Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-05-19


will agree with US that the limit was placed full
far enough 10 the future. But the N. u V0r'a
| was not at all satisfied with such programme,
and ia the most excited rhetoric "pitched INTO
Gen. Hascall for thus daring TO intimate that lhl'
rebellion must be crushed in the next two years
Ghe motive for this onslaught is pam. II 'ne
present Administration should succeed IN thor
ouehly crushing treason, the politicians OF the
strpe of the World would be consigned, for the
remainder Of their natural lives, to political oo'l-
on. They understand this, and TO avoid result SO
unpleasant to their hopes they are working oy eV'
nv device short OF overt treason, to keep the re-
bsllion alive until it elects President OF their
political faith
10 ullhurmony with this purpose OF these pol
it.cians, i, their constant and unmitgated abuse
of every thing that is done by the Administration
looking to more vigorous prosecution OF the war;
They denounce our CONSUMPTION law as unconstl'
tulonal and despotic, worse than that of Russia
which has Just driven Poland into revolution and
yet they know that its only purpose IS to put at
the control of the Government force equal to
the task Of speedily crushing treason. If they de-
sire that rebellion should be put down, why at
tempt TO create bitter and dangerous hostility
to the law by which armies are to be raised
to destroy it? They denounce, with every
variety Of inHammatory appeals, the arrest
and punishment oil such Northern sympathlSer'
with treason as Vallandgham But if they de-
sire that the Government may speedily overcome
its enemies, why such opposition to efforts to s'oT
the mouths of those who are doing what they can
to weaken the confidence OF the people in the JUS
tice Of our cause and our right to destroy trea-
son
In short, everything the Government does ii
its efforts 10 enforce obedience to the laws Of tht
land, whether by armies at the South, or by the
civil and military arm at the North, is at once
seized upon by these schemers for party triumph
at the ballot box is distorted, carlcatured, painted
in the most hideous and revolving colors, and ther
held up to the peope as bugbear to Fighter
them from supper ting the Administration. Tht
people are not urged, by these unpatriotic poll
ticians, TO make haste in the work Of suppressinl
treason now, lest the blunders OF the Admin
istration should soon make il forever too late, bu
they are simply, pathetically, and HISTORICALLY adj
monshed that the way to save the country is tc
vote the Democratic ticket two years hence. Is
this anything but politicians trick the work Oh
gamblers who are willing to use treason on the
one side and the mistakes and blunders of the
Administration on the other, in desperate game
for the Presidential stakes in 1864 ? Is it any
thing better than the wicked and unieelng selfish
ness of men who refuse TO aid in binding up the
wounds of the country, unless their party can have
the fame and rewards that shall come in conse-
quence of the cure
We admonish the people to keep sharp eye
upon these political gamblers, these spectators
in the miseries and mslortunes Of their country.
If the Republic survives, party issues two years
hence will take care Of themselves. But we all
have duty to do to day, and each day until the
rebellion is crushed, and that duty is to give our
best endeavors, our most unselfsh efforts, our
hearlir, support, our kindest and best weighed
counsels, TO those who have been set in authority
over u.s. Through them now the country is to be
preserved from its enemies. We do not care
whether these leaders are Democrats or Republi.
cans. We only desire to know whether they are
DESTROYS of speedily destroying treason. II they
are, they are patriots, and that is enough. II they
make mistakes or commit bunders those mis-
takes and blunders should be pointed oct, not fol
the purpose Of influencing an election two years
hence, but to the end that they may not be re.
peated now. A man may be a true and honest
patriot and disagree widely from the Administra.
ton in much of its policy but he cannot be pa
trot il he works necessarily to weaken the arm o.
the Government in its struggle with rebellion
And |! this Republic is torn to pieces in this strife
it will be because the politicians have insisted or
making party capital out of the struggles ola free
people in defence Of their institutions