Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-02-16

! sndiebam, now without Government. WITHOUT
home, frisndlem and alone, sesh the shelter OF :
fol eiQn land; and future history Will wFlls MS
nAms among the Atnolda and BlrH OF his coun
try.
The asntleman from Ncv York .hs days 'ne'
delivered non rsmarkabls speech. lls only
virtue, in my judgment, was '' 'fanknss'' auu
hereafter loyal people will hsv0 no dono! ~ TO
rhsrs tho genlsman's sympsihiesns. lie qu9Uh
bsrally from Burke and Chatham, those MINOR
tsI English statesmen who alvay defended mo
people against ths enofoachmsnts u Ihe CfoWh'
aud applies The quotations 10 the present fsbe'ion'
Is this gentemsn honest or is no bllnded' Oan
he ttc no distinction between that srfh ma
manly ,truggIc for Independence involving NE
right Of slfgovernmsnt and free institutions
and hi, rebellion which seeks to overthrow end
dss,roy them bothe Can he zee no distinction
between psople rising in arms, who are taxed
without representation, who are INUNDATED snu
oppressed by unjust dscrees and frdInsncei and
regulations, and a people Rang ~ reO'lllon,
ssainat the most beneaeeut Government on srthF
Sir do not wonder that he 10 the representative
al CITY which rsqsrsd forty thousand national
troops to protect il from the violence and r'pIns
81 bis own constituency and the peculiar irisod'
Of the Unionloving Governor Of the StsS o.
Nsw York
The unjust ard unwarranta5c assertion u tas
gentleman from New York respecting New Eng
land msru and meets my hearty contempt. New
I'm sland needs no vindlcatlon from The asps'lon'
OF tho defenders Of treason, or The advocates Of
human bondage. Her "ssrs buildeth in the &C.
dars top, and d.llies With Ihe wind, aud icorni
the aun. Her soil IL made sacred by The frsi
blood OF lhrRevolution. Liberty was frs; crsdlsd
upon her bosom, AID the history Of her sons il
written upon scroll which apprshend the gen
tlsman will never reach. Hers vu the frE mar
tyr Of hi, goddess rebellion, md she will stand ii
the front ranks, with all her mtn and all her mon
sy, until this Government shall be restored AM
the old flag shall hoa, in triumph our our entlrs
Union. rsdrsmsd, rgtnerAted, and Disseminated
from the curse Of American slavery. 1t il n
possible to forems Whist effect the teaching, o
such gentlemen may have upon the passions 0
men. Before to-day, the cloud, Of secession hI''
lowered over our land Before 10 day liberty
io.iug New England haa bean treated With con
tumsiv and ,corn. Before to-day hsi the old Be,
SAFE, til, mother OF New Eng,nd and lse moth
sr Of freedom, been unluslly na.d. But thsr
enc stands ~ she stood more than thirty years ~
when the immortal Webster 10 bio reply 20 Mr.
Hayne, uia, "Thsrs il her history. The work.
know. It by heart. The past, Al I"st, !, secure
There are Bo,ton and Lexington and Concort
= sna BIuktr Hill, snd there Ihsy will rsn'in for
.vsr The bone, d her som, h.n in the grts
rtugg, for independence, no" i' mingled vii
til, ,oi q every State irs. New England !
Georgia, ard ,hae thsy viii liz forever Ant
hr, Where American liberty raised Iis ht'1 ros'
= whefs Il, youth vatouriuF,l sud uttsiued, lhn
il sill ives in til. s,rength d ito manhood su
: fall o. is original 'pift' II d'cofd ard disunlo
:. shall hawk ;, and le.r IT,, II fjy and midnsm,
uqes,ue, under nrcsiiary and mn''ry Fsiirals
,ball aucc,,d in ,rpsstins it tsm insi Union b
= which sone 10 s1ittsuce ,nads sur, Il v.
stand 10 'fc mi BY III sid" 4 fh'' cradle 4
: which "a infancy vas roskel, aHd sl.i AL At a.
: il a. II must, snd,l tia proudsit monuments
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