The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-03

voice OF our Miriam is obeyed, as she sings
Weave silks We Lyons lcoms!n
Till the goldjust is combed from the golden
locks, and boarded to buy bread till the fast.
driving youth smokes bis clay pipe on the
platform OF The horse-car; ill the music-griDd-
ers cease because none will pay them till
| there are no peaches 10 the windows at twenty.
four dollars dozen, and no heaps Of bananas
and plne-apples selling at tue street corners
till the ten founced dress has but three floun.
ces, and 1t Is felony to drink champagne /; wait
till these changes show themselves, the signs
OF deeper wants, the preludes of exhaustion
and bankruptcy; then let US talk of the Mael-
strom; but till then let us not be towards with
our purses, while brave men are cmptying the
hearts upon the earth for US let us not whine
over our imaginary ruin, while the reversed
current of circing events is carrying us fur
Their aud further, every hour, beyond the in-
fuenco OF tn great falling which was born of
our wealth, and Of the deadly sin which was
our fatal inheritance
There are those who profess to fear that
our Government is becoming mere irrespon.
sible tyranny. If there are any who really
believe that our present Chief Magistrate
means to found dynasty for himself and fam
ily-that coup d etat is in preparation by
which be is to become ABRAHAM THE FIRST.
DEL GRATIA-they can not have duly pom
dered his letter of June 18th, in which he un.
bosoms himself with the simplicity of rustic
lover called upon by an anxious parent to ex-
plain his Intentions. The force of his argu-
ment is not at all injured by the homeliuess of
his illustrations. The American people are
not much afraid that their liberties will be
usurped. An army of Legislators is not very
likely to throw away its political privileges,
and the idea Of despotism resting on an open
ballot-box, is like that of Bunker Hill Monu.
meDt built on the waves of Boston Harbor.
We know pretty nearly how much sincerity
there Is In the fears so DANGEROUSLY expressed,
and how far they are found in company with
uncompromising hostility to the armed enemies
of the nation. We have learned to put true
value on the services of the Watchdog who
bays the moon but does not catch the thief!
The men who are SO busy holy -stoning the
quarterback while all hands are wanted to
keep the ship afoat, can no doubt show spots
upon it that would be very unsightly in fair
weather. No thoroughly loyal man noed suf-
Ter from any arbitrary exercise Of power, such
as emergencies always give rise to. If any
hat-loyal man forgets his code of halEdecen.
cies and half duties so far as to become obuox-
lous to the peremptory justice which takes the
place OF slower forms in all centers of copfa-
grafton, there il no sympathy for him among
the soldiers who are risklng their lives for US
perhaps there is even more satisfaction than
when an avowed traitor is caught and punished.
For of all men who are loathed by generous
natures, such as fill the ranks of the armies
of the Union. none are so thoroughly loatbed
as the men who contrive to keep Just within
the limits OF tho law, while their whole con-
duct provokes Others TO break it whose pat.
rlotlsm consists In stopping an inch short of
treason, and whose political morality has for
Its safeguard just respect for the jailor and
The hangman The simple cure for all possible
injustice citizen is like to suffer at the hands
Of Government which, in its need and haste
must OF course commit many errors, is to take
care to do nothing that will directly or indi-
Fectly help the enemy or hinder the Govern.
nent in carrying on the war. When the clam.
'r against usurpation and tyranny comes from
citizens who can claim this negative merit, it
nay be listened to. When it comes from those
who have done what they could to serve their
'onntry, it will receive the attention it de.
serves.
Doubtless there may prove to be wrongs
which demand rghtiug, but the pretense Of
my plan for changing the essential principle