Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-12-19


ture OF things, save the Union, but must de-
oy H. 1t is Il means OF destruction, and not OF
Walton
Not content with being 10 very loyal " in
editorial uttorances, the selections for the
-gus were made with view to the most re.
'shing support and approval of the govern
ont. In the Argus of July q, 1864 is lul
lumn of poetry devoted to the support " OF
Old Abe and the leaders of the Union party
ID army II is headel "Oll Abe and tb,
ack Gentleman" and We give the following
trac: to show it' temper:
Then Nick took Abraham by n arm,
And said, " Come on Eith me,
My little imps u be reloiced
30 great nan 10 see"
They entered now within place
Of sulphur, FIRE, and smoke
SAID Nick to Abe, " Don't this remind
You Of little joke
This is ,he tyrant's last abode
When he from earth has past,
Al Ia ha ha give US joke,
Let as have Old Al last
Poor Abe he could not say a word,
lie tremhled 50 with fear,
But into a warm corner reeled,
And sank down on a chair.
Come out Of that " old Nick cried out,
81 keep that seat secured,
And that armchair Is ready there
Awaiting Billy Seward.
And here 3. Horace Greey's next
The next one is for Chase,
But Forney and Ben Butler
lust have q bet tr place,
Hallecks seat is farthe on,
With Pope's close by the Ares
give the rogues the warne.t place,
But always roast the liars.
Here's Curtin, with a Shodly pad
And there u one Tor Banks
ehermau's is not quite finished yet
I've just completed sch'ncka
Again he led poor Old Abe on
Though but a little space,
Stopping by an iron door. and said,
" This is my hottest place.
And here | keep my Puritans,
A class both mean, and sly,
Whose object is, and ever was,
10 rule or else destroy
"Tn.re keep them, by themselves,
Confined within his cell,
For II were TO let them loose,
Thered be no peace in he'll,
Jus take a peep in through the bars
You need not mind the heat
Poor Oi Abe looked, and said, with sigh,
II see some empty seats
Yes" said old Nick the top on . Tor
An abolition preacher,
doOd service be has done for me,
HIS nam IS Harry Beecher.
''The right-hand seat {, Carrisons,
The lell-hand is for jay,
The one u Wendell Phillips
Wls placed there yesterday
~ have a place Tor sumner in
Que ofmy hottest hooks,
He's been blathe rskite since he
Was whipped by Bully Brooks
" Now sce give each one their pla &c,
According 70 their dne,
And IN the very hottest pit
have place for You.
Again, Oct !, 1863 We find the folloviI
,hoice morc,au Of " loyalty and deCency
he leading editorial of the argus Of that dat
-" In 1860, a man ws5 elected on . principle
ieadiy hostility to a whole section Of State
= here be no. only had not a vote, but could l.
lave a vote, nor indeed wished to have o yot
out, on the contrary, stood pledged to yield 4
COVER, and prestige, o. the common or corie
crate government Tor Tie utter destruction OF 8
,iety in a word, for the ruin and desolation
4 people Of fourteen States so horrible, that
It were better that the earth HI
opened and engulied them at once. lie Ell
bodied the principle OF impartial treed0l
AS in the Republics south OF us--a prin,
pie which, II ever carried out in the nOn-re
resented States, must end in universal m0ngr
ism, and c0mmugling OF the blood Of Was
ngton, Jefferson, and jackson, es well as th
Ji JeT DAVIS, with the black puddle that sta
mates IN the veins Of the sooty African, III
offspring OF Cortez and Pizarro have subsid
into the miserable Lep1O of Mexico; but tho
Of Washington and Jefer On were doomed to
far more hldtous fate, could the great prlnciI
Of impartial freedom, embodied by LlncOl
b. forced upon the South, rs the negro IL great
inferior to the lniiao. II they submitted, tn
we're conquered, just as absolutely as # 1t h
been by bayonets, instead of bullets. I
South conquered by the abolition lunacy Of
North, through the ballot-box, could only sta
still and look on with the hope that III
: friends, the Dlllinghams, DiCkensons, q
Buffers, would fight their battle IN 1864, a
win the day, though these friends themsel
fight only Tor spois, and, as late events sho
they 90 where the chances Of success I
greatest The Southern people therefore,
fused to submit to a sectional party, which l
only struck down the right OF sell-goyernm,
in fourteen States but stood pledged to vi
the power and prestige of the government
their own experimentation forcing destiny
themselves, and their posterlty, worse III
death
Quite likely the editor was not at HON
and another OF the employees of the Argus of
was decapitaied for inserting the above.
But we have devoted too much space to 5,
stantiating, by extracts from its own columns,
loyalty Of tie Argus, The work is ons Of sup
errogation. The people pretty generally und
stand all about It's loyalty, and we shall hereai
only occasionally give an extract, just to keep
in mind hoo loyal i, was. II the Argus ne,
any further endorsement of its loyalty "
shall be Welcome to the files Of its own paper
year and hall, which have been kindly {
nished US BY friend, 1t will iad therein
few more Of the same sort left " as the raZ