Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-01-17
sInvery and the War.---Lct us sll
Unite.


meneement Of the war, not from any Change
Of views, but because little is needed
The rebellion is The frui, of slavery, gath
cred and harvested by the slave lower.---
Wien the rebellion is crushed out and put
d)wn, slavery goes with it. All the econ
serva,ism' in the world can't save it. lis
death blow has been struck, and what we
may see OF it hereafter will only be the
death struggles. Even the great Efforts Of
some Of the army officers at slave catching,
can do It no good. However p'o-slayery
the army may be, i; is moi in their power
to advance on the rebels and save slavery.
As the army advances, slavery mefs away.
We see this in Missosr, where hundreds
Of slaves have fed fiom their masters with
in a few weeks. A proclamation from the
president to-day would mol free the slaves
only as the army advanced. Now, there
!. fore, as we have all along slvocated, let all
loyal men unite in one grand demonstration
against the traitors.
II is very true that we have those among
US, but they are few and growing beautiful
ly less, whose greatest distress and fear is
that slavery won't be preserved, that it viii
in some way be injured, and you hear such
constantly prating about @negro equality"
the "place designed for bin by the Creator"
well mixed with phrases abou, the present
''black republican ADMINISTRATION and the
most tender solictude lest their political
party shall not be preserved in the present
war for the Union. Such are the northern
sccessionists, and most Of them give very
lame support to the government il in fact
they do any at all.
The slaves are coming in contact with
civilization for the first time ia their lives.
AT Fort Monroe, we understand, the chap
lain and others of the federal army, have
established schools for the contrabands, and
he same is being done by the soldiers at
Port Royal, who have sent back for ele-
mentary books for that purpose. These
are the incidents Of the war; and a. educa-
iion advances among the negroes, SO slavery
must recede.
il is true also, that where there is the
most slavery, there is the most treason. So
plain is II that people are getting their eyes
open on this point every day. In South
Carolina, where slaves are the most nu-
merous in proportion to the wllite popula-
ton, and where the Shareholders have al
Ways been the most rampant against the
government, where the FIRST gun was fired
againsi the American flag where treason
first lifted It's sneaky banner. there you find
the most slavery Go into Mississippi.
There you find the quintessence of slavery.
The slaves ontnumber the whites, aud the
Shareholders are most blatant against the
government, and Mississippi furnishes n
chief TO head the army Of the traitors.
Step into Georgia, another of the strong
slaveholding States, and there you find the
vice president Of this same oligarchy of
treason. Come along up into the border
States where slavery exists in a milder form.
where slaves are less numerous, and though
traitors are plenty, yet you begin 10 ind
Union and loyal men. Take Virginia for
example. There are but few slaves in the
western part Of that State, and there The
people are mostly loyal. Go into the south
eastern part of the same State, where there
is the most slavery, and there you find the
most treason. So of Kentucky and Mis-
souri, Those counties with the least sla-
very, have the least treason.
Come still further north into the Free
States, and where the people were unani-
nous against the principle of slavery, there
they are unanimous against the rebels. &c
into those sections where for years past
there has been the most sympathy with and
for the South, and there you will find, il
anywhere in the Free States, semi-traitor:
whose sympathies are still reaching out 10
s oo1s'i a"H WIZ arc giving naitlDB
hesitating support to the government.
The same may be said of individuals
There are exceptions of course, and some
who have stood by the Shareholders up TO a
recent period, are as good and loyal as any
citizens of the Republic. But wherever
you find semi-secessionist or traitor in III.
Free States. there you find pro-slavery
man-one who is afraid that slavery vii
be harmed in the war for the Union-anc
who as constantly prating about the negro,
who as slave and servant to some snob
occupies "she place designed for him by Iii
Creator"
Thus il is the plainest Of all cases, ihi
more slavery, the more treason. Put in
milier form and the result is the same. 4
little sympathy with slavery, little sympa
thy with the traitors follows.
And now, when the case has become $
plain, why need we longer quarrel anon.
ourselves, at home, on the subject of eman
cipa,ion. Let US unite and abolish the re
be!licp, knowing as we all DO, that whe,
that goes down, slavery goes with it. Tn
government E.ay profess all the " conserva
fisn in lie world. We don't believe i, ha