Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-05-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IrEMs.


We have already referred to the letter ad-
dressed by more than seven hundred French
Protestant clergymen to their English breth-
rem on the subject of the American war, urg-
ing that the success OF the cause represented
by the Confederate States A" would put back
the progress Of Christian civilization and of
humanity whole century" We now learn
that the English clergymen have prepared a
response Of the same tenor, which had re-
ceived fifteen hundred signatures at the last
accounts, when its circulation had but Just
begun.
A bill is before the confederate congress
limiting naturalization to the foreigners who
volunteer in the rebel service. The Rich
mond News says the bill is likely to pass, and
argues for it thus: Ethnologists have de-
cided that the sdmixture of an inferior with
superior race of the human species degrades
the latter to the level Of the former, and it is
very certain that unless we restrain immigra-
ton by the most stringent laws, we shall in
a very few years after peace is declared, be
overrun by Yankees and other foreigners, and
that the next generation Of southerners will
be the vilest mongrels."
A special dispatch from Springfield, Illi-
nois, to the Chicago Tribune says that seven
ty-tour manumitted negroes, former slaves OF
secessionists from Missouri. were stopped, q
few days since, after they had crossed the
Mississippi at Millersvlle, near Quincy, and
robbed of all the arms and money they had,
and then turned loose. The robbers were
Illinois Copperheads, The negroes have since
enlisted in Governor Andrews regiment.
1t is told the Wheeling Intellgencer as a
fact that when the rebels were at Morgantown
it was agreed in Waynesburgh, Penn, that
no defense of the place should be attempted,
and moreover, that Jesse Lazear. NJ c.. and
Cashier of the bank there, went out eight
miles with a flag of truce, hunting somebody
to surrender the town to, but found nobody
after long and dillgent search.
II is said that person who lost friends IN
the late battles on the Rappahauuock will be
unable to obtain their bodies unless the exact
localities where they are buried are known.
In that case Gen. Lee will, on application,
forward them to our lines No permission
will be given for an indiscriminatc search
The Uniformed Washington correspond
ent Of the Philadelphia North American
writes that There is rumor in circulation
that, after the late battles and the death of
Jackson, General Besuregard was telegraphed
to proceed to Richmond with all the force
that could be spared from his department
The Montreal papers state that Hon. j. h.
Giddings has so far recovered from his late
attack that he was enabled to be removed
from the ST. Lawrence hotel to the residence
of Mr.. Howes u. S. Vice Consul.
The Washington correspondent of the Tri-
buuo says that Gen Banks in private letter
expresses the expectation that Louisiana will
soon be ready to enter the Union again, this
time as free State.
A good mans wealth hereafter is the gool
he does in this world to his fellow men, =
When he dies people will say, What prop
erty has he left behind him :" But the an
gels will ask, "What good deeds has he sent
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