The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-26

served and had seemed to win, victory. 1t will
be time enough when peace has been conquered,
and freedom established all over the land, to ana
lize some of the battles which have been fought
bravely but uselessly fought; when noble lives
have been sacrificed and lost in vain. Our homes
have been bereft OF their hope and their strength
and our hearts rent with anguish. We cannot
forget the early carnage of Balls Bluff, or the Ia
ter m.rtyrdoms at Chancellorsville.
" Heroes for instant sacrifice prepared,
Yet Allied with ardor, and on triumph bent,
Mid direst forms of horrid accident !
To you who fell, and you whom slaughter spared
To guard the fallen and consammate the event,
Your land will rear o sacred monument"
But since the time when Gen. Lee massed his
army in the mountain regions of Pennsylvania,
our victories East and West and South have been
overwhelming and decisive. Now, indeed, over
the electric wires we have intelligence of fearful
battle and bloody carnage beyond Chattanooga
The war-worn soldiers from the Army of Virginia
and the troops of Johnston, and the whipped
prisoners of Vicksburg, have been united with the
forces nnder Bragg to crush, if they could by
quick and desperate attack, the gallant men who
fight under the banner of RoSecrans. We shall
| find that they have failed to accomplish what they
designed. Rosecrars will hold his ground. One
crown of roses is not destined yet to fade. His
name and his lite are guaranty of victory.
But who of US did not rejoice that the army
of the Potomac in those first days of July found
at once it's leader and lts opportunity Who
can reckon up the debt that We owe to Meade,
and to his valiant generals and heroic men for
that weeks work
The planned invasion Of Pennsy ylvania by
their ablest rebel general with his army OF
trained veterans, that had learned their lessons
Al l.F. D;.l>.~ l.,ki
tam. near fredericksburg, and at Chancelors-
vile, had been regarded by traitors at the North
and rebels at the South aud their English friends
and allies as the probable forerunner of Union
defeat and of foreign recognition When Long
streets division was beaten back on that Friday
}, in July, that triple-headed foe was slam The
o rebel hosts were scattered and driven from our
soil. The chances of foreign recognition were
lost, when the great battle was lost which was
to make recognition possible. And Northern
= traitors What became of them The meanest
: of all our foes No matter whether living in
Massachusetts, or New York. Thank God they
l too were paralyzed by the great victory at Get
i tysburg. What if that battle had been lost and
+ the conquerlng hosts of the soldier of Arlington
q had held in consequence Harrisburg, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore Out from every hole
& these accursed traitors would have sprung into
y life again, and dshonorabls peace would have
9 been counseled, and cowardly submission and
miserable compromise !! am not speaking now
of War Democrats-they know how to light
10 Butler Of Massachusetts, and Logan of Illinois
d and such as they. They are with us and VIZ
with them. Such men as they have been invi
Ia ted to assemble with u. here to-day, and with
them we can fraternze and act. Close upor
v the victories at Gettysburg have come to US th
70 decisive successes upon the Mississippi. Th
OF great river flows with her tr butte streams proud
" to the Cult, and no rebel stronghold intercept
!, the loyal commerce that peacefully vexes be
" free waters. Honor to Grant, the hero OF Vlcks
il borg, and to the brave Porter his Admiral an
Id ally, and honor to Banks, the victor OF Por
=. Hudson. The Vest and the East have joine
hands, and shall not be parted forever more
10 Victory has followed victory-Chattanooga
re Knoxville, Cumberland Gsp-Rosecrans, Burn
t." side and Sherman What shall we say of them
What shall the country not say OF them, an
for them and their hero soldiers And ST Gil
o' more and Dahlgren on Morris Island and in th
IT, waters near Charleston
ne But while wo remember oar valiant SOLDIER
m let US never forget the heroism &C For! HuosoI
and FernaEdina, and Fort Wagner, where u
black soldier first fought for the stars and stripe
all honor to those men, brothers IN arms an
fellow fighters for freedom. Let them fight, an
Is. lot them conquer. Who have better right
fight for the Union in South Carolina than tho
=. men for whose oppression South Carolina bega
this war for slavery
nd But all these victories are bringing near to
ch, some questions which Massachusetts must di
cuss and help to answer After victories con
:. peace, and with peace comes reunion. B'
i'S' how North Carolina and Tennessee, bone
ZEN her bone, will soon seek in some way
nas throw off the tyrant's yoke and be restore