Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-10-02
THE NEW POLICY DOWN WITH
SLAVERY. a.


the ablest, most fearless and outspoken men
OF the South, in a speech delivered at the
Capital Of his State, declared the object and
purpose of the war against the Union. He
aid that the government OF the United States
was founded upon a false theory of human
rights,---namely, the political equality of all
men. He said that such system of govern.
ment is incompatible with the interests and
the social system of the Southern States
He declared in substance that the rebellion
is struggle against the democratic principle
Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the great and sub
lime principle enunciated by Thomas Jeffer-
son in the Declaration of Independence that
all men are created free and equal" He
insisted that the rebellion did not acquire its
animus from opposition to any mere party
organization, but that it was the elimination
Of radical and indispensable opposition to
the fundamental principles Of the Constitu-
ton itssli. Insisting that the compulsory.
servitude of the African race to the, Anglo
Saxon, as II exists at the South, is the normal
condition of society, and that which promises
the most benefcent civilization, he claimed
hat government should be established in
which the system Of negro slavery should be
made the chief corner stone. A government
having for its, end the perpetustion and as
tendency Of such a system, must have its
powers concentrated in the hands of the slave
owners, for even if the Southern Confederacy
embraced only the Slayeholding States, it
would be incompatible with the security of
slavery, to lodge the political power Of the
new government in the hands Of the people
at large, since a very large majority Of the
Southern white people are non Shareholders,
Che most Of whom have interests directly an
sagonistic to those of the slave owners.
The object of the war then is to change
the political character of the government; it
is to overthrow the American principle, that
il is the undoubted right of the majority to
rule ID is war in which shareholders as
class put their individual interests in the scale
against the Union and all the blessings which
ii secures in short war between Olgarchy
and Democracy Despotism and Liberal
Cover uent; Slavery and Freedom.
1t cannot be denied that Vice President
Stephens takes the correct and philosophic
view. If Democratic government prevails
and continues, slavery must ultimately 60 to
the wall. The time is coming, in the prog
rsss Of this country, when, Notwithstanding
its broad expanse, there will be no room for an
enslaved race, if the channels Of emigration
are left open, and the individual freedom
secured by the Constitution is enjoyed. There
IL an irrepressible conflict between Free
dom and Slavery They cannot co-exist
permanently under one government, and
Mr.. Stephens, instead Of initiating the DEM
agogues in abuse Of MIR. Seward for giving
utterance TO this truth, adopts it as his own,
and draws from it the only justification he
makes Tor the treason Of the Slaveholding
States wolla8 s1tv gsf av sa
Now II the real issue be made up upon the
premises assumed by Mr.. Stephens, for what
are the two sections, respectively contending2
If Stephens be correct,--if he knows how
to state his own case, and has stated it as it
IS, what becomes of the pretence that the
South was driven into rebellion by the un-
constitutional practices of the Northern
States Stephens declares it is the aconst-
tuition as it isl that the shareholders do not
like that it is the government OF the people,
and not the mere ascendancy Of party,
which they are at war with. When the cul-
prit makes full and frank onfesson Of his
guilt, why need we insist that he is innocent
Of all crime2 When Stephens declares that
the constitution is an object of hate to him
and his fellow shareholders, why should Nor
thern sympathizers with treason insist that
the constitution was an object of sacred rev.
erence with the Shareholders, until driven
into rebellion by its assumed violation by the
Northern people 2 4 A.
Itresults as corollary that slavery is the
great enemy to the constitution and the
Union. tits slavery which Is demanding the
life blood Of the nation. 1t is slavery which
snsolently clutches at the throat Of Freedom
and cries: /" Your life or mine!s 1t is sla-
very which says Eternal war upon the
..sght Of non slaveholding whites to have a
voice in government" tisass5z 5sEoeoa |
Notwithstanding the defiant front Of sla-
very, and notwithstanding the rivers Of blood
which have been shed sby our fathers, sons,
and brothers, in resisting its frantic attempts
to destroy the government, with what amaz.
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