Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-05-21

lightly esteemed and worthless, socially,
in arms, the cultivated freeman is on
level with him.
Hence to defend this nation against
such, the carefully reared, the educated,
and the good of our country mnst fall.
Alas! how many have already fallen
What parents are mourning for sons, wives
for husbands, and other loved ones Of whose
tender suffering less public notice can,
with propriety, he taken. War; did
those noble youths desire? O no Their
ambition was the preservation of q good
government, whose highest praise should
be impartiality and justice to all. They,
with all our people, were content with the
practical workings of their constitution,
and the prosecution of the arts ofpeace
and virtue.
Alas that to such people it should
been fatal to be coupled with those
who knew no honor, and who were as
dead Athe claim of patriotism and even
the obligation of an oath
The time for compromises, unless one
party prove traitor to his cause, IS past,
Neither power can, 60 back: one of the
parties must ultimately succumb. Shall
it be the party of liberty? If SO, it will
be effected by treachery among ourselves.
Submission to the South is not conceiva-
BILE on any hypothesis. Of treachery is
there any ground to fear? think there
is If our politicians so often betrayed
liberty to the Slave Power in times past,
when they went direct and alone from the
people, are they now beyond the power Of
base motives, when invested with author
ity little less than despotic; and implicit
ly obeyed by men whose very life is in
SOiuc StuSc III tuelI uduuS ieuCS iloul
many officers the government has some.
thing to fear; and this fear is enhanced
by the unmilitary character of the Chief
Magistrate. On the intrigues of the camp
he cannot have his eye. In this we have
the main explanation of several of oul
greatest disasters, and most of our delays
Much is also to be feared from civil fac
ton. Secure against faction and it is
hardly possible for republic to fall
divided by faction and it is equally i'm
possible for it to stand. This explain!
the fall of the ancient republics, and mod
ern commonwealths. Here then. are th,
sources of our danger and on them ou
adversary has fixed his main hope o
ultimate success.
If those men, who have Heratio Sey
mour at their head, reach power in tn
next administration, the liberty of thi
country perishes; but if Butler become
President our cause will have nothing I
fear The next presidential contest viii
! be between Union democrats and traito
democrats.
1t needs but slight share of sagacit
. to see that party, who in Advance of it
power bespeaks the aid of another natio
! to disintegrate its own, will ruin its ow
nation whenever the opportunity offers
What man. in whose heart one spark G
, love of country burns did not feel tina
heart sink with shame on hearing that
) party in the United States made overture
: to the hereditary enemies of their fathe
s land to assist them in effecting that yer
, disintegration.
t To such baseness the love of power ca
q lead some men, and so low can others fa
as to deem it their chief glory to subserv
o their ends.
/ Is the strength of this party warning
y So it is said. Governor Seymor's veto
: the suffrage bill does not indicate thi
c But little is said now by any of them
J, prudent men speak little only where it
f safe. Golden circles work by signs nj
: by sounds. Closer unity is thus secures
}, If in the day of action they succeed wit
: Geo. B. Mcclellan at their head, the di
j. integration of the republic comes G
a which would be the same thing to libert
d such reconstruction Of the government
'e will compensate the Slave power for the
l. losses, and invest them with all wish