Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-05-21


you can pay. or that the nation will be
sunk under a load of debt? Or did you
expect that ten or twelve powerful States
would be conquered in a few months {?
Now my opinion is that rather than SUBJ
nit to the naughty, cruel South, it would
be a thousand times better for you to sac
riice the last dollar you possess and to
have the last man among you beneath the
southern soil if it must be. You cannot
make any compromise with the South if
you would, that they would consider had
any binding force.
They do not desire to come under our
government again, and for one | do not
wish them to unless they will abolish Their
internal system of Slavery--the sum of
all villanies, -buying, selling and max
ing merchandise of the bodies and souls
of men. Then what is left for us to do
but fight it out like men. We must con-
quer them, or they they will conquer us.
We must establish our former government
or the Confederacy will invade the North.
And were they to go there Vermont and
the other New England states would be-
come the abomination of desolation.
Your fields would be laid waste, your
houses burned, your property destroyed
and stolen, your wives and daughters
would be turned over to the lusts of an
ignorant and brutal soldiery. The picture
is a dark one, but | firmly believe it is
below rather than above the reality. provi-
ded you acknowledge jeff. Davis govern
ment.
There are hosts of true men at the
North. And there are those too who
have weak hearts and feeble knees, and
who worship the almighty dollar supreme
ly, and would for the sake of peace sub
NIT to any terms, however disastrous to
themselves or the cause of Liberty,
Freedom and Right. do hope that Ver-
mont has not many sons upon her soil
with such a craven spirit. If you have
any such, they ought to leave your Dor
ders and take up their residence in Dixie,
there to find a more c%ongenial home.
And now let me tell you what the
Shareholders expected would be the con-
dition of things, after they had achieved
their first great victory at Bulls Run.
They expected that the North would make
haste and acknowledge Jeff Davis Presi-
dent of the whole United States and that
Nothern laborers would be compelled
to become the serfs or slaves of the South.
Ladies would say, chow | would like a
smart Yankee slave to do our sewing" and
add " we'll soon have them for the Yam
KEGS cannot fight. How they did scam
per at Bulls Run" / can assure you
that what | write is sacredly true as | am
knowing to the facts. In Cooke County,
Texas, they went so far as to take the
children Of Union men, and bind them
ont for Slaves. At one time in that coun-
ty they took forty-eight Union men from
their beds and hung them from the limbs
of trees till they were dead. / knew of
one man from that county who fled from
the demons, but was compelled to leave
his wife and four children behind, and at
the last interview he had with his wife
they mutually agreed that when the slave
holders zane to take them away, she was
to administer poison to them rather than
have them fall into the hands of men
whose tender mercies were cruelties.
=" How long, 0 Lord, how long"
Such is the horrid condition of Union
men in the South. Jeff. Davis reign is
truly a reign of terror. No man is al.
lowed to express his opinion if unfavora-
BILE to the South, or even to peacably leave
the country. Thousands of poor white
men have been dragooned into the service
against their will or wish, and have died,
not for liberty, but to establish a despot-
ism whose corner stone is slavery. The
farther we 60 south, the faster deserters
come into our lines, and | am creditably
informed that there are thousands now in
the woods of Texas and Louisiana, living