Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-06-09

pOrtS, 10 SURRENDER ner workshops anu 10 lth
loose her merchant ships in aid of this wick
edness ;--forgetting all the relations Of alli-
ance and amty with the United Ststes-for-
getting all the logic Of English history-for-
getting all the distinctions Of right and wrong
and forgetting also that newPower found
ed on slavery was moral monster with which
just nation could have nothing to do.
10 appreciate the character OF this conces-
sion, we must appreciate clearly the whole
vast Unprecedented crime Of the Rebellion,
taking its complexion from Slavery. I'm
doubtedly it was criminal to asssil the Unity
Of this Republic, and thus destroy its peace
and impair its example in the world but the
attempt to build new Power on Slavery as
a stone, and with no other declared
object Of separate existence, was more than
criminal, or rather it was q crime of that I'M
told, uns peakable guilt, which no language
can depict and which no judgment can be too
swift to condemn. The associates in this ter
rible spostssy might rebuke each other in the
words OF an old dramatist:
Thou must do then.
What no mAlevolent will dare TO look on,
II Is so wicked for which men will curse thee
For being the instrument. and the blest angels
forsake me At my need for being the authori
For It's a deed Of night, Francisco
In which the memory Of all good actions
Or, II we be remembered, IL shA 4 be
To fright posteriiy by example
That have OUTCOME all pfeeedents Of villains
That w,re before
[Massngsr Duke Of Milan ActI.
To recognize such Power to enter into
semi-Giliance with it to invest it with rights
to open ports to it to surrender work
shops to tito build ships for it all this,
or any part Of this, is positive and plain com
plicity with the original guilt, and must be
judged as we judge any other completely with
Slavery.
England led in the concession Of bellige-
rent rights to rebel Slavery. No event Of the
war has been comparable to this concession
in encouragement to this transcendAnt crime
or in prejudice to the United States. 1t was
out of English ports and English workshops
that rebel Slavery drew it's supplies. 1t was
in English ship yards that the cruisers Of reb-
ell Slavery we're built and equipped. IL was
England that gave to rebel 5 avery belligerent
poiger on the ocean. The early legend was
verified in our day. King Arthur was with
out sword, when suddenly one appeared
thrust out from lake. =" Lo /" said Merlin,
the enchan,er, " yonder ia sword it belong
eth to the Lady Of the Lake II she ioiR thou
mayest take Il ) but If she toiH not, Il lgiH mol
be IN thy potuer to take IT," And the Lady Of
the Lake yielded the sword, so says the legend
even as England has since yielded the
sword to rebel Slavery.
The President saw the painful conse.
| quences Of this concession, and especially
that it was first step towards the aoknowl.
4 edgment Of rebel Slavery as an Independent
Power. Clearly, if it were proper for For.
eign Power to acknowledge Belligerency, II
might, at a later stage, be proper TO acknowl-
edge indepence and any objection vital tc
! Independence, would, if applicable, be equal.
| ly vital to Belligerency. Solemn resolutions
/ by Congress, on this subject were commune
Gated to Foreign Powers but the unanswer.
able argument against any possible reeogni.
ton of a new Power founded on Slavery was
stated by the President, is a paper which |
now hold in my hand, and which has never
before seen the light. 1t is copy Of re.
solution drawn by himself, which he gave tc
me, in his own autograph. for transmission
to one OF our valued friends abroad, as al
expression Of his opinion on the great ques
ton involved, and guide to public duty
1t is in these words
" Whereas, while heretofore States and Ma
tons have tolerated Slavery, recently, for the
| first time in the world, an attempt has beer
made to construct d new nation upon tn.
basis Of, and with the primary and funds
mental object to maintain, enlarge, and per.
petuate human Slavery, therefore
Resolved, That no such embryo State
should ever be recognized by. or admitted
into, the family Of Christian and civilized ma
tions and that all Christian and civilized
men everywhere should, by all lawful means
resist to the utmost such recognition or ad
mission"
You will see how directly any recognition
of rebel Slavery as an Independent Power i,
assailed, and how all Christian and civiliz
ed men everywhere" are summoned "to re-
sist to the utmost such recognition" o
course, had such benign spirit entered into
the counsels of England when Slavery frst
took up arms against the Republic this great
historic nation would have shrunk at ever,
hazard from that fatal concession of beliger.
ent rights. which was in itself plain con
tributon to its early strength, and opened
the way to infinite contributions, without
which the criminal pretender must hav,
speedily succumbed, But Divine Provdenc,
willed it otherwise. Perhaps it was necessa
ry to the rec gnition of its boundless cspaci
ties, that the Republic should stand fortl
alone, in sublime solitude, warning for Liber
" and Equality, and thus become an example
TO mankind.
Pendant to the above we add the statemen
of Southern paper that England once offer
cd to acknowledge tho Confedefacy outrigh
and appointed day to receive Mason Of Vir
ginia as its Minister. Mason was not re
ceived, and the explanation given was tina
the cotton manufacturers OF England had oh
jected that the surplus of cotton and qottol
goods GU hands was so large that the recog
milton of the Savocrats and the stoppage 0
the war would bankrupt England. Poor
mean, unprincipled John Bull If ever ma
ton deifed the almighty dollar" at tn
sacrifice Of all moral principle, it is counir
that would act like that.
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