The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-20
Peace Stock Going Down in the Market

land, an improved tone respecting the prosecu-
tion of the war. The spring elections have shown
pretty concusively that, however dissatisfied the
people may have been last fall with the Admins
tration aud its conduct of the war, they are still
averse to surrender of the Government to
traitors and Democrats are beginning to see that,
ia order to make political capital out of the pres
eas troubled condition of the country, they must
20 in for vigorous prosecution of the war; They
are accordingly talking just now. much less
about the Olive branch than they did q few months
ago, and are devotng themselves more exclusive
tyte assaults upon the emancipation measures OF
the Government For the time, even, they are
letting up in their chronic abuse of Secretary
Chase and an irredeemable paper currency, and the
World the other day actually proposed recast of
the Cabinet, with Edward Everett, Secretary Of
State, Gen. Banks, Secretary of War, and some
body il Secretary Welles' place. making no pro-
vision, however, for any change in the Treasury
Department. All these are good symptoms !;
and unless the Administration make more blum
Gers than can reasonably be expected-in the
year to come, we think it can reckon on a toleraby
united support of the loyal North in its war
gneusares.
The rebels understand this, and the Richmond
Dispatch thus mourns over the Union triumph il
Connecticut
)" rhe hopes which rested on the triumph Of
Seymour have fallen to the ground The impor-
If no II
be exagg rated for if the res Ii had been other
wise the Northwest would have risen the peace
party would have been organized on permanent
basls, the next meeting of Congress would have
been followed by summary abrogation OF the i'm
peral powers bestowed upon LAcoln by the abo-
lltlon Congress Just ended, and CESSATION Of hos
tllities might have been confidently looked for, at
or before the close of the present year. Lincoln
las succeeded. Connecticut is lost, and with
1t goes the hope of an early peace based upon
party action at the North, which SO many enter
tanned"
Part of this reaction at the North has come
from better understanding of the real designs
OF the peace men, than at first appeared. There
was much, at first impression, pleasing and CRATE
ful 60 QUE sensbilities, wounded and bleeding as
they we're from all the terrible caamities of war,
in the gospel of peace, and men were ready to
welcome it and its apostles, at first, without SO
closely scrutirizng the road to the desired goal
They we're half persuaded, through their intense
desire that such might be the fact, to believe tina,
peace might be easily enough obtained if we
would only subdue our odthirsty passions,
chastise our revengeful tempers into loving and
fratsrnal dispositions, and make the Olive branch
instead of the sword the weapon of our warfare
upon cur misguided brethren." And it was
when lths brilliant colors OF this rhetoric OF peace
Mad faded, asd uuder it was seen the grim reality,
she yawping gulf of discovered country which
had 'oeea spanued only by the airy rainbow of
wes,ored Union, that the people abandoned their
false leaders, and announced again them de,ermi-
uation to accept 90 peace which should bring with
1t disruption of the Republic.
And now that the issue seems again to be de
gined with tolerabe clearness, We trust the peopl.
will keep it clearly in mind. Those who now, III
ske North, preach peace, are either the open o.
secret allies If the purpose of jeff Davis to des.
troy The Union. 1t they have any Intelligence.
ahey now know that there can be no peace With
whole Uuiun until rebellion is crushed and whe'
they declare for an armstice, as the late Ex-GoS.
Sc, mour of Connection, did, they mean by it II
he, Jeff. Davis have what territory ne claims. ant
=, more if be asks 1t. Wnen We at the North al
ready to yie hiatt, treason, we can then oil 2
81, declare for peace, and possibly enjsy it, just
ahe. slaves on The plantations etJoy peace, "he'
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