Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-01-20

as there was between Dives and Lazarus. Gap
plause) understand that you have sent forth
your sons and brothers, not for the purpose OF
making peace, but war, wherever they found enc
mics. believe that ou sent out your sons and
brothers for the purpose Of insisting that the flag
OF the United States should wave everywhere 10
/ sympathy with the powers Of the United States
and upon that thesis | have acted. | encouraged
! the aboring men. thousand were employed
every day by the United States thirty-four thou.
sand we're fed every day by the United States,
and over seventeen thousand Of these were for
eigner,, whose Consuls assumed to represent
them, but who did not represent them truly, be-
cause the Consuls represent commerce aHd prop
/ erty, not men. Ihirty-losr thousand, as | have
said, we're fed every day, and precisely the same
action was taken toward men VINO needed this as
sistancs as would be taken here. But those men
had no voice in the newspapers abroad or at home,
and the consequence was, Their thanks and their
applause we're never heard, while the complaints
Of he property men, who felt that when they
were struck, slavery was stIucS, flowed all over
Europe and the North and every misre representa-
ton that the malice Of enemies and traitors could
devte was reSorted TO, in order 10 embarrass, and
1 possible defeat my plans. But there is one
hing | have right to say-and thank you, sir,
for adyerilng 10 it. and hl is, that from the first
week when our soldiers entered New Orleans un-
til left there, it was as safe as quiet, and as con-
yeni4nt TO attend to ones business, by day or BY
night as ever it was in The best.goverh,d cities Of
the Nouh-eyen our own. loud appause.)
I Now, my fiends, have detained you upon
these topics quite too long, | have only come
here TO meet YOU and hear from YOU those kind
i n.apifautgttaps ,,laasnI
besIow upon me, and to return to you ,he heart
felt gratitude which feel. | assure you, that to
your efforts, to the efforts Of Massachusetts,, and
to the ideas Of Massachusetts, and New England,
the country is indebted for that measure Of safe
/ ty which has been secured, and for those great eff
I fjtts which are now bling pat forth. Be not de-
ceised. BE not weary Remember this that
while We may feel this war is hard Tor u.s. it is the
effort Of desperation for them. have seen the
conscript laws Of The South taking The boy Of six
teen and the old maB Of sixy--ihe schoo master
not excepted-and force them into the ranks
While il costs US effort, it costs them des' Grafton.
While 1t costs us laoor il costs them lle-blood.
wish that they might he won back without this
but 50 they have mol chosen. As long as life lasts
as long as any power remains, We must stand by
the Union, one and undiyislble applause -
Every traitor, every man, every streom every like,
every liver, every mountain, that ever belonged
to the fig at the United States must still remain
under the flag Of the United States, cost what it
will, cost what it may Enthusiastic apphuse.)
Il, as you lNteringy observed, shall 60 back to
another fed Of duty, shall 20 back with the de-
termination never TO give up, never 10 comprom.
ise, (renesed appau,e) never TO have anything
but that fig Of osrs as the symbol Of our naion-
atty. Whoever differs from that let him 20
south Of Mason and Dxon's lne--he has no bus
iness here. (Apphuse.) We may have no means
OF dealing vi h him here, but there are plenty at
the South who will receive him with open arms,
Tor the reason that he is their friend, not the
/ friend Of the country. Who proposes TO give up
the tomb Of Washington Who Yorktown
Who the honors won by Jackson at New Orleans?
Who proposes to have anything less than that
which belongs 10 US ? " ho proposes TO give up
our fair claim to Mexico, if it comes TO that P
No ons proposes to give up the rights OF this
are some who fater-come what may, whether
veal or woe, there is one thing which we will not
lose, and that is, the supremacy of this Govern
ment over every inch OF our boundary.
| delire a single word on the question OF eman.
cipa,ion. On that question, you know, have
held certain opinions. Those opinions have re-
ceived, 10 some degree, correction. have views
10 otFel which | think will commend themselves
to the judgment Of every one Of you. Is there
man here who doubts that some time or other, in
the providence OF God, the negro is to be free
and that some day the protection OF the laws will
be extended over him, aud that he will become
free2 No man doubts that; and all desire TO
guard against the evils that may arise from that
change, and which cannot oe made without dlsor-
gaming our political system. 1t is my opinion
that all this tas beea sent upon the nation for
some great object; and it is my opinion that II
will be easier a, this time to settle this question
than 10 leave il to be settled here iter. Is IL not
evident 10 every mind that the day and hour have
come when all men, So far as this country is con-
cerned-and il is the last refuge OF s,yery on the
globe-shall be in political rights free and equal,
as they we're declared by the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence? (Applause.) Lelno man be concerned
about the question Of social equality. They will
be Just so far equal as God has made them equal,
ana no more and no less. Take care lest we be
found fighting against God Ii lie mas not made
them our equals they will not be our equals.
But lie has made them free. God Nilled them
free. God will have them free. And let HIS
will be done