The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-06
The london Times on the Stone Blockade.

llere is specimen Of the way the utralty
Of England is kept by its malignsnt press
The Charleston Mercury could not have raved
moro Indignantly. Is there any one, however,
who fails to sea that all this fever of rage in
England is because the Southern ports are closed
t. the commerce Of England But We are
keeping our readers from this diatribc:
Again, there are limits to the rights Of de-
struction which even a patton at VAT may ex-
crcise. We read in Grotius, and other writers
upon the state of war and peace, that all peo-
Vie who deserve the name OF u nation have in
all times respected things which are beneficial to
the Whole human race Thus there is u rule
derived from the authority Of Holy Writ that
fruit trees shall be spared wherever found. The
implements of the husbandman have also been
hid sacred. To conquer, and net to destroy,
is the right of IA bolllgerent nation Of civilized
beings Yet ace arctoU, avHh dastardly taulta
ION, that feeis haze gone forth from Ne,o Lon
don and Ne,o Bedford laden, not wHh soldiers
and arms but wiM stones, and that these fleets,
g with their stony burdens scuttled broadside
have obliterated for years to come the channels
OF entry by sea to those cursed cities of Charles.
ton and Savannah Tho object Is to strango
th"se great ports OF COMMENCEMENT to repOsSos5
them, but to destroy them for al time. "Of
Tho effectiveness Of such q stone blockade
writes the exulting journalists Of New York,
I" there can be no doubt. The main ship. chan
mel leading to Savannah is but $50 yards across
in the narrowest place, and can be perfectly
barred by half dozen of these vessels. Charles
ton harbor is equally eligible to the same treat
ment. Once sunk, these old hulks become points
fJr the accumulation of alluvials which the
rivers bear down, and of the sands which the
tides carry back. There is natural tendency
in such ports to form distractions, and all we
have to do is, as the physicians say, 10 assist
nature. Becoming thoroughly mbcdded in
the sand, these accumulations but advance with
time, forming unconquerablo obstacles to re-
opening the hurbors, and establishing book
ale which the highest pressure diplomacy of
the world will be utterly powerlcss to raise. -
u this be hue-und ,Oe beiieUe the fact of The at
tempt is esiabtShed-n is an act Of hostility 10
The ,choie human race. The civilized Greek re.
fused to put out . the eye Of Greece the
savage American sails in full security to p.,al.
yze all the senses by which the Southern States
nigh. communicate In all time to come with
the outer world. " 1t must be confessed, - says
this e1ultant Vanda, il" there is something won
dorully gratifying IL this silent, resistless piece
OF Rhadamanthean justice. The calmness Of
the methoi is fine, and a chef d'euure in its
way; 70 WI gar theatrical vengeance, no lay
l,s Of the city in ashes, as those heated bras-
CARTS Of Charleston threa tened but silent
blight failing on them as though out of the
ni1ht-deadly, inevitable-and leaving those
;. pe,iiii,,s v;. '; in u psirGvl doth S-life."
People who would do an act like this ,rouM
pl'ck The sua out Of the heavens TO nut their en-
tm'es IN darkness, or try up tie rivers that no
grass might joreUer yrow on The soH schere hev
had been offended Yet such men ask for our
sympathies, and there are scattered few among
us who are not ashamed to identify themselves
with them and Their dojugs
The Nelos stgmatizes, with honest heartiness.
the violent, MANAGING, and irritating language
.! the Times.
by violent and bullying assertions of this
sort, .h9j hope to makc any honorable conces-
s.oa o, the part of the Washington Cabinet i'm
possible. Those who indu &C 10 this kinl Of
vulgar menace are in reality just as guilty of
rying to provoke war as the lowest cl .ss of the
New YORK rowdies.
I" The Times is decidedly making progress -
After stimulating the demoniac passion of var
by every device Of literary art after car,f. ally
barriclllng every gate by which the Genius of
Peace might enter, 1t is now, JUS. as there is 4
telr that tic differences Of the two countries may
be settled without bio ,dshed preparing its readers
for the proposition OF an intervention in tchllf
of the Soutn in the name of humanity. Yes,
shade of WIlbcrforce of humanity, and tho
civilization Of mankind. 1t is opEress u with
tho thought that the war in America is brutal
ling u. least On. OF the combatlGt4.' Il ,lt