The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-06

of treason in the one case, could not have beer
true patriotism. Men DO not gather grapes o
thosns, and the true test, the fruit, which TIL,
nation is gathering to-day, both sweet and bit
ter, proves the honest, and sincere, and patriot,
devotion to country of the Northern opponent
of caste and slavery, in years past; and also
shows how false, and dishonest. and disloya
were all the deceitfu pretences of patriotic de.
votion to the Union that have made the staple
of Southern politics.
And the time is not far distant, certainly not
| if the Federal armies advance as vigorously and
successfully for the next three months as for the
last four weeks, when this same clamor against
the friends of freedom will be again raised
Already Garret Davis of Kentucky has touched
its key note in the Senate, by substantially
charging Senator Sumner with disloyalty be-
cause he was opposed to the admission of Sc
cessionist from Oregon to seat in The Senate
Mr.. Davis, the border state men, and many who
admire the policy of the border states in giving
their first love to slavery and their second love
to the Union, are taking up the cry against ev-
cry one who desires that the cause of all our
woe should be struck down now when the Gov
eminent has it in its grasp. The charge OF dis
unionism, disloyalty, is now and will be hurled
against every friend of freedom, by the same
class of men and politicians who have hereto
fore made capital and rode into power upon
their Pharlsalc pretcnces of devotion to the sa-
ID cause OF Union. And as the issue seems
to be already taking shape, it may not be I'M
timely to say, that one OF the purposes forwhich
the Union was created, and one of the most i'm
portaut reasons Why 1t should be preserved, is
that it may secure to the people of this country
'the blessings Of liberty" It was not established
alone. or chiefly, to make cotton, or corn, or
manufactures king, and it should not be pre-
served alone, or chiefly, for any such purpose.
But it was established chiefly that through it's
instrumentality the liberties which cur fathers
achieved might be transmitted to coming gene
rations. Those who deem the supremacy of
slavery, Or cotton, or wheat, or manufactures
Of more consequence 10 the people than the
preservation OF liberty, than progress in know
ledge, than advancement in christian civi'iza.
ton, will naturally enough be willing to ge,
South Carolina back into ,ho Union at any sac
rlfce of principle. They would be willing that
the bred Scott decision should be incorporated
into the Constitution, and with it provision
that treason should consist. among other things,
in speaking or writing anything against slavery.
They would he willing to see jeff Davis back
again in tie Senate and Floyd in the Treasury,
provided we could have pace and Union Ma
son and Hunter might return to their old seats
in the Senate, and Sumner might be struck
down by Southern bludgeons, provided we could
have peace and Union.
But those who believe that Slavery and com
nerce and manufactures and corn, are not the
chief ends for which the Union was created -
that this Western Republic has u higher des-
tiny, more sacred mission than to make itself
the first commercial nation on the glore, just as
the world was created for "a nobIer purpose than
to be mart OF trade, that the principles that
led to our declaration of independence, and
through the struggle Of the revolution to the |
Constitution and Union, were not alone or chiefly
the schemes of the huckster, the broker, the
speculator, Or the mercenary politician, but
Of the Christian patriot and phianthropisr who
looked forward to see the work OF his hand the
greatest because the ireest nation Oh the face of
the earth,-those who believe this, will labor
now, as they have for years, to restore the
Union to the principles of their fathers, to
make it more perfect by removingas far as pos.
sible the cause of the rebellion, to disarm Sa-
very of its power for injury, and to preserve the
Union in the true spirit in which our fathers
agreed to it, that through it we may " secure
me blessings Of liberty TO ourselves and our pos
'erity." Let US, if We have monarchy at all on
this continent, have Liberty, Queen as at first,
and let cotton, and corn, and manufactures, be
her obedient subjects and han dmaids.
Mr.. LORDS lecture, Wednesday evening, was, !
like all his efforts, a highly polished and !
elaborate production. The Hall was crowded |
and many went away unable to get even stand
ing room. His subject was, "The lessons of
Washington life in respect to the present state
of the Country; and he dwelt particularly on
the value Of the Union, combining himself, how
ever, chiefly to It's value in preserving and de
velopng the material and commercial interests
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