The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-22
Replies of the Minority Of the Border State
Congressman, and OF Mr.. Maynard to the
Pres ldent Address.
WASHINGTON, July Is, 1862.

| OOnSI SSSWen, anu OF MI maynard 10 Tut
Pres ldents Address
WASHINGTON, July Is, 1862
Mr. President The undersigned Mem Der.
OF Congress from the Border States, IN response
to your address of Saturday last. beg leave tC
say that they attended ting on the same
day the address was delivered for the purpose o
considering the same. The meeting appointed
a committee to report response TO your address
That report was made on yesterdaS and ;he ac,
ton OF the majority Indicated clearly that the
response reported, or one IN substance thu same,
would be adopted and presented to you.
lnaSmuch As We cannot, consistently with our
own sense OF duty to the c.untry, under the ex-
listing perllS which surround US, concur in that
response, We feel IL to be due to you ami - our
se'Tes to make to you brief AMI candle answer
over our own signatures.
We believe that The whole power of tie Coy
eFnment, upheld and Sustained BY all ne inhu
enees and laeaI,s OF all loyal men in all sectonS
anu OF all parties is necessary TO put down the
rebellion and preserve the Union and the Con-
stltution. We understand your appeal to Us to
have been made for the purpose of securing this
result. A very largo portiou OF the people in
the Northern States believe that Slavery is the
lever power of this Rebellion" [. matters
not whether this belief be well-founded or not.
The belief does exist and we have to deal with
things as they are, and not as We would have
them be- In consequence of the existence OF
this belief, we understand that an immense ores.
sure is brought to bear for the purpose of str.
king down this institution through the exercise
OF military authority. The Government cam OF
maintain this great struggle if the support and
influence of the men who entertain these onjn.
IONS be Withdrawn. Neither can The Government
nope TOR early success if the support Of that es
ment called " conservative be withdrawn.
Such being the condition OF things, the Pres
laen' appeals to the Border State men to stem
lorWa rd and prove their patriotism by making
the first sacrifice. No doubt, like appeals have
been made to extreme men in the North to meet
Us nan way, IN order that the Whole moral,
political, pecuniary, and physical force of the
nation may be firmly and earnestly uAitpG in
one grand effort to save :hs Union and tn, con-
stltution.
Believing aAat such were ia. motives that
prompted your address, ana such were the results
10 which 1t looked, We cannot ,ecouclla IL ,n
our sense OF duty, in this trying hour to re- bond
10 aspirlt OF FAULT ilAding OF quoIuIousDess over
me things that are past, We are not disclosed
I? SeeA Tor the cause q! rresen; mjs.ortunes in
Iht cfi ors ana wrongs OF others wno now browse
70 unite With us lna common purpose But on
the o'her hand, we meet your address IN tie
spirit IN when 1T was m4ce, and as Iowa. Amer
leans, declare to you and to the wor!i tnat tbr.
is 40 sacrifice that we are net ready to make ia
save me government ard institutions of our
fathers
That we, few of us though there may be,
VIII permit no men, from tic North or from
the South, TO 20 farther than we in the accom-
plishment vi the great WORK before us. rhat.
IN order to carry out these views, we will. so
lar rs may be IN our power. ask the peoplD O,
the Border States calmly deliberate ly ana
fairly to consider your recommendation We
are the more emboldeDed TO a:sume th;g oosItl,n
from the fact HOW become history. mat the
leaders OF the Southern rebellion nave offered
TO abolish Slavery among them as a conditions TO
Iorelgn intervention IN favor ot their mdspend.
ence as d nation.
1t they can give up Slavery to DESTROY the
Onlon, we can surely ask our people to consider
'he question o. emancipation to save the Union.
WITH great respect, your obedient serv'ts
JOHN ". NoELL WILLIAM G. Brown,
PAM D. CAsEY' JACOB BLAIR
uEo. +. FISHER, W. +. WILEY,
A. j CLEMENS