Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-07-31
OH santlaaa Aerala.
THURSDAY, JULY 81,

A. Douglas for the presidency, which charge
the authorship of this rebellion upon the Re-
publican Party. 1t is denounced as an CAB
clifton war "a Black Republican war
a"Nigger crusade" sc. In this manner
do they implicitly justify the rebellion. 1t is
substantial affirmation that the Southern
disunionists have been driven into rebellion
by the unconstitutional practices of the Re-
publican party. 1t is pleading the cause of
the seeded States, in precisely the same
language that the rebels themselves make use
of in their own justification. We envy not
the head or heart of him who thus advocates
the cause Of traitors to the Union. The
former supporters Of Douglas especially, who
Join in this clamor against the North, should
be looked upon with ineffable scorn and con-
tempt. m a,
Let US look over the record, and in the
light of that see whether this is Black
Republican war,"-a "Nigger crusader
Let us see if the blood which is being shed is
in the skirts of the supporters of Abraham
Lincoln. And in what we have to say we
want the ear of Douglas men, particularly.
Stephen A. Douglas was the champion of
the doctrine of non.intervenhon in the ter
ritories He was supported, if not inveigled
into it by the Southern disunionists. In
spite of strong opposition it became the es-
tablished policy Of the nation. But so soon
as the Shareholders perceived that majority
of the settlers of Kansas were Northern men,
and opposed to savery,-so soon as they
saw that the ballot box would settle y,
slavery question against them in the terrific
ries, they deliberately repudiated Popular
Sovereignty, and its champion was deposed
by them from the Craftsmanship of the Com
mittee on Territories in the Senate, and he
and his friends subjected to merciless pro-
scription. The leaders of the dsunion con-
spiracy trampled the principle of Popular
Sovereignty under foot, and set up the mon
strous claim that the Constitution by its own
force carries slavery into the territories be-
yond the power of the people thereof to con-
troll it. This heresy Douglas, to bis honor be
it said, steadily refused to endorse. The
moment however, that he refused to obey the
crack of the Southern whip,--he was de-
nounced as sectional man,--as having be-
come virtually abolitionized. Buchanan and
his cabnet,--and all the leaders and foment-
ers of this wicked rebellion, denounced and
pursued him with bitterness they had never
felt even towards Republicans.
In due time the Democratic party convened
at Charleston. The disunionists controlled
the convention. The Democratic Party
was riven in twain, and henceforward the
Northern section of it which rallied around
the standard of Douglas was denounced by
the Southern Democracy with more vehe.
nence than Lincoln was, the general ex-
preston, on the stump and in the columns o
their presses, being that the election of Lin
coin would be more tolerable than that o.
Douglas. The speech of Senator Benjamin
in which he openly declared that Lincoln
was less sectional and dangerous that Doug.
las, was but an echo of the Southern feeling
Douglas and his followers were put into tn,
category with abolitionists precisely as tn,
Republicans had all along been. 1t was thu
that Southern disunionists, without cause o.
provocation, and for the express purpose o
Fastening dissolution of the Union, DELHI
erately broke up the Democratic party upol
sectional issue, by demanding measurse II
behalf ofslayery, which the Northern Democ
racy, Notwithstanding their long subservienc,
to Southern dictation could not yield. Hon
John Driver Of Alabama, declared in 1861
that the disunionists went into the Charleston
Convention for the purpose Of dividing
the Democratic Party. He boasted tina
through its division, the election of Lincoln
was secured, and that the election of Lincol1
was just the pretext they desired to max
use of to precipitate the " Cotton States into
rebellion"
In view Of this record of facts, how sicken
ing and disgusting, nay how it stirs the in
dgnation of all honest men to hear pimple
Northern pimps of Southern traitors,-cres
lures who would not have been received q
soullions or boot-blacks by the Southern d,
mocracy in lS60,-creatures who were de
nounced by them with more bitterness tina
the Republicans even were,-proclaim tina
this is :" Black Republican war! p Sham
on the lickspittles of Southern traitors WI
bounded the noble Douglas to his grave
Such men are execrated and detested by q
loyal, high-minded men, more than the ira
tors themselves. They are meaner than Il