Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-10-09

| younS uuti vi Tue Country, anu Hltu uOrn
on the soil of Massachusetts,, educated in
these schools and instructed in their church.
es, come into the hall in this hour of trial
and peril and tell the world that they are
no more opposed TO that rebellion than they
are to what they are pleased to call assump-
tions of power by the government of the
United States for the suppression of the re-
tellion. Avoice-" Shame !") The dec
laration IS infamous, (applause) and the man
who utters it has but a step more to take,
and that is TO join the rebellion in over
throwing the government of the United
States. fsApplause.) The government de-
clares free slaves used for military pur-
poses, the slaves of rebels coming within
the lines Of our advancing armies, uses black
men to save the lives of our own white
brothers, proclaims slaves free in the rebel
States, and suspends the writ of habeas
corpus, to strengthen the military force ;;
and to these acts sustained by some of the
most accomplished Constitutional jurists of
America, these men of Massachusetts, de-
clare that they are as hostile as they are to
this wicked and bloody insurrection-this
gigantic effort to blot the Republic from the
map Of nations. God, in His abounding
mercy, may forgive this declaration, but
American patriots will do so never.
These men thank the soldiers who are
fighting our battles. God bless the soldiers
They thank them, but they tell them that
they could not express half their thanks
were they not to censure the cruel delay
and refusal to hold out the olive branch of
peace to erring States" Cruel delayl
| Why every man of them know that there
has not been moment since the standard
of civil war was raised by South Carolina,
when the government of the United States
could have offered terms TO the rebellion.
The moment the word "peace " should be
spoken-that moment this republic is sew
cred forever, and this nation of United
America disappears from the map of the
world. (Applause.) Every patriotic man
in America knows that the government of
the United States, to speak such word in
the ear of Jefferson Davis, means nothing
less than that Jefferson Davis slave-hoid-
ing confederacy must be acknowledged as
an achieved fact, and the Republic broken
forever. Yet Massachusetts men come in
to this hall, here in the heart of the Com
monwealth, and censure the government Of
the United States because it continues to
fight for the unity of the Republic, for the
suppression of the rebellion, and has never
offered terms of peace to the traitors whose
hands are red with the blood of thousands |
of thesons of Massachusetts. Gentlemen,
do these men expect to win victories on the
soil of Massachusetts with such sentiments
as these upon their lips? Do they expect
the Christian and patriotic people of this
Commonwealth TO respond to their appeals,
and vote for the party that thus arraigns
their government for not rendering peace TO
traitors? tell you, never, never. They
arraign the government for arbitrary ar
rests. Who has b, en- arrested in Massa-
chuseas? No one-many ought TO be.
loud applause.) Does not that apostate,
Franklin Pierce, tread the soil of New
England? (Vociferous applause.) Does
not that man who told jeff Davis before |
November, 1859, that if an army was sent
into the South for bj-gatlon, it would
have battle 10 fight on the Northern soil, !
with doubtful results, 60 free here in New
England Does not that man, who, in JAN |
uary, 1860, when democratic traitors were
pacing the halls of Congress, like Gagged IL
gers, ready to spring at the life of the ma
ton, wrote to jefferson Davis that if it i
came to blows the battle was not to be on |
Mason and Dixon's line merely, but was to
be here on the soil of New England, con-
tinue 10 insult the patriotism Of the people
Did not these words of treason encourage
Jefferson Davis and his traitor compeers to
raise the standard of revolt against the
country? (Applause) Does not this gov
ernment, this reviled administration, permit |
that traitor to walk free here in the sun
light of our own New England Does
not the government allow these men of
Massachusetts to slander it as much as they |
please? Who has harmed them? Who? |
And yet the government is arraigned for |
making few arrests of men who are plot
ting against the life of their nation. | say
to you, gentlemen, here to-day, what have
said on the floor of Congress of the United
States, and if God gives me liberty i mean
to say il again, (applause.) that the gov
eminent is to be blamed less for making
them. (Renewed applause.) If had the
power, would take these men who are |
plotting against the life of the nation, when
ever they are of consequence enough to do
so, and would hold them in the grippe of
American patriotism, until they ceased to
be dangerous to the country, when would
fling the worthless things away. (Laugh-
ter and cheers.) They arraisn the govern
ment for arbitrary arrests; fer arresting
the Vallandighams, who, in the language of
Commodore Maury, in the London Times,
:" is watching over the border" and if elect
ed, he means to put the State of Ohio
against the administration of the nation.
1t was an objectionable crime TO arrest him
a.d and him ~, his friand- Hanrh.nr \