The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-07

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at home by the right of an elder brother, an,
who sought the shores Of the New World, a
our SONS and brothers seek the broad acres of tn
West, or the gold fields of California and Ore
gon, to make for themselves fortune and a name
They came to this country not to save rrin
ciples, not seeking civil and religious freedom
not asking fer a land where they might worship
God according to the dictates of their own con
sciences, and where they might establish per-
fectly free and just Government of laws and not
of mer, but they came as merchants, as farm
ers, as tortune-seekers and they brought with
them the ideas, the prejudices, the caste, the
distinctions that characterized the classes to
which they belonged across the water They
named their States after the occupants of thrones
at home They built baroyial halls. They
owned large plantations. They kept up the
sports of tho chase, and hunted with horses and
hounds They brought with them the forms Of
worship Of the Mother Church. And the States
they formed, though partly republican in their
organic laws, were yet marked by these pecu-
l'aritles, and modelled more after the home gov
ernments than after the free examples of New
England. While their lite in a new country
had made them impatient of the tyranny of
England, it had by no means made them con-
verts to the Democratic ideas that had found
lodgment in New England, and though they
joined hands with the Purtans in resisting the
oppression Of Crown and Parliament, they
chung with unyielding tenacty 10 their practice
OF expressing IL subject race.
Herein, &C the outset, was the marked differ
ence between TIE North and the South Ine
former gravitated toward Freedom, the latter
toward Slavery. One defended and chung to
the institution, the other repudlate isand made
haste to be rid of it. The car of Freedom ard
progress was drawn by the swift feet and the
strong, willing hands Of free labor at the North
while at the South aristocratic ideas. idleness.
Incidence, compulsory labor and involuntary
servltude, were the heavy weights that held
baci- tho nation from its possible achievements
The living body Of Liberty was chained to tae
ionl carcass Of Slavery, until it Was compelled,
by the lolths)m enes5 Of the contact 60 CIV out
i-r delverance from that body of death Sa
very entrenched itself behind the power of ii
Government that 1t almost invariably controlled
while Freedom peopled the vast territories of the
Republic with the Industrious millions who 1t
last were to fight her battles, and when the peo-
pie, at the ballot boz peacefully asserted their
right to rule, the South madIy rushed to arms.
The divergence in the ideas of Government. of
labor, OF political economy, of Christian civili-
cation, had become SO great, that, what at first
proved no serious obstacle to harmonious
Union, has widened into tho gulf which can
only be filled with the bodies of thousands of
the children of the Republic, giving up their
lives in the field of battle that the Nation may
once more in peace pursue its course of empire
And it is not strange that foreign writer's,
who have no sympathy for our country, no desire
that slavery should ever come to an end, in
studying the characteristics of the two sections.
and comprehending partially the irrepressible
conflict Of ideas that has brought these sections
into hostile array, should find much that appears
to them TO render Union not only undesirable
but impossible. There ore grave and serious diff
culties in the path directly ahead of us, difficult
ties growing out of these wide Emergencies of
ideas, opinions, and preudices but they are not
necessarily insurmountable. The cause of this
difference Is mainly slavery which has nourish-
ed and stimulated the growth of these Southern
elements of hostility to free government. The
despotic and domineering tendency of the South
ern mind has chung to slavery, and slavery has
reacted upon and strengthened and developed the
anti-Democratjc Southern IDEAS But, in spite
of the arrogance and insolence and antagonism
of the South toward the North, there is at least
one road to IL permanent peace and a restored
Union, and that is by removing the cause of tho
wide divergence, that, in the opinion of foreign
ers, renders Union impossible. War, President
Lincoln says, is an Indispensable means to be
used in restoring the Union. He also intimates
that in the opinion OF the government there are
other means that may be thought indispensable
He has asked the Border States to emancipate
their slaves as one step toward this result. The
abolition Of slavery in the District of Columbia
is to be another step. Tomorrow may show
that the government is taking another step still
But whether it does or not, it is headed right
The progress it makes is in the right direction
EmancipatiOu NAV he the work of vo.rs mr.