Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-09-02

result as iayorably to the South "a il antci-
pates. Their wish alone may be the parent
Of their belief But assured all who ex-
pressed that belief that the North, as a mass
is az united as the South that no democrat
could be elected on a peace platform, and that
any President who would inaugurate any
measure leading TO peace, on the basis Of
Southern Independence, would be promptly
hung by loyal acclamation, to the lamp post
in front Of his own Presidential mansion.
However that may be, If we are but true
to ourselves there can be but one result.
What we now need is men. only men. Not
substitutes or hireings who 20 forth with
any motive but their countrys goou, and pro-
duce but little beyond depreciating our
armies but men such as really constitute
the State, and boast Of being freemen and
sons Of freemen. II these fail to support
their countrys cause in her hour Of peril, they
are unworthy Of continuing freemen, and
should blush ever 70 exercise a freeman's
privileges. But if bounties be paid let it be
in Southern land, not in Northern gold, and
armies Of emigrants, whose sons may aspire
to win the rule Of the nation, will cross the
seas TO win the broad acres that disloyalty
has forfeited to the State. To every intelh-
geut soldier who has fought through all these
indecisive campaigns. on almost numborless
indecisive fields, the question continually ari-
ses with touching force, why we do not over
whelm our enemies.
Tens Of thousands Of lives are lost because
our array Of strength is 80 disproportionately
less than that against which we battle. Every
where we meet on nearly equal terms, when
we might as well have four to their one. The
cost TO US in blood and treasure Of prolong-
ed war can hardly be foreseen the economy
is infinite Of such an effort as the glorious
North should put forth.
The Sourh will fight as long as the strug-
gle is equal. 1t will submit to such prepoD-
derances as we should show in every field
Glance at the summers campaign II Sher-
man had but fifty or seventy-fve thousand
more men the South would be lost because
Hood would be anuibilated II Meade had
moved in the spring with reserves of seventy
FIVE TO one hundrnd thousand men, Lee would
have been hopelessly crushed. Even at this
moment third column Of forty TO fifty thou
sand men, rightly moved, would give unop-
posed blows to the confederacy from which
she could never rise.
What folly, then, to struggle on in this
way, when we can send 20 the field five times
the force we have got there. What weakness
to think we cannot conquer the South Be-
hind the James only boys and old men are
TO be seen, while here men buy and sell as in
the olden days Of quiet, and regiments Of able
bodied citizens crowd the streets Of our cities
There is bat one course consistent with
Northern safety and honor. Let the people
awake TO a sense of their dignity and their
strength, and d few months of comparatively
trifing exerton Of such effort as alone is
worthy Of the great North, and the rebellion
will crumble before us. Fill this draft
promptly and willingly with good and true
men, send few spare thousands over rather
than under the call, and the summer sun Of
1865 will shine upon d Tegenerated land.
There are some who speak Of peace OF all
Yankees the Southron most scorns those who
do not fight, but are glad enough TO employ
them, as they do their slaves to perform their
dirty work. Peace for the South will be
sweet indeed for us, except through south
ern subjugation, but anarchy and war forever.
The Pacific the Western, the Eastean States
would at once fall asunder. The South will
be dominant, and the people Of the North
you'd deserve to be driven afeld under ne
gro owners to hoe corn and cotton for south
ern masters.
But no hiut-hearted or short-sighted poll
cy can set aside the eternal DEGREES Of the Al
mighty, who has planted no line Of division
between the Atlantic and the Western des-
erts-between the great lakes and the Gulf
Of Mexico--that signify his will that we
should be separated ard unless so separated
peace is delusion, and its advocacy a trea-
son against the wisest and holiest interests Of
our county.
II has been with a trust that renewed hope
and yigor might be given-when vigor and
hope are needlul-that | have written, and
you have my consent to using this as you
please and ! am, very truly, yours.
TRUMAN SEYMOUR,
Brig. Gen. T. S. Volunteers.
To w, f Dodge, Jr., Esq, New York