Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-22


groups seeking his passports to enable
them to escape to the frontier. His as
sistants were overpowered with applica-
tions for aid and advice from the German
population, which were never refused.
The American consuls have recently been
publicly thanked by the Emperor Will
liam for the service they SO cheerfully
rendered and Mr.. Washburn bears with
the French extremists the honorable APP
pellation of the German spy. 1t Is
not likely, therefore, that our German
population can be so far deluded as to
continue much longer their alliance with
their real foes, their hostility to. their
benefactors. ~
Not many of the colored population
will probably be found in the ranks of
the opposition. They, at least, know
that the war has not ceased; that the
strong inference of the government is
still necessary to save their cottages and
their school houses from the lawless and
brutal robbers of the South. To Gen.
Grant they owe their release from per-
petual slavery; to his vigorous policy
that they are permitted to till their ma
tive soil in peace. But with regard to
Mr.. Greeley they will probably remem-
Der that, while all his life protested
Abolitionist, yet on two occasions, if not
oftener, he was willing to remand the
whole colored population of the South
back into terrible bondage that in
1860 he defended peaceable secession,
and IN 1864 was anxious to negotiate a
treaty that must have severed the Union,
checked Grant in his course of victory,
and created slave empire at the South
that would now have hung, a menace of
perpetual ruin, over the future of free
dom. If Mr.. Greeley had succeeded in
securing peace upon the dishonorable
conditions which he then suggested that
he, at least, was not willing to accept,
miserable indeed would have been the
fate of that oppressed people who
are now the equals of their former
masters in civil rights, their superiors
in devotion to the common welfare. -
Nor has the cry of reform ever been ut
tered with more ludicrous insincerity
than in the opposition movement. New
er did evil spirits assume more awkward
ly the guise of angels of light. The
enemies of education, of progress, Of
good morals in the North, unite with
their natural allies in the South to de-
nounce the conduct of honest men, ano
attribute to the Union, party the vices
by which they themselves once fell !
, Decayed and desperate rebels assume
the part of reformers the men who hav,
robbed the treasury of New York, ant
who are still at large, join in the cry
: the Romish press enlarges upon the de
cay of public morals; even the Jesuit
4 cal journals of Germany and Franc
t lend aid to their brethren in America
!, celebrate its new reformers, and declair
S against the administration. Of such
e 'rabble rout'' has Mr.. Greeley consent
: ed to become the leader. 1t is relate
S that the ancient conjurers were ofte
e torn to pieces by the evil spirits the
9 had evoked by their spells: it is plat
r that any honest man who ventures int
: the motley crowd of the opposition wi
J. be in serious danger. An oppositio
b President would be the victim, if he wa
1t not the accomplice of his followers. O
n the one side he would be assailed by tt
e fierce clamor of the Romish faction fl
% the destruction of popular education
d on the other by the secret or open plo
g of his rebel allies against the Union me
y. and the colored population of the Sout
a. For four years, under the rule of tt
: great Union party and of Presidel
Or Grant, the nation has known unexar
es pied repose. The dangerous cons
to quences of the suppressed rebellion a
IN slowly passing away. The men w
n burned school houses in Mississippi
to or who tortured innocent citizens in Il
n. Carolinas, have been restrained t
C. Southern States are being opened to il
st migration and knowledge; an honest al
he economical administration has reduc
n taxation, revived credit, and spread u
i'd precedented prosperity from ocean
or ocean. The military force has been
ed minished beyond example the Americ
as Union is the teacher of peace. Inste
er. of wild visions of foreign conquest,
an political agitation, or of dangerous co
lis binations of decaying factions, the mil
We, of sensible men seem turning to the OF
he question of real importance-how to
nit ucate the whole people, how to cradle;
en- the causes of political and moral dec
ri Under the administration of Presid,
of Grant every sincere movement tow;
of reform has been successfully foster
ell for he avows himself learner, anxi
use only to consult the wishes and Welt
ed of the people. And the great Tn
to party-the party of progress-will O
,es. more rally around their faithful serva
ent as they rallied to his aid at Vicksbu
the and Richmond, will continue for anot