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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

GOVERNOR liam NEVER SEcEssIoNlsT.-
Governor Hahn Of Louisiana, has written a letter
to the New York Tribun, denying the charge
that he ever took the oath of allegiance to the
rebel government He also denies that he ever
sympathized with treason. We copy from the
letter:
Z" ! never presented flag to a rebel company.
was present at the presentation of flag to a
company Of citizen soldiers by certain ladies Of
this city, and at their request made few pre-.
sentalion remarks There was nothing of Sc
cesson tendency in what said and every per
son present knew me TO be Union man. The
company had not been enlisted in the rebel cause,
and when it subsequently, did vote to 10 into the
confeder te service, was the humble means of
dlssuading many members from going to the war,
as they can testify, Tor they are still IN this civ.
Instead OF taking an oath to the rebel government
In order to continue in the office of notary public.
positively and expressly refused 60 TO do, and
the written official evidence of this fact is sill IN
existence here. When was elected to Congress
IN 1862, Gen. Butler, whose talent for finding out
facts is proverbal, and whose testimony will re.
ceive your credence, wrote letters to he president.
members OF the cabinet, seniors, ETC., in all of
which he speaks of me as "an uncompromhinp
friend OF the Union end an ardent supporter OF the
government" and adds, " lie stood by it in its
darkest hour, and merits the praise OF all LOYAL
men, need not remind you OF other proof re.
eeNed by you OF my constant devotion to the
Union, and as the unjust comments Of the Tribun,
have been adopted by other journals at the North,
hope, for the sake Of truth AID Justice, and the
fair fame Of the Unlcn men Of tbs state who have
already suffered so much at home, you will no,
persist in these wrongs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

A private letter from an officer IN Grants
army relates an inciionl among the rebel prs
onors:
:" A big lot Of grayb lcks were brought in and
halted right IN front Of whore stay. went to
the door and heard the different squads halloo-
ing for their regiment Where is tho Thirty.
fourth Alabama? " "ls the tenth Georgia
here p Il there any South Carolina regiment in
that crOwd7 = The last question was politely an
sSered by a big grayba "0-n your South
Carolina regiments it il hadn't been for you
we Wouldn't be here
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

Tue NATIONAL BANK B1L.-Congress has been
at work, more or Icss Of the time for several
weeks, on a National Bank Bill, authorizing the
creation Of Banks whose issues Of bills should
be secured by the deposit, with the United State.
Treasurer of United States Bonds. This bill,
after being modified amended and otherwise
tiakered, until every member had either said or
done something about it, was, on the 9th, laid
on the table by a vote Of TWO to one and thi.
vote is supposed TO amount to final defeat Of
the bill.
We are not sorry for this result. There i.
already too much currency III the country. and
no more banks should be created exc,nt 10 taka
the place OF existing institutions. Cbanpip,
United States Bonds, as tins bill proposed to do,
into currency, amounts, in the end, to nothing
more than an issue OF greenbAcks, or rcdemp.
tlon of United States Bonds for the time being,
by the use of an issue of currency. This would
of course just so much initiate the volume of cur.
rency, and bring upon the country an initiation
OF prices as an inevitable result.
Congress EN- now probably consider the
question OF putting some money into the Treas.
ury' instea / OF Issuing more promises to pay.
An end must come to borrowing sometime, and
II 1t does not come by the blliest aud most un.
sparins taxation it will come by the rcta,a Of
the people to lead The people are willing to
support the war, but they prefer that their
money shall go into the United States Treasury
Tor tat purpose, aud not into the pocket, Of
greedy spectators in the distrcsses Of the ma.
ton Already the cos. of living Is ,lmos, doubled
and this could not have happened if Congress
had only had tho courage, or tue sta.ssmanship.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

to raiso money by taxation, instead Of by l54n5
and the issue Of paper money to SUCH an alarm
iug extent How much better o. have laid thus
enhanced cos: Of living as a tax to government
than as forced contribution to the lusltiab.e
leoches who are gorgIng themselves with the
very life-blo)l Of tho nation. VIII not Con.
gress now tax, anl tax uusparIngIy and thus
save US any further waste Of treasure to enrich
those who have already pundered US beyond
measure
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

- .- ~ - = n
PILL AD'ANolN''-lhe NatSliS.aies Senate
on Frloy OF a., week, passed By a vote OF 80 10
n h. sIl,,a..
p.5.L.' o..l
M " ,'so'o'-' t} '"g "e''e a"a i.u'e o.
in Gonrres, a,,embIsd Two thirds ofbo,b Ioa ~,
concurtiog, that the following article E proposed
10 the Legislatures OF The several State, a. an
Sia,". nh. - 'Ie Co ,,.s o' NE Ou5G
said Legislatures. .baIl be y,lid',oall in,enis ond
purposes as p,rt Of the said Cons,uto7 name,
AHl' Alil'-oeei'on l. Neither Slavery nor
crime ,st.rsoc tSe eN,e os Pul'S'lsN. lp'
convicted, shall exist within the United states. or
any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

legislation, and firmly plants itself upon the sci
evident truths Of the Declaration of Indepen.
dencr. When it does that it will suffer no man
to be put under guardianship because Of bis
color 1t will allow no superintendent or
overSeer to fix any persons wages because that
person happens to be black. 1t will compel no
man 10 leave the State Or confne him within its
limits, because Of his complexion When it de
carss yagrancy and idleness crimes, it will con.
slider that white yagrant is as much a criminal
as black one. And above al it will not return
lnio even qualified and mitigaed servtude any
man WIN has been declared free by the emanei-
patton proclamation olJanuary first 1863
We have said more respecting this order Of
Gen. Banks than we otherwise should because
several OF our contemporaries, who have for many
years condemned slavery as bad in principle, mas
much as It ook from the slave the right TO him.
self and to sell his work to the highest bidder, have
taken to defending Banks order as expedient and
wise and we have been and are now unable to
comprehend how they can fail to tee that General
Banks system, SO f1r as its principle is con-
cerned, is just as deienceless as slavery itself
Our neighbor the Hatchman has joined in the
apology for this " free labor system does it
regard the system right in principle
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

RHODE ISLAND ELEcrmN. The Annual State
election in Rhode Island occurred last Wednes.
day Owing to some local strife two candidates
we're run by the Union party James Y. Smith,
the regular candidate, is however elected by "a
majority of 100 or more, the Union majority III
all being about 1900. The Legislature is strongly
Republican.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

SHALL SHAREHOLDERS BE COMPENSATED FOR
THEIR EMASCIPArED SLAVES p---rhc contest
which has been just fought in Maryland has re
suited in the election Of convention 10 favor Of
unconditional and incorporated emancipation.
And the question Of compensation was directly
bafore the people, and they heard arguments upon
it, and among them the following from WINTER
DAVIS:
"Why should anybody pay them Hey
have 10 claim 10 morals The United States
never granted them slave property. 1t merely
sail il it runs away ii shah be delivered up,
but not that if the people of Maryland see tit to
repeal the law allowing slavery, the government
VIII continue 10 consider ,ropety what to-
people Of May land refuse any ID ger themsrye-
10 consider as property and that they will pay a.
property for what the people Of Maryland say
shat no longer be property. Upon what ground
is it? It's political institution. 1t ike thr
tariff which now, twice OF thee times in the imi,
OF my life, has made and destroyed values mini
ely greater than the value Of the slave property
OF Maryland.
South Carolina and all the South have twice or
thrice, within the limit Of my life, reoctd over
the prostr4ton Of a t4ufF system, th3 mere repeal
OF which tiiaced millions and millions Of dollars
Su'ousuIu. . a'. OIL ne" England aga all tne ifee
Ibe course o noc. 5.d c,,n" "H i ,1.n e' ,5
current policy Of the Goy.rnms1. lad changed,
because a law which one C,ngress saw h.to place
upon Iue s Sl1'u g book another Congress hlo 'een
n,oen t to, w I"u'' s',''5 'ue
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

MusIc'-We have received from the publisher,
IL. Ia Story, Burlington, VI, two war songs, by
u. Losegtove, entitled, Let me hold |, ill |
die and " The Song Of the Can,ssn." They
are arranged with piano Accomplishments, each
hes fine chorus, aud they are popular songs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

SOUR AND lLLoGICAL.--The New York Uorid,
which cries on. at every blow against Slavery as
though it had been itself hit in vital point, thu,
comments on the Election in Maryland.
The fare Of an election was gone through with
10 Maryland yesterday. Baltimore as pro-. layery
ely as Richmond, polled My forty odd votes
against unconditional, incorporated emancipl.
ton. The negroes Of Mary land will be freed no
doubt, but at the fearful cost Of tha civil liberty
of the people Of that State
Tai, Maryland election was c,llel by the State
legislature, and nobody except the people Of
Mary Aad have had anything to do with the con.
duct OF it. II " Baltimore is as pro-savery cit,
as Richmond, and we have no doubt there are a
great many people in that city who would rather
be under the rule OF jeff. Davis than see Slavery
abolished-why did ut it say so at the rolls
Nobody kept these pro-savery men from voting
and 20 oath was required Of them, except one
which their own legislature had prescribed Il
they did net vote whose fault was itp And how
IS e" civil liberty to be destroyed in haryAn BY
abolishing Savery7 Have lifelong advocate,
Of The institution become so confused in THEN
perceptions, that they regard civil liberty al
possible only in a community in " ich the labor
ing population are all slaves Are We to under
stand that this is what modern Democracy mean,
when it cIamors for " civil liberty"P
A why can't these prJ,savery Democrats be
consistent Some months ago, when the friend,
Of Freedom were urging the General Government
TO assail Slavery as war measure, they never
tired Of announcing such measure as an uucon
sttutional interference with the rights of the State,
to have Slavery or not, just as they pleased. VOW
when State deliberately declares at an election
held expressly for that purpose, and wholly uuder
the direction of the people Of the State, that Sla
very stall be abolished in its borders they or,
out that it isa deathbow to civil liberty" i
it no, apparent that their solcitude for the Consti
Triton is wholly feigned, while their real sorrow
5 that Slavery is getting its death towsp
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

Too MAsY.-lt is said that 4" too many cooks
spoil the BROTH" but tho Government does n I
seem to think the proverb holds true In regard
to Inspectors Of horses. Not many less than a
dozen Of these inspectors have already visited
Montpelier, somo of them knowing their bu,l.
ness go extremely well that they wear white kid
gloves while inspecting. Government pays ez-
pepscs, of course, and salaries but wouldn't il
be just as well, and considerably cheaper, to
detail fewer men for such serviea and select
those who know something Of the business?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

Wr9-We have not received copy OF the
". .iibdns Messenger, either daily or weekly.
for several weeks We suppose it is Published
as usual, aswe see our cotemporaries are favored
with 1t. How does this happen
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

Rev. Pllny II. White gives in the Vermont Re
cord a list Of more than Fifty sons Of Vermont
ministers who are or have been iu the Union az
my.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12
CONN ERCIAI..

NEW YeRR Arrila stock, irregular. L 800,
Coupons l'i rra'ury no,esi s.lo'. M L s.spr
cent yssr eedaeass WI Gold l6ei Hvs,y active, At
per cent
tARKsrs -co,ion qliet sale, 100 bale, ATT G. You,
aW lje hiseer 'al's i5Wo IBIS ,ups,nns State 90 10
to vs. extra 10 = auto 60 round hoop ohIo 80 10
20 extra Western, IS IS sou,h.rn--,.l.. 1900
bl' IN Sedts SCOT GO 50 ,ttr. 70 I. 10 q,
Canada i0c mshtri sales CSC ohls truaf IS tos7o
Wheat nominal Corp-sa e. 10000 bushels, old mir,a
tali. Provisions Arm whakey arm SALE, 900 Dbl.
State att 10
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

The Metropolitan Fair, 10 New York, 10 cid
OF the Sanitary Commission, had at th. latest
ad'es already realized about 100000, and
was still In the lul tide u sueos.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12
Stepping Stones for conservatives.

A telegram sent from Washington to the
New York Tribune, after REyERDY JOHNSON 5
speech In the Senate on the constitutional amend
ment prohibiting slavery is as follows
Reverdy Jolnson's speech on the amendment
to the Constitution aboishing slavery, took
everybody by surprise. IL was listened to with
the proloundest attention. and proved two
hundfedp pound shell in the camp of the copper
heads. IL pleased the radicals, because Of the
high ground taken instead of pleading expedi-
ency 1t gratlfed the Conservatives, as it
afforded them new and broad stepping-stone
up to the right.
We pint on the outside Of this plpera con
d,nsed report Of this speech but We are wholly
unable to see how it can furnish Il stepping
stone for " conservatives " who have hitherto
had intelligence and capacity enough to think
Tor themselves.
REyERDr JOHNSON is man OF unusual ability
and in his speech has shown that, at least, he /;
willing to act now on what has been the convlc'
ti0n of his life time, and make the constitution,
which he admits was defective at the outset
what it should be- constitution which shall
secure to all its subjects personal freedom. OtbeI
conservatives, who have been too tmid tC
make the same confession until somc eminent
statesman had announced his own conversion
may find in Mr.. JoHNsON's position an example
Tor themselves. But when they do So how are
they going to apologize for their bitter persecu-
ton OF the " radicals who have only been
uttering for the last twenty years just such
truths and arguments as the Maryland Senator
now finds it safe and expedent and iudicIous to
put forth from bis place at Washington? And
when these " conservatives ~ up on this
g s;epping-soue, would nj it be as well for
! them TO acknowledge that it isn't RgyERDY
JonNsoN's, nor any conservative patent al
all, but,ln fact the old antisayery stone, which
these same conservative builders have Tor a score
Of years, not only been continually rejecting
but which they all that tire have been mos
Pharasacally and coutemptuously splitting up
on Tho country will be glad, all anti-slayery
men viii rejoice, to see men Of such marked
ability as Senator JOHNSON pronJuncIng in hyot
OF universal freedom And they will be
quite willing that other conservatives mai
be helped by such speeches--or steppiug-stone
to higher and purer elevation, where the,
will be able to see something beside commerce
and cotton and corn as the true elements Of
nation s greatness but we hope they viii hay
the justee,whcn they &c. thereto ackno sedg,
that they are not the frs. to reach that eleva
ton for the " radicals have been there lo
many years.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12
GENERAL NEWS.

The Winthrop House, Boston, was burnt
April 9Th, with the Free Masons Hall, valued
at over $3.50 900, The FIRE was supposed to be
the work OF an incendnry.
St. Louis, Mo-, elects Radical Mayor. st.
joseph Mo, elects a Radical Mayor. 10 GIN
cuuat,, Ouio, the Union majority Ia about 4. 700.
The Democrats carry Columbus, Ohio. Cleve.
land, Lancaster, Troy and Dayton, give large
Union majorlues.
Counterfeit $40 greenbacks, printed from gen.
une plates, but without stamps, are in.oircu.
cuation IN New York
William ID, Ticknor, Eco, the eminent 30
ton publisher OF the firm of Ticknor a. Fields,
died IN Philadelphia, suddenly Sunday morning
at the { untnenti hotel
John {. RNes, publisher Of the Congressional
Globe, died his residence in Washington san.
day after proiracled illness, at the age Of 76
years.
Gen. Isaac Eastman, just deceased, Of Concord
n Ii was the olde,t he,naton in the State
lie was m,mter Tor over halt century.
Capt. II. b AIheron, formerly of the 81 Yer.
mont, has relittd iiom the editorial chair Of
the Nashua, N. Il Telegraph
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

CONNECTICUT ELECrloN.-Ihe election last
Monday in Connecticut resulted in complete
defeat Of the Democracy. Gov Buckingham, the
Union clndidlte, /, reelected Governor by 1900
m lory and this is his sixth election to the same
office His majority last year was 26O0. The
House Of Representatives last year stood 50 Re.
pu5cans to % Colperheads. This year it will
be about two-thirds Republican. The Senate last
year was composed Of - Republicans and Cop
perhead'. Ibis year eighteen out Of the twenty
on Senators will be Republicans.
This result expresses emphlticlIy the deter
mnaton Of Connecticut to stand by the constltn.
ted authorities Of the nation in be most energet-
c measures to put down the iebelIion and re.
store the Union and it is, more especially, an
antl-slayery triumph, inasmuch as the Democrats
pretended also to be in favor Of crushing treason
bat not IN favor Of universal freedom.
The majority Of the people Of the loyal States
have two purposes that they mean to carry for
ward to entire iruition. One is the utter over
throw Of treason the other is the entire uproot
ing OF the system OF slavery which has alont
made treason possible The Democracy can have
their choice get out of the way Of this avail
anche Of popular opini IN, or be buried under it
as they have been 10 every election since Febru
ary 1852 Which do they propose to do ?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

The MARYLAND ELEcTloN.-lhe election In
Maryland Of delegates to a constitutional conyen-
ton occurred last Wednesday, and resulted in
sweeping victory Of the immediate and uncon-
dtionaI emancipationists. The Baltimore .4neri-
can says that the majority in the convention for
immediate abolition, will be at least twenty and
the MAORI y in The State for the Convention
that question being also submitted to the people
will probably reach 10000. The copperheads
either did not vo.', or voted th3 conservative
or gradual emancipation ticket
bis result will make Maryland Free State
before midsummer, and open before her career
oil prosperity in which she will, in few years,
take rank with the rapidly growing free States Of
the Union The State is blessed with fertile
soil, capable of producing wheat and corn and
grass in abundance. Cotton and tobacco have
time TO come to maturity il its long summer.
All manner OF fruits, The luscious product of many
months Of warm sunshine, pour their abundance
into her lap. The climate is most beautiful and
sllubrious, midway between the swelterng heat of
the Cult States and the pinched, almost frosty
summer of the C,nada. Nothing but he curse
Of slavery has hitherto kept the grand old State
back from the rich development Of its resources
which the near future has n)w in store for the
! free commonwealth
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

'I''
David ureen, Go. \, ~ Vermont
Terence k2ddy' 60, u, ~ w.
timothy Z. DAVIS, Co. II a VI.
marry E.eweF Co N, "a VI
quincy r. lhurst)n, %. D, u w.
II Il Liwfeuc'. Go. !, "a Vt.
sumner Place, 81 w.
Benz. Taylor, I'd Vt.
hng A. Gibson, Co, \, sd v.
Thomas Connell, Co. \, 81 VI
FRANK A Lamere, Co b, Sd Vt.
John " Cross, Go. +, 81 VI.
" NJ Crawford Co. J. 81 "
sylvester 10 lnson, Co, X, 81 W.
,. W. Taylor, Go. |, Sd W.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-12

DEATus % VEmoNr SOLDIERS The New
York Tribune publishes a complete las: IT the
names Of those soldiers who have died in aud
about New York between April 1862. aad Aprit
1864, Ia this lis' are the DIlosiog names d
Netmnnters
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-01
FROM MEMCO.
Murder Of General Com onfort

The Havana correspondent of the
Herald gives the following particulars of
the death of Gen. CoMoNFoRr, of which a
brief announcement was made by the tele-
graph: ''
General Comonfort was on his wav from
Queretaro to San Luis in private carriaoe
attended by several officers and escorted nv
about eighty men, when the party was attacked
by portion of Mejia's forces, commanded nv
two brothers named Troucoso,>s
At the first discharge Cong 1l0rt and all who
were in the carriage dismounted and attempts
ed resistance, but were at once overpowered
and cut down OF shot. Among them perisbed
Don Jose MariaOuran. Colonel of Engineers
on the Generals staff, and well known in New
York, where he formerly resided at the time
Gen. Robes was Mexican Consul in that citv.
Every man of the escort was either killed or
captured; and of the Officers-some eighteen
or twenty-only thfee were unhurt Comon.
forts body was found with a lance wound
through the heart, two bullets through the
breast, and the head disfgured by sabre cuts
Thus fell, by the hands of his own country.
men, Gen. Don Ignacio Comonfort. ex Presi-
dent OF Mexico-a man certainly not without
faults. but still not without virtues, both in his
public and private character. 1t can be said OF
MIN what: perhaps, cannot be said of any other
man who has ever ruled Mexico-that he hon.
estly endeavored to pay his country's debts. Il
is melancholy to think that one SO distinguish.
ed should be shot like dog on the roadside by
those for whom and for whose posterity he was
rlsklng his life and stalking his fortune in en-
deavOring to persuade them to defend the in.
dependence of their country.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-01
DIED.

On the oath inst, of scarlet fever, FRANK sgd
NEY, twin son of j. B. and Annie Braden, aged
years and months.
On the oath inst, at the International Hotel, Mr..
s. WATSON, Of Albany, N. Y. New York papers
please copy. A
On Wee nesday morning, Dec. S0th, ROBERT
TOOMBS. second son of the Hon. HENRY N. and
MATILDA w. RIOE, aged years and months.
On Sunday, the 27fh inst. at o'clock NJ, Ne e:
VERVAIS only daughter of DR.. j. A.. and NJ M.
Vervs is, aged years and months
In this city the 2bth inst, at the residence of
Rev r. Newell, AUGUSTUS ENDICOTT, eldest
son of Samuel 8 and Jane 3. Howe of Brooklyn.
New York t,ecently Of cambridge Mass aged 10
years. Boston papeB please copy. .H