Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01

starvation means surrender to an admins
tration which already possesses every ele-
ment Of oppression but its dignity give the
rest of your property to fatten the rest OF
this mess of villains that is hanging on to
the skirts of this war.
Now, gentlemen, let us look like practical
men at the question now Of what is to be
done. Let us look, like practical men, at
what this administration proposes to you II
their lease of power is renewed. What do
they propose to do? Why, they are going
right on they are going on in the prosecu-
ton of this war they are going to abolish
slavery, and they are going to confiscate all
the property in the southern states; they are
going to put this people right down into the
mud, and they are going TO select the worst
miscreants they have got, their Buffers and
Schencks, and set them over it. Well, how
are you going to do it -? Why, we have got
to 60 on with the war. Every man that
knows the sentiments of the southern peo-
pie tells you that on those terms you have
got to encounter the last man and the last
woman in that country. Well, then, they
have got to raise troops. No mans fool
enough to believe that this is the last call.
"a voice, "No.') You have been told times
enough before that =" this is the last call,
"they are utterly broken down. "they are
starving" one blow more will finish them"
etc. Now put it to you if that has not
been cried with every single call that has
been made, and now up comes tbat-highly
respectable Mr.. Stanton--1 was going to
say something else-and in telegram to
Gen. Dix informs us that, eve don't want
all of that 100000 after all we have routed
the army of the southwest, and Grant says
he only wants 100000 more to take Rich
mond, and until after election that's quite
enough for you, for after election we shall
be in for four years more, and then we
should like to see you help yourselves
Now is there anybody here who is so lack
ing in intelligence as not to see that if the
war is to go on, and these troops are gone
| like thawood cast into furnace, they have
got to have more How are they going to
get them How long is it since one single
legitimate volunteer has ceased going? As
told you before, these men at home are not
going. They have got to raise them by the
draft, of course, as they are raising men now.
Well, congress has already abolished the
Communication, and how about the substitute
business? Why, we are ransacking every
part of the world to buy niggers and Hes
slams for substitutes. That's where you are
getting your troops. You have had about
two millions of the best men in the country,
aud you can't get them any more You have
got to buy your troops, and the men that
you are able to buy are pretty miserable
set. Now it is proposed to exterminate
these southern people with that kind OF
stuff. We have not succeeded in doing it
with our own native stock. We are going
to do it now with those Hessians that we
have bought up, every man Of whom re-
quires two men to guard him. was at the
Windsor county court the other day, at the
trial of Gen. Partridge, who was tried fol
treason, for expressing doubt of the i'm
maculate character Of this administration
While was there some substitutes were
being taken away TO camp. Well, they
marched off about twenty, and before they
got to breakfast nine of them had escaped
Well, the point am coming TO is this II
you propose to prosecute this war to this
extremity you can't do it with that class Of
men. And you can't do it with niggerl
either. Well then, gentlemen, this is wha
was coming to; If you propose to go OF
J with this war, congress has got to repea
this substitute business altogether. 70,
have got to go yourselves. The consequence
will be that the next draft will be one from
which there will be no escape. Then you
have staring you in the face, from that mex
call which must inevitably come, draf
from which no man can escape. That i
the CONSUMPTION which you have got to en-
, counter, and that is the price which yoI
have got to pay for carrying on this wa
for the abolition of slavery after it ha
ceased to be necessary to carry it on for tn
, abolition of the union.
If the God of our fathers has not utterl
deserted us-and l don't think he has
think that the God that planted this colon
in the wilderness, and led it by the hand ii
it was the first nation ON the face of tn
: earth, till its plain destiny was TO gather Il
gether all the nations of the world-the Go
that did that is not going TO let it 60 to rui
for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of miserable, dirt
= knot of politicians-and If he has not utterl
: us on the 4th of March what this countr
y has longed for in the last four years, a pre-
ident Of the United States. Applause
And these gentlemen that are making then
y selves merry in their offices and in the
' contracts had better look out. Don't i
!, any one misunderstood what | say. We al
u going to have fair, legitimate, free ele
: ton. If it goes against us we are going
!, submit to it-but it won't 60 against u
4 And if it is going to be attempted to su
u they are going to see the biggest fight thu
y y ever saw. [Uproarious applause. And
u don't say that in the spirit of those abo
q ZIONIST leaders who are always hurrahing f
:, war that they don't dare engage in.
7 don't say it in that light
D.