Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-11-06
Two Specimens OF Loyalty.

Two Specimens OF Loyalty.
Alesding Democratic uewspaperof thls state,
last week copied portion of tho speech made
in Brooklyn some time since by the Hon. A, j.
Hamilton of Texas, and made thereon some
remarkable comments, which press OF other
matter on our columns has prevented US
from noticing earlier. Tho portion of Mr.
Hamilton's speech referred 70, 10 that re-
Eating to tbs afuhionab!e - phrase, aTss
Constitution az il Is and the Union ss il was."
u has already appeared in our columns, aud
hsa been 50 generally pubEahsd BY tn press,
that it is hardly necessary 10 take up space to
reproduce it. Tho papcr referred TO Contain
cd the following remarks thereon;
VI $50, then, because Mr.. Hamilton could not
talk abolitionism and anti-slsveryisn as
much as no wanted down there, in oppos-
ton TO tho feelings and sentiments of tho com.
munity In which he resided and because the
people 'looked upon him with oolinsss, sus-
piclon and averslou;' and his nelghbors' child
rem insu!ted and spit" upon him when they
found out that the man who had been 90 dan
ding them upon his knee was an abolition
ist out Of place and in their midst; because
Of these things Dir, Hamilton (and too many
like him) don't want the old Union as il
was restored but FIRST want us Northerners
TO go down South and fight the Southerners
and set their slaves free, so that he can return
there and live in peace, and not be looked
upon with GOODNESS and aversion or have his
neighbos' children, alter he has handled
them upon his knee" turn round and spit in
his face because he is an aboiitouist.
We humbly submit to Mr.. Hamilton that
the amount of blood and treasure which it will
cost US to fit up an anti-slavery home and ere
ate an ant-slavery neighborhood for him down
South Is so great, that it will be much less OK
pensive to us, if ho will only allow it, to buy
him nice comfortable farm in some abolition
neighborhood here at the North, where he can
talk anti-slavery to his hearts content, and
safely dandle the youthful abolitionists upon
his knee" @ -at
sst We do not remember to have seen anything
more astonishing than this in any of the dem
ocratic journals Of the north, not even except
ing the most ardent worshipers Of Vallandig-
ham, Seymour or Fernando Wood and his
"brother Ben. .-. .....
O Mr.. Hamilton was democrat and sJqys-
holder at the south be had no scruples of con-
science regarding the righsfUlness Of slavery,
a. he himself arrows, and was consequently ma-
tinctased with abolitionism. a late member
Of Congress from Texas, no one enjoyed q
higher degree of popularity among the people
of that state Yet he surrendered his high
and influential position; he sacrificed the
tics of home, family and friends; he
consented to lose for time at least, the es-
TEEN, and accept the scorn and hatred of those
among whom he had lived he voluntarily put
his very life in jeopardy, and was hunted as an
outcast from the state which had honorsd him
with one Of the highest offices in its gift, with
armed traitors to their country on his track and
assassins' bullets flying after him; and for
what? Because he loved the Union better
than high position, home, family, friends, life
itself; better eoe'p than slavery !; because amid
traitors he dared to maintain tina. "the solemn
oath he had taken TO support the constitution
Of tho United States was still bnding' And
when man, whose rare fidelity to the Union
hiss been thus tried in tho furnace OF extraordi-
mary suffering, deprivation and danger, reaches
the states which are striving, with sacrifice of
untold lives and treasure, to maintain tho very
Union he gives his all for, he receives at the
hands of democratic newspaper in the State
of Vermont such welcome as the above.
II is upon just such Uniou men of the south
that we have been placing our hopes for assist
ance in restoring to the Union the revolted
states. What encouragement this northern
democratic paper glves 70 such TO brave dan
ger and death for love Of country!
In re-examining the portion of Mr.. Hamil-
toms speech referred to, we can find nothing
which should not merit the hearty commenda-
ZION Of all lovers of free and democratic insti
buttons. But there is something in it which
may, and evidently does, displease certain
portion of the democratic press, just as il dis
pleases southern traitors; and that is the fact
that Mr.. Hamilton, like other loyal men of the
south, though STAKEHOLDER there, as we have
said loves the Union better than the g pecu
liar institution" and prefers, if one must rer-
ish, that it be slavery. Mr.. Hamilton's speeches
do not contain anything else that we are able
70 discover, which should call down upon him
this wrath, and the extract above quoted indi-
Gates plainly enough that this is where the
pinch comes. Fer this, he was driven from
home by traitors for this he is thus welcomed
BY this newspaper.
While, then, this loyal man of the south,
Ike all other loyal shareholders, is willing that