Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-11-20
No Peace with Shareholders.

No Peace with Shareholders.
Why should any portion OF the northern
psople deluie themselves with the vain hope
that any terms of peace whatever can be made
with the leaders Of the Shareholders revolt,
except upon the basis OF the unconditional re-
cogniton of their confedera.y? If the expo
nents of the northern Democracy do not be
guile themselves with such hopes, they have
certainly succeeded in beguilng many Of their
anthinking followers into the belief that the
Shareholders have lingering affection fer the
old flag, and the old Union,-that they REBEL
cd In moment of passion and will seek the
first opportunity to return to their allegiance,
provided they can be assured of the permanent
ascendancy of their old allies, the Democrats,
in the free States, aud thus feel secure in the
enjoyment of their privileges as shareholders.
They incnleate the idea that it is only nec essa-
ny for the Democracy to overthrow the Repub-
Icans in the free States, to insure a counter
revolution in the South in favor of the Union.
Now, in our Judgment, all such expectations
are the hight Of folly and of madness. The
headers in this revolt are men who have been
for years deliberately plotting a division of the
Union. Dsnnion has been the goal at which
they have steadily and persistently aimed for
the last thirty years. They are Slaveholling
aristocrats with "notl drop of Demo ratio
blood in their veins, '-haiers and derders of
free institutions, whose aim is to destroy the
constitution, in order that they may devise an
entirely different system of governmental
system of government more congenial to their
tastes, and essentially restrictive of liberty
Their dream is, a greet Southern Empire, in
which Slavery shall be the corner stone and
Shareholders the ruling class,-a sort of ieudal,
or manorlal arstocracy. The men who are
engaged in this great conspiracy and who are
absorbed in such dreams of empire, look upon
association, either political, national or social,
with the unwashed, unterriiied Democracy of
the free States, with the most extreme aversion.
To be sure, they have honey -fugled them here
tofore-they haye patted them on the back
and called them good fellows, and apparently
have not dsdained political fellowship with.
them but it was only the fellowship which
the lion gives the jackal, in order to be led to
his prey. 1t is difficult for these Democrats
70 see that they have thus been used, and
more difficult to acknowledge it. They still
ondeavor, at least, to believe that JEFF, D Wis,
and Slidell and Mason, and Yancy, regard
them as brethren, with whom Union would be
not only possible but desirable, and hence the
EAwnng words, the eourtesies, and the Beau
Brummel civilities which our Democratic
neighbors in New York tip to the rebels over
the shoulders and the bayonets of our brave
army. How much onger will they play the
hckspttle, the toady and the fool, to mis-
cradle brood of traitors who never mean to be
oonoIliated, and who must be overthrown and
crushed, and extermiu ted before there can be
any permanent peace2 How many times will
they suffer themselves to be told by the R'ch-
mond Examiner that all their offers of conclll-
alton are in vain, before they realize the fact
that they are crawling IN the dust before reb-
els for no purpose, and to their infinite shame
The fact is, if there is any class in the re
bellous States 10 conciliate, and to treat with
kindness, it is the poor downtrodden whites
who are not Shareholders. They, are the real
Democracy of the South, Ignorant it may be,
-unwashed it may be,-but tor all that much
more respectable than the thieves who led off
in this war against the Union, and infinitely
more loyal at heart to the Union than all the
Slayeholdng traitors in existence. We can
afford to be kind to them-we can afford to
offer them pardon and immunity -but there is
NO way to deal with the Slaveholding class,
hut to fully exterminate it. And the sooner
lhe north is united in this view the better for
The country.