Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-02-27

1t to be wondered at that " the public vir-
tue" seemed to perish when the traitor
Floyd stole away from the Federal capi-
ital pey,Ted thief Aye, true, indeed
it is, that since then, Tyranny the most
absolute, and perjury the most vile, have
prevailed. But who are guilty of these
great crimes? Who have violated their
oaths Who, while yet occupying places
in the Cabinet, and in the Congress of the
United States, sworn to support the Com
stitution, were plotting at midnight the
overthrow ofthe Constitution, and stealing
by the meanest stealth the public treasure,
and the public arms wherewith to accom-
plish the diabolical purpose thus Matched
in fraud and perjury? 0, it was cruel in
you, Bocock, to remind the distinguished
villains who sat before you OF such things !
But as if this were not enough, Bo-
cock proceeded to excoriate them further,
by saying :-"Better submit 10 momen-
tary inconvenience than to injure repre-
sentative honor or violate the public
faith" Imagine the Prince of Darkness
and his internal tatterdenalons enforcing
the maXims of "honor" and of "public
faith! These traitors, who injured re
preventative honor" and violated public
faith, rather than submit to the tempo
rary inconvenience" of the loss of
single Presidential election, now twaddle,
for the ear of Europe, about their "repre-
sentative honor! I'm the whole book of
expedients," continues Bocock. there is
no place for falsehood and perjury. Let
us, on the contrary, asSiduously cultivate
the feeling of respect for constitutional
limitation, and Il sacred reverence for the
sanctity of an oath. We think it is high
time for them to begin to take some les
sons in that sort of schooling. They need
it sadly. But we fear Bocock is a poor
exemplar of what he commends. He
will make a poor teacher in the field
of morals. Satan was never yet known
to reclaim the outcast.
But there IS a mode of assiduously cul-
tivating in the heart of every rebel " a
respect for constitutional limitation" and
" a reverence for the sanctity of an oath. .
Uncle Sam is the schoolmaster for that
business He will not 4" farm it OUT to
Bocock nor any other traitor 1t will be a
severe schooling, but its effects will be
lasting. A bristling wall of steel, in the
hands of six hundred thousand loyal men,
will soon put in practice the admirable
virtues, both public and private, which
Saint Babcock the traitor so pathetically
commends. Babcock dangling at a ropes
end, in expiation for his " violation of the
sanctity of an oath" which, when a mem
ber of Congress, he took upon his lips, to
support the Constitution of the United
States, would be more eloquent sermon
on virtue than any mere words he can ut
ter, and sermon that may be regarded
by much larger audience than Bocock
addressed, one of these days!
One thing more in Bocock's speech de-
serves a passing notice. He says: Ma
tions look on, curious to see how this
new system of government will move off,
and what manner OF men have been chosen
to guide its earliest movements" Judg-
ing from recent events, the curiosity"
of Nations" will soon be gratifed The
"new system of government" will < move
off" at a two-forty" gait, and its
movements" will be guided" by the
meanest and the vilest traitors that ever
cursed country since the days of Cata-
line.
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