Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-07-11
From the National Washington Republican.
REMARKS OF SENATOR FOOT,
OF VERMONT.

To the Second Vermont Regiment, on the
occasion ofheir departure from the city Of
NeU York for The seat Of sod,, on Tuesday
the 25h uttma1.
OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE SEC
oND VERMONT REGIMENT-FELLow CIT-
IZENS ALL You will accent my thanks
tor this kindly and generous salutation.-
I GU will also accept my congratulations and
my sincere and earnest commentator for
the promptness and the spirit with which
| you have responded to your countrys call in
| this hour OF her trial. | hesitate not to say
that history itself does not point us to the in
stance OF an appeal to the spirit and the
pride OF loyalty and patriotism of any peo-
| pie, when such an appeal has been more
promptly, more enthusiastically, or. more
unanimously met than upon the present oc-
caslon. This Isl indeed, as it should be. 1t
is an encouraging and most gratifying omen.
In my Judgment IT is significant and deci-
sIVe OF the ultimate issae OF the present con-
! troversy. 1t is full Of promise, Of hope, and
of confidence in respect to the yet unrevealed
future Of our beloved country. This popular
demonstration furnishes US the best, the sur
| est, the most reliable pledge which ever has
been or ever can be given of the preservation
and of the perpetuity of the Republic The
| fiat of the American people has gone forth.
that this Republic shall stand. The voice of
the American people hath spoken it, and this
Republic shall stand against all conspiracy,
against all treasd in, against all rebellion
God himself has this Republic in keeping in
His own right hand, and it shall stand against
all the powers OF darkness and of evil. This
is our confidence This is our reliance. This
is our abiding faith,
Soldiers and tellow-citizens Novel and
strange events are passing before our eyes.
A new and a strange spectacle is now being
presented to the eyes of the American peo-
pie, and to the yes of the civilized world
This country of ours, but lately, and for
many years, SO PEACEFUL, so quiet, so prosper
Gus in all the departments Of industry and
of enterprise, presents to-day the appear
ance, and to US, the singular and startling ap-
pearance, of or and, national, military en-
campment The busy and busting prepare
tons OF war are right before Us. Martial
strains salute the air all around US. Troops
of armed men hre marching to and fro
through our streets. Weapons Of war, every
where, glitter in the sunlight. The very
earth beneath US trembles under the tread Of
mighty armies gathering to the field Of con
fict.
And wherefore is all this martial array -
Wherefore is all this hurried mastering Of
armed legious of our fellow citizens The
answer bounds from the beating heart Of
every loyal son o. the Rep bic. That an
swer is, that this glorious Union Of ours is in
danger-a rebel foe is at work TO undermine
the foundations of the Republic--the slave
power of the country, no longer able to rule
il, has risen in its might and in its madness,
in open and armed rebellion against the
Government. After having ruled the cOun-
try for sixty years, when at last defeated at
the ballot box, it raises the standard OF revolt
and of ruin. This Government Of oars, tie
fl eest and the most beneficent the light Of
heaven has ever beamed upon, and hitherto
the mos favored the God of Heaven has
ever smiled upon-this Government Of ours,
so long fixed and so deeply consecrated in
the hearts Of the American people, IS now
menaced with disruption, and overthrow at
the hands of rebel domestic ioe-at the
hands Of men born and nurtured in its DO
som and who have drawn its liie-bloo1 In
their support, and who are indebted for the
very power of doing it harm. 10 ITS abused
patronage and its misplaced confidence. The
spoiled and petted child OF fortune turns and
strikes the dageerIof death at the heart Of its
own nursing mother. Treachery and trea-
son, foul, and BLACK as the damning drop
that falls from the denouncing angels pen,
are plotting the arrest, the disaster, and dis
grace of the sublimest and the most hopeful
experiment of free constitutional government
the world has ever witnessed. In short, We
are now called to meet and to deal with the
great public crime of the age.
Soldiers and citizens, need excite your
indignation-need | stir your blood and
nerve your arm by a recital of the long and
revolving catalogue of injuries and insults
which have been Berpetrated upon the loyal
States and upon loyal citizens of this Govern
ment by the instightors and leaders OF this re-
bellion Need Iremind YOU of the seizure
of the forts and afsenaIs, and navy yards OF
the Government by its armed rebels and
traitors Have they not stolen the public
property, whatever and wherever they could
lay their hands VI on it? Have not plumber
and robbery, grand larceny and petit larce-
ny in high places and in low places, been
the order of the day Has not the most
shameless betrayal of high and solemn public
trusts been cOnnlved at, yea, and CountC-
nanced and practced, too, by men sitting in
the high places of power Need | remind
You that arms and munitions of war had FOR
months been secretly transferred from the
Northern to the Southern States, under the
orders Of a late Secretary Of War, him
self the reputed prince of traitors ?
Need you be reminded OF the eross indi4ni-
ties, the insults and personal violence inhict-
ed upon quiet and ,peaceabIe citizens, guilty
OF no offence and cAargeabIe with no offence
other than that they were Of Northern origin
Shall | remind you, that, in this spirit, reDu-
diatIbn Of the most confidential pecuniary
obligations to the people Of the North, amount
ing, in the aggregate, to no less than $780,
100000, rules the hour, and by solemn proc
lamation, Governors of Southern States de-
clare it an act Of trd ason to pay Northern
debt? Like Caesars ghost, roaming DER all
the land, crying "lp6Oc, haroc, they let slip
the dogs of war" to prey and to pirate upon
Northern commerce wherever it may float
upon the great "highway of nations" Need
| call to your recollection the bombardment
of Fort Sumter, where, with an army full ten
thousPnd strong, they actually overcome
little garrison Of some seventy famshing SOL