Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-04-03

THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 3


Our organic alton delayed and would finally
have arrested, it, if its advice had been tax
en.-C Cmcinndti Enquirer.
The Courier gives us the above in lis last
is.ue-and as the Courier is wont to say of
the Herald" without comment"
We do not happen to remember when we
have seen so much truth, in so small space
in Democratic paper.
1t is now very generally understood in the
north that the arch fends Of secession had
made up their minds to destroythe Union more
than quarter ofa century ago, and that their
plans for the carrying out of their designs
were then measurably perfected. And 1t is
quite as well understood that the execution
of these plans has been delayed to the pres
ent tme-not from lack of purpose,-not
from any misgivings or compunctons OF
conscience. but because the eXigencies Of the
times, dnring these long years OF traltorous
plottings-did not render an earlier move
ment necessary or desirable. So long as the
slave power Of the south could hold in lead
ing strings, and entirely control, the Demo
cratic party of the north, and its doughfaced
sympathizers and allies; so long as the in
stigators Of the of the present rebellion,-the
slavery propagandists, - could dictate
as to precisely how fast and how far the
peculiar institution should spread its
poisonous influence over the land, - and
their minions OF the north yield will
ing obedience to all their demands; so long,
in fact, as they could hold both the sword
and the purse, and carry on the government
on their private account, and for their par
ticular ends, why should they not hold their
traitorous purpose in allegiance With an
alliance with party in the north that would
90 with them in war crusade, that slavery
should be secured in Texas,-that would sus-
tain and aid them in the breaking down of
the Missouri Compromise, that the institu-
ton might be forced upon the unwilling
freemen OF Nebraska and Kansas, what
need was there for robbery, theft, and the
more open acts of treason2 With such men
at the head of the government as Frank
Pierce-of whose administration 1T was not
inaptly said that 1t only gave character to
that of John Tyler - and the imbecile bu-
chanan who, like many OF his followers still
left to us, are nightly afraid of the "piggers"
and yet who always keep the subject be-
fore the people,-we say, with such men at
the helm, and with advisers a. d coadjutors
like JEFF DAVIS, and Floyd, and Cobb, and
Toucey in the cabinet, and with such men in
the Senate and House Of Representatives as
Mason, Butler, Brooks, Keitt, Pryor, and
Wigfall, al the iniumerable other conspira-
tors and bullies o the late past Congresses
what need had the leaders of the then bud
ding rebellion to urge on its action, or hasten
the Inauguration of actual war? Cert tainly
none. To all intents and purposes they had
the government entirely in their own hands,
and their he Is as firmly planted upon the
necks of the people. Did freeman of the
north presume to utter the sentiments of his
honest convictions, in Dixie, he was mobbed,
tarred and feathered, or incontnently hung.
Did Senator or Representative in Congress
from the north presume, on the floor Of Con-
gress, 10 que ssiiop the authority of these self
constituted despots over, eve the "mudsil's"
rights of speech, or of opinion, he was to ex-
pect IN answer the bludgeon, the pistol or the
bowie knife, and whenever one of tn Sc north
ern "mudsills" had the temerity in his indi-
vidual character to demonstrate with his dem
ocratic neighbor against these acts Of inso-
lence and aggression on the part of his south
ern rulers be was invariably met-either wit
coarse abuse-or that other strong northern
democratic argument-" niggerism p'
And thus it wa, that the inestimable
nghs" Of the free north we're preserved
10 US for term of years" as specified by the
Cincinnati Enquirer.-one of the ablest and
most unscrupu'ous democratic sheets of the
west, and endorsed the Rutls. d Courier,
apaper, perhaps, IS able, but certainly no
less interruptions than its present lily.
That this beautiful "peace and this har
monious state of things might have continued
longer hut for the Inauguration Of The Repub-
hoan party, and the const quent fall of the
Democrafic-we have no reason to doubt.
But neither time nor limits will allow Us at
present to speak on this point raised by the
II quirer and Courier. Suffice it for us to
say here, in conclusion, that We harily know
which 10 thsrk the Northern Democratic.
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