The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-07-11

Is pIe-oCCupieu WILL "ho' He SohoAueAS q
better war policy, loyalty and patriotism
now require that he should forego his own
opinions and prejudices for the time being,
and give entire and hearty support to the
government in its great effort to save the life
of the nation. The vast majority of the 10y
al men of the country agree with the govern
ment, and the dissenting minority cannot
further divide and distract popular opinion
without giving positive aid and comfort to
the enemy. Let every true man stand by
the government, in the word and deed, in its
great and final effort to subdue the rebellion.
Such union will save the country.-Spring-
field Republican.
Under the head of "Stand by the Flag"
we find the following in the same paper j.
We have never despaired of the republic.
We have always felt-even in the darkest
hour, and never more strongly than in the
darkest hour-that 1t acas in the republic to
SAGE itself. We see nothing in the present
situation to change our opinions or our feel
ings. Indeed, we see things to encourage
US everywhere. We think that all must see
what seems most evident to us-that the
rebellion has had its largest proportions and
its hight ofpower. Under no imaginable
circumstances can the South show such power
in the future movements of the rebellion as
it has shown hitherto. Conscription has
given it all the soldiers it has arms for, and
for those arms it depends entirely upon the
running of the blockade. 1t is now making
its last stand in the border states and on the
Mississippi river. 1t has summoned all the
force it can possibly combine for a single ef-
fort to retain its hold of Richmond. That
effort is certain, We think, to fail. We have
all confidence in Mcclellan, in his noble ar
my, in the navy that backs up all, and last,
but by no means least, in the good provi-
dence of the God of this nation. The peo-
pie of the South are ragged, and some of
them are already half starved. They have
not the means for subsisting, for another
Year, their great army or themselves. 1t
seems evident that the South must be fed by
the North and Northwest within a few
months, or there will be famine throughout
the rebellious states which will be king
among the caamities that will prevail there
Their paper money is universally dis,rusted
and their gold is universally boarded or sen,
out of the country. Their navy is not only
destroyed, but all hope of building another
is abandoned.
1t is under these circumstances that the
president calls for 100000 more troops, to
give the finishing touch to the work it ha:
SO well nigh accomplished. 1t is when the
hard fighting has been mainly DONE wher
nothing if left to do but to wipe out a wan
ing power, which may be shattered and scat
tered in a day before Richmond; when the
observing nations have ceased to menace u
with intervention when our navy has be
come magnificent one, and is growing will
rapidly in number and efficiency; when ou
communities are recovering from the shocl
which war gave to Northern business; whel
our granaries are overfowing with bread
stutfs and new and splendid harvest is add
ing to the stock. that the call for troops i
made. That these are needed, for the worl
; which remains to be done, we have no doubt
for We must rise with such power that tn
leaders of the South and the people Of tn
South shall see that further resistance i
hopeless. When this shall be done, the re
bellion will be essentially squelched. Tn
: quicker this is done, the quicker will tn
long desired result be reached. Any lingel
ing on the part of the North to fill up tn
I regiments called for, would encourage tn
: Southern leaders and strengthen the rebe
t lion.