Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-03-18
Reply to a Jay Copperhead.
JAY, March A, 1864.


FRIEND ATKINS IL have been tC
church to-day, and the greater portion OIL
the sermon was war, and old Abe
how he had gone to school only six
months in bis life, having studied geom.
etry from a pile of rails, and astronomy
from the stars, ascending in life until he
had become chief ruler of this mighty
nation, which six months is three weeks
more than | supposed he had gone.
have become heart-sck, and almost dis
couraged, at the way things are going.
If it is not heart sckening that men who
pretend TO be preachers of the Gospel
should advocate such doctrines as the
most of them do nova days | do not
know what is. Go back with me, if you
please, to the formation of this govern
ment, when there was but one free and
thirteen slave States. The free States
were minority then, and when other
such were added were SO still. The
slave States did not say to them that
there should be no more free States, but
all we're equal. The people of those
States alike with US we're willing to
shoulder their muskets to put down re-
bellion, or repel invasion. Their bones
alike with those of the North lie bleach
ing on the battlefield. Side by side they
fought, side by side they fell But at
later day, when it was found that the
South was a cotton, rice, and sugar,
growing region, requiring negro labor,
the North thought it would be a good
time TO make little strike hence they
sold those of their slaves who could la
Dor TO the South, and abolished slavery
simply because the institution was not
profitable here. Against this sale of
negroes no one said aught, but now, in
this enlightened Christian age (?) a set
of people have sprung up who say that
slavery is blight, and a midew, upon
the prosperity Of any nation. This, with
the duty OF attacks upon slavery, has
been taught from the pulpit for twenty
years, and yet would ask if it is Chris
tianity? Does the Bible teach like this ?
Ii il does am not posted. 1t says that
if thy brother. does aught against thee go
reason with, and convince him of bis !
wrong, and then he will turn back At
he outbreak of the rebellion there were
to be four millions of blacks,
With twenty-six or twenty-seven millions
t whites, in the country, and counting
be forces on both sides there have been
wo millions in the field at one time en-
aged in bloody warfare of man against t
is fellow man. Think Of the killed, the $
Fad from disease, the manned for life, .
e disabled, the widows, the orphan =
lildren, the sonless parents, the broth
less sisters, the desolated country, etc., e
I'd then consider wha; it all amounts to.
hat have we gained by it all These q
'litical priests say we have freed hun :,
ed thousand negro men, fifty thousand VI
whom are in the ranks of the army, Il
d the other fifty thousand in the en- Il
oy of the government, at such pay as it o
es fit to give. for other purposes. The /,
omen and children of these negroes :
e on the plantations Of their former !"
asters, in part, where they are retro> n
aiding in civilization. in morals, and in Il
ligion. Verify this is an age of relig- I,
n, and reform.
GEORGE w. CRANDALL. u
Ii
My reasons for wishing the publication :,
the above letter in your paper are !,
ese: LIST, Lwant every man in Orleans :,
'unty to see it, and not merely those
no read the Argus; I'd, to show people .
enerally how much of the genuine arti-
Q reason, copperheads indulge in, and |
ink that no one will disagree with me
hen | say that the above is little the
ost coppery Of anything that has been
reduced in northern Vermont, and it
ould do credit to "Fernandy Wud' him
IF in point of sympathy with treason t
nd rebellion, for it is evident that sym a
athy is the main spring that actuates the IL
lthor of the letter, or else fear-fear e
lat he will be drafted. But never fear,
y brave sir, unless the wheel is entirely b
iverse to the cause of liberty, the very b
,use for which our forefathers fought, il
ed and died, it will turn out names c
hose owners will not disgrace that same v
luse by any such downright double and e
visited pro slavery sentiments. He car U
es the idea that the northern states did o
't abolish slavery out of principle, but C
erely because they would make a little a
rike. Well, now, that is a new idea to f
9 entirely, nevertheless it may be true.
ct me see. Perhaps there were men s.
no at the time of the abolition of slave t
in their own state that sold their hu- Ii
an chattels to Shareholders of the south, u
It such men | take it were of the same C
inciple as Mr.. Grandchildren who Il
ere opposed to the progress of cigiliza- b
IN and freedom, and who did not believe e
the Declaration of Independence that C,
men were created free and equal Il
e says against the sale OF negroes no Il
lie said aught." If such was the case A
ID the people were bent on a strike, why al
ere they not all sold off to our southern 81
etbren, and how comes it that we have B
many free negroes at the north? Can u
+. Crandall tell us how many slaves in
ere thus disposed of, and also how many