The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-25
The Cause Of the War.

The Cause Of the War.
There are many still remaining in the North
ern States, yes, even in our own free Vermont,
who will affirm, with apparent honesty and sin
certy, that the sole cause of this bloody rebel
lion of the slaveocrats, is raceable to the +" Ab-
olitionists,' meaning by that title every man
who believes the system of American Slavery
in connection with the many social and political
evils it entails, to be wrong, and who are in ia
vor of using every constitutional means to pre-
vent the splanting of this national curse in
soil already free. AS far as their short-slghted
comprehension extends they are correct. The
expense to the State of building a prison may
be traced to the legislature who voted the order
for its erection; but beyond that honorable
body, can you not FIND some reason for this step
of aggression on the freedom of the thief?
Are not the systems of arstoeratic tyranny
and Republican liberty antagonstic Can
they live together in harmony? Does not the
institution OF Slavery foster the former, and
free labor and equality for all insure the latter
Then these two systems have come to deadly con-
fct-one or the other must be blotted from our
fair land, and we challenge this same Slavery
apologist, who lays to our door the cause of this
war, to say which, with his choosing, it shall
be!
In the language Of one of the ablest advo-
Gates of Slavery, " The administration of the
General Government should be placed in the
hands of those only, whom the South could
trust, as the pledged enemies of Republican
equality, and the friends of Slavery" Was not
the Abolitionst, if at all, the innocent and Just
cause of the war, when he said nay, in a con-
sttutonal way, to this arrangement?
We see again, in the following, hoo the Abo-
litionist has been the cause OF the war On the
Sd of January, 1861, the Hon. Mr.. Baker,
(that glorious, honored nancy of Oregon,
asked MIR. Benjamin of Louisiana, in the Sen
ate of the United States, g If we, free peo-
pie, really, in our hearts and consciences, be-
lievipg that Freedom is better for everything
than Slavery, do desire the advance of free SEN
timents, and do endeavor 10 assist that advance
IN constitu tional, legal way, is that ground for
separation Mr.. Benjamin replod-' say
yes, decidedly"
After the brutal assault of MIR. Brooks, o.
South Carolina, upon Senator Sumner in hil
seat in tie Senate of the United States, Mr.
Brooks said, at an ovation gwen him in his owr
State, in honor of the deed, 4" tell you, fellow
citizens, from the bottom of my heart, that the
only mode which think available for meeting i
(the issue) just to tear the Constitution of thu
United States, tramplelt under foot, and form
Southern Confederacy, every State of which shall
be slaveholding State" Reckon in the coup
the statements of the Vice President of the SO
called Southern Confederacy, that its chief cor
ner-stone is Slavery, and is there any other con
clus on possible, with regard to this modern cop
parhead, who throws the blame of this war upor
the Free States, than that he loves Slavery, will
all its trail of evils, better than Freedom anC
}, equality?