The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-08-29
Up and Act!


~.. man who is not fully convinced by this
in, the nion has come to the bitter
5'p,l,t he hard TO convince. For more
., o.e year We have put off doing our m-
. ard talked incessantly of the wants of
...,mv.' We have demonstrated thou
.., ines that they wanted quinire and cal
.- 5eetaad brandy, with every other COM
.,. ..xary, and necessary, and have ended
., ,coyer.ng that they have forced every
A,o their army; that they have, at all
.,.,,, abundance OF corn meal, raised by
-,erocs whom Northern Conservatism
=, ..ra.eI to free that they are well sup
.. with arms from Abolition England and
J.. every day finds them more and more
Ike and iuuled to war.
lime was, We are told, when a bold, 'radi-
ash woaid have prevented all this. Time
., VIXEN those who urged such vigorous
he.mlEg measureS-and we were
.lag ,hem-were denounced as insane and
...oas by the Northern Conservative
..s. Tine was, when tha Irishman's poll
so. capturing horse in hundred-acre lot,
surrounding him, might have been ad.
.a:4s-ousy exchanged for the more dire ct
..,r O! going at him. Time was, when
;,r were very few troops in Richmond. All
, when tme--and very precious time
j.; now, time is and very little time to
,., either. The rebels, it seems, can live
d. corn meal and whisky as well under tents
he! once dId in cabins. They are build
grams and 'iron-clads,' and very good ones.
-g! have an immense army, and three or
millions Of negroes to plant for it and
-r. !. Hundreds of thousands of acres of
I'D corn land are waving in the hot breezes
Dixie. These are facts of the strongest
u 50 strong that We have actually been
@pe..rd to adopt some few of the radical
... Tu.nous' measures advocated from the
.-saGlng by AN insane and tanatical band of
...,yrN, for whose blood the New York Her.
.. and is weekly ape, the Boston Courier,
.yr not yet ceased to howl or chatter. Ne
..','' II seems, are, after all, to be employed
,Ueumes, and all the work is not to be put
N 'oIdlers who, as the correspondent OF
.e London Times has truly said, have en-
.'td disasters and suilerings caused by un-
4aonable neglect, such as no European
ps would have borne without revolt 1t
even thought by some hardy and very des-
.-'-;e radicals, that negroes may be armed
s.. made to fight for the Union in fact, it
l..c possible that, should the North sue.
.-., "a resisting the South 4 Year or two lon
,aor should We undergo few more reiy
,.'4l disasters, we may 90 so far as to be-.
-,e that a great French writer has declared
awork on military art, that War is war,
he wages It best who Injuries his enemy
,N. We are aware of the horror which
' anatlcal, radical, and, of course, Aboli-
..'t axiom, by writer of the school Of
4.o.ron, must inspire, and therefore qualify
assertion by the word may For to be-
Sc that the main props Of the enemy are
'e shocked away from under them, and
' We are to fairly fight them in erery way
'.'r' desperate and un-Christan state
4al 10 which no one should Weld, and
'~ya would, in fact, be impious, nay, even
1''emocratlc and un-conservative.
" 5 true that by throwing grass at the
.'~!' as President Lincoln quantity terms
the anaconda game, and above all by
-'aat.y yelling, NO niger" and Down
W.. the .Abolitionists = we have contriyed to
some forty thousand good soldiers lives
'"St1Se; TO stand where We were, and to
'' A!radS OF men paralyzed and kept
IA rom war just at the instant when their
800 Was the most needed. We beg our read
- 10 seriously reflect on this last fact. There
'. @4moers Of essential and bold steps in
10y war; and against the enemy, which must,
"7 ordinary course of events, be taken, as
''',dnce, Gen Hunters policy of employ
"'S'or>. as Gen Jackson did. With such
,'s' t"neF'1g eonsidered,no earthly politics
''.''r' has anything to do. Yet every one
"''e >Ater necessities of war which Ma
'" would have grasped at the first, have
promptly opposed as radical, traitorous,
'"'eFnal, by those tories who are only
'~'S ;or the South to come in again to
M anu lex its hands as of old. Every
''>-Fe' rom the first arming oftroops down
."e employment of blacks, has been fought
'''>r 'Feactlonaries,' savagely, step by step
might add, in parenthesis, that it has
~haS!nS to see how they ate dirt took
"a 'Ne!r words and praised these very
''ts-:es' one by one, as soon as they saw
'-' '~Aen up by the administration. The
'' h1a OF Italian history was a small hu
.'1'''A to that which the democratic press
'+'e0 when it glorifed Lincolns 'remu
''.''. message, and giided the pill by de
'''"s i liieaven knows how y splendid
.'"?A over Aboliticn-,hat same remuner
'. -'c'Fae which, when urged in the New
~ '''0IAe, and in these pages, had beer
..,,."- as fearially 'aboli,ionr
'''"e7er all these conservative attacks il
'''oA on every measure which any on,
'' >-e would become necessities from