Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-01-30

lleving that all tho glory OF bringing this dreao
full war to a successful termination, Is to b
sscribed 10 General Grant And while W
would award to the living, suocessful Genera
eli due respect, We would not forget the equall
brave, patriotic Generals. who laid down thei
lives in our fearful struggle for nat ional e1
istence and would it not be highly proper, 10
asmuch as General Grant cannot occupy bu
one house at . time to bestow the two vacan
houses, in Galsna and Phil adelphia. upon som'
Of the widows OF those departed her oes? No
would We forget those living less successful, bu,
not the less heroic and self-sacri6cing Generals,
who alternately headed the army of the Potomac
What the result wOuli have bsen had General
Grant occupied the position Of Burnside or
Hooker, We can never know. One thing is GER
tain, that the power of the rebel Confederacy
was rapidly spending itself, and continually
being weakened by the conflict of arms. Had
the power of the Confederscy been broken
when Gen. hooker held command, In all prob
ability be would have been our favorire Gen.
eral, and Congress would now be racking its
brains to invent some 'titk.' upon which we
could lavish our unbounded gratitude When
Is said to have exclaimed " How necessary it is
to be sucesssf,h," The great Magyar knew
how to appreciate such . sentiment. We con-
tess We are not deeply impressed with the i'm
portance of such Congressional efforts. If Gen
eral Grants pay is not sufficient to supply ell
the rational wants of himself and family during
life, then We would have it raised but We
would not have government lavish wealth upon
him he cannot enjoy, while it doies out to the
poor private soldier a bare plttance,- Just
enough to keep soul in their armless. legless
bodies. Enough of this! Has not this nation
suffered enough already from such unwarrant
able class and caste distinctions Answer
it, bereaved fathers and mothers What say
you, disorganizsd and desolAsed South, with
your desolated cities in ashes have not had
enough of tAi. We have now ia our own
town poor soldier whose wounds are still 0n
healed, and must from their very nature ever
remain 30, with a sick wife on his hsrds, tho |
receives pension of eight dollars yer month
We recommend the grade of this poor soldier
to the consideration of Congress. Let US lay
to the plummet. We sincerely /
hope that Uncle Sam will not, in making up hIs
jewels, exhibit too much partiality between his
lucky and uniueky boys and especially do We
hope be Will not spend too much of his precious
time in altering the names OF his trhite children,
until be renders ample justice to his black boys.
And in doing this, We would recommend the
most rigid economy. Perhaps Cong eress will re-
gard US as impertinent advisers but we are
willing our councils should be brought 10 the !
most rigid tests. The ancient Persians had
way OF dealing with meddIesome advisers on
this wise The advisor In proposing his
opinion ~ss laced upon an ingot OF gold; ii
his counsels we're found useful, the ingot was
his reward if triaing OF 10 value, his reward
was public whippiDg'-a practice that would
bring rs little gold, and might, vesy probably, |
subject US 70 pretty severe, If not salutary, dis
ciplIne. However, believe the Yankee would
sometimes incur 1t from q sense OF duty. 1t /
does appear to us that with a debt of $780,
009, 900 with untried traitors on hands,
and country IN chaos, that economy in .ime
and money Including holidsys) should be the
'rateh,oord of Congress. Somehow. We have
got the idea that this nation Congress thrown
ln) Is good deal troubled with eItf avagance,
and We believe the common people parlGke
largely of the same sentiment. | know these
everlasting grumblers and isult-fnders are dis
agreeable and troublesome 90 are fes IN hot
weather. but they eeem to be necessary still.
Naturalsts tell US that the progeny of dozen
dies will consume a dead CARCASS in q shorter
space than hungry lion. Thus, While they
people the atmosphere, they purify 1t. 20 may
not our buzzing CRU nblers and tault-6n 3evs do
toward purifying the political a.
mosphere7 What would have been the fate of
our country, had it not been for such feas as
Gerrit Smith, Greeley, Garrison, Phillips and
Theodore Parker, Let US strike. but hear -