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

men and may hope for the approval of God.
This war is grand game, and the
gamesters are at their posts. The friends
and the enemies of liberty, all over the
world, are the spectators. Which will
have the crown =.
By the perpetratiOn of this great crime,
they have involved the entire nation in
sore calamities. 10 show this in few
words, look, first, at their own.
lst-To the criminals themselves. That
which at first was the crime of few, has,
by endorsement, become the crime of all
and all are now involved in the conse-
quences.
Those states had but little commerce,
but such as it was it is now swept from
the ocean by our cruisers. Their trade
was still more inferior. but this has been
paralyzed Of revenue arising from these
sources they, of course, have none. Moth
ing more need be said to show their tinan-
cial embarrassment than to name the
price of gold. The late quotations put it
at 600! Any farther inhatation of their
paper threatens to destroy it altogether.
To agriculture they had mainly given
themselves; but by the invasion, the gen.
eral disturbance of their country, the con-
slant escaping and insecurity of slaves,
and the employment of others on public
defenccs, even this branch and source of
their industry fails to meet the necessi-
ties of society. Of all luxuries the mass
es are deprived, and but few can be pro.
cured by the wealthy. What privations
to such self indulgent men Theirs are
already sore calamities, with every pros
poets of worse trials. These trials are en-
furiating them to many acts exceedingly
barbaric. To prevent slaves falling into
our hands. it is now well known they
hang, shoot, and even burn them. One
thousand recently they butchered and
burned to death, in Northern Alabama.
2d--But they are not the only suffer-
ers. The nation, too, is experiencing the
effects Of this crime. 1t has great CON-
merce, whose losses already are heavy,
1t is suffering too, in all its branches Of
home industry, trade, agriculture, the me.
chanic arts, manufactures, &c.
Its currency is deprecated. Deprived Of
specie basis it must deprcciate. Men
may talk about paper standard of value
which as it pays coupons in specie, semi
annually, secures currency from disastrous
depreciation. But it is reply enough tc
this, to say that men seem slow to invest
in funds which are irredeemable for &c
years-to accept securities which arc Ii
able any day to be in the control of al
enemy. But even if there was no wei CHI
attachable to either of these remarks, tn,
state of our currency is source of grea
embarrassment in our foreign transactions
To this the importers, the agents for for
eign missions, and even the government
itself, bear constant testimony.
But that which is proving to the natiol
the most serious evil is the loss of stand
ing abroad. Other nations are essential,
aristocratic; and to all such, power is tn
chief recommend the real passport to re
spect. While the United States had thi
passport, her flag was honored among for
eign nations. Then would capitalist
have fitted out and filled the seas witt
pirates to prey on her commerce? Blu
now are there any governments to utter
word or dlsapproval or to censure Urea
Britain for allowing her merchants to d
so? 1t is true indeed that the Unite
States has friends abroad but are the
at courts I? No. With these it is to dis
member-to put liberty down. Thos
friends are the Garibaldis, the Hugos
Kossuths and such men. They know
liberty triumphs here their success is u
timately sure; but if it 60 down herr
: and this republic be changed to an oil
garchy or military despotism more dete'
table than those which opprcss them
government where personality is dcnie
to whole race of men that they may |
: bought, sold and owned as inferior an
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