The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-07-25

millions at the present day are governed not
more by the living arm of Louis Napoleon,
strong and skilful as it is, than by the bloo-
dy ghost of Robespierre, mounting guard by
tie side of visionary guillotine.
Wherever the loyal people of any portion
of the Soath can show their feelings with
safety at the time, or with reasonable assur-
ance of continued protection, there is loyalty
enough. All along the banks of the Tennes-
see, as our gunboats ascended the river, the
inhabitants sent off the best from their plan
tations, and wept with joy at the sight Of the
old flag. On my recent tour in the West, l
nowhere spoke to more enthusiastic audi
ence than at st Louis. On the 10Th of April,
1861, the loyal sons of Massachusetts, were
marderously assailed in the streets of Balti-
more, and bridges were burned ard railroads
torn up, to stop the march of the troops has
tening to the defense of Washington.
In the course of the summer dozen mem
bers Of the legislature were sent to Fort
Warren, and at the next election the aggre-
gate vote was nearly as large as ever, and
the Union candidates everywhere chosen
Three or four weeks ago the mayor of Balti-
more and one or two hundred of the princi-
pal citizens visited Chicago, and the senti-
ments expressed at the public entertainments
were in the warmest strain of patriotism.
If three or four men at Richmond could
have been arrested and sent to Fortress
Monroe week before the convention was
dragooned into adopting the ordinance of
secession, eastern Virginia at this day would
have been as loyal as western Virginia.
And here you see, fellow-citizens, the ex-
travagant injustice of the journalists and pol
iticians abroad, who are striving to goad
their governments to interfere with the Uni
ted States while employed in crushing the
rebellion. The "cause of humanity" they
tell Us, requires that this civil war should
stop, and the independence of the South be
recognized.
But where do these European arbters of
our destinies propose to draw the line? ? Does
the cause of humanity require that the loyal
people of Maryland should be replaced under
the tyranny of the Baltimore mob; that the
lawful government of the United States
should be dispossessed of Fortress Monroe
and Norfolk Navy Yard, both formerly ceded
by Virginia to the general government and
the latter reconquered by the forces of the
Union? Does it require that ninety miles
of one Of the principal lines of communica
ton east and west should lie thrown into Z
foreign jurisdiction
/ Does the cause of humanity require tha,
loyal western Firginia-containing third O.
the territory and more than third of the
| free population of the "Ancient Dominion
shall again be made to wear the yoke O
slavehoIding eastern Virginia? Are Breck
inridge and Buckner to be brought back il
triumph into kentucky? Are all the cruel
ties described, and truly described, as know
from other sources, in Parson Brownlow'
Book, again to be visited on the Union mel
of Tennessee, and Harris and Pillow to be re
installed at Nashville and Memphis?
Does the cause of humanity require tha
Missouri should again be surrendered to tn
tender merces of Price? that some 2O,OO,
fugitive slave, who have escaped from thei
rebel masters OR been deserted by them
should be returned to slavery and abov
all, does it require that twelve millions of tn
free citizens of the United States, who in
habit the region drained by the Mississippi
and the Missouri. having just recovered tn
outlet of those noble rivers by the proves
of our naval heroes, should coolly give it u
to foreign power, to CRAFTY the disappoint
ed ambition of couple of aspirants to offic
at New Orleans?
say to foreign power, for if We recog
nize the independence of the southern cor
federacy We allow foreign power by SUI
prise, fraud and violence to possess itself {
one-half of the territory of the United States
with all the public property and public e:
tablishments contained in it; to establish il
self along curiously dovetailed frontier {
1900 or 200O miles. commanding some of tn
most important commercial and military sts
tions and lines of communication for trav
, and trade; one-half of the sea-coast of tn
Union, the navigation of our Mediterranea
sea, (the Gulf of Mexico, one-third as lare
as the Mediterranean of Europe,) and abo,
all that great arterial inle: into the heart
the continent, through which its very Ii
blood pours its imperial tides.
:, say We are told that "the cause of human
ity" requires US to surrender all this to 70
eign power. Would We surrender it to Fl
gland, to France or to Spain? Not an inc
of it. Why, then to the southern confeder
cy? Would any other government on cart
unless compelled by the direst necessit
make such surrender? Does not Fran
keep an army of 100000 men in Algeria,
prevent few wandering tribes of Arabs
rcent conquest-from recovering their ind
pendence?
Did not England strain her resources
the utmost, few years ago, to prevent t
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