Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-04-19
THE RETURN OF PEACE.

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Ire it had significance before the even
|of our great National Calamity, it Ger
|tainly behooves Us to heed it now, thai
we see so many standing in the corners Of
the streets, begging Grape of passers by
with which to wipe their fearless eyes
Really such scenes startle US, and We in
look up, expecting to see TIT
world turned inside out, the heavens be
meath our feet, and the internal regions
above. Next we begin to feel sbout fol
our own identify, and wonder if sce "art
they arrayed in Sleeps clothing" wht
have been for the last four years, weep
ing and rejoicing. alternately. with jeff
Davis and his miuions as the tide of hi'
success has risen and fallen, and both
openly and secretly sympathizing will
him in his fiendish efforts to sacrifice thu
precious lives of our noblest sons on the
altar of Human Slavery. Verify consis-
tency is jewel, and dignity diamond
of the fast water.
Truly your friend in just cause,
A CITIZEN.
cat the close of the war we must guard
the National life against the seeds OF fu'
ture trouble. Trsitorous demagogues will
be oudest in their professions of loyalty
and earnest in their claims for the high
est honors. Indeed, there will not bt
found in all the land single one who
was ever secessionist. We have the
foreshadowing of all this in the testimo.
my lately given in this city by the head
of the Sons of Liberty. Never was there
h more innocent man than Mr.. Vallandig.
ham Indeed he knew little about the
order, was himself scarcely an initiate
knew nothing Gifts military organization,
or its plans for arson and bloodshed. Mr..
NJ. Masters was scarcely less innocent
Yet direct testimony of high officials re
veals purposes of the order that make us
shudder but to think of them. When
the rebellion has been destroyed, none will
be found so poor as to have been its advo,
Gates. Let us beware Of hypocrites, and
trust the destiny of the nation to nont
but true men. The period just before us
is one in which, more than any other, the
National character may be shaped and
every vote and every word for years
to come will be big with conse.
qneuce.
When the war is past we will awake t.
the fact that the war has made sad dovas.
Iation among us. Some have indulged|
the fancy that VIC can employ hundreds
Of thousands Of men, not in productiop
but in destruction, and yet continually
grow richer War never did but impov-
ish, and the burdens Of the future will
tell how much we are impovished. Econ
omy, public and personal becomes the du-
ty of every citizen; all waste is hence
forth crime for which no repentance Cab
atone.
But VIC shall also become alive to the
mortal waste that war has causcd. Never
were the benign influences of religion
more felt in camp and field than in ours
but despite it all certain sins have gain
Jed new power amid the confusion of the
times. Dram drinking, profanity. and IL
centiousness have put on shameless eff
|frontry in our streets and pupllc convey
ances It shall be ours to stem the food
and plead for righteousness, temperance
land judgment to come" The heroes Of
this war must not loose the crown Of glo
Try in heaven. We grudge 50 noble a prey
Ito the devouriDg lion. Nor must they BE-
allowed to spread vile leprosy through
society.
But we cannot indicate one half of thu
duty Of the hour; but We may have start
led train of reflections which our reade
can complete for himself. when thi
|cruel war is over" we have somethin!
more to do than hold a jubilee; We hav'
stern business on hand. Let US qui
ourselves like men p
.. From the Iraahurph Standard