Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-08-26

disguise, to escape the dagger of the assam,
and when our land was filled with eate-
ment and CONSERVATION and alarm-hen |
s. shrieked the timid and stood sti the |
brave and the confding masses ked
about to see who were the men for the isis,
among the citizens of the Empire Statewho
had borne part in public affairs, anwere
naturally looked up to as exemplars isuch
crisis, he (Horatio SeymOur) HE'D lnself
away upon the double-quick in the oKosite
direction, and for nearly half a year hihim-
self among the lakes and rivers and rOantic
woodlands and inland towns of Wisclsin
and his tongue was as silent on the object
Of denouncing the rebellion as those , the
murdered volunteers, whose &" ghosts alked
unIevenged. amongst u.s." There W may
suppose he basked and balanced, and wtched
and waited, and turned and twisted until
autumn, when a email knot of defun, de-
feated, desperate and despicable politians,
who had for years hung upon the lbsis
| tence department of the Democratic Irty OF
this State, came to his relief by enterig the
field. They borrowed without leae the
honored name of Democracy under witch to
perpetrate their covert treason, as thhypo-
critic
stole the livery of the court of Heavei
To serve the devil in"
Their disgraceful and disloyal recorstands
out as the doings of men too stolid in plltical
depravity to be gifted with ordinary istincts
and too regardless of the popular wi to be
mindful of shame and the defeat tey ex-
perienced at the hands of the peoplshou1d
serve as a warning to trimmers and raltors
and parricides and ingrates throgh all
future time. This movement drew the Sc
Guided one from his hiding place, and he
came forth with all the courage of hin who,
in conflict with his wife, being drive under
the bed, and while remaining thus ensonced,
declared that whether she consentedor not,
he would look out through a knothola III the
clapboards, SO long as he had the spirit of a
man He entered on the political canvass,
and on the 2Sth of Oct, 1861, a few days
before the election made speech, the bur
den of which was an apology for the rebellion,
and condemnation of the administration
for having meted out the RI COR of martial Law
to those in arms against the government
Though Astounding with 1imsy disguises AM
sophistical generalities, it contained one
point worthy not only of notice, but of tie
severest apprehension, and here 1T is $
it is true that slavery must be abolished T.
save this Union, then the people of the South
should be allowed to Withdraw Themselves
from that government which cannot Civ,
them the protection guaranteed oy lls terms
What place this glorious Union-this heri
tage of human hope-this asylum for The
worlds weary pilgrim, this refuge for the
oppressed of the earth-in the scale of being
beneath the black, and bloated, and bloody
the corrupt and corrupting, the stnltitie'
and stultifying institution of slavery? No
Sooner than see this Union severed, let no
only the institution perish, whenever an'
wherever it can be found, but let the habIta
tions that have known it perish with it, anC
be known no more forever. And yet thu
returning fugitive from patriotism proclaim:
as his creed, in effect if not in terms, that i
either slavery or the Union must be des
troyed, it should be the [ Mon And thu
name of this man is Horatio Seymour.