Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-10-14

(Appau,e) Why | had rather give them all
away than 70 have lost for 6l:een months the
DIcssngsoi wife Z smiles and child 5 clressgs
(}aneYed applause. And yet not only have
! suffered this for fifteen long months, not only
nave stood month alter monta upon Cumberland
Ioualaia- looking toward my native hills N
the dltlance bat uia wiling to abide my OK
lie Tor .7a long years, for life itself, rather than
bow to treason. lCheers)
HE GIVES TIE REBELS & !" CHARACTER"
TIE fret tbipg that ever alarmed m5 about
iAls leq8,utan was the character OF the men 40
the bottom Of lt-theYes, bAcklegs, bugsas,
gamblers and drunkarIs Applause Dd
not know chat no good could ever come from
anything guidel by such men 4" Gyeit 70
taem The second thing that alarmed me
about tni3 rebellion wa8--cXcuse the word, the
only one IN lie Elglish language that expresses
my 1sA of scccs.on--the deudsh spirit that
animated IT, knew no good could como TO ny
country wf efe men, aud women too. were pos.
ses.ed ol legons o. devils % not ! know tuat
some ot my own kuIrel-reGued ana iutelr
gent lemles as are to b, found il your city
tbirste1 for my blood, SIMPLY because | was
loyal 70 my country Cheers. And these
extreme men had for thirty long years, Or nearly
all that time, % least, controlled the policy oi
TINS Government. IL IS true you had some
NOrther1 Pr9sdsnt5 but, 2s q general thing.
they were merely servants to do the bidding OF
the radicals at the South. \" DouShiaces'
Allow me 10 remark, byway oi parenthesis that
! have too often times Thought that nny man
that could 1--we for four long years under the
corrupt administration Of that arch traitor,
james Buchanan, was already ripening to u
traitor - Great applause Look Mt these
men who controlled tins GOvernment-such men
as Mason, Of Virginia, drunkard such men
IS Benjamin, a th!ef and gambler such men
as NIglal., q murderer, who never dared to
show hIs lace in bis native State until this re-
oelhon occurred. r. Floyd, Yaueey You
all know hem, gentlemen. There are sone
nien 70 vile that dislike to name them [Cheersl
/ say these men had loag control Of tbs policy
Of this Government Tney had long been oc-
capymg AL the highest sel,s Of the synagogue.
They were proud men for slavery does make
men proud, slavery does make men tyrannlcal
! | know tnaf. Was | not born among t? Have
| no, ielI is ELECTS upon my own heart? When
Abraham Lincoln was elected President these
men knew well It the Republican party vas de-
/ ieaied "a the ext presidential election, who
would be succassiul-the Douglas democracy.
/ In other words these Southern arist0crats--oy-
the by Il is no vanity when | tell you am de.
l soended myself from the +. +, VS., and there
fore J - a. lihefsy to talk about taem--theae
iire-cateFs knew as well as you did that the
reign Of the aris;ocTley was ended forever; that
the true democracy OF the country would hence
forth rule throughout the United States of
America [Great applause.l Now, so far as |
am concerned do nor care who rules the coun-
try so fat as 1t is ruled wisely and well-Re-
publican Or Democrat, il they be honest men.
! (CheeIs But these proud men OF the South
nave been gong up 10 Washington year after
year, holding nearly al the foreign missions Of
eny importance and other places of emolumen,
and trust, and have seen these poor black Re
publclns, lke Lazarus, lying at the rich mans
gatc, begging for crumbs. llaughterl Bu,
now everything is changed. Dives is driven out,
aud how 90 YOU suppose these men can bear to
10 up to the White lloas and see these poor
/ Lazrusas sitting at The public table fuIng
sumptuausly every day and least OF all could
they egdlre u behold Father Abraham at the
head Of the table Great laughter and applause
continued for some mlnutes.)