The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-24

those who properly value the worth of free gov.
eminent as exemph6ed IN this last hope of the
human race here, the negro in any condition, is
not 10 be considered In competition uitE the thlrf
" millions of whites who claim this portion of the
American continent as their home and as the
home of their children. Let slavery be establish
ed in Boston, if need be, or rubbed out in South
Carolina bat let it never be told to the thousand
generations who are TO dwell upon the annals OF
these times, that four millions Of an inferior race
could be made the instrumentsli,ies for trampling
out the light of civil liberty on earth.
Gov Bradford, Of Maryland, has also recently
had occasion to write response to slaveheder,
who addressed him, complaining that runaway
slaves were protected by the military authorities
at Port Lookout Hospital. The Governor an.
lwers his irats secession correspondent sharply,
and in the course of his letter says:
"We are IN a state of ,oar--a war Of such
character and extent as modern times have never
witnessed and which, like all other wars, carries
in its train fearful list Of cslamities, surrounds
with camps and hospitals and fsrtlications, and
compels the individual, especially in the neigh
borhcod OF such posts for the sake OF great pub
lie exigencies to submit frequently to exactions
which at other times the laws OF the land would
promptly intsrpose to prevent.
A short time since we enjoyed, to an extent
equaled by no people upon earth, protection to
person and property undera constitution and lawsas
equal and as Just as the wisdom Of man could well
devise. But it suited the vaulting ambition of
certain Southern consrrators TO renounce this con
sttution and these laws, and to make war upon
their Government with the pretsnse OF rendering
more secure the tenure of that very species of
property the loss Of which is the subject of your
complaint. Many who have not openly Joined
in their rebellion, yet actNated apparently bya
smaller purpose, have continued to the present
time to aid and comfort them.
Our couRtry, thus openly and secretly assailed,
has bean forced IN self dsfescc, to take up arms
it has organized and equipped itB armies, and ca
tablished laws for their discipline and governments
they may occasionally come in conflict with the
rights Of the citizen such, as have already sald
is necessary consequence Of all war; but no one
doubts that when that war is ended and the au-
thoriiy of tn" nation completely re-established,
like other sufferers in similar cases, all who have
faithfully stood by their country will be fully in
IDENTIFIED for any Losses they may have sustained"
Further along IN the letter. he thus expresses
his purpose Of giving his unqualified support to the
Administration.
/ trust, sir, that shall never be wanting in
proper appreciation of the position OF our State,
her power or her dignity, nor in the purpose to
advance her prosperity and execute her laws by
all available means; and, without entering into
discussion of the doings of other States, or OF
how far Federal usurpaticn depends upon
the weak nerves of the Governors of the States,
hope shall always have fully nerve enough to
do precisely what believe to be my duty. That
duty at present, paramount to all others, aad die
tated by strict regard for the best interests and
dearest wishes Of the people of the State, is to
aid the Government in bringing this war to an
end, in the only way in which tever can be per-
manently ended, by pnttlng down the rebellion.
Whether always approve or not the policy which
the Administration may adopt, SO long as believe
it honestly in pursuit Of this as its obi though
it night be the only enc We may have in COM
mont shall have my support, SO believe it
will of all of our loyal people. II that support
is worth anything | an not willing, with such an
ebject in view, to subtract from its value by rails
ing an outcry OF joining in denunciations over sub.
ordinate issues, calcu4ted, il not courived, 10 d.
vide the friends of the Uuion ana promote the
hopes of the rebellion by weakening the hands of
the power changed with the duty OF surpressing
it,"
How miserable, by contrast with such uncon-
ditonal loyalty as these statesmen of slave states
exhibit, appears the actious partsanship and the
scarcely concealed sympathy with treason, which
seem 20 inspire the action of such men as Horatio
Seymour, Gov. Parker of New Jersey, and the
Vaandighams and Richardson's who represent
the malignant type ofNorth Western democracy.