Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-01-20
The Enemies of the Government,

war. It hss chosen ito point Of attack and
BEGUN to work for the destruction Of the Union,
with scarcely concealed purpose While talking
loudly Of its devotion to tho Constitution and
the Union as it was, it is still with malignant
subtlety sndeaysriog 10 divide the North and
this not alone respecting the conduct Of tho
war, but by creating sectional iealousios and
exciting local prcudioes.
When Bragg made his incursion into Ken
tucky last summer, be issued a proclamation in-
tended for effect in the Northwestern States, IN
which he urged free trade and commercial ad.
vantases as reasons why thai vast region should
separate from the mani facluring East, aud JOIN
ito fortunes to the Southern Confederacy. From
that moment such pro.saycry Democrats al'
through the North as have dared do it, have
been preaching from Bragg's text, and exciting,
wherever it has been possible, prejudice
against New England ideas, New Eogland en-
terp.iso, aud New England Republicaulsn Not
long since we called the attention Of orr readers
to speech Of Richard I. Merck, Of Chicago,
in which he insinupted that was for the inter-
cat of the great West to separate Itself from
New England, and join the South. Since then
Gov Seymour, of New York, while not openly
advocating the same thing, has, by dextrous de-
prccation Of such a result, accomplished the
very purpose he had in mind Of advancing ar
guments in favor of it. And the latest effort
IN this direction, since the speech Of jeff Davis
to The Mississippi Legislature, is an address
Just delivered by s. $, Cox, Of Ohio, before a
Young Mems Union Democratic ASSOCIATION in
New York. This apostle Of the htter-day,
corrupt, secession Democracy, discoursed on
- Puritanism in politics" the whole body aud
spirit Of tho lecture being an elaborate and
studied assault upoa Now England manners, in
sttutions, politics aud religion. He abused the
Pilgrim fathers without stint, and quoted King
James as authority against them lilo said
Herod was bad, aud the Gends Of France were
worse, but the Puritans we're worse than either
His speech was full of most malignant elan
ders Of New England men, and most unblush-
ing distortions Of history to the prejudice o.
the Puntan, This hatred Of New England
was Justify cheered all along the line Of bis rho
torical denunciations OF men and principles toe
pure for him to comprehend, and nowhere wa'
the applause more deaiening than when he an.
nOunced that the Union would be reconstructed
whether New England was left out or not.
whittier DO these doctrines OF the Democra
cy tend Is there any gulf short Of secession
to which such rivers run? There is and can BE-
but one purpose which they are intended TO, and
do advance, and that is the cause Of JEFF, Davis
Davis himself does Mt scorn to use just these
argument The leading papers Of the rebels
indulge IN the same unmeasured abuse OF New
England the same aneers al her Purtanism
the same denuncation Of her philanthropy
And is anybody fsol enough to suppose that
JEFF. Davis employs these weapons to destroy the
Government, and ). 5. Cox to maintain it, that
Davis aud Cox do not, both OF them, know jnsl
what they arc about when they are atounoq
and stimulating avery prejudice against New
England And how impudent and unblush
'ug Ia uie enrOntery with which these DomocratI
pretend to do all this in ihe name OF the Union
and the Constitution
Into what gulf the Democracy, by thes, h.
raugues and appeals to selfintercst and looa
prejudicC', may be able to plunge the Republic
no man can ioreseo and very likely these ARCH
tec's OF ruin care AS little as they know, proyi
ded they can save Slavery and destroy To Re
publican party. That they arc playing, how
over, directly into the hands of jeff Davis, AM
doing their utmost to make the war unpopular
and to induce the people to withhold supple
from the Government for It's vigorous prosecu
ton, must be apparent to every impartial oh
server Of current events.
And we think VIC can see purpose il
those disorganlsers, to lot the South succeed
not permanently, for that would foreye
0poil all their hopes of an alliance with slave
holders hereafter in TIE political control Of tn
GovornmenI-but permit the rebellion to be
success now, and suffer the d" wsyward sister. t
depart in peace" Alter this, in this Democrati
programme, would come the reconstruction q
the Union, upon the improved, Democratic, ire
trade, Davis, negro confedcracy basis, recogniz
ing Slavery as Divine institution, and the cor
ncr-stone Of Republican Government, an
building up free institutions, with Freedom LEI
out, the Declaration Of Independence ignored
and the rights Of man loft wholly at the mere
of the traffckers in human flesh. No doub
the trainers oil this new, Davis, Demooratl
Government would leave New Engand OF
Plymouth Rock, the Maydower, Bunker Hill
would be too unpleasantly suggestive of Froo
dom for slaye-driyiug confcderacy. Tho pur
Democracy Of the six States in the Northeastern
corner OF the old Republic, would be porpotu
al rebuke to the corrupt, nCgro.driving Dcmoc
raoy Of the now Confederation which would ~
more every New England idea But The De
mocracy and JED. DAVIS may console themscvo
with the consideration tat into such a recon
ftructed Union as they propose on this Western
Continent, New Eugland would have as hltl
desire to entcr, as they for her ccmnnionship
Whatever ideas may control other portions o
the old Union, however much they may depar
from the precep,s, the maxims and tho law
which governed the fathers and trainers Of on
Government, whatever new lights they ma