Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-04-11
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We are now reaping the 80.
ouI long persistence IN slavery aoitatior Tv,or
/ ty years ago the United States na wen
world the splendid spectacle az - 'ne
VINO USED their power wisely and ~ - - 80, go
made this government the best !; Ky ~ aJi's
Ihen slavery agitation was but sneck IN Tho
!. =, u, Y lew fanatics, and laughed
at oy all. In little while a few sbrewJ Va
tical but unprinciped politicians aer .hpt -
| Judlclous management ii could ba ,,ado . 1erc,,
by which they could be raised m nlaca sud ,,or
er. Ihey x eW we'll the old adaqa of ssn1avino,
with hre, but coolly calculated that While
| senolai connagration must be the inevitable re
oaas :, .nsi : Needing with SLAYER, thea would
| escape, ana 1t would prove a pro6table o9ara,ion
Tor them They took hold of il. ana we see the
| result: what was but speck at first hos crown
| 10 an immense cloud, covering the whole CONN
| Try, ana obscnrlng the brightest national nros.
poets the world ever saw.-Rutland Courier
| We are at all times glad to find an occasion
to endorse the sentiments of orr democratic
friends, and we hardly know when we have had
| a better one than now.
Inc Courier, in Common with most of the
democratic papers of the day, has had much to
say of Black Observation-Disclosures. &C.
and all the evils which now rest upon the coun-
try, have heretofore been placed TO the charge of
those who they say sail under this flag. We are
| glad to see that the Courier has got a new en-
| lightenment on this head and we are inexpressi-
bly, happy to perceive that there is at least one
democratic paper in Vermont WILLING tn place
the responsibility of the present condition of
things where it belongs.
| There was time, "a happy time" the Cou-
rier says, when our nation & presentad ~ the
world the splendid spectacle of nation of kings
VINO oseo their powers wisely, and by so doing
maze thls government the best in the world -
Inc courier places this happy era at twenty
| years agone; but when we recall the fact that
| these were the DAYS OF log cabins and hard cider
-IlPPecanoe and Tyler too-we are led to
| suppose that the Courier had reference to an an.
| terror date, and that it was cropping hack to the
days OF the early fathers when in truth we could
say that "kings lived" and gave direc ion to the
| affairs OF the nation In those days we had a
| Washington, Jefferson, a Franklin. and a jaw.
of our own land, and such "outside barbarians"
true naturaiIzed citizens as Kosciuszko,
| Steuben, and Lafayette, who "agitated the
slavery question" in a manner satisfactorily to
| Shareholders then-but in a way that would now
| cost them their heads in the cotton States. and
deprive them of the respect of the doughfaced
| democracy of the present day and why
Since those days, the Courier says, "a few I'M
principled politicians saw that by judcious man
| agement it could be made lever by which they
could be raised to place and power" &c
We have all seen this quite as plainly as has
| the Courier. We have long seen these dabblers
in the political world whose sole stock in TT. de
was the niger, and we have seen the success
which, by the aid of a subservient branch of the
party in the North, has always attended their
efforts in getting the control of the government
| "Ihey" did know the adage relative TO " fire y
| they did know the hazard they run and they did
understand fully the game "they" were playing.
But who are the they" spoken of by the Cou-
rer? Let'Mr Benton, in his Thirty Years in
the Senate" answer Mr.. Benton, in his last
great work, says;
"The regular Inauguration of this slavery agi
| taton dates from the year 1885; but it had com
menced two years before, and in this wav: multi
fcation and disunion had commenced in 1898
upon complaints against protective tariff That
being put down in 1888 under President Jack
sons proclamation and energetic measures, was
Immediately substituted by the slavery agitation.
Mr.. Calhoun, when he went home from Congress
in the spring of that eveutful year, told his
friends that 'e South could neUer be united against
the North on the tariff question that the sugar IN
feyests Of Louisiana acouLd keep her out and tint
me OIStS % cOUttSTH union must De ShJ1teQ to
sidUe question. Then all the papers in his inter
est, and especially the one at Washington. by
:. | Mr.. Duff Green, dropped tariff agitation and
commenced upon slavery, and in two years had
the agitation ripe for Inauguration on the slavery
. | question. And in tracing the agitation to us
present stage, and to comprehend its rationale,
1t is not to be forgotten that 1t is mere contin,
| uation of the old tariff disunon, and preferred
, | because more available"
Now there is not a well-informed man among
us that does not fully understand this whole mat.
ter While the South-or that portion of it who
read in the bright vision of glorious Southern
| (Slave) Confederacy-talk of aggressions upon
| the peculiar institution-and while their dough
faced allies of the North continue to brand the
Republicans as the "nigger" party--an will see
the true position ofthe case. They will not fai
to see that that party which aims to spread the
r dark cloud of slavery over the entire land-shut
ting out the bright rays of the sun of liberty:
the real negro party of the country, and tina
those who resist this encroachment of the slavery
propagandists are the only true friends Of free
dom and liberty.
But farther to refute this charge of aggression
on southern rights SO pertinacously and unbush
ngy put forth by inscriptions democratic
, prints and orators, we ask attention to speech
delivered a few days since by no less a person
age than Mr. Alexander III. Stephens him self
! Vice President of the Southern Cotton Confed
| eracy. We find in this speech full admission
of the important fact that the Republican part,
of to-day are in sentiment precisely identified
with the spirit which moved our early father
when they pledged their lives, their fortunes ant
, their sacred honers" to the cause of liberty.
1t will be seen that Mr.. Stephens does no
! complain that he Republicans of the presen
time have departed from the principles inculcat
ed by the constitution, as given by its authors
or as it was originally established-bnt that the
will not now conform to the new light" whic
the slavery extensionists maintain they hav
T. drawn out of the clark cloud" with which the
o are surrounded, and which they would fain SCI
| spread over the length and breadth of the land
q | Like LAGOON, these chief high priests of tn
q Dagon of Slavery find themselves infolded j
"a the coil of serpents; but in the present instanc
) | these latter day priests of dead dispense tic
c conclusivey show that the serpents which infol
| them are far more numerous than those spoke
of in fabulous history in the case above referred
! to, and it is only by secession, and flight to
| "higher law unto themselves that they can no'
hope to get free of their ugly visitants, To thi
end Mr. Stephens boldly and manfully meets til
question He truthfully asserts that the domi
nant idea of the trainers of the constitution wa
u that "the en,lavement of the African was in vic
ation of the laws of nature; that it was WI, n
: in principle socially, morally and politically
II and that somehow or another, in the order {
Providence, the institution would be evanescen
and pass away"
ri Upon this point, and speaking of the old cor
stitution-in contrast with that recently forme
~. by the Cotton Confederacy-h he says: