Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-11-21
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THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 81, 1851
THE COURIER ON FANATICISM
AND THE WAR.

AM IA h w AN.
From the Courier of yesterday we in
fer that the editor of that smart and "pro-
gressive" sheet is still opposed to any pro-
erosion of the idea that slavery shall be
touched - whatever slavery may have
done, or shall do, to impede the progress
Of our arms. We are still farther i'm
pressed, from the Courier of yesterday
that the editor of that paper holds to his
original idea, as democrat, that any en-
croachment upon the auosOed (but uncon-
stitutional) rights of the STAKEHOLDER is
fanaticism and madness-because it is I'M
democratic-as the editor of the Courier
understands democracy,-and from the
Courier of yesterday We are still farther
led to see that such men as Beecher, FIRE.
mont, Butler, Holt. and Leslie Coombs of
Kentucky, Thomas and H. Winter Davis
of Maryland and many other leading men
of the Republican and Democratic par
ties both in the North and in the South,
are, even now, amid the anxieties and the
perils of the present war, to be styled as
abolitionists, crazy fanatics and madmen,
by this delectabie sheet.
Verify, as the Albany Atlas & Argus
one of tie last sticklers for southern
rights in the North--said the other day:
"THey tie southern peoDle) hare lad
fifty gears experience If tie Democratic
party ard kno,o ,ohat 1t is" This is a
simple truism. The southern people
do know what democracy has been for the
past many years. They lave seen it in
It's bright and halcyon days when honest
men and true patriots gave it character
and life. They have seen it at its culmi-
mating point,-and body and soul of Us
have they not seen it through the shame
ful administration of Pierce and the vet
more disgraceful administration of Bu-
chanan; in the repeal of the Missouri
compromise; the attempted subjugation of
Kansas in the trickery of Cobb, the
treachery of Toucey and in the stipend
Gus frauds and deviltries of Floyd,-we
say, have they not all seen it in these ex-
hibitions fall to its present PROSTATE condi-
tom OF verify they have,-and what
do they see now? Only, as the sad re-
mains of a pro-slavery, undemocratic
democratic party, few such shtntng-if
not bright-lights as the Albany Atlas
& Argus and the Rutland Courier"
still clingiug TO their cause of slavery
against freedom with tenacity that dis
gusts all friends of the Constitution North
or South, and all true friends of equality
and civil freedom everywhere.
But we have already said more in re-
lation to the Courier, in this connection,
than We had at first thought to, and we
will only add, that the Courier man in his
perSIstency IN calling such men as Beech
er, Fremont, (and in fact all others who do
not agree with him) fanatics and madmen
reminds US Of the old story told of Nat
Lee, known in his day as the crazy poet.
Cotemporaneous with Lee was another
poet of some repute by the name of Full
Ter. The latter on meeting Nat on a GER.
tain occasion, Intercepted him as follows;
Tell me, Lee" said Fuller, sis it not an
easy thing to write like a crazy man -
mo" growled out Nat but 1t as the east
est thing tn tie ,corld to 'orite ike a FOOL"
We leave the Courier to make its own
application Of the above.
WASHINGTON ENGINE Co. are laying