The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-01
Partisan Clamor.

W. ohS"Ny 'ui'y AptCoStu OuI UFlnlOH
OF the mistake made hy the Government, both
in policy and in principle, in the arrest OF Va
landIg CHAIN. The way in which tue press Of the
country receive this act, demonstrates quite
clearly who are endeavorlng to make parry CAP
ital out Of the peris of the country, or the mls
takes Of the Administrator. On the enc side
a large ma GRITTY of The Republican papers mod.
erately criticlse the course pursued by tue Ad
mlnlstratlon, or "a city pass II over IN silence
with no attempt To Justify It by any argument In
its support But tue Democratic press OF the
entle North are out IN tull cry, and with the
loudest kind OF clamor against this, as The y
term 1t, tyrannlcal course of Republican Al
mnlstrauon. They are busy getting up lndlg-
nation meetings, and passing re, olutlons ex press
ing the most violent Irotos atluns Of everlast-
ing ndellty TO { g Cause OF Tree speech, and tie
liberties Ut the people But there IL no need
that this party lion sh ould stop in his roaring
to inform the mutltuda that he Is only Snug,
the jJinor, and IN all his frenzy only playing -
part. The people have not iorg gotten hun, aud
Will recognize bin IN spite OF his dIsgulses.
His conversion 10 Il belief in The sacredness OF
Tree speech is too recent, ana tbe public have
too fresh remembrance Of his past record ON
this question, to allow themselves to be mlsed
by this Simulated Zeal Of new convert
Ii is true and the record will prove it, that
for the last forty ears the party hostile to the
aggreesons of the slave power, has been the PAL
ty OF free speech, while The party working to
conserve that destructive usutu Iou has been
che party opposed to free speech. The Denoc-
Iacy aud the Slavery party together, have al
waya been, IN practice, hostile to all Tree speech
but their own. Slavery Is built upon ignorance,
and every thing which fenced to dIspet that *
norance, whether free speecn or education, has
been opposed and denuuuced by these friends
OF Slavery. Orators who have endeavored to
awaken the conscience OF the public to the
griepons evils, moral and political, of Slavery,
have been mobbed by Democratic rowdles, w.th
The cordial endorse mrnt of Democratic papers
Atherton's gag Was forced Through CJosruss by
ac1atic press And even now these same con-
sentative gentlemen, who write fl .uiDy editorials
calling on the people to jealously guard their
Sacred heritage OF free speech, and resist. even
Gnto blood, any military INVASION OF their prvi-
legs Of calling President Llucolu IN lmbeclle,
our Generals iools, and tile war /. gigantic crime,
Will, 10 PARALLEL columns of their papers, DE-
nounce, with the most bitter nvectye, aud with
evident Indictment to riot, the speeches Of
Wendell Philips, the editorials oi Greeley, and
abe sermons OF Beecher and Cheever, aud wtll
commend the miil,ary spirit of returned soldiers
who expel peaceable travellers from he cars Tor
expressing theii opinion Of the late Gen Michel
Han Tney hope to make ,heil championship of
Tree speech . good enough Morgan I'LL "i,er
the election but ouce give them the power,
and their coni3mpt Vt courts who registered
ysd1 nents against their assumptions, would be-
mere conspicuous than Gen. J.ckson's al Nc"
Orleans, aud their hostility to tree speech
agalnsi slavery, would DO as IL has been Ia times
past, and Is now, one OF the cardinal principles
OF their po tlcal ta,ta. For political effect,
they new iascrlDe their cAmpaisn banners With
the good ola Republican watchword. Free
Speech, and hope by tuls snare ~ advance their
Political fortunes
"a We adneusa the people to beware of these
new preachers OF the truo pohncai ialth. Taere
is but one party in the country thas can, IN thv
long run, be the honest cham pIon~ OF fret speech.
aud that is The party hostlis TO slavery ana
IA i.unu advocating hnLh nl.iHA-