Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-30
For the Newsdealer.
THE SAFETY OF THE NATION.

of patriotism. And in the natural worid
after a tornado, it is common for observ-
ing men to take into consideration the
doctrine of cause and effect. Is 1T any
less in accordance with a sound discretion
to examine the relation of cause and ell
feet in the condition this country as 1t was
and is? When the leading minds of the
South canvassed the whole subject of Sc
cession, they must have relied, notwith-
standing all their boosted strength and
capacity to overcome all forces brought
against them, upon something outside of
themselves, as aids to the accomplishment
of the gigantic schemes which they were
attempting to carry out. They knew how
England would clap her hands with joy,
should these United States, whose foun-
dations were laid by the indominable per-
severance of those honored men who
fought the battles of the Revolution, and
which were baptized with their blood, be
divided into factions and rent and torn
by civil war, for the English mind could
evidently see that unless some awful ca
lamity should befal them, they would
soon rival them in manufactures, COM
MERGE and wealth. And we understand
how we'll their expectations were realized,
the proclamation of neutrality notwith-
standing. And who is ignorant of the
dispersion Of the navy the sequostering
of the arms and munitions of war; the
seizure of the forts and the robbery Of
the miut at New Orleans But was this
all? | heard a gentleman from Georgia
say with emphasis, who had evidently
been travelling in the North in the spring
of 1861, that ave have many friends at
the North" ,..
The letter found among jeff. Davis's
papers at his homestead from Ex-Presi-
dent Pierce, which intimates that there
would be little to fear from the North in
consequence of our dissentions, was cmin-
Gus. The spirit of many of the journals
taken i'll connection with the various ex-
pressions of men who were but the echo
of others, but more fearlessly expressed
the sentiments which were partially con-
cealed by the more careful All these
together give us some hints which I'M
wells the scheme which all supposed to be
covered up.
And even while Sherman was march
ing so triumphantly in his wonderful
campaign through Georgia, South Caro-
lima, and North Carolina, and there was
no power to resist. and Grant was draw
ing his cords tighter and tighter around
Richmond, there were many so wilfully
blinded with the hope that the South
would triumph, that they would openly
declare there was no progress made and
we we're really as far from victory as
ever. This Northern spirit SO full of
constructive treason, tended to strengthen
the rebellion. Would Morgan ever have
made raid into the Western States,
where he suffered such an inglorious de-
feat, if he had not expected large num-
Der of recruits to join him? Did not
Vallandingham and Co. who talked with
so much sympathy Of their Southern
brethren, impress their minds with the
thought that there would be aid and COM
fort coming from the North 4?
The very earnest solicitude at the
South during the last campaign for Presi-
dent was significant, especially when we
take it into the account, that they paroled
from Southern prisons those who would
vote for Mcclellan. They must have been
biased by one OF two opinions IN their
expectations. Either Mcclellan was SO
imbecile that there was nothing to fear
from him. or such was the animus of the
party striving to elect him. that they
could easily strike hands with them.
Whether it was one or the other this
much is quite certain, that they relied
upon the North for help. And G. N.
Sanders letter recently published in one
of the Montreal papers, advising the
South to take the oath Of allegiance and
then with tho conservative party of the
North seize the rcins Of government, is
another plan to gather up their ruined
yet expectant republic. affl.
! There need be no inquiry made con.
corning who those men are who have beer