Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-27
BOGUS DEMOCRACY, AND SHAN
LOYALTY.

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dom and tie Union afterwards, are just
now, evidently, in something OF d'iema.
Old party allian'e'--old associations--and
perhaps just the least personal inclination
in the world--prompts them to revolt from
the necessary stringent orders Of the gov
ernment--and yet they dare not openly
resist the action of the administration in
quelling the stupendous rebellion now ex
istng. Loud in their professions OF 10y
atty profuse in their offers of aid; boast
full of what they have done, and what they |
will do, for their country, they are yet,
honest souls, jealous Of the objects OF the
war-ftarful that they are TO be led into
a trap-and, Dugald Dalgetty like, are
constantly asking as to the qnd pro quo
which they are to receive for their devo'
ton to their country. And thus it is that
we see in the Courier of yesterday an
enunciation Of the erst great Mogul of the
stumpt-tail democracy of Vermont to the
effect that:
Democrats are ready 10 fight for the
Union, provided the Free States are to
= remain, as heretofore, peopltd by t0hite
pfople; but if the President and the Abol-
t itionists open the food gates TO the whole
q x niger" population of the South, then,
zoe think the conservative men in the
North and on the battle fi-lds in the South,
will have something TO say about IT."
The italics in the above are the Couri-
er's own, and we leave it for a threatened
u people to imagine what the awful catas-
trophe shall be when that something" "
comes to be done which "'oe think ;"
ought to be done for I" ,ohite people"
In our school boy days our sympathies
we're wont to be raised by the reading of
the lament OF Logan for the poor Indian.
"Lo! the poor Indian !" was the key note
which Logan touched to move The sympa-
thies of christendom in behalf OF an
=. abused and down trodden race f; but how
. much more touching are the appeals
=. which are now being constantly rung in
-, our ears by the editor of the Courier in
u behalf of the poor sohites of the North, in
10 view of the aggressions which eve" ~
=. conservative, honest democrats" think
g the President, by hocus-pocus, is going
IA to perpetrate upon them. Alas for the
-. poor whites of the North when they are
ii thus brought under the protective care o
H., protested loyali,t who threatens to revol
-. on the first suspicion of course of actor
y; which, in the possibility of things, ma,
re result adversely to the plans of democ
X. racy whose only principle is ready pay
If and whose only motive of action is tn
be anticipation of party success.
"a, But it will not do for the Courier t
MI claw of, in this summary manner fror
=, the advocacy OF the cause which it, wit
oct great flourish of trumpets, SO recently
Of voluntarily espoused. The fall of Sun
the ter; the Presidents proclamation folio"
,p- ing it, form an epoch in the history of tn
it'll times that is yet still fresh in the mind
sse of the people. The course of the Cour
the er, at this period of our National difficu
Of ty, was well marked by those who tax
,rts cognizance of such trivial things, and i
re :: tergiversations since have been duly o.
lint served. On the PRONUNCIATION of the la
la proclamation by the President, if we
10. not mistake, the editor Of the Courier W;
ink loud mouthed in the praise of the sent
ave ments therein set forth and though n
ern gro-phobia is the disease TO which Il
ern Courier is most endangered, it saw not
as ing then to alarm it, or excite its cupdit
late But new light has apparently since be-
.c." shed upon the editors vision. Where
,ain he was before blind and saw not--his ey
ex- are now opened - and he sees that viii
in the proclamation of the President Civ
the encouragement to the loyal men of t
dis South, it at the same time takes away t
the last hope of those of the Norta who won
the make capital to the Bogus Democrat
hall and fails to aid sham loyalists in the fs
the Their use Of the I: niger"
IN 1t is quite possible that the editor of
or Courier has of late re-read the followi
WIN paragraph of this document:
an "In the annual message last Decent
and thought fit to say: the Union M
nth be preserved, and hence all indispensa'
a