The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-09

been sent on to the hospital in Phiade lphia
improving in health, with good prospect of soor
recovering.
To-day has been, if not merry, pleasant
Christmas for the men of this reg ion ent. o
binary drill and labor has been suspended. The
men have all been called out for public worship
and sermon was preached frem Luke 2: II
The weather was moderate, and the day pleas
ant, and nature seemed to smile upon the time
memorable for the birth of the worlds Redeemer.
We judge most of our men here missed those
| tokens OF affection that gladden. the home-crce
on this occasion. We conclude that Old Santa
Claus in his annual rounds dees rot visit the
tented field He must be too much of a coward
to risk bis life and treasures amid the pers OF
war. This is barren place in which to spend a
Christmas, but amid our destitutioa here of home
comforts and treasures, we may have Jesus for
our present Savior, and those unearthly blessings
which the gospel freely offers. The mission of
Christ was to glUe peace, and under his triumph
ant reign we expect that war will cease, and the
nations of the earth learn its arts no more. II
the money that has been wasted in war, had been
timely used to aid in spreading the triumphs Of
the gospel among all the nations of the earth
the present era in the worlds history might not
witness the deadly strife that now agitates ours
and other nations. How many appear to grudge
the small pittance they give to sustain the gopeI?
How little they seem to realize that it is the
cheapest remedy that Heaven could invent, to re.
lieve the wants and woes Of fallen humanity.
We have recently learned that the Governor
OF Vermont, and some other dgnitares were at
Washington. We have been very anxious to seq
them at our encampment, but in this we have been
disappointed. We learn with pleasure that COM
mendabe efforts are being made to have cur sick
and wounded soldiers sent to Vermont to recruit
their health. This may be well in cases where
disability for service must continue for a long
time to ceme. In cases of inconsistencies, per-
haps this might be an efficient remedy. but O.
remedy which might give undue contagon to that
comparatively harmless disease. DR.. LYMAN Of
Royalton is now at Washington and Alexandria.
looking up our disabled soldiers, and making ar
engagements fer their removal to our State. His
visit will be gladly received by those who are here
lett among strangers, SO far from the homes they
love. Men from the mountains form strange
local attachments for their native State.-jts
bracing air and cherished associations and tho
sick, we fancy, will recover more rapidly there
than here.
We noticed in our recent visit to Alexandrjs
and Washington, that the wounded are still ar.
irving at these places from the scene of that bloody
engagement at Fredericksburg. 1t is melar choIv
to leok upon these sad results of war, but the
blood of those slain in this cause, is WORTHY TO
mlnge with the blood of those who persisted in
the great struggle of our fathers to Law the foun.
dauon upon which rests the fair fabric of our free
institutions. If our government was worthy Of
being founded, even in blood, 1t is worthy of
being sustained. The conflict is one for the great
principles of freedom and popular government
lin which the world is interested. 1t is painfully
'evident that the leaders in this rebellion are op.
posed to the principles of government, based
upon The choice of the governed. In their view.
the aristocracy should rule and the laborng class
should be slaves.
We have heard much in regard to the demoral.
zing influence of camp life. If we can rightly
judge there is less profanity in this regiment than
heretofore least we are sure that this vice is
not gaining upon US. Soldiers, at least some
them, appear here to ignore the right of property
and appropriate that which belongs to others to