Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-08-18

has recently addressed some Of his friends a let
ter in which he puts forth the following doctrines
The party Of the administration declares that
the states and people Of the South shall be forced
to lay down their arms and submit. What thenE
Con6scation Of all property, emancipation OF all
slaves and the execution Of all who, directly or
indirectly, have taken part in the rebelon--name-
", nne-tenths Of the whole population, for gen.
eral amnesty has never as yet, been SO much as
suggested by either Congress or the Executive,
and unconstitutional submission is now the least
which is demanded, though il would do more,
not only for constitutional liberty, but for the
Union, than such men could accomplish in hun
bred years.
| need not repeat my often declared conviction
which time has always yindicated, that the south
cannot be conquered by force Of arms but graft.
ingifor arguments sake, the effectual check and
waning proportions Of the rebellion, as proclaim
ed now again for the hundredth time, by the or
Rans of the administration, and that by the second
Monday 10 January next all the armies OF the
confederates will have been captured or dispersed,
and their remaining five hundred thousand square
miles OF territory oyerrun and occupied, then
the hour for the pacifcation Of the South and
cancellation Of her people will have arrived, which
party will most readily be hearkened to by them
Who, as governor Of Ohio, will be the most
fcient agent in that great aud arduous task
Your candidate, committed wholly to the restor
alton OF the Union as it was, or the candidate oil
the administration, pledged to policy full, upon
the one hand, OF continued evaporation and hate,
and on the other of instruction and revenge.
At nearly the same time Bion Bradbury, Of
Maine, addressed letter to the Convention,
which nominated him for Governor, in which he
enunciates his principles as follows
1t seems TO me that the hope Of restoring the
Government rests in the united action of all con-
sentative men in resisting the lanatlcal spirit OF
radcalism largely pervading the land, which now
controls, with its revolutionary doctrines and per-
ncious influence, the counses Of the present ma
tional administration, and in substituting in its
stead an enlarged patriotism and liberal states
manship which looks alone to the conservation OF
the Constitution, and the restoration of the
Union with all the rights of the states unmpaired.
But opposition to the present war policy and
war measures Of the administration is not opposl-
ton to the government. The administration is
not the government. Those in authority are but
the agents OF the people to carry on the govern
ment under the Constitution. They may exceed
or peryert their constitutional powers-they may
destroy the Constitution itself. Under such cir.
cumstances, to oppose the administration is to
support the government.
These are fair, and tolerably succinct statements
of the bases Of operation from which the anti
war Democracy are making their campaign against
the Administration and as such we propose tC
give them little attention.
The Administration is arraigned, as being wrong
and radically SO, in its war policy. Mr.. Bradbury
calls il =" RADICAL" fanatcal," and revolutionary.
yallandigham is more specific, and names the
confscation measures, the emancipation proca-
nation, and the law which Furnishes treason with
DEATH as the crimes Of those in power. As these
opponents of. the war do not give the proof Of their
operations, however, we must look up the evidence
for ourselves. We find, in the first place, that at
the outbreak Of the rebellion very despotic and
wicked law was upon the statute book, which pro-
nounced the punishment Of death upon oil trail
tors Our hesthenish foreiathers passed this law,
| -tLc utoiu mth VI tho Soiit eimeo "ho hau bo
bowels Of compassion, as have the Vallandighams
and the Seymours and the other great men Of our
time. The last Congress, however, knowing very
well that the millions Of traitors at the South
would never be brought, through trials by
court and jury, to swing, as they richly deserved
to, and yet not quite willing that they should es-
,y;,be,t ,rovidad Erb,a,
milder punishment, to wit confscaton Of their
property. For this act, thus mitigating the pen
atty of the old law against treason, they have
been denounced as the most consummate scoun-
drels and despot,. Can it be that Vaandigham
would have laws against treason abolished
But the confiscaton touches Slavery Well, is
it any worse, any more inhuman, any more tyran.
nical, any more despotc, to punish traitor by
iberating his slaves than by an ugly twist about
his neck, with the knot under the left ear Is il
worse to take mans property than to take his
life And il the Government has the right to
take the one, has il not the right to take tn
otherP And il this administration is to be cursed
because it Furnishes treason with confscaton OIL
Slaves, what shall we say of the administration
which proposed to punish treason by taking the
life Of the traitorP And il the traitor could hsve
his choice, which punishment would he be likely
to preferP
= But the emancipation Of the Slaves Of rebel'
seems to distress valandigham. Well, whose fault
&, is it that this punishment over;akes them When
!. they rebelled at the outset their slave property
i, was safe. II they had returned from their rebel
a lion before January 1868, their slave property
= would have been safe. President Lincoln gave
them one hundred days notice before issuing hi:
4 proclamation, and they knew the condition Of
their further persistence in treason. They did
; not heed him, but chose to pursue their wicked
q rebellion and have they, or Vallandigham for
them, any ground of complaint that their proper
ty in human beings has, by the laws of war, been
declared free p-But the Union cannot be restored
> by force say these Democrats; and they iterate
and reterate this so necessarily, that doubtless
: some Of them have begun to believe it. In this
they are altogether too fast The first question
. to be settled is, How shall the rebellion be put
DOWN. and it is quite clear that il It cannot be
suppressed by force cannot be ended at all. The
success Of the Union armies thus far shows, at
least, that il can be badly beaten, its territory cut
' down nearly three-fourlhs, and its armies nearly
destroyed, by Orcei and what is to prevent force