Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-01-16
Ghe INLAND aerala.
THURSDAY, JAN. 16, ls62.


The Versennes Yermonter does not ap
proye of the course ofihe Herald IN extend
ing a warm support to the policy OF President
Iipcolns Administration in the conduct oil
,he war, and in the same connection denoun'
,es the speeeh of our representative, Mr.,
Nichols, on the Fletcher resolutions IN The
Le.is!ature. The particular occasion OF our
offence which calls forth the snimadverslon
srthe Vermon,er, is the statement which wa
made few days ago that when the temple
of liberty is on fire, we would denounce the
Aboltcnist "who would step out of the hne
20 write an abolition proclamation, or the
Democrat who would reuse TO pass water
unless the Pre,ide' would pledge himself +"
bind the negro in the death-graspot bondage"
sc. Now we would like to have the Vermont
or devise a plan, practicable, eiIiracious'
and sensible, y which this war can be termi'
mated by any other means than hy rdfgtt-
ina. We call the attention of the Vermont
er to the following extrsct from the New
York Evening Post, hitherto one OF the radi-
cal Republican papers of the country:
Finally, the slavery question will be best
yolyed by the advance OF the troops. Wher-
ever the armies move slavery is disorganized.
No proclamation Of the President or act OF
Congress could have onc-half the effect in
loosinp the bonds of the negroes that Grand
battle on their own soil would have. Every
boom of the cannon would break some letters !;
every CLEAN OF a sword flash hope and conf
dence into some hearts. When at Port
ROYAL, The poor captiyes saw their masters
flying like sheep before the approaching
Yankees the moral superiority of the domln-
ant class was broken forever. So II will be
everywhere that our arms are successful.
We may talk for years of the evils OF slavery,
we may denounce its abuses and tn" chartc-
ter OF those who uphold it, we ,-lslate
against its continuance in every way IN our
power. vet with all our talk and legislation
we shall not do so much TO uproot it ,ifectu-
ally as by a single grand battle fought in the
presence Of the slaves, and winning victory
selves are aware Of this, and have Gone eve
Yythipg that they could TO confine the war to
the extreme northern limits of the border
States They know that whatever policy the
government may adopt in regard 10 slavery,
and whatever the procliwties of the regular
generals, the presence OF an occupying army
is in Itself an act OF emancipation, against
which they have no recourse"
Now that is sensible talk. The rebels
know we'll CT o1gh that thousand acts OF
Concr, s. and thousand: of rroclsmations de-
claring universal emancipation, will have no
sort of effect beyond the lines occupied by our
army, e1cert 10 knit the So~ihern people in
closer league OF resistance 10 The onrard march
ofMe Federal forces, and hence in military
point of view the leaders Of the rebellion
would hail with re joicng every act and pro-
camation Of that kind, as so much add.
,ional fuel TO heap upon the flames of South
ern passion. #a @a@
On the other hand it should appear tor
plain for argument to every loyal man, tha
the adrance # The army cW virtually ertin
guiSh slavery al erery step fits progress, acith
out the all Of PrOctdmationS. The latte
only rritates the enemy and calls up addition
al armed hosts against u, and docs us no com
pens t ng gool. Let the declared object o
the war be the preservation OF the Union, anC
le' s'arery take care Of ITSELF 81