Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-12-25
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The Shirt Of tho Opposition.

Again have you, Abraham Lincoln, by tne
hands of Henry w. Halleck and Edwin M.
Stan on sent death to thousands and thousands
of our brothers and friends, again desolation
and anguish to the homes and hearts of the
people death that gives no life to the perish
ing nation, and sorrow which no patriotism can
console, or the consciousness OF needful
though costly self-sacriioe' assuage.
Above is another specimen of the black
work of the New York World. As the pro-
fessed leading organ of the northern opposl-
ton lately organized against--not the party of
treason in the South but the legitimate ad-
ministrative government Of the United States,
such language as is contained IN the above ex-
tract shows but too clearly the animus of the
continued and heartless assaults made by the
pasty.it represents upon the President. u The
temper, the spirit, the style, and we, might
even add, the ideas, are but reflex of what
daily issues from the rebel press at Richmond
and Charleston. Not only, as in the above
paragraph, has the World, and its contemplate
brood of satellites, indirectly arraigned the
President, the. Commander-in-chief, and his
constitutional advisers, as being the authors of
the repulse at fredericksburg; butin direct
and explicit language, and in terms fit only
for the excitement and effect Of the stage,
the reverse Of that proper for patriots in
revolutionary times, these sheets have char
ged that General Burnside was perempto-
rlly ordered to cross the Rappahannock at
Fredericksburg and attack the enemy in his
strongholds, against his own Judgment and
earnest protestation. And with an earnestness
unequalled, except in rare instances IN the
best of causes, the World has sought to 'inau-
gurate the spirit of uncomfortable discord
among the loyal people of the North, founded
wholly upon its false and malignant clamor.-
Its aim seems to be to put the loyal portion Of
the country at cross-purposes, and no lie is too
brazen, mo fiction is too improbable, when
needed to be used in its miserable work. To
distract the North, and unite the South is the
soul of its ambition, Judging it from its course.
And this is the journal which represents the
opposition sentiment of the North! This is
the organ, of Seymour and John Van Buren,,
and Fernando and Ben Wood, the patriots
whom New York puts in the fore front in this
terrible crisis The fate of the nation-the
fate of the loyal people of the North,--de-
ponds upon the question how much longer are
such sympathzers with open and malignant
rebellion to be followed as the opponents of
any considerable portion of the people7
Take the case as it is,-as it appears from
Gen. Burnside's report and what becomes Of all
the reiterated clamor Of the World and its echoes
from the mountains of the free North, -aregion
where not one discordant note should be heard
to disturb the grand harmony of loyal SEN
timeat. Why, it turns out, in fact, that the
movement upon the heights Of Fredericksburg
was the conception, not of a Republican Pres
ident, ignorant Of military rules not the con-
ccption of Halleck, the Democratic Comman-
der-in-chief Of our armies,-not the concep-
ton of Secretary Stanton, also a Democrat,
placed by the liberality of a Republican Pres
ident at the head of the Bureau of War; but
that it was the sole and instant conception and
IDEA of the commander in the field (also a
Al
too, are the taLssl0ods upon which the opposi-
ton journals build their denunciations against
a patriotic President and a loyal party who
" him.
"a and its satell tes are welcome to
49, '"algn influence has been
&c and distraction
he sun shall