Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-05-16
Tile gntland gerald.
" o, VALIENT MEN !"
THURSDAY, MAY l6, 1861.

0SH. L AiloW, WHOSE name Is TdtuST un-
pleasantly associated with certain " ditch"
IN his call for Tennessee troops for JEFF.
Davis army, holds out the following very
hattering nducement to Kentucky to join the
Southern Confederacy.
"They, 1.-THE troops will not be required
for the defense of the Southern coast; Ken
tueky and Virginia will be the fields of con-
fiet for the future"
The rebels cannot push the war farther
north than Kentucky, as she is a border
State, but Virginia has the slave State OF
Maryland lying between her and the free
line, and she insists that the field of conflict
shall be located there. Virginia holds rela-
lively the same position to Maryland that
Tennessee does TO Kentucky, and she wants
Maryland for battlefield, precisely as Gen.
Pillow wants Kentucky. Thus discourses
the Richmond Dispatch:
The great strategic movement for the South
In the present juncture, is the securing of
Maryland to the Confederacy. The securing
of Maryland throws the border (the border
as to military operations) beyond the confines
Of Virginia. II opposes Maryland, as
breastc0rk and shield for Virginia, against
the assaults Of the foe. The value of Mary
land to Virginia, in military strategy, is Illus
trated by what is now transpiring at Balti
more and Annapolis. But the fact of Mary
land constituting stfh a shield and bulwark,
imposes upon Virginia and the South the
outy of supporting her with adequate forces.
So the main object of the South, aud espe-
cially Of Virginia, d" in securing Maryland to
the Confederacy," is, that ste may receive
the bruises and the shock of the terrible con-
Aict low waging, rather than Virginia. II
would be a great strategic movement for the
South to throw the military operations - be-
yond the confines Of Virginia" So says the
Dispatch. But by the same reasoning, would
it not be a very poor strategic movement for
Maryland to invite the conflict to her own
borders 10 make Of herself a breast work
and shield for Virginia against the assaults
of the foe :" Is that the bloody feast to which
Valieut Virginia invites her sister State Of
Maryland > Virginia, the mother Of Presi-
dents-whose every man is more than a
Grecian or Roman hero-proud, ancient,
naughty, imperial chvaIric, Virginia; is she,
now that the hour OF the conflict approaches,
so base and cowardly as to implore gallant
little Maryland, to throw herself as a shield
and q breast-work between her and the
foe Is that what the world has been led to
expect from Virginia ? Why, pray, should
Maryland be a shield and breast-work for
Virginia, rather than Virginia for Maryland?
And thus it is that this insolent and AFRO /
CANT State already begins to quail before |
the uplitted arm of the federal power, the |
shiyerng and crushing effect Of whose blow
will be felt through all the Southern borders. !
1t is but a few weeks ago that the seces- |
sion papers of Virginia pompously assured !
their readers that the rebel army would be |
safely encamped on the banks ofthe Hudson, /
and that the terms cf peace would be dicta- |
ted in Faneuil Hall Now, like a frightened |
and arrant coward the Dispatch calls for = |
breast-work and a shield " to protect her from
the assaults of the Government she has so in
SOtcut4t 0CuCu, anu 4fAa4 o!iA 10 pOlitClS AAi-
vited to immediate herself for the purpose of
saving Virginia.
The Virginia rebels will soon find that no
breast-work or shield will save them from the
awful retribution which is in store for them.
The majesty, and the power of the Govern
ment will be vindicated upon her soil, and We
feel nuite sure that sometime more than
the spectre of the gallows of John Brown will
greet theil vision before the work taken in
hand by the federal power shall be completed.
Virginia set the example of hanging tr ators,
an example not unlikely to be initiated
by the Government, and within her own
borders
In the meantime. We trust Maryland and
Kentucky will reflect calmly before accepting
the disinterested proposals Of the Richmond
Dispatch and Gen. Pillow.