The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-04

1t never can or will happen in this way. lneLe 70
but one remedy, and that Is 10 oe lUunu oul!
the physical power of the loyal peoPle SupP0.tLs
the government. loud applause. III liz b.
nbvs;csI newer nroperly directed and guided by
The exercise OF sufficient thought, which Will Iead
Won to lust conclusions as to what will De the COIL
seouences of such an exercise of power to you
and the rest of the people of the United States IN
case of its failure. And | would say, fellow clt-
gems. that YOU have heard but Of little more than
one half of the suffering people OF the SOUTH ana
when speak Of the suffering people OF the oouIn'
| speak of the body polite, saving and excepting
only the leaders OF the rebellion, the men VINO
have profted bv the violent changes when we
have seen, for all alike have suffered or perhaps
It would be better to say that all have Suffered
though not alike, 10 consequence OF the dreadful
! evenIualities OF war, Of the desoiatlon brought
upon the land bv the failure of trade, commerce.
agriculture, by the destruction of confidence be-
tween man and man, and the utter extinction OF
the protection of wise and salutary laws of the
South and the violent upheaving OF society under
such influences. Everybody has suffered IN that
respect speak of the whole body of the people
But whatever may be said OF the simple truths
that will utter here this night, 70 one knows
how deeply feel the fact that friends as well as
foes will sit in judgment upon what may let laii
from nv lips | know that have not yet passed
through the last ordeal Of tribulatlon to which l
must be submitted IN consequence OF TINS terrible
revolution Twas hard to sever all early c0nnec-
tons to part with beloved friends to give up my
position in society, whatever that might have been
it was hard to break the links that bound me to
wife and children, and TO leave nome without
knowing whether or not would ever return. But
! in lie trio
! for had true and loyal friends who have always
p;ven me aid and comfort. 1t may be that some
are falling away from me now, for my mind has
| been deliberately led to conclusion, whose tul
force and power have not ye, flashed upon their
thoughts, but to which the are as certainly deS-
tined to arrive IA, have tonight. cloud appIause)
| The cause, then, of this revolution, may thus be
seen. MIR. Spratt clearly declared that it did not
result from the fact that the people OF the North
i were coe cve--not because the gvernmen. OF the
United States was oppressive or coercive, either
no, because the South and its rights and lnStltu-
tons were not sufficiently protected by the con-
stitu,on and the laws but because the operations
and DEVELOPMENT of a free state OF society, it left
to grapp!e with Southern society, would naturally
DESTROY it by the mere effect OF moral force.
Respecting the cant about "the Union as twas,
Col. H. who has had personal experience of that
Union, thus speaks
And now, fellow citizens, the question is is it
proper, is it practicable TO restore things as they
were 1t is a fashionable term here to say " We
are for the constitution it is, and for the Union
as it was" The constitution as it is Yes. The
Union as it was !! No. Crhis was said with much
feeling and earnes,ness, and drew down tumuItous
The interruption was hissed and the speaker con-
tinued) | invoke the aid of the loyal people in
restoring the government OF the United States
But, fellow citizens, if you had the power, and
were to tender &c me to-nigh, the restoration of
the Union as it existed in the State Of Texas in
1861, would not thank you for the boom Zap
I plause.) If, because | cannot measure my con.
science or judgmen, with those of my neighbor
or Of majority OF my neishbors, am to be looked
upon with GOODNESS, suspicion and aversion if
am to be insulted and spit upon by the children
of my neighbors whom may have handled or
my knees, thinking that they would, at least re-
member me with kindness as their fathers neigh
Dor and friend; if | am to be looked upon a,
something oathsome, because cannot believe
| that slavery is the beginning and the end of al
! legitimate government; il, above all, cannot say
! what believe, that there are excuses and abuse
in respect to that institution, which ought to bt
looked to; if, in short, because might say wha
Washington said, believing it; what Jefferson
wrote and what all the good and great men o
5 that day believed, am to be stigmazed trai
5 tor, and made to suffer taitor's DOOM If tina
is 10 be the result of the Union as it was,' wan
y no such Union. (Appause.) If, when the In
t ion is restored, as | trust it will be, may be a
liberty to 60 out and realize the fact in practica
sense that | am the recipient Of the great and in
es,imable right intended to be secured to me b.
g the constitution OF the United States; i. cal
enjoy the right of speech we'll as the liberty
conscience, then can bless such Union; but
cannot bless one which "holds out the word c
q promise to the ear. to break it to the hope"
! cannot consent that my children shall ever be un
der the necessity of running around the streets
the village where | may happen to live busily en-
. gagged in trying to impress it on everybody's mine
q that they are sound on the subject of slavery
do not speak from the bitterness of hatred to tn
institution of slavery ] do not pretend for
I cannot be a hypocrite-that my conscience ha
q ever hurt me on account of being the owner of
n slave. 1t is not proper to discuss that question
9 with gentlemen who differ from me. Let it su
flee that the rebels have rendered the issue {
. slavery on the one hand, and freedom to tie viii,
:, race on the other.
A special dispatch from Washington to tn
n Herald furnishes the following, which is impol
tant if true
:, The Surgeons of the 9th Vermont Regimen