Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-10-12

slsteut with It's cnafacteT as hVuio '"i
families. There will be no manufactures,
commerce, or agriculture here for the
maintaiuance of families. and sooner or
later want will compel the inhabitants to
20. Why not 90 NOR. when all the ar
rapgements are completed for the transfer,
instead of waiting until the plunging
shot of contending armies will renew the
scenes of the past month ? Of course
do not apprehend any such things at this
moment. but you do not suppose this ar
nv will be here till the war is over. |
cannot discuss this subject with you fair
ly, because cannot impart to you what |
propose to do, but assert that my mill
tary plans make it necessary for the in
habitants to 90 away, and | can only re-
, new my offer of services to make their ex-
odus in any direction as easy and COM
Portable as possible You cannot qualify
war in harsher terms than | will.
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine
it; and those who brought war on our
country deserve all the curses and male
dictions people can put out. | know |
had no hand in making this war, and |
know will make more sacrifices to-day
than any of you to secure peace. But
you cannot have peace and division of
our country. If the United States SUBJ
mits to division now. il will not stop.
but will 60 on till we reap the fate OF
Mexico. which is eternal war. The Uni
ted States does and must assert its au-
thority wherever it has powe r; if it re-
lakes one bit of pressure it is gone, and
know that such is not the national feel
ing. This feeling assumes various shapes,
but always comes back to that of Union.
Once admit the Union, once more ac-
knowledge the authority of the National
Government. and instead of devoting your
houses and streets and roads to the dread
ed use of war. | and this army, become
at once your protectors and supporters,
. shielding you from danger, let it come
from what quarter it may. ] know that
few individuals cannot resist torrent
of error and passion such as has swept
the South into rebellion but you can
point out, so that We may know those
who desire government and those who
insist on war and its dcsolation.
= You might as we'll appeal against the
: thunderstorm os these terrible hardships
of war. They are inevitable, and the
only way the people of Atlanta can hope
once more to live in peace and quiet at
c home, is to stop this war. which can alone
be done by admitting that it began in
error and is porpetuated in pride. We
: don't want your negroes OF your horses
: or your houses or your land, or anything
Il you have; but VIC do want and will have
o Just obedience to the laws of the United
IS States That we will have, and if it in
G wolves the destruction Of your improve
ments, We cannot help it. You have here
tofore read public sentiment in your news
papers, that live hy falschood and excite
h mcnt. aud the quicker you seek for trutl
in other quarters the better for you.
:. | repeat then. that by the original com
p pact of government, the United States hat
:. certain rights in Georgia which have new
er been relinquished, and never will be
that the South began war by selling fort
arsenals, minis. custom houses. &c, &c.
e long before Mr. Lincoln was installed ant
n and before the South had one jot or it'll
l. of provocation. I, myself. have seen il
t, Missouri, Kentucky. Tennessee, and Mis-
E, sissippi, hundreds and thousands of wo
men and children fleeing from your ar
! mics and desperadoes, hungry and will
>. bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburgh
~ and Mississippi. we fed thousands upol
thousands of families of rebel soldier
&c left on our hands, and whom VIC coul,
&c not see starvc. Now, that war come
Is home to you, you feel very differcnt-yo,
y, deprecate its horrors. but did not fee
Of them when you sent carloads of soldier
t, and ammunition and moulded shells an,
y shot to carry war into Kentucky and Ten
to nesssee. and dcsolate the homes of hun
to dreds and thousands of good people. VIII
h only asked to live in peace at their oil
Of homes and under the government of thei