Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-03-03
How Can we Have Peace :

How Can we Have Peace?
What is the issue which the rebels make with
No Government? lst not disunon through
the fundamentally Of forcjle secession? Has
any one who has any authority to speak for
those who, H. great measure, control pu0lc
OPINION 10 the South, ever limited at the posi-
blty that the rebels we're fighting for anything
but separate Government Didn't they com
N nee tbs treason with thisannouncemcn and
have they not Professionally and consistently adj
hsrei to ibis purplsa2 There can be but one
answer to these questions, from all candid and
Intelligent men who have given the least
tJutbt and attention to the course Of South.
err gelsoa, from It's fist open demonstration,
mo.s Than two years ago, to the present time
ow can HE Government meet this issue
The South have, in arms, declared for disuiion,
--ah,tsh,ll the nation do ! Are there more
than Two COURSES lett to ito conquer treason
and compel the South to submit to the authority
q. jia 1 ion, OF to acknowledge that the pow
or OF the GOV rum Mt i, unequal to this work,
ami, asa Consequence, secure the best bounda-
ny p' pIstb.. between the nation that is to DO
lell. and TIE traitors wao are suffered 10 depart
l. there any middle ground upon which the
Government en- stand, with any prospect
that the rebels VIII NEE, it, and, in any way,
sstle the question and leave US one people again
with the " Constitution as 1t is, and the
UDi0n as it was, and the Government re-
70 ia one in which the majority shall rule
WI. the p'a:a men show US any common ground
upon wIlcl the Government and traitors can
stand, and yet save the Republic with the
Constitution as the Fathers made it2
Weak these questions in all seriousness,
We are as DESTROYS Of feaco as any one can be,
n peace thlt shall be stable and honorable, and
restore lh1 rishuul authority Of the federal
government We deplore the evils of war as
much as our peace neighbors can. We are not
non res nnts, however, bat believe that the
federal government has the right to employ
ufcs 30 restoring its authority ard carrying its
a. inJ iusurgent districts; and il battles
cone asa Consequence, and taxes, and all the
unpleasant conc0mnants Of war we trust we
have the lrmnesa and the courage 20 meet them
Ike men. We should be glad enough to know
that pIaumin leaves and bread and milk poulti-
c.s soIli entirely cure this national gangrene
without resort to clutery or surgery, but when
mr.d remedies have been employed in vain, we
think tae fire and the knife had better do their
work, unless We would invite national dssolu-
uJn.
Yet there are a great many persons and
large majority Of the so.caled Democratic pa
psra in tie country, who are talking and
preaching peace, as though it were practicable
with the res Grafton oil the Union as it was, and
viiholtuny altcrationsol the Constitution for
these men, while preaching peace, are noisy in
their ptctansl1ns OF devotion to the +" Constitu-
lion as. IL IT, and the Union as it was, " and
uulcs they are dishonest hey at least pretend
% believe that peace can be reached and the
Union saved by strictly Constitutional methods.
Gentlemen, bow do you propose to accomplish
your work The Government has found no way
BIT by force to restore the authority of the
Federal Government-wlll you be goud enoneh
10 give US gOT methods? 1t is easy to talk OF
the end, OF the peace which may follow the res.
iomuon OF tie natlonalauthority, but will you
give little more attention to the means /,
Is upon that particular branch of your pro
Gramme We want light And will YOU ais,
consider wien you ara discussing means, tina
Abraham Lincoln and not Valhndlaham. #
President aud probably will be for two year
- c'me-and that, while he remains 80. he i
'ommiuder-G-chial Of our army and navy
ami w'ii ultimately have word to say abou
me hod' Tor snpprcssing treason There ar
ihito Democratic papers in this State who tall
mu1l oil pnoi, AMI sons other way than b,
hard lighting to get The nation out of its pres
ent penis. vii some one of them briefly npt
ruec.rctly develop their method of atta,nin,
peace