Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-09-21

liant sword scene in the great revolutionary
drama. Proscriptive public sentiment holds
high carnival, and profting by the example
of the Presidential pilgrim, breathes out the
thrcatenings and slaughter against loyalty,
ignores and denounces all legal restraints,
and assails with the tongue of malignant
SANDER the constitutionally chosen repre-
sentativcs of the people.
To still the voice of liberty-dangerous
alone TO tyrants--midnight conllagrations
assassinatons and murders in open day, arc
called to their aid. \ reign of terror thro
all these ten States makes loyalty stand si-
lent in the presence of treason, or whisper
in bated breath. Strong men hesitate open
ly to speak for liberty, and decline to attend
a convention at Philadelphia for fear of de-
struction.
But all Southern men are not yet awed
into submission TO treason and we have as
scmbled from all these States, determined
that liberty when endangered, shall find Il
mouthpiece, and that "the government of
the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth" We are
here to see that ten of these stars are not
Opaque bodies, paling their Intellectual fires
beneath the gloom and darkness of oligar-
chical tyranny and oppression. We wish
tlIUi, 90 bo briiii,.tG yt,vo, et,h1n,,,a of con-
stitutional liberty; glitterng orbs sparkling
with the life-giving principles of the Model
/ Republic-litting adornments Of the glori-
Gus banner of Freedom.
Our last and only hope is in the unity and
fortitudc of the loyal people of America in
the support and vindication of the Thirty
ninth Congress, and in the election of a con-
trolling Union majority in the succeeding or
Fortieth Congress.
While the new article amending the Ma
tional Constitution offers the most liberal
conditions to the authors of the rebellion
and does not come up to the measure of our
expectations, we believe its ratification would
be the commencement of n complete and
lasting protection to all our people, and
therefore we accept it as the best present
remedy and appeal TO our brothers and
friends in the North and West to make il
their watchword in the coming elections.
The tokens are arspicious of ovcrwhelm-
ing success However little the verdict o
the ballot-boX may affect the reckless man
in the Presidential chair, we cannot doubt
thai the traitors and sympathizers he ha:
encouraged will recognize that verdict a,
the surest indication that the mighty power
which crushed the rebellion is still alive. an(
that those who attempt to oppose or defy i
will do so at the risk of their own dcstruc
ton.
Our confidence in the ovcrruling pr0v
+ dence of God prompts the prediction an.
intensiies the belief that when this warning
is sufficiently taught TO these misguided anC
reckless men, the liberated millions of thu
rebellious South will be prollercd thos
rights and franchises which may be neces
sary to adjust and settle this mighty contro
versy in the spirit of the most enlarged ant
f Christian philanthropy.
, Geo. w. Paschal of Texas, Chairman.
= II. O. Sidney Of Mississippi.
| j. ii. Atkinson of West Virginia.
: J. \. Alderdice of Delaware.
4. w. Hawkins of Tennessee
f Samuel Knox of Missouri.
f Wright H. Fish Of Louisiana
: Milton j. Stafford of Alabama.
! Philip Fraser Of Florida.
ID. r. Goodloc of North Carolina.
4 ID. C. Forney of District of Columbia.
John a. J. Crcswel of Maryland.
G.. W. Ashburn of .GDrgia