The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-01
Our National Conflict.

cess the people are remarkably J4Dllah' ""'
bu,,.tuI but when We experience reverSes'
there Is a corresponding gloom and deJectioh H.
We notice at the present time many sPeaA
despairingIy in reference to our prospects
for final success But we see as yet no just
cause to despair. 10 us, 1t seems that at no
period in the national strife, have we had
| less reason to despair of the success OF the
Renublic. The reverses that have recently at
tended US at Richmond are nothing alarming
in their results, and are what we might expect
in war OF this character. We have great
cause for thanktulncss that our army was not
entiry demorazed. In our view there are
still lett us strong reasons to hope Tor our
national success
|. The rectitude Of our cause still remains.
We have been tol ced into this war I'D sell
defense If our fathers we're rlght In the
great struggle OF the Revolution, and IN lay
ing the foundations of our present government,
it must be right Tor US to vindicate and sus-
tain it against this vile attack oil armed trail
tors. If government is to be recognized as a
Divine insti ution, it must be right to lntorce
its claims, at least so far as they are in keep
ing with the government OF God. This war
has been commenced upon the government
without any just cause. and for the viodlcation
OF no worthy principle. The whole plan for
the destruction OF the government has been
conceived in sin, and brought forth in niquity,
and every step of its progress has been marked
with cruelty, robbery, and murder. 1t has
dra WI its lite-blood from the system of slavery,
and its trumphs are to be followed by cnforc-
ing in hopeless severity one OF the yiest sys-
tens of human vassaIase, that ever saw the
sun. If holy God can approve and sane
ton the spirit and purpose of This rebellion,
we can conceive Of no crime which infinite
justice might not be supposed to approve.
2. We are learning more fully the nature
and strength Of the foe with which we are
obliged to contend. 1t is quite evident that
all have been deceived upon this point. 1t
is quite obvious that our government did not
conceive the full magnitude Of the work to be
accomplished, or they would not have refused
to received more naen, and thus put a stop to
proposed enlistments. If it had been known
that a greater oree would be needed the
emergency would have been met by the album
dant resources of the country so literally
offered This lesson will not need to be
learned again, and it now appears evident
that The conflict Is Of a serious nature, and
no fears need be entertained that too much
strength will be elected for its overthrow.
We have been conjeeturiHg that the South
were not fully In earnest, but making this
disturbance in a freak of passion, which
would socn subsldo in sincere rep sntance and
submission. But Ae are aiming that they
are perfectly desperate in their infatuated
purpose to rule or ria the nation.
g. There is evidently more uranimity of
feeling in the loyal states, in regard to the
means to BE used to suppress the rebellion.
1t has been thong bit by some that it might
be subdusd by kindness and the rebels
brought to terms through the Influence Of
conservative political measures, and party
friends. 1t has been hoped that treason
might die and slavery live, and that while
one Was repudlated, the other nsight be cher
lshed. But the people are learning that one
cannot be sustained without giving vitality
to the o'her-that the best way to destroy
an effect is to remove the cause. Then
present Indications are that the loyal blacks
OF the Sruth, as well as the whites Of the
North are to be allowed to take part in
this great struggle for freedom, and no
movement promises greater success to the
country than this. If the strength of the
rebellion can be weakened by withdrawing
the blacks from 1t, and to be added TO the
cause OF the Union, We may confidently hope
ior inc speedy submission Ct the insurgents
T. The resources Of the loyal portion of
.he country greatly exceeds that of the rebels.
IL Is true the South has pushed the war thus
iat WIN surprising vlgor, but she has exhaus-
'eu all her resources. In the present emer-
gency she has no reserve to fall back upop--
ner army is shattered, but she has neither INCH
nor money wherewth to repenish it. If tho
very salvation OF the so-caed Conlederacy
demanded that fifty thousand more men be
brought into the field within the next mouth,
she could not raise one-6fth the number if
the Ship OF Confederate State SOVEREIGNTY.
now tossing and plungiDg violently in narrow
hnauclal straits, required but a million of
dollars to save it from wreck and ruin. and
insure safo and speedy arrival in she hsr.
Dor OF foreign recognition, the amount could
only be represented and Swallowed out 10 the
imagination by the issue of an additional
batch of worthless brown paper curreny
All her men have volunteered that were will.