The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-09

and whose vision does not take 10 the whole held,
fl d lauIt and say the m ,chine moves SOW, ana
that they are opposed to srndng more men, un-
less they do something with these already there
Blta glauce at thu field as il APP, ears today
wi silence every murmuT. To-day We have pos
session If all our Forts, Arsenal, and Navy
Y ards, with one or two exception. henIucSj,
nd Missouri are entirely, and Tence,see almost
in the Uaicn while IN Louisiana, Arkansas, Flor
ida, Virginia, aud North Car 3liIa our troops hold
by tar the balance of power. We have an army
OF hundred thou>and .Aen IN the held, wen
armed clothed and disciplined and besides all
this We have the side Of right aud Justice, ana
are the chosen instruments IN the hands OF thr
Almighty U pre,trve and PEI petuate the Cause of
civil liberty, and self.government III the world.
We mnot not be in hurry. Vast armies and
navles cannot be moved in a moment. They
must be ted, clothed and disciplined. They are
stu JCC TO thousand contingencies w"Icn zoe
know not OF. Again We are fighting an eLemy wao
is cur equ'l IN neatly every particular He has
the advantage OF beng IN his own country and
fighting in ms own CHI sen position, while we
must advance upon hm With no shelter bat the
strong arms and stout hearts OF our brave sol
diers. Yet with all these odds against Us VIZ have
charged s str0nghDlds ana carried his tOrthc4-
tOus at the poht OF the b4yOnet We have
op-ned tn Mississippi rom itSSource tn It's moan
except ' ck>burg and Port Hudson ana before
long tIu,t our t. RS will be greeted with The glad
Cidngs that shay too have talIAn, and that the
yroducts Ut the great w est can How undlsturb
To hr Atlantic.
When the rebellion first broke out, some people
wore foolish enough to ruppos THAI 20 600 msn
could march from the Potomac to the Gulf OF
MexIcoj and am sorry to nay that some If the
first ac's OF the neral Government, convinced
me that tue matter was not fi'liy under
stood there. But that lme has pae> d. The
thunder OF artillery on the 2l>t OF July, 1861,
IonSeoed he cafes oh he eyes o. the Atm.uI>-
rallon and he people, and we now behold the
sui CT III It's new IGhl yet | am fully convinced
tut the erroneous o'l'nN and IDEAS which people
entertained at The beginning Of to, war, have been
the c'u'e OF many buer disappointment ;, and
run tuI source OF d>tru-t and ur,pon ency, But
al this Is d ryasOn way we should ave ~ N
despair, Or abandon our Cause; but ON The other
hand, the very reason Why We should re-double
our rtiortS, aud put to'th strrngth sufficient 10
>'erc me these unlocked for difficulties.
WHAT would have been our 'om to-day, III
he>e weak-hearted and lmoer-kneed gentr who
now counsel submission TO the South, had occu-
ped The places OF our fathers IN the seven years
war tor our lnd p1ndenct
lnSe OF beng tree people, having the
respect and fear Of the world we should now be
Tn SerTle mnIons of G'eat Britain, and the ecOrn
and drrl>lon OF the whole eaIIh.
We must not give up at one or two defeats,
nut n We confidence IN our Cause, and put torth
our energies ia proportion TO the Obstacles to be
As people, we have made, as yet, no sacrifices
as compared WI h our eneme~. 1t true we have
lost men and lavlShIy spent our money but we
d ) not teei IT. and our Dizziness commuatIes AID
cTcts pleasure, 90 "hrIlhg down the glduy
stream as III uLn wal had never been heard of