Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-06-12
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AbolitiOntsuss.

SAID pro-siaVery Dcuocr" " 10 ''N
other day, "Aboliuonism is about played out
in two years it will be entirely suppressed"
His utterances were nearer the truth than he
meant them to be, Abohdonism IS about
played out. Slavery having received its
mortal wound, Abolihonism dies with 1t.
The same blow that prostrates the one de-
molishes the other. Abolition can have ne
existence in the absence of slavery. The
present rebellion is simply the irrepressible
conflict between freedom and slavery
Well, suppose we beat the rebels in the pres
ent struggle, and we are beating them faster
than rebellion of such portentous magnitude
was ever crushed before, what shall we have
to show. for the vast expenditure of treasure
and blood, if slavery is to be continued and
the government restored to its original status
We need not waste words--Slavery can
not permanently CO. exist with freedom, The
stronger drives the weaker to the wall. The
experiment has been tried under the sanction
and auspices of our Revolutionary Fathers,
and it has utterly failed. Out of respect, it
may be, to the revered names of Washing
ton and jefferson, whom every American
delights to honor, freedom has made every
possible concession to slavery. We have
withheld the expression of our most cherish
ed sentiments-we have attempted to stife
the irrepressible instincts of humanity lest in
some way the safety of the Union might be
endangered, and all we have earned is the
scorn and contempt of the South. viii a
new trial, which every motive of self-respect
forbids, have any better results Slavery,
by arraying itself against the best system of
its pretended rights to live. Why not &C
cept the forfeiture Shall the way of re-
bellion be graded and made easy? What
wisdom or humanity in leaving State free
to rebels involving civil war with all its sac
rifces Shall we regard lightly the killing
of thousands o our fathers, brothers and sons
in the field and camp, guilty of no offence
but rallying at our country's call to try to
maintain the integrity of the Union against
traitors and rebels
Thank God we cannot if we would re-
construct the Union on its old basis. And
for this we are indebted more to the rebels
themselves than to any policy of our own.
The spirit that engendered this rebellion is
still as rife as ever. "Whom the Gods would
destroy they first make mad" The South do
not acceptithe fact now potent to all the
world beside, that they are beaten, They
appear determined to remain in arms till this
reluctant people shall be compelled to blot
out the last vestage of the accursed insti-
tuition" But for the stubbornnes s of the reb-
els, there would be danger of fixing up a
hollow truce under the fne-sounding name
of reconstruction.
We are making progress events cannot
60 backwards Slavery has ceased forever
in the District of Columbia, and in the ter
ritories. The Fugitive Slave Law is beng
shorn of its most obnoxious features. Thou
sands on thousands of bondmen are getting
their freedom. The school-master is abroad
teaching the contraband in places where, by
the local law he incurs the penalty of death
Where are Mason and Slidell, Wigfall, and
the whole crew, who but lately fourished
their whips over Northern doughfaces in the
Halls of Congress ?
Whose voice is now most potent in Con
gress; who but the gifted Sumner, once
stricken down in his seat in the Senate by
slavery's cudgels -- And the impetuous
Lovejoy, whose brothers blood calls to him
from the ground Who, more than Fremont
is the favorite Of the people, and controls pub
lie sentiment--while the shafts OF pro-savery
malice fall harmless at his feet? When he
sounded the keynote that opened the prison
doors for four million captives, how bitterly
was he assailed? He stands the shock
"Not fallen no! as we'll the tall
And pared Allegany fall,
AsWell Ohio's 81 liant tide
Roll backward in its mighty track
AS he the great-the sorely tried.
In his triumphant course shrink back"
"No martyrs blood was every shed in vain, ,