The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-24

can say,-that responsibility will be met, tina
reQusltion Will be answered, 50 far forth and s.
well, as God shall give me strength and wisdom
to do it. Applause.
Ny friends and fellow citizens, need not re-
mind for the sad reality is upon us ALL
that we have fallen upon evil tunes. l need
not remind you that our beloved country, but q
few months ago 50 united, SO peaceful, so pros
porous, to-day writhes and 5suds under the as
saults of gigantic Rebellion, the most unnat-
ural and most causeless and az the same time
tie most remOrseess, the most cruel and the
most atrocous in all its features, that has ever
risen to plague any nation or people. | need
not remind you that your beloved country, Of
late so tranquil, and SO benefccntly dispensing
blessings untold, with unsparing hand to all her
people, to-day staggers as if ready to fall, I'M
der the felon blows of fratricidal hands. | say
| have no occasion to remind you of this IN
happy condition of your country. You are re-
minded of it every day and every hour, IN more
marked and impressive forms than any poor
words of mine. The records of the world s his
tory will be searched in vain for parallel to
this stupendous crime. If we enquire whence
or wherefore, whence the origin and what the
motive Of this Rebellion, they are palpable, and
stamp its character if possible with bl4cker
ngrattude and with Il holder felony.
AS we all know, this Rebellion had its origin,
and derives its chief support, from that section
of the country which has most largely enjoyed
ls blessings, which has most largely shared its
honors and enOluments and rewards. Theae
were received from that Government which il
now seeks to overthrow and destroy. The Re-
bellion had its origin in that section of the
country which has controlled the Legislation
and disposed of the patronage of the General
Government Tor seyen-eights of the time since
its organization. For the greater part of the
time, for more than seventy years, it has been
the boast of the South that they made the Pres
idents and Cabinets and Judges and Foreign
Minister'S and all the local Federal officers, as
well as the Federal statutes. And it is, after
all, the same section this rebeious section, that
has carried elections and defeated elections, for
times not few, by menaces of disunion. From
time to time when any law has been passed or
proposed, when any measure of public policy
has been adopted or proposed to be adopted,
when any Federal election has been made, or
pending proposition that it should be made,
which did not exactly suit the views or the fan
ces, or coincide with the schemes of the south
ern chlvalry, they have been in the habit off
threatening disurcn Of the Government as the
y
to say, has too often prevailed. Thank God,
its power is now spent Applause.]
This rebellion, in its spirit and i. its purpose,
has remote origin, and dates much farther
back than the incoming of the present admins
tration, or the election of Mr.. Lincoln to the
Presidency. 1t lifted its lead and challenged
the authority of the Federal Government n
1882. Thequestion of the tariff was then used
as pretext; but Andrew jackson was then in
power, and before his power, before his stern
rebuke, notification skulked away and hid its !
face, [Applause.J
A few years afterward, in the time of one
John Tyler, of unenviable memory, we were
again threatened with dissolution of the Union
unless Texas should be annexed to the United
States, as a vast slaveholding Territory A lit
tie later and we were again threatened with |,
disruption of the Government if California
should be admitted as free State; and again
II the jefferson ordinance OF Freedom should
be applied to the vacant territories and still
again If the Missouri Compromise line Of slavery
restriction should not be ab-ogated. In 1856.
you remember how rebellion was threatened
against this Government, If u ma ority of the
1reemcn should presume to elect j. e. Fremont
over James Buchanan and last in the list, YOU
remember how in 1860, the chivalry threa tened
to tear this nation all TO tatters if We should so
tar disregard their wishes or dictation as to
elect Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency. These
threats have this once falle1 OF their purpose.
And the assassins Of the rebellIon lying in wait
for his life, tailed of their intended victim
AND by the grace D God, Abraham Lincoln ia
President OF these United States to-day. fan
plausa.
The sceptre of power, for the time being at
least, departed from tAc hands Of the Southern
Ohsarchy who had 80 long swayed it. and now
Ike Luctler, the ia,len angel, it rises IN great
rage to destroy the realm which it cannot rule.
But | entertain no manner Of doubt that
these same sceues Of rebellion wOulj have been
enacted, these same capers would have been cut
up by the Southern Chlyalry, had Stephen A
Douglas been elected to the Presidency, who by
his opposition to the great Lec0mpton swindieI
mad rendered himself little less obnoxious to the!
OEgarchy IN the South than Mr.. Llncoln him
sell. lannUunce only an authenticated and well
Known tact II saying that it has long been the
purpose OF this Oligarchy to establish
an independent Southern Coniederuey composed
exclusively OF Slaveholding States. And as ~
hrSt step to tue accomplishment of this end, it
has long been their settled purpose upon some
pretext, and at the earliest opportunity to break
up this Union, and to sever themselves from the
Free States.
This Is the origin, such is the purpose which
moves, and such is the spirit which anlmates this
accurscd and hell born Rebellion. This pur-
pose has beea announced, has been publicly
avowed, time and again, in the Halls of the
Federal Congress- IN popular Conventions, in
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