Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-04-04

luding TO the vast army in Tennessee, Mr..
Etheridge said that lady asked soldier,
!" How far back does your army extend "
Madam, il reaches to the North pole, and
when left two other regiments were try
ing to get in" 1t is stated that Mr.. Eth
eridge will return in few weeks as sem
ator from Tennessee. We sincerely hope
he will. His allusion to slavery in his
speech above mentioned, shows most graf
flying progress.
Eaton never made a speech at Fayette-
vile, and has not been in the State for at
least ten years. He is a true Union man,
and we wish he would come up here to ex-
coriate the abolition disunonists of this 10
calily, who have declared they "most sim
cerely wish the prospect was more encour-
aging that we should finally get rid of the
entire slayebolding portion of this Union
-Argus.
A little more than year ago, in the city
of Washington, a band of traitors and mid
night assassins attempted to assassinate AMI
murder Mr.. Van Wyck of New York, a
member of Congress. We gave an account
of the attempt, and at the close was the
paragraph above quoted, whereupon the
argus seized upon it like a drowning man,
and for whole year he has sung this song,
set to music such as only he can invent.
If it had been printed Slaveholding
power" instead of portion it would doubt
less, have represented more clearly what
we meant to say. But no matter to those
who have read the TINES from year to
year, no explanation was necessary, for our
readers all we'll know that we have never
advocated disunion in any form whatever.
But that paragraph has formed a standing
advertisement in the Argus, and when its
editor spoke to the little squad which he
collected at Fayetteville, last year, 10 this
paragraph formed the head, front and tail
of his defamation. Solitary and alone has
this straw been cutched at, as if the saliva
ton and existence OF the Argus depended
upon it. The real truth is it is the old cry
Of the thief, by which he hopes TO divert
attention from himself See how stands
the record.
The Argss has openly advocated the
treason of jeff Davis by setting aside our
own Constitution and Substituting that got
Up by the confederate rescals at Montgom-
ny, or to use its own words, The Greco:
truction of the Union on the basis of the
constitution" 1t is the same
Montgomery constitution which the Ar
as advocates, that jeff Davis and his fell
ow traitors are fighting for to-day. The
Argus has been in full fellowship with these
anne traitors for the last ten years, and ac-
,ordingly, when they framed the present
secession government, it fell into line as us
lal, and advocated their policy. Again,
the Argus denounced the Presidents inau-
gural address because it advocated the co.
ercion of the rebellious States. Here we
see it again in the secession ranks. Like
the traitor Bright, just expelled from the
Senate, it was opposed TO the coercion of
the States which had rebelled against the
national Government. Again, it may not
be generally known that the Southern con-
federacy has ever been acknowledged by
any kind of concern in the whole world
yet such is the fact, and the glory and hon
or of it belongs exclusively to the Bellows
Falls Argus. No sooner had the Southern
States seeded than this same paper an
nounced that they had 'taken their posi-
ton as among the nations of the earth" but
notwithstanding this friendly and early rec
ognilion, here in Bellows Falls, the jeff
Davis government sent commissioners to
procure similar recognition in France and
England, though not with similar success.
And again, only few weeks since, the
argus declared that the anti-slavery men
are " directly responsible for the rebellion
Very well, Washington, Jefferson and
Franklin were all snti-slavery men," op
posed to the extension of slavery, and
hoped for its entire abolition. They, there
fore, according to the Argus, are with the
rest of US, directly responsible for the re-
bellion." We can stand such company, but
certainly, none but sympathizer with the
traitors would take such method to screen
the rebels who first fired on the Star of the
West, and then on Fort Sumter. But
enough. The argus has long been in CON-
pany with these rebels, and advocated their
notions Of public policy, and still it fingers
on the coat tails of Breckenridge, its late
candidate for president.
In conclusion, we most cordially conQrat-
ulate the country on the cheering prospect
Of getting rid OF the entire slave power,
which has so long ruled the country.
Coon CAToLrc DocTRINE--The Gath
ole (of Pittsburg, Penn..) utters the fol-
lowing sound doctrine =