Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-10-09
THE REMEDY.

A. j. Hamilton, late member Of Congress,
and at present refugee, from Texas. He
has been stakeholder, has no conscientious
scruples regarding the abstract moral right
iulness of slavery, and has been consequently
untinctured with abolitionism. He has been
driven from his home and his friends because
of his fidelity to the Union. Though, as he
says, the angel of death had just passed over
his house, he could not remain to weep with
his wife over the tomb Of their daughter;
because he dared to tell his neighbors that
the solemn oath he had taken to support the
constitution Of the United States was still
binding, Escaping first to the mountains, he al
forwards traversed 200 miles of desert prairie
But day or two before he passed through
| the villages on the other side of the Rio
Grande, four men had been murdered for
loyalty to the Union. He was himself deem
ed worth one bullet. And afterwards four
or five efforts were made to dispose of him
without success. The last thing he saw as
the shore of Texas receded from his view,
was little band Of armed men who had just
allied to succeed in capturing him."
OF what unalloyed and intense quality is
the patriotism of such man, who gives up
an exalted position Of influence and popular
ity, hardly equalled in his state who accepts
instead the lot of an outcast from among his
former friends, and fees from persecution
with assassins' bullets whstling after HIM, for
pure love of his country.
Let us listen candidly to such mans ex-
PLANTATION of the cause of the present treason
against this government; for the remedy de-
ponds chiefly upon the cause Of the disease.
Was it the continual aggression Of the North
upon the South and their institutions which
finally drove the long suffering Southerners
into reluctant rebellion to secure their rights
under more equal government viii the
Vallandigham, Wood, Seymour prescription,
therefore,-conciliaton, a yielding Of all de-
mands, forbearance towards slavery and
tenders of compromise, on the part of the
nerth-appease the leading traitors and re-
store them to their allegiance Should the
disease be thus treated with homeopathic
doses of shot and shell, and allopathic guam
titles Of tenderness, torbearance and attempts
at Cancellation ? Col. Hamilton, in his Brook
lyn speech, last Thursday Evening, said
/" He could not better give his view of the
cause (of the rehellion) than by alludlng to
some remarks of Mr.. Spratt, of South Caro-
establishing the necessity Of changing the
system of government. Mr.. Spratt had
frankly said that no man was deserving of the
name of statesman in the South who could
pretend that the cause of rebellion and Sc
cession was the aggressions of the non slave
holding North upon the South, for no such
aggressions had been committed. Mr.. Spratt
said ie because Of the Inference IN the
organization Of society North and South
that in the North every man, being freeman
had power in the government, and it required
.. but little argument to show that there were
: and would be more laboring men than men
who directed labor that, ON the other hand,
when government was in the hands of those
who direc ed labor, it would be in the right
hands. Mr.. Spratt found fault with the
! leaders of the secession movement, because
they did not renew the slave trade. From
, the premises laid down, it appeared that Sla
very and Democracy were incompatibes.-
MIR. Spratt complimented Mr.. Seward, and
, said there never was greater truth uttered
: than that OF the lrrepressible conflict
> Mr.. Spratt's conclusion was that they INNS
: have slave aristocracy. If those sentiments
= did not represent the sentiments of the South
!. they would be of less significance. But il
: must be remembered that that letter of Mr.
= Spratts was reproduced with commentator
= and unrebuked; that it was commended, AM
- echoed in the streets and parlors, and at TIL
. festive board. They said that Republicanisn
y is failure, and that we must have a stronge
government. If they knew this as he kney
it, they would know that this rebellion di
not originate with desire to get rid Of tn
hated Yankees. They wanted to be the cor
he ductors of supreme and never changn
m government, not to be interfered with by tn
votes of free mem Therefore, the idea {
~ conciliating the South, by forbearance an
re magnanimity, was woefully deceptive. Their
lie is but one remedy, and that is in the physics
20 power of the loyal people," @
"a If Col. Hamilton's premises are correc
>. (and who can doubt it after the repeated an
:. overwhelming proofs we have had all alon
~ from southern men, both loyal and disloya)
n if this is an uprising by slaveholding ari
.. tocracy against democratic institution
~ against freedom to ,ohite men /; then the col
&c clusion is irresistible, that pure physics
., force theoretically and overwhelmingly d
!, Iected against it, combined with the use Of a
means of weakening the rebels, until II
>, reasonable element shall be crushed out an
a the masses of the deluded and down trodde
IS. whites are freed at the SOUTH is the only rem
edy which will restore the reyolted states