Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-04-24
A NORTHERN PAPER DEFENDS
TREASON.

IL Is said that sailors sometimes delight
to hsrpoon small whales which play
sreuad their ships, not for the oil they
win yield, but for the fun of seeing them
spoua We confess that we were AMI
mated with a similar desire when we
harpooned' the Courier last Saturday;
put had we known the editor Of that
paper would spout such reasonable SEN
timents in response as appeared in his
saper OF yesterday, we would have with
held the "harpoon" for the sake of the
credit of the State for we feel indignant
that Vermont has furnished the first and
the only newspaper which, has entered,
with apparent loyalty to JEFF. Davis, upon
the work of defending treason and traitors.
The Courier can claim the honor of lead
ing the van in that direction. The Cou-
rier thinks it strange we should prefer
to associate with Congo Africans rather
than to have any utilization with the trail
tors who are doing all in their power to
overthrow the Constitution and the Union.
The Courier is undoubtedly honest in ex-
expressing such a feeling Had we
tins same regard for traitors that the
Courier evinces, we should prefer TO
sleep under the dirty bed-clothes" of
treason, with JEFF. Davis, than to live
with Congo Africans. But we repeat
that our dislike and our detestation of
traitors is so great that the parlor and
door-yard of native African II I've a
Paradise in comparison with home, for
however brief period, with traitor to
such government as this Of ours.
The Courier makes the following state
nant, which appeared in the Daily Her
ald of last Saturday, the text for the
vilest treason that has been uttered in the
United States, north of Mason and Dix
on's line:
'' As for us, though we confess to en-
tertain all the prejudice natural (or IN
NATURALLY which the Anglo Saxon harbors
towards the negro as an associate, we
would prefer thousand-fold to live for
ever among Congo Africans, eat their
filthy porridge, and sleep under their
dirty hed-clothes,' than to associate one
hour with the proudest rebel in America,
OF any of his sympathisers and defend
ers."
Now, every reader will see that the
above is but figurative expression OF
our adherence of traitors. Treason
against the Government founded by the
immortal Washington is the greatest
crime, in our opinion, that can be COM
nitsed against the human race. We re-
peat, that we have an unutterable horror
an indeseribable detestation, for traitors
30 che Union. Congo Africans would
afford us delight as daily companions in
comparison with men SO mean, so despi-
cable and so wicked, as the authors of
this wicked rebellion have shown them
selves to be. And If ANDREW JACKSON
were alive, he would agree with us in this
opinion.
But the Courier takes far different
view. 1t thinks it quite strange that we
shoald have "hatred of such men as
John G. Breckenridge and his sympa-
thissrs.' The traitor Breckenridge and
his sympathisers the Courier calls " clean.
respectable and intelligent They are
"hos-blooded Southerners," it is true; but
the way to twin them back" to the old
flag is not by lighting against them in the
field, but by calling them "rebel brothers"
and yielding to all their reasonable de-
m1nds for the sake Of peace. To de-
nounce traitors, in the Courier's estima-
non, is to I" stab to the heart every South
srD man, woman and child" Yes, and
if seems that to denounce them stabs to
the heart the editor of the Rutland Cou-
rier' He can bear anything but vigor-
cas attack upon traitors.
In his eagerness for their defence--in
his hope to have them live in history as
Revolutionary heroes"-the editor of the
Courier actually compares the present
contest for the preservation of the Union
on the one hand, and its destruction on
the ether, to the contest of Great Britain
with the Colonists in the American Revo-
ly,finu Kinr Gaoroa tho TILL - L..