Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-04-03
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HOW TRUE.
90 A few more unfortunate
Weak and importmate"
Have gone with Gen. StoggI

It appears to me that he have read history to
iie ptont who does not see IN the growing jealousy
and hatred between the north and the south the seeds
Of dscord and civil strife which may end in civil war
and the destruction of this government. that
no one can aver that there more hatred between
Great Britain aud her colonies, ten even five
years before revolution than exists between the
North and the South and the il there be-
seems likely 10 endure. Demagogues North and South
fan this fame for selfish and ambitious objects, and the
great Of the people. ehich usually and
plssrc are likely 10 be drapH INTO The contest and
that unable. unwilling ourselves -Ez-
tract from a letter 10 X. Nick. ORMsBY, Of Bradford
'critteH BY Er-Presidera Fillmore
The predictions Of " great men" are always
very interesting. In this light we shall see
in this extract much to claim our attention.
" Jealousy and hatred between the North and
South" have been growing for years. And
what has caused it, Who have caused it ;
" Demagogues North and South fed this
fame for selfish and ambitious objects" says
Mr.. Fillmore, and he is right,
1t has been the plan Of the leaders in Re-
bellion to embtter the people of the South
against the North. 1t has been the plan Of
their sympathizers OF the North to aid them.
" The masses" did not know how terribly they
had been abused until " Northern aud Southern
demagogues" Informed the,ni 1t was once
supposed by the "masses' Of both sections
that an honest difference of opinion was no
cause Of quarrel" But they were soon made
to believe that all that was done by political
opponents was done through envy and malice
And how was this done; Why, by dema-
gogues" who never let single opportunity
slip to vlhfy the opposing party.
1t is amusing" said Rev. Edmund Ruifin,
Of Virginia, aleader among the rebels, "to see
how all the stump-s speakers and small editors
succeeded in ousing up the people. In Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas, and the interior OF Geor-
gia, where they never lost a slave, and never
saw an abolitionist, they would go raving mad
over the mere mention of the name of Yam
kee." 1t was blind hate--a feeling Of
jealousy-springng from antdgORistic institu-
tons In my opinion the words Of President
Lincoln, wheu he said, " this country cannot
erist half sldve and half Free we're literally
true. We meant from the first to put slavery
oUer all war was the result"
This was the frank, straight forward con-
fessoin of an able rebel leader. 1t is the
same in sentiment as that of Davis opinion" I,
Stevens, Mason's, Slidelrs ,Vancy's, Toombs'
and Rhetts. None Of them lay the war to
the door of his or that party, but claim it to
be the result Of deliberate and long laid plans
of their ot0n. The means used in bringing a.
bout state of hatred necessary for it, was
the " Demngogue - The means they now
use TO help them through the war, are arms
to defend their own territory-"Demsgogu
of the PallandighGm, Oarrigan and Wood
school to SOW dissension among their oppos-
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