The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-11-25

and come with us To the lat OF the
land, and let by-gones be by-gones if
by-gones are by-gones, and our coun-
try will live in peace hereafter Loud
applause Are we not able to afford
that now? Do we not stand strong
enough? Do we not stand with Union
enough to be able to afford that to the
leaders and to all? There might have
been reason, / think, among proud
and chivalrous people that they would
not desert their leaders in answer to
the amnesty of President lincoln !;
but now has come an hour when we
can say, Come back, come back, and
submit to the laws, and you shall find
exactly such laws as before, except so
far as they are altered by the good
Judgment OF the legislatures of the
land. (Applause.) We are in con
dition now, not taking counsel from
our fears, not taking counsel from our
weakness, but taking counsel from our
magnanimity and our strength, again
to make an offer for the last time to
call upon them, and then shall we not,
in the eyes of the country, have ex-
hausted all the resources of statesman
ship in the effort to restore peace to
the country. Laughter Who shall
hinder? Not for the rebel to come
back after he has fought as long as he
can and then chooses to come but to
set some time, perhaps the Sth of Jan
uary, for the association will be as
good as any, for all to come back
And when that time has come to every
man, who shall scout the pronered
amnesty of a great and powerful ma
ton, speaking in love, in charity, in
kindness, in hope of peace and quiet
forever? We say to them, to him
who scouts that proffered love and
kindness, let us meet him with sharp,
quick, decisive war, that shall bring
the war to an end, to the extinguish-
ment of such men wherever they may
be. applause. But how is that to
be done Blood and treasure have
been poured out, spent without meas
ure, until, taking advantage of sup
posed depletion Of treasury first, bad
men have banded together by specula-
ting in that which ought 10 be the cir
culatlng medium, and raised upon the
poor men the price Of the Goals upon
his hearth and the bread upon his ia
BILE. Let some measure be taken to
stop that or perhaps a better measure
than any other is to let it be under
stood that hereafter we pay no more
boupties from the taxes of the North,
but taking counsel from the Roman
method of carrying on war, we say to
the young men, look to the fair fields
of the Sunny South, and unless they
take our amnesty, let us go down there
and you shall have whatever you get
/ by fair division we will open new
/ land Offices wherever our armies march
distributing lands among the soldiers,
/ to be theirs and their heirs forever.
A harsh measure, everybody will say
but is it not quite as just as it is that
we should tax ourselves and raise the
prices of the necessaries of life for the
purpose of giving bounties aud support
to the soldier in fighting these men
whom we have three times over sol
emnly called to come and be oul
friends, in 1862, to come in June, il
1868, to come III September and il
1864 to come by the Sth of January
1865? And when the clock strikes tn,
last knell of that parting day, and ther
all hope Of return for those who hay,
not made progress toward that return
shall be lost forever. No longer cai
they live in the land Of America. Mex
leo, the West India islands, or som,
place that / care not to name. becaus
L know on land hard enough to L,
cursed with their presence, shall L,
their dwelling place. These shall
never come here again. | look will
some considerable interest upon wha
| believe to be the present results o
this election. / believe, first, we hav,
settled the question of the war by set
thing the question that the people ar,
determined to carry on that war.
think it has always been claimed tina
we should be strong enough, after
great victory, to offer terms of peac
to the rebles. / never expect to Sc
in arms or in council greater vic
tory then the one we have achieved
| think we are now strong enough t,
make that offer, and then, take it
that the most squeamish of our friend
will agree with us when they find tina
we have exhausted every resource o
craftsmanship in the attempt to carr,
out peace-that it is time then to max
war, yea, war from the hilt Such
war will be decisive war, and there
fore. without trespassing too long up
on the festivities of this occasion, an'
keeping the ladies in waiting far to-
long, in answer to what you were kin,
enough to suggest, | look upon thi
victory as one which has decided tn
war-decided it not in military poin
of view, but in that overpowering civ
point of view which decides the fate G
nations everywhere. To this it ma
be answered, and to that answer
desire for a moment to call your atten
ton, so that every man may work on
in his own mind, much more clearl,