The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-05
The Policy of Leniency.

The correspondent of the New York World
writing from Nashville, furnishes some facts ant
suggestions which, coming from that portion o
Tennessee where the process of restoration hal
been commenced, ere instructive to say the least
"Yoa would be delighted to discover how very
/" gentlemanly - some of our rulers In regl
mentals conduct themselves in this city towarc
our misguided brethren Of the South. You
would CLIP your Lands, l a@o", e 60 49,.
what ease and swftness our misguided brethren
of the South obtain {" passes, )" and " fugitlves
! from service or labor" and variety OF such
like little Offices of our military powers that be-
hear it hourly, Col.-- is very much
Of a gentleman, " and " Gen.---is 50 much
Of gentleman Which being interpreted
Inc lbs that these " gentleman - in authority
handle the rebellion in a timid and tender
fashion. There stands the mammoth Metho
dist Book Concern that has disseminated more
treason than any other instrumentality in Ten
nessee, untouched, doors open doing business.
One D. B. McFalrn, its agent, fled at our ap-
proach and hid himself. There stands the Pat
riot and Republican Banner, the organs Of the
great atheism for the last twelve months--un-
touched, the latter hueging the lever tor dear
life, the former sprlnkllng its secesh swlll from
the columns of every issue. Yesterday it dotted
the town with Knoxville in DANGER in letters
Of three inches, at the head of its newspaper
bill of fare. Knoxville in danger of what? |
ran to the telegram to learn, and read there also
in type tremendous, " Knoxville in danger
lederals only twenty five miles off - In the
editorial Of the same issue, under the caption of
8 The New Confederate Labinet,' there occurs
q most doeful and moving re,nonstrance against
the overlooking by Uncle Sambo Of Tennessee
and the upper tier of Confederate States. |
could have cried over it. The fountains of the
great deep Of my pity and commiseratlon We're
broken up by it. Do let me erich my eplstle
with this plantive pleading for the crumbs that
are falling rom his excellency' s groaing board.
u" In looking over this recast of the dranalis
PERSONS, we may, as u lookcr on here In Wen
ma, say we are struck with the fact that the
upper tier OF Confederate States are permitted
to have but one representative, Notwithstanding
they contain Che greater portion o! the popull
ton of the ContederaGy. The cotton states Get
the lion 3 sha1e, and will have q preponderating
influence III shaping the policy Of the govern
meat. Why was Tennessee, which has made
such vast Sacrifices i'll every respect, passed
over? Has She, amongst her leading m0n, who
have cast their fortunes upon the tide Of revou-
counsellor of the Presdent?'
And now for Che Republican Banner that
observe with indispensable amazement IS obtain
ing the right hand OF fellowship from several re-
spectacle loyal journals. Do they know that it
is one of lhe few rapers of the south that smear
ed its forehead with the " stars and bars and
that it went beyond. yes, iarbeyond every other
southern Journal in it's madness of zeal for that
same rancid rag?
[ skip column upon column Of the most auda
vious and vicious and yenomous vomlt, and con-
tent myself with single slice from an editorial
that appeared in the Banner of Sunday, Jan.
u 1862 under the caption Of "Gentlemen may
cry peace peace but there is no peace ~ Ma
son and Sldel had Just been surrendered, and
the Banner heaves up this
I" Look at the spectacle to-day. SEQ the mean
and despiscd brao CART, stripped of his feathers.
Inundated and dIsgraced before the eyes of men.
Utterly cowed backed down from everything
a renegade from princi pie and recreant to
promise: a self stultifed, brutal, staggering,
swearing wretch, forced to lick the dust and sue
in terms the most groveling for mercy
declared that this sheet outdid all its asso-
ciates. 1t did. 1t out Judas Iscarioted Judas
Iscariot himself in its believing, like mad
bull, for innocent blood
"Peacs Peace There can be no peace with
out Maryland No peace without Kentucky
No peace without Missouri! And if we had our
say none without poor little forgotten Delaware,
and that grand old chieftain, our modern Chev-
alier Bayard !"
IF we had our say Great Heavens and
this is the sweet sheet that the silver haired In
teNgencer welcomes to the ranks Of the loval
American journals, pats on the back, strokes the
chin of, and calls good fellow
My topic is the policy of leniency. have
furnished some illustrations of it. 1t is a mis-
chievous, perilous policy. 1t is suicidal was
execration of it. l have seen it tried. have
seen it fail
My word for it, Gov. johnson has no sympa-
thy with it. TO his surprise he has been so
embarrassed by the military lenients. His poll
cy is the perpendicular one, and it will prevail
He may not be considered by female men and
women, very much of gentleman" but he
will make old ladies of both sexes stand in awe
and fear of the Star Spangled Banner. no more
daring to trihe with it than to trihe with the
trcolor of France, or the honor o! the British
Lion.
A Wards LECTURE" Wacks works. it
will be remembered, is to lecture here this even
ing. His" Children in the Wood are said to be
irrepressibly funny, and no one should miss an
opportunity to hear him. There is a time to
augh, and we think tonight will provo that time.
ARENAS lectured last evening at BURLINGTON