The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-09
MONTPELIER, VT,
The Criminality of the Rebellion. and the
Men who Apologize for it.

stakeholder, and by Rev. Mr.. Carter, OF East len
pessee, also Union refugee and a Shareholder,
throw much light upon the atrocious character of
the treason that now controls the insurgent States.
Treason as these men have seen it at home, as
they know it intimately, as they have learned its
character, purposes and determination, not only
rom the experience of the last eighteen months
ous from years of acquaintance with the principal
movers of sedtion and from the confessions of the
boldest rebels has not raised its horrd front be-
cause the South have been wronged, because they
believed Slavery had not its Constitutional rights
% the government or because Abraham Lincoln
was elected President Treason is older than the
Republican party, and is rather the cause than the
consequence of that political organization. Col.
Hamilton finds the origin of treason in the differ
ent state of society at the South fror. that at the
North, the former arissocratic, putting wealth and
the man Of wealth above labor and the man who
TOLLS the latter Democratic, truly Republican, and
believing tina. he who earns bread il as much
prince az he who eats it. And be charaoterizes
1he rebellion as one not for freedom from a sup.
posed tyranny but as an attempt to establish some
form of government akin to q monarchy in which
labor should have no rights, and only sris.ocra.s
should have place and power.
In one respect this view comedies entirely
with the position taken by the Government and
by the Republicans from the outset Of the rebel
iion,-namely, that this treason was without
nd with ;tut;0
right of the South having ever been infringed,
either by the Government or the loyal States.
But the Northern politicians, upon whom che
South had relied for assistance in their wicked
scheme of subver,ing the Government, and who
aad given them assurance of this help, but who
were submerged by the high tide of patriotism
which followed the attack upon Fort Sumter, true
10 their devotion to slavery, have ever since been
waiting for party, in the effort to serve their
former masters by political m achinery, if they did
not dare do i. by force. To this end, they have
lost no occasion Of talking about the provocation
ofthe South" "the wrongs of the South" the un-
constitutional attacks ofthe North upon slavery"
the wickedness of the Republican party" until
to-day, in New York, there is formidable party
which charges distinctly that the emancpationists
are as bad as the rebels, and that Greeley deserves
hanging more than Jeff Davis. The speeches of
Col. Hamilton and MIR. Carter are timely, to an
aver the wicked charges against Northern men,
made by these political allies of reason,-and We
10 not wonder MIR. Carter should have told his
Va tkatt horo
d that city than in East Tennessee.
1t is this same political alliance, if not with trea.
son at least with slavery, that has been the only
apoogist for traitors, the only influence which has
1eld back the government and the armies from
striking the rebellion the terrible blows, which its
great crime deserved. 1t has ever stood between
me drawn sword of the power Of the nation and
the neck of the traitors 1t has forever talked of
amnesty, peace, pardon and mercy, as though these
were the only instrumentaltes, or the first agents
10 beinvoked in restoring the nsuted majesty of
the law to the States which had spit upon and de-
ted every emblem of federal power. While as
sassns and murderers were brutay taking the
Ives of Union men by hundreds, or hunting them
Ike cartridges from cover to cover in their noun
tain Businesses, these Northern men with South
ern sympathes have talked glibly of the consti
tl,ional rights of these same assassins to be I'M
moested in their iendish work, have argued
against coercion and subjugation and have done
VIVA. they could to hold back the armies of the
Republic from carrying the federal flag and fede-
Tal bayonets to the relief of these devoted suffer-
.re and dying citizens of the government.
We wish every man who has the least spark
d! patriotism, might read these truthful utterances
o, men who have been through the furnace Of
reason, and know how its fsmes are fed. They
coud not then fail to see, unless they were will
ALLY blind, that those at the North who ask that any
interest upon which rebellion, so wicked, cause
.ess and atrooous rested for its support, should be
spared, we're making themselves the allies Of trea-
son. They would see this rebellion presenting it.
self as the giant crime to whose terrible guilt his
.ory has no parallel They would not then talk
much about either justice or mercy, but would be-
seech the government to put forth its pooer, make
bare its arm of strength, and smite treason with
Sudden, and terrible blows till it was crushed ut
'eTly and forever.
HARRINGTON This inimitable " autocrat of
Tie magic table" will give another entertain
Inent this evening. His performance last eve