Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-11-01
Danger in the Nor tn.

We take the following timely more OF warning
from the Boston Journal. Let all who read
consider well and be wiso. II we indulge IN
spirit OF suplneness, or if by neglect or other
wlse we give strength to these c.n.prators
against the peace and safety Of our homes and
fresides, no amount Of repent nee will avail 10
ward off the terrible results, when once their
nefarious purposes shall have riponed into ac-
ton. The time to arrest the threatening dau-
ger is now Every o-e should feel that they
have personal responsibility in the matter.
Let all remembec, that every vote cast on the
side of the Government, on tie Sth Of Nov next
will tell against these hypocrites and traitors,
who are plotting the ruin Of the country. BE
wise, therefore, Q ye voters The Journal says
The report OF Judge Holt on the reasonable
conspiracles originating at the West, bat hay
| ing their ramihcatlOns extending through the
greater part of the North, is a document alto
gether too grave and authentic to be neglected
by cur people, although the Democracy try to
thrust it out Of sight. IL has been well said
that the evidences OF the then coming rebellion
| in $50 were not 80 striking as these now fore
boding trouble in the midst OF the loyal > ates.
| They ara collected from many sources, from
men who have been tempered with by the trea-
sonabe organization from numerous members
Of the order, from rebel officers and soldiers cog
INFANT OF lts operations, and from detectives
specially employed to examine into the matter.
The information thus gained is collected by
Judge Holt, Southern man, Democrat, a
member Of Mr.. Buchanan Cabinet, whose per-
sonal integrity ID above all suspicion, and who
brings to tie subject great patience OF nyeslgd-
non and sjundness OF judgement. To disregard
such a mans presentation OF facts, relating to
new sources Of danger underlying society in the
loyal States, would DO as inexcusLbe IN Us as II
was 10 Mr.. Buchanan to tuTn a dealear to Gen.
Scott's schema warning Of the approach OF Tue
existing rebellion.
And what does Judge Holt, on the amples' tes-
um1ny, tell US? He proves the existence Of
banded organizations, in sworn hostility to the
United States government, comprising IN the ag-
gregate no less than 100000 men, most numcr-
Gus in the border States OF the West, bat having
lodges n Pennsyyauil, New York, New Hump-
shire, Rhode Island and Connecticut and accom-
plces probably in every State. The armed force
Of the order, stated in tho testimony, whether
correctly or not at over 300, 600 men, IL I'M
doubtedly very formidable IN the mls. OF an
unarmed community. As to tho aims aud pnr'
poses of the consprators, they are simply such
I as become the northern allies ol the Southern
rebels They operate 10 every way whlah viii
give aid to tho latter, and embarrass ard para
I'VE the government. They discourage enlist
ments, aid desertons, control elections, oyeraWe
Union men, and have alraady employed mur.
der and arson in THO lurtheance OF their neiarl-
GUS designs. They Constitute an active adjunct,
a wheel within the wheel of the Democratic pr
ty at the West particularly, and many OF their
leaders were influential members ol the Chicago
Convention. The members Of the organization
unquestonably all call themselves Democrats.
They would profit immensely by the success OF
that party, for which the3 are now laborng,
and would take it's defeat as their own.
Under these circumstances II becomes all who
have at stake the peace aud order OF the North,
all who would not soc the q ines Of civil war
breaking out on our own soil, to consider the
; bearing of their vote at tue Presidential election
on this new element Of danger. We now see
that those who for months have been utterlng
lamb-lisc sentiments Of "peaco peace" ere
really preparing war for our own hearths. They
are, prolessedly, very tender of the feelings Of
their Southern BRETHREN but they are I'M
patiently waiting for the hour of bloodShed
among their loyal neighbors.
Are these miscreants to be encouraged hy any
. patriotic, honest man2 The appeal lies above
the range of all partisan considerations. II ad-
: dresses every man, as property holder, con
a cerned in therepresslon Of violence and disorder
~ as member of society, interested in the mainte
nance of all sacred guarantees as II patriot, de
~ termiued that the present civil wal shall b.
= contracted aud eItinguished, rather than per
~ mtted to run riot through our own Northern
~. homes. The question, then, recurs whether
u is our duty to assist the party which these cen
- spiratoas are engaged in assisting, and who's
)" success they look upon as their opportunity
or whether we shall teach them by our vote
y, that either they nor their parts friends hav
" any more hope Of controlling the ireemsn q
" the North, than the armed rebellion has o. COY
y, ing with ths Government under whose blow
W it Is sinking to naught. Let every one answG
. to his own conscience.
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