Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-06

JEFF. DAVIS INAUGURAL.
Jefferson Davis was to to deliver his
Inaugural Address at Richmond on Sat-
rday. An exchange says says it can i'm
zine the great Rebel unboscming himself
pmething after the following fashion:
yellow Truitors | congratulate you
'6pon the last years work. We have per-
lbrmed wonders. We have done abig
hing in the grand larceny line. We
bave reduced stealing TO one of the fine
6rts, We have made perjury one of the
learned professions" We have eleva-
I'D the reputation OF honest debts to the
bank of cardinal virtue We have
bade bankruptcy one of our peculiar
Institutions" We have inaugurated a
Jew code of morals. We have partially
estored society to that good old primitive
condition when one could take purses and
iii wizens without compromising his good
ame. We have brought new milennial
ispensation where every man can help
imself to his neighbor's goods-where
VERY man has a lien to his neighbours wife
where every man can lie and steal and
1eriure himself with none to modest or
bake him afraid.
y We found the country in a state of the
lost scottish peace. We found the people
state OF the most alarming content
ent. We found degree of prosperity
&isting the most disgusting and degrad-
bg. We found the world buried, as it
'4ere, in tqe pursuits Of its peaceful ends.
nc found the masses indulging in the
lost grovelling heresies with respect to
be eovernment-obeying its laws, sub
hitting to its burdens, and remaining con-
int under its sway. We found them in
tuated with generation for the found
Rs of the Republic-stark mad over an
I'd fogy called Washington, and idiotically
leaving to the delusion that Jefferson was
statesman and Patrick Henry an orator.
ke found life safe, private property Sc
&ure, the Ten Commandments quoted by
pen pretending to be clothed in their
nght mild, the truth prevalently spoken,
end lock-picking and pocket-picking at
discount.
& But, as the French say Nous auons
.ange tom celia. We have inaugrated
lew dispensation. We have created
lew moral heaven and new moral earth,
We have inverted the social Pyramid -
sNe have put back the dial-hand of Time
NO centuries. We have discovered the
4 lfereI's Paradise.
81 Nay more: We have awakened the
ountry from its long trance of peace
We have let loose the fiends of Discord.
We have set thirty millions of people to
mtting each others Threats. We have
fampled the flag of our Fathers in the
4ust. We have emancipated ourselves
rom the trammels of law and order. We
ave taught the folly of being bound by
Naths and obligations. We have reinsta-
3ed the regime Of brute force. We have
brought tribulation to the North and ruin
"a the South.
4 Fellow Traitors so much for the Past
Vie Future, | am free to confess, looks
father nebulous. We have met the ene-
NY and-we are theirs The Philis.
6nes are upon US. The "Vandal hordes"
pf the North are in our very midst--and
What is worse, insist upon staying. They
refuse to obey our summons 10 depart
hey refuse to be frightened at our mag
1ifcent threats--they have even the au-
eacity to laugh at our proclamations.
Moreover. we have been stricken with
Jew disease: 1t is Powderpbobia. The
moment the victim is attacked he turus
Rle, gets weak in the knee joints, becomes
nfirm In the region of the diaphragm and
y seized with an irresistible impulse to
ern tail. This malady prevailed to
fightful extent in our camp at Roanoke,
Mill Spring, at Fort Henry and Fort
Donelson.
n Fellow Traitors | have concluded to
postpone my promised visit to Washing
Pm tor the present. Circumstances be-
ond my control" have compelled me to
i've "Old Abe" another years lease of
he Big Hotel" across the Potomac"