Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-07-11
COMPROMISE AND CONGRESS.

We have of late heard great deal in re-
gard to new and secret compromise meas
ure that was said to be IN agitation some
where, and somehow, between somebody on
one side-and somebody else on the other
and we are sorry to say that some milk and
water patriots have taken hope, and that some
really true men-though perhaps of too little
faith--have had their fears unduly excited
by these vague rumors. We have never
given credit, for moment, to the various sem
sation articles, which for the past few days
have been in circulation In regard to this
matter, and we give quite as little to the
vague reports and shrewd guesses with re-
ference to the late passage of the Hon. Mr.
May to Richmond under the protection of
the President, and the return of Col. Taylor,
with flag of truce from JEFF Davis to Wash
ington. Nevertheless, as /" straws," it is said,
invariably show the % course ofthe wind" so
have these rumors indicated with sufficient
plainness the " tendencies " of those around
US. The true man, and the infexible patri-
OF, has expressed his fear, and the temper
izing halEand-ha patI lot has given in his
hope, that " something would be done to give
us peace at whatever cost and however
temporary such peace might prove.
Now, in regard to all this we have but lit
tie to say. We have never thirsted for the
blood of our Southern brethren, nor do we
believe that the people of New England
with all the puritanism that still hangs around
them-desire to force the South into a sur
render of any just right in order to place
them in accord with themselves in any matter
of mere opinion. All the North now ask of
the South is a recognition of their own rights:
and having waited through long years, with
most exemplary patience, for the restoration
OF such rights as they have long since been
robbed of-and seeing the determination man
ifested ON the part of the South to waive all
conformity to Law, and by destroying the
mon ruin-they have at the call of the Presi-
dent placed themselves in a position to settle
all the vexed questions of the Nation-pa st,
present and future. There is but one way in
which these questions can be settled satisfac-
torily to the North. It cannot be done bv
temporizing course of policy on the part of
the Executive, or of Congress. 1t cannot be
done by any compromise entered upon, or
determined, with traitors in arms. The
people of the free-labor States cannot afford
to put themselves upon a wal footing in every
decade of years, either to contend for their
just rights, or to please the chivalry of South
Carolina and her sister Confederate St ates.
Ifby fighting people are meant those who
are always ready and anxious for a passage of
arms, then are the people of the North nat
a fighting nation. They prefer the rude i'm
plements of agriculture and the Machine
Shop to those of warfare-and the rattle of
the Steam mills, and the buzzing of machine
~, to the roar of cannon and the whizzing of
balls. The arts of peace are those which
they prefer to cultivate-and it's for this
very reason that any halfway settlement of
the vexed question now before them would be
not only distasteful, but entirely unsatisfac-
tory. 1t is the boast of Davis, and Toombs
and Yancey, and their associates that they
have been thirty years nperfecting their syS-
tenn of rebellion, and it is now with our peo-
pie the universal wish to throw off entirely
and effctually the web which they have so
long been weaving around them.
We are pleased to see that the President
his Cabinet and Congress are with the peo-
pie on this question. The clear and concise
plans of Secretary Chase for the ways and
means of carrying on the campaign for the
suppression of rebellion-and the dete rmina-
ton expressed by President Lincoln in his
Message to make good use OF the men and
money placed in his hands for this purpose,
has inspired new confidence in our people,
and we are happy to add-for the benefit of
those who hoped Or feared that patch ed up
peace was about to be made-that Congress
by resolution on the first business day Of the
session, declared that it would not during its
present sitting receive or act upon any bills
or resolutions which did not concern military
and naval appropriations for the government
and financial affairs connected herewith
and that all bills not directly connected with
this paramount and pressing business of the
Nation, shall lie over till the regular session
in Decem ber
VERMONT STATE AGRICULTURAL So
CIETY.-The directors of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society met al the Bardwell