Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-09-26

more and more arrogant in its claims,
until it has aimed at entire control in ma
tional affairs.
Thus selfish aristocracy, supported by
negro slavery, holding the common people
in ignorance, and discouraging free labor,
always aiming to undermine and destroy
a true democracy, has at length become
formidable power in the land.
So long as its claims were granted, or
could be secured by political intrigue, it
was willing to maintain union of the
states, since from such union it must
reap its highest advantage. But when it
became evident that its power must be
limited, it broke out at once into open re-
bellion, as the only hope Of accomplishing
its desired ends.
Thus has time developed the clements
of power at first landed on the Atlantic
shore These elements necessarily oppos-
ed to each other, could never harmonize,
nor could they always dwell together in
peace. One must gain the supremacy,
and when it appeared that free and pure
democracy was about to limit the power
fthe opposing element, and to say, "Thus
far shalt thou come, but no farther" then
the fell purpose, which has been long
cherished, was openly declared, viz, that
since under the Union; full and unlimited
sway cannot be allowed to an aristocratic
power, supported by negro slavery, that
Union must be dissolved, and govern
ment erected upon its ruins, which shall
nave for its corner stone, pledge of Sc
curity to the institution of slavery where
ever it shall please to assert its claims,
Said Mr. Calhoun, in 1912 "That we
Southrons are essentially aristocratic, |
cannot deny when we cease to control
this nation, through any party obstacle
that shall throw us out Of this rule and
control we shall then resort to a dissolu-
ton of the Union" That purpose has
ever since been cherished by the leading
politicians of the South.
Slavery is the one supporting pillars Of
the aristocratic power, and without it, in
this country, that power cannot exist.
Said the Hon. A. Ii. Stevens, early in
the progress of the rebellion, " African
slavery, as it exists among us, was the
immediate cause of the present revolution
The prevailing ideas entertained by JEFF
ferson, and by most of the leading States
men, at the time of the formation of the
old Constitution, were, that the enslave
ment of the African was in violation O.
the laws of nature, that it was wrong in
principle, socially. morally, and politi
cally. Those ideas however, were funda
mentally wrong. Our new government il
founded upon exactly the opposite idea
that the negro is not equal to the white
man that slavery is his true natural and
moral condition. This stone, which was
rejected by the first builders, is become
the chief stone Of the corner, in our new
edifce."
Thus, if it can be accomplished, sys
tenn of oppression, hated of God, and re
pudiated alike by the Puritan fathers
and the founders of the republic, is to b.
| organized and supported by national law
Shall this be? Shall the very life of re
publicanism be crushed out and our civil
social, educational and religious institu
tions be overthrown and destroyed /?
For an answer, witness the armed hosts
rushing with bold determination to the
field. See how full and free the sacrifice
of treasure and of life.
The pulse of every loyal man and wo-
man at the North, beats with firm re.
solve, that come what may, we will never
yield to the insolent demand. We have
confidence in our cause, and in the God Of
truth and justice. The right must tri.
umph.
Great has been and still must be the
sacrifice; hundreds of millions Of treasure,
and tens of thousands of lives, ere this
wicked and causeless rebellion is crushed
never to rise again. But the offering,
thus far, has been voluntary, willing
offering. Where was ever witnessed, pat
patriotism like that which has fred the