The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-10
GRNEN MoUNrALN ENEEMAN, JUNE 10. 81:

you sta ,ins iosioriously at home, takins your
cate ana enjoying yourselves, whlie ~" men YOU
persuaded 10 JOIN the army are a"HeIi"S anu
perishlng ny thousands? hdre ma J~" &"
The couse, oad therefore I an M! there. But 1t
Is grossly lncOnoistrnt Tor .h'n "h' Di"7Ie' -
loudly to do So lllio a. lnus' ne-eaoou'a DO VA"
talk SO loudly AMI 20 o'';t about = never s'i"5
40 and about shedding their last drop IF
blood. | have ALWAYS observed in old contests
that those who were forever changing were un
reliable and did nothing. want tins war
stoTped! Whose heart has not dropped blood
who has son IN the Southern army lie
knew something of that unspeakaoie sorrow
Think ct this you who stay Ia; home aud bus
ter about whipping Yankees and establishing a
Southern Conedelacy LftuS stop kh'S tCdnt0"'
hopeless iUar. | would say this now, even
though had been IN the habit OF eating hre
five times day. IL Is running us The rebels
are burning up the cotton Why--in the name
of reason, lUhu? Don't it impOyerIsh the peo-
pie and the government Don 1t xiii their
credit and their banks Don't it rum our
hopes abroad? Then, this COnscrIptlon law. |
will not swallow t until swallow aloes, gall
and NORWOOD.
If was the rankest secessOnst alive, | could
not resist the conviction that this rebellion can
not be successfully managed with Southern re-
sources. Will you walt until an Overwhelming
force drives you into the ground VIII you
struggle against hope? When one eye is gouged
out, and the other Is about to follow, 1t Is time
to cry enough You were deceived IN this mat
ter. and facts show themselves In a strangely
different light from that which colored them II
year ago.
There was another question OF deep mpor-
tance to be considered The President and Con
gress have both said emphatlcaIly, that they
had no wish to ntettre with Slavery, or to DIS
turb the rights OF property. But at the same
tune the President had lntlnated that be re-
served for himself TO judge what might be II NIL
tary necessity in tie future, II the South per
sisted III waging this war, with stubborn oPpo-
stl0n And my word for it, rather than allow
the negroes to continue giving AID to the ,onth-
ern army, lie will enanclptle every slave IN the
South. 1t will become wnat Is called d military
necessity. and the question VIII be, whether the
Union or slavery Shall perish. He will be GER
tain to say the latter. SUPPOSE, however, he
never does do this--I don't say ne wll-but
suppose this war be fought To the bitter Ell l.,
what vii become of our slaves OF what value
Will they be They are running eff every day,
W hen the war gets to the Cotton States where
large districts density peopled with blacks
llmost exclusively, then slavery will be ruined
The slaves will run loose over the land, and
then who that loves his family would 1--we among
slave population roaming about IN search OF
food and punder he white population Will
be expelled or seii-exiled This question s
fraught with trouble. " neither the GOvern-
wills it or not, emancipation will become a nat
ural result Of the war. from the trouble and
friction it occasions. If had but one prayer
TO fer, II wonld be: GIVE peace to this un-
happy and oppressed people.