Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-12
MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1866.

rebels to threaten civil war in Maryland, Mis-
souri,, West Virginia and Tennessee, unless the
patriots who saved and sealed these states to
| the old aags surrender before their arrogant
demands. Il has corrupted high State Off
cials, elected by Union men, and sworn to en-
| force the laws against returned rebels, and
| made them the mere instruments of the au-
| thor of the rebellion. 1t has encouraged !
new alienation between the sections, and by
impeding emigration to the South has erected
| q formidable barrier against free and friendly
intercourse in the North and West. II has
allowed the rebel soldIery TO perseeute the
teachers of the colored schools, and to burn
the churches in which the freedmen have wor-
shipped the living God. That system 50
barbarous should have culminased in the
trightful riot at Memphis, and the still more
appalling massacre at New Orleans, was as
natural as that bloody wa, should flow from
the teachings of John G. Calhoun and Jeffsr-
son Davis. Andrew johnson is responsible
| for all these unspeakable crueltiee, and as he
provoked 80 he justI6es and app!auds them.
Sending his agents and emissarles into that
refined and patriotic metropolis, to Insist pom
making bis reckless policy a test upon Chris
tian people, he forgot that the protection ex-
tended to the 1lth OF August Convention in
/ Phlladelpbla, was not only denied to the fres
people of New Orleans on the 30sh of July,
when they assembled to discuss how best 10
protect themselves, but denied amid the
slaug hter of hundreds OF innocent men. No
page in the record of his recent outrages, up
| on human justice and constitutional law is
more revolving than that which convicts him
of refusing TO arrest the preparations for that
savage carnival, and not ouly of refusing TO
punish its authors, but of toiling to throw
the guilty responsibility upon unoffendng and
innocent freedmen. The infatuated tyrant
that stood ready to crush hls own people, in
Tennessee, when they were struggling to main
tain government, erected by himself, against
his and other traitors peIsecu tions, was even
more eager to illustrate his savage policy, by
clothing with the mos. despotio power the ri
oters of New Ocleans. Notwithstanding this
heartless deserti0n and cruel persecution by
Kentucky, Tennessee, Western Virginia,
Marylan1 and Delaware, imbued with
Democratic Republican princip ples-pri neiples
W ich the fathers of the Republic designe 1
for all tmerica-Ire row making determined
battle with the enemies OF free constitC tionai
government, and by the blessing o: God these
states will soon range themselves in line with
the former free stats, and illustrate the Wis
dom and benefoencs of the great Charter of
American Lib5rty by their increasing popufa-
tiou, wealth and prosperity in the reina ming
ten states The seeds OF oligarchy, planted
IN the constitution by is slavery feature, have
grown to be rnonstrous power, whose recog-
milton thus wrung from the reluctant trainers
| of that great instrument enabled these states
TO retrench themselves behind the peryersed
doctrine of states rights, and sheltered by a
claim of institutional ohlIga ation to maintain
!! slavery in the states 20 presen, to the AmeIi-
/ can government the altei natives of oligarchy
With slavery or Democratic Republican gov
, ernment without slavery. ------.
A forbearing Government bowing to a sup
posed constitutional behesi, acQdiesced In the
, former alternative. The hand Of the Govern
ment vas stayed for eighty years. The prin
ci pies of constitutional liberty languished for
want of Government support Ohgarchy
matured Its power with subtle design. Its
history for eighty years Is replete with un-
paralleled injuries and usurpatlons; 1t devei-
oped only the agricultural localities, gao
!, graphically dis,incl from the free-labJr local
, tiles, and less than one-third of the whole,
with A rican slaves. Ii held 4 900 900 of
human teings chattels, yet made them the
basis of unjust power tor themselves IN Fede-
, raj and State governments. lo maintain their
eusayement, 1t excluded millions OF tree while
laborers from the richest agricultural lands OF
the world, forced them to remain inactive and
unproductive on the mineral, manufacturing
and lumber localities. comprising twO-thirds
of the whole South IN square miles and real
undeveloped veal b, simply because the local
ities were agriculturally too poor for slave Ia
| Dor, and condemned them to agriculture on
this unagrcu ltural territory, and consigned
them to unwilling ignorance and poverty By
denying capital and strapglng enterprise. Ii
repelled the capital energy, Will ard skill OF
the Free states f.om the free-labor localities
8 by unmitigated intolerance and prescription
thus guarding the approaches to their slave
domain against Democracy. Statute books
! groaDed under despotic laws against unlawful
and lnsurrec,iobary assemblies, aimed at the
Constitutional guarantees of the right to
peaceab.y assemble and petition for redress
D of grievances 1t prescribed democratic lit
: erature as incendiary, nullihed constitutional
GU uarapties of freedom and free speech and
/ free press. 1t deprived citizens OF the other
/ states of their privileges and immunities ii
q the Siates-an injury and usurpatio0, alike
: unjust 10 Northern citizens and destructive Of
c the best interests of the States themselves
D Alarmed at the progress OF Democracy IN the
e face of every encouragement, at last 1t sought
n immunity by secession and war.
The heart sickens with contemplation of the
: four years that followed, forced loans, impress
ments, conscrlli ions with bloody hanos ane
s bayonets the murder of aged Union men " no
Q had laid aside the implements OF labor, but
l. had been summoned anew TO the field by the
conscription of their sons TO support their chill
/ dren and grandchildren reduced from comfort
# TO the verge of salvation; the slaughter o.
e noble youths. types OF physical manhood forced
into an unholy War against these with whom
T they were identifed by every interest; long
e months Of incarceration In Rebel bastlles
a banishment from homes and hearthstODes,-
are but a rtial recital of the long catalogue o
i horrors.
$ But Democrats North and South combined
: defeated them. They lost. What did they
lose? Toe cause OF olgarchy? They LOST
1 African Slavery by name only Soon as the
y tocsln of war ceased, soon as the clang ol
f srms was hushed, they ralse the cry of i'm.
e mediate admission, and with that watchworC
9 seek to organize under new forms a contest tt
perpetuate their unbridled sway. They re
b habilItate with their sweeping control OF al
: local and State organizations. The Fedora
+; Executive, easily seduced, yields a willing
y obedience to his old masters: aided by hi
8 unscrupulous disregard of Constitution anG
9 laws, by his merciless prescription of true
democratic opinion, and by all his appliances
: of despotic power, they now defantly enter
d the lists of the loyal North, and seek to wiring
q from freemen Endorsement OF their wicked
4 designs Every foul agency is at work to &C
4 complish this result. Falsely protesting tt
{ assent to the abolition of Slavery, they ARE
contriving to continue its detestabie power By
f legislative acts against pretended vagrants
3 they know that any form OF servitode vii
: answer their unholy purpose. They pro
nounce the four years war a brilliant swore
g scene in the great revolutionary drama. Pro
!, scrptive pu bile sentiment holds high carnival
8 and, profiting by the example OF the Presi
: Dental pilgrim. breathes out threatenings o