The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-10-10
The Danger Before Us.

The real danger that menaees the country
to-day does not reside in rebel schemes. or
rebel lesions, or foreign interference Ii is
not to be found either in governmental weak
ness or presidential wrongheadetness. 1t
does not hide in proclamations of emancip'.-
ton, or in military drafts. 1t is not to be
found in over-taxation, in an exhausted treas
ury, in lack of LOYAL soldiery, or in incompe-
tent generalship With the North political
unit-with the North thoroughly united IN
the simple task of suppressing the rebellion
we Can not only annihilate the rebellion,
but hold the whole world at bay, and come
out of the var more than eonquerors. The
real danger before us lies in political division,
and it is for the purpose of warning the peo-
pie against this danger that We now write
| 1t is danger which We must look in the face.
and provide for.
A year ago, it will be remembered. The
Republican took the ground that there ought
to be but one party, until the war should be
concluded. Then, when the war was fresh in
our experience, and the instincts ofthe people
We're unblunted by year ofdiscouraging and
! bloody work, there waS.a genuine popular re-
Spouse to or words, thong the politicians were
only too successful in keeping the peoplein the
old party traces. Since that time We have
had no occasion to chance our opinion on the
subject and practically the people have been
united. The war has been sustain ed by all
parties, though there have been impractieable
individuals on both sides: who have been
only conditionally loyal. There have been
extremists, from the first, who have been OF
no assistance to the government, and who
might just as well have been doing what they
could for the rebels on the other side of Ma
sons and Dixon's line. These, however
though making good deal of noise, have
really produced but little effect on the Loyal
masses.
But change in this state of Things will bt
attempted, if it has not been already inau
gurated. There is arising bitterness of po
litical feeling which promises nothing bu
evil. We do not hesitate TO declare our con
viction that this feeling does not involve {
particle of moral Or patriotic principle on Ell
Their side. 1t originates with, and is fed by
, men who either hold or want political place
and political pc yer. Whether il will last long
er than the fall election remains TO be seen
but the strife which will reign until thost
elections shall be decided, can hardly fail Il
leave the public mind sore, unhealthy ant
unharmonious. All rebe.dom will rejoice in
it and well it may. This very division is wha
D the traitors calculated upon in the frs
| place, and what they have prayed for evel
, since. 1t is what all their sympathizer:
will seek to excite and maintain. Agains
united n, nth rebellion is hopeless. Witt
n D a1 - 10 rlo, =.
And all this difficulty is made by politi
, clans. The people who do not want oftic.
=, would, if let alone, say with one voice that
the President, after the experience and III
: trial of a year, believes that a proclamation
/, Will hel to end the war. they will stand b,
, him in its Inference and enforcement. Tn
people have no hobbies to ride. no polite,
ends to push, no offices 10 win. They Sc
the country engaged in a bloody war whiel
e can only be ended by the subiugation of tn.
rebel power. They see tie administration Q
Abraham Lincoln 10 be The only instrumen
nv which this war can be carried 10 q success
ful issue. and they Will support it hnnestl
= ard patiently to The end. if the politician
will let them alone. Any man-democrat Q
republican-who Will utter :, word. or DEL
form an act. which tends TO divide The pee
+ pie in their supper; of the administration. to
h whatever purpose.with whatever motive. doe
f the work Of a traitor. and pays into the hand
of the rebellion. There are times IN publ
: assemblies wh.r even discussion is not in or
der. and it is never in order in perilous time
: when discussion only means division. Th,
D administration has announced Its policy ana
I selected lis instruments. and it is the duty o
all loyal men. of whatever political creed. !,
support it.-Sprinqfeld Republican,.