Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-03-27

| Although thoroughly schoOled 10 that be-
lief. the soldiers are not yet ready to charge
every misfortune we have bufiered during the
war, to the fault Of the Administration. That
u has made mistakes, and serious ones no
one will deny but not more fully than ever,
do we believe that the President has always
kept steadily in view tho best interests Of the
| country. Since VIC have teen able to realize
the awful magnitude Of that tide Of popular
opposition TO the Administration policy,
which for the last year the President as been
powerless to resist or turn aside; bu, now
happily for the cause Of freedom and human
/ ity that tide is broken, and with its breaking
has been removed the dark cloud Of deptes-
sion that has so long been lowering around
the cause Of liberty and the union.
do not choose to refer to any party be-
cause am not poitician--neither in the
modern illustration Of the term, have the
slightest desire to become one-preferfing
rather to deal always with men aud principles
leaving to the adherents Of old broken
| down and hacknied party names and titles, the
! delightful and interesting task Of coaxing into
open hostility TO the administrative policy Of
the President, that class Of brainless, soulless
! people in the country, who cling with such
tenacity and devutedness to every miserable
! hypocrtical shadow that walks the GARTH
wearing the outward badge Of their own po-
! litical faith For my own part, have never
| yet seen that person who dared say be had
ever been in the enjoyment Of single bless
/ ing, political or social, or had been the rccip-
lent Of any degree of prosperity or happiness
| in life, that was not the natural offspring IT.
and that he did not owe directly to. the wis
est, best, most liberal and humane govern
ment history or the world ever knew. And
now at time when that government seems to
/ be lettering upon the very verge Of ruin, we
care not through what cause, to see those
men who should be its prcseryers turn indlf.
iorently away from its support, and seem to
forget that 1t has been the faithful parent Of
all their prosperity, and happiness seems too
despicabe thing to contemplate Yet not
withstanding the tide of misfortune and OPP
position that has seemed to be continually
flowing against us, there is, there can now be,
but one thing wanting to insure tui
termination of the war, and speedy restora-
ton Of the Union, and that isa grand refor-
nation among the people at home, such one
as shall constitute the whole loyal North one
vast unit as united, inseparabe and unchang-
able as the hills, in the one determination not
to spare men or treasure, or to yield one sin
gle iota to miserable peace croakers, until ev-
cry vestigc Of rebellion is swept from the land.
1 need not refer to the feeling that now pre-
walls in the army, for there has lately gone up
to our homes throughout the country, a voice
from there. 50 strong aud powerful, that it
should cause 20 shrink at once into sheer
nOtbingness every cowardly traitor in the
North, who has dared to lfl his voice, or even
whisper aught against vigorous and deter
mined prosecution of the war. Those sol
diers who volunteered at the commencement
Of the war, have not braved the deadly MAS
ma of southern swamps, the misery and pes
thence that fingers around our hospitals, and
more than this, met death face TO face upon
the battlefield and still be unconscious OF
the sacrifices they have made. Yet all this
will they willingly do again, il the good OF
the country requires it, without murmur.-
But in the meantime they do not care to be
tainted, as they have often been, by those foi
whose homes and liberties they arc fighting
and those from whom they should receive
sympathy and support, with being tools OF
Lincolnites and abolitionists,
The soldiers now in the field need, and
soon expect to receive, assistance from home
But willingly will Vermont boys bear the
brunt Of the service alone few months long
er, and still feel themselves amply paid fol
their extra service, If the first new levy o
troops be required at home to clear out OF tn
country those miserable milk and water, on
horse patrots" and " anti-war" men, VIII
still hnger sheepishly around the dirty cor
: neIs Of every neighborhood and whisper dis
: loyalty, compromise and distrust, into ever
u ear hose owner they are assured will nc
D mete out to them at once, the just punish
tt meut their truiturous conduct merits
1t is possible the soldiers may now hay
:, become too sanguine in their hopes and eS
u pectations yet it does not seem possible th'
/ government which has, as natural resu
&c Of those wise and noble principles upon who
N it is founded, been blessed with degree
% prosperity that has commanded the admire
Al ton and respect of the world and the envy
&c nations, should now, by reason of sheer ina
'e tiyity and want of unity in its people, be a
lie lowed to fall to the ground at the hands
'e traitors Must people who have so Ion
20 Justly claimed TO be the first among nation
who claim to have been frat to give birth
L constitutional liberty, and the exercise
e, the now acknowledged right of men to govei
at themseves,-m they, OF rather. wild thu
DC be so blind to every inlerest-so utterly ial
ne to themselves and to poslerity, as thus 10 p
IL the lie to their former boastings; and, viii
TO permitting the downfall of so noble labr
he at once acknowledge themselves to be Il
e. meanest of slaves, and incapable of the exc
" else OF that right which has been the pride
lu all their former years.
he The only question now before the count
rs is-not can, but WILL the American peoI
e. haze a Government that shall, as it has alwa
90 done, grant to every subject the free exc
ne else OF every right and privilege conducive
he his happiness and prosperity, and at the SAT
lie time possess power in itself that shall
m capable Of resisting the attacks of mercilt
II" foes without, and more despicable traltC
we Within Dunng the last two years our |
nd tional goyernmeLt has been practically {
nv tbroned. Men of Vermont your sons a
Nv brothers have nobly gone forth by hundrc
is. to Ieinstato il and to aid in asserting its q
thority. They have without complaint endur
W. every hardship known to the camp AMI bait
cir field have bravely met death itself in /
cir fond hope of restoring the Union and ma
ors tanning the integrity Of the nation. The i
IS, and most important crisis OF the war IS n
al at hand.
md The power to restore the Union, and
ave perpetuate that government which is but
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