Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-08-07
HIo JAoEr, &o.-While the Republic

cations and are uniting in cordial support
of the administration and its policy; while
former Republicans and Democrats are
running the same tickets for State officers
in most if not all the free States; while a
Republican President calls into his Cabi-
net and other councils, in the civil, mill
itary and naval departments of the Gov
eminent, eminent and leading Democrats,
whose loyalty to their country rises supe-
rior to mere party attachment; at time
when the entire Southern wing of the
Democratic party is in open treason to
the Government we have a few men in
the Northern States whose efforts are all
directed TO the Reorganization of the
Democratic party as the only means of
saving the Union. We cannot convince
ourselves that the salvation of the country
is to be attained by restoring party to
power, under whose administration this
whole rebellion was inaugurated and set
on foot. The rank and file of the party
were honest and patriotic men, but the
leaders-those who contrive to attain to
the high places of power were corrupt and
reasonable. 1t was Democratic Cabi-
net whose members stole the arms of the
nation, and robbed its treasury,-they
were Democratic officials who robbed
minis aud custom houses and arsenals,
they were Democratic officers who betray-
ed our army and navy and surrendered
our forts and ships of war into the hands
of traitors; they were Democratic Sem
ators and Representatives in Congress,
who uttered their vile treason in the Cap
ital of the Nation, and ostentatiously
withdrew from their seats with the avow-
ed purpose of joining in the Instruction
airy movement inaugurated by South Car
DINA; they were Democrats who set up
the Montgomery Government in opposi-
ton to the Government of the United
States, while James Buchanan was yet
President in short, they were Demo-
Gratis who declared that the Shareholders
had an exclusive right to rule, and who
declared that unless they were kept in
their places, they would rebel and destroy
the Union. Now, to talk of recognizing
such parry as that to propose to have
continued confidence in the principles
and practices of such a party as the de-
generate Democracy under Southern die
tation came to be, is to invite corruption
and treason back to the council boards of
the Nation is to invite traitors to resume
their positions in our army and navy. 1t
is, in short, little else than a proposition
to make treason virtue, and traitors the
recipients of rewards and of public APP
plause and esteem. The truth is that the
Democratic party in its latter days had
become so corrupt that honest men left ii
in actual terror, fearing that further asso-
citation with its leaders would lay them
under the charge Of open sympathy with
public robbery and tr5aso AS much a:
they had loved the party in former days
as ardently as they had been attached t.
it, and labored for its ascendency, they
realized that it had been forever disgraced
by Buchanan, a Breckenridge, Floyd
Toombs, Yancey, Slidell, Mason
and the whole nest of vile and black ened
traitors, who Matched their treason in its
name and under its banners.
They saw that the party was more thar
wounded, that it was killed in the house Of
its friends. The assassins hands were
raised against it at Charleston, and. a:
said by the Editor of the Lynn Bay States
leading Democrat of Massachusetts, it re.
ceived the fatal stab of traitors at Balti-
more, and at the last Presidential cleo
ton it breathed its last. One man only
could have raised it from the dead, and
the Almighty saw fit to take him to Him.
self Some of the recreants, who aided in
the murder now seek to bring it to life
again. The proposal to reconstruct such
a party is very similar to that of the man
who took bung hole to cooper and de.
sired him to make barrel for it.
We rejoice to see that the loyal people
of the loyal States are Welding IN tba;,