Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-08-27

A most novel and extraordinary Proc
lamation from your Excellency, "order-
ing and directing such portion Of the
Militia of the Third Brigade of the
Third Division of the Militia of Vermont
now doing duty in the State of New York,
both officers and men, forthwith to re-
turn to the respective places of their resi-
dence." has just been communicated to
the undersigned officers of said Brigade.
A measure SO unexampled requires that
we should state to your Excellency, the
reasons which induce us absolutely and
positively to refuse obedience to the order
contained in your Excellency's Proclama.
ton. With due Difference to your Excel
lency's opinion, we bumbly conceive, that
when We are ordered into the service Of
the Uuited States it becomes our duty,
when required, to march to the defence of
any section of the Union. We are not of
that class who believe that our duties as
citizens or soldiers. are circumscribed with.
in the narrow limits of the Town or State
in which we reside; but that we are un-
der paramount obligation to our country,
to the great confederation of States. We
further conceive that. while we are in act
ual service, and during the period for
which we were ordered into service, your
Excellency's power over us as Governor
of the State of Vermont is suspended.
If lis true, as your Excellency states,
that I'VE are out Of the jurisdiction or
control of the Executive of Vermont" we
would ask from whence your Excellency
derives the right. or presumes to exercise
the poa0er of ordering us to return from
the service in which we are now engaged?
If we were legally ordered into the SER
vice of the Uuitcd States, your Excellen.
cy must be sensible that you have no au-
thority to order us out of that service.
If we we're illegally ordered into the ser
vice, our continuance in it is either vol
untary, or compulsory. If voluntary, it
gives no one a right to demonstrate or
complain; il compulsory we can appeal
to the laws Of our country for redress
against those who illegally restrain us of
our liberty. In either case, We cannot
conceive the right your Excellency has to
interfere in the business. Viewing the
subject in this light, we conceive it our
duty to declare unequivocally to your Ex-
cellency, that we shall not obey your Elk.
cellency's order for returning, but shall
continue in the service of our country un-
til we are legally and honorably dlscharg.
ed. An invitation or order to desert the
standard of our country will never be
obeyed by us. although it proceeds from
the Governor and Captain General of
Vermont.
Perhaps it is proper that We should
content ourselves with merely giving your
Excellency the reasons which prevail upon
us to disregard your proclamation; but
we are impressed with the belief, that our
duty to ourselves, to the soldiers under
our command and to the public, require
that we should expose to the world, the
motives which produced, and the objects
which we're intended to be accomplished
by such an extraordinary proclamation.
We shall take the liberty to state to your
Excellency, plainly, our sentiments on
the subject. We consider your proclama.
ton as a gross insult to the officers and
soldiers in service, inasmucb as it implies
that they are 50 ignorant of their rights
as to believe that you nave authority to
command them in their present situation,
or so abandoned as to follow your insid-
ious advice. We cannot regard your
proclamation in any other light, than as
an unwarrantable stretch of executive .au.
thority, issued from the worst Of motives
to effect the basest purposes. 1t is, in
our opinion, a renewed instance Of that
spirit Of disorganization and anarchy
which is carried oh by faction to over.
whelm our country with ruin and dis
grace. Wccannot perceive what other oh.
ject your Excellcncy could have in view
than to embarrass the operations Of the
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