rnment of the United States. Would
you consent that these should be given up to
the tender mercies of their taskmasters, the de-
tenders of slavery as an everlasting institution :?
Well if all had been surrendered without a
struggle, what then ? What would the wri-
ters Ill this newspaper and other newspapers
have said If a bare rock in ypar empire that
would not keep single goat alive be touched
by any foreign Power why the whole em pire is
aroused to resistance. And If there be, from
accident Or from passion, the smallest insult to
your lag, what do yonr newspaper writers say
on TIE subject, and what is said in all your OK
changes and in all your towns? will tell you
what they would have said il the Government
of the United Sta Les and the North had taken
their insidious and dishonest advice. They
would have said that the Great Republic is a
failure, that democracy has murdered patriot
ism, that history affords no example of such
meanness, no such cowardice, and they would
have heaped unmeasured obloquy and conteln pit
upon the people and the Government that had
taken that course.
Abiding to the E,canly selfish suggestion Of
some British politicians who had said that it
would be better for the English Empire to have
America cut up into small States, Mr. b. said
Now, there cannot be mcancr motive than
this motive that am now speaking of in form
Ing Il Judgment on this qucstion-that i. is bet
ter tor us. for the people Of England, or the
Government OF England. that the United States
should be severed, and that that continent should
be, like the Continent of Europe, in many
States, subject Co the contentious and disasters
which have occupied the history of the States
OF Europe. should say tina. If man had y
great heart within him, he would rather look
forward to The day when, from that point of
Land that is habitablc nearest the pole to the
shores OF the Great Gulf. the whole o. the vas.
continent might become ono great federation Of
States-not mixing itself up with the entangc-
ments OF European politics, without custom
houses inside throughout tho length and breadth
OF its territory, but with freedom everywhere,
equality everywhere, law everywhere, peace
everywhere, it would afford at last some hone
that men were not forsakcn of heaycn, aud that
the future of our race might be better than the
past. Loud chcers.]
Mr.. Bright closes us follows
There may DO those persons in England who
are jealous of the States. There may be men
who dislike democracy, and who hate a repub-
lie. There may even be those whose sympathies
warm toward the slave oligarchy Of the South.
But of this am certain, that only msre,resen.
,ation the most gross, or calumny the most