The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-12
REASONABLE LaWlessness.

fruit such seed as has been sown by teachers
like Vallandigham is likely to produce in this
country, those doubts ought to be at once dis
PEELED by the news of the old-blo0ded murder
of officers of the law in the peaceful exercise of
their functions in Indiana. For months, in the
street, on the platform, through the press, q
wicked and partisan clsmor has been kept up
against the Administration, the laws Of Con
For months such men as Vallandigham in the
West, and Wood and McMasters n New York,
seconded by such papers as the Chicago Tunes,
and the ADLER and as little scrupulous press OF
New York City, have been exciting the people
to revolutionary resistance to the laws of the
land The CONSUMPTION law has been denounced
as more tyrannical and oppressive than that of
Russia which has driven Poland into revolt, as
an unconstitutional and despotic trampling
alike upon the rights and liberties of the peo-
pile, and taking from their States the means and
the power of resistance to usurping Federal
rulers. Every spark OF discomfort has been dill
gently famed into fame ready to soorch and
burn the Northern States with the devouring
fires of civil war And all this has been done
in the sacr ed name of law and order, with a
clamorousl assertion ofregard for rights violated,
liberties trampled under foot, and laws and con-
situations overthrown and disregarded. And
now the harvest is coming
1t is but day or two ago that the New York
World. IN an adroitly and malicously cunning
article on the probabilities of resistance to the
enforcement of the CONSUMPTION law, nut into
the mouths and hearts of such traitors as those
wlo,have just struck at the Government in lndi-
ana, the very incentives they needed to make
them ready for their work Of blood. Elsewhere
the same malignant and partisan spite against
the Administ alton has been continually feeding
the minds of bad men with stimulants to their
evil and turbulent and revolutionary passions
Having failed to intimidate the Administration
by their bullying advice into a surrender of the
Government to their partisan direction, they
have conspired, with iendish cunning to terri
fly it into submission by the danger of treason
at the North as well as at the South. Having
failed at the balot-box, In the Spring elections,
to accomplish their purpose of SO Gripping the
Executive as to leave him and the Government
at their mercy, theyahave, with Satanic inge-
nuity worked to stir up evl-disposed persons to
resistance to law and revolt against the constitu-
ted authorities. Having failed to control the
will of the Government, they have attempted
to paralyze its arm. Having failed to rule the
Administration they have invoked the gods of
lAwlessness and anarchy, preferring the wild
fury of civil war to the law and order over
whose administration they could not preside.
1t is not long since we took occasion to say
that we were glad at last to find the men who
had been hitherto the champions Of the mob
spirit of the country, become the advocates of
law and order, and the Jealous cpposers of every
departure from the regular and peaceful exer-
cise'of all the functions of government. And
we look nov to see these advocates of obedience
to law denouncing, In no measured terms, this
erin iuaE lawlessness in Indiana. Let them, for
little while turn their batteries from the Ad.
ministration, and open hot and heavy FIRE on
the Law breakers in Indiana. They cannot ann say
as they have so often said when asked why they
did not denoanes Southern rebels that their
words would not reach them for their paper,
aud speeches go into all these Indiana home
and are the daily bread upon which these muir
derers feed. We wish we might hope to hear
from the lips Of these jealous friends of law a
scathing condemnation Of these crimes not only