Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-07-17

tHIough thc loiiy anu WiChcunCos VI
Southern rebels, Slavery is at an end, for
it has no protection and guarantee out
side of the Union. With the death of the
Federal Union dies Slavery. The Aboll-
zionist and Secessionist on this point oc-
cupy the same stand-there is no differ
ence between them. The abolitionists,
such as Wendell Phillips, Garrison and
others, denounce President Lincoln as
worse than jeff Davis. From the hands
of these incendiaries on both sides, the
people must rescue the Union. There is
great middle party between these two
extremes who must maintain the Govern
ment. Don't wait for your leaders to
guide you. | know the people of Nash
vile well, and know the feeling which
controls them, and l know the men who
have been your leaders, for ] have been
with them for years as member of the
Legislature-as Governor of your State,
and as Senatori IN Congress. You have
relied on these leaders as oracles, whose
bidding you must obey. You ask, where
are our leaders, the John Bells, Ewings,
Neil Browns, and the union and Ameri-
ca ? You seem to cease to act and speak
for yourselves. Are you, intelligent free
men, dependent on the arm of leader !?
Are you incapable of acting for your
selves If SO, then you concede the very
thing for which the tories of the South
are contending, and admit that you are
unfit for seif-government. Cast off this
unmanly and degrading feeling. This is
the peoples Government they received
it as a legacy from Heaven, and they
must defend and preserve it, ifit is to be
preserved at all am for this Govern.
ment above all earthly possessions-and
if it perish L do not wish to survivei it. |
am for it, though slavery should be struck
from existence, and Africa be swept from
the balance of the world. [ believe, in
deed, that the Union is the only protection
for Slavery-its sole guarrantee-but if
you persist in forcing the issue of Slavery
against the Government, say in the face
OF Heaven, -"Give me my Government,
and let the negroes go p
These traitors who aro porpetually
c;arnrous about Southern rights and
slave property, as ii tho~e vvoro no other
rights or property in existence, manifest
the utmost bitterness, bigotry, and mar
rowminded sectionalism. They are per-
petually calling out Slavery, Abolit..ouist,
Yankee and Lincolnite How malicious
and invidieus are all these slang phrases
Are we not all Americans, descended oi
one blood, and composing one great fami
aly! | recognize no such miserably uar.
row and selfish feeling as that which refu.
ses fellowship to the loyal and just of all
sections of the Republic. 1 scorn the
trammels and fetters of sectional bigotry.
claim this world as my home, and eve
ry honest man as my brother. l love my
country, her constitution, her laws, and
her free institutions. love her history
and the memory of her glorious dead. ]
| love the precepts and teachings of he1
| illustrious founders. / love my State
and pray for her happiness and prosperi
ty, which must be found in the laws and
under the flag of the Union. Looking
around me tonight, say to the gallant
and patriotic soldiers who bear this flag
"Welcome, welcome, thrice welcome
defenders of the Uuion !" On with your
glorious work, and in the face of all op.
position, even at the point of the sworc
and bayonet, and amid the roar and crasl
of the battle let then the Government o
Washington be defended. We have heart
these troops called Northern invaders anC
Hessian-but we have seen and compa
red the rebel and patriot armies. Th,
first spread horror and desolation anon,
us-the latter have been law-abiding ant
orderly, and have been protection t,
the people.
The rebellion is animated and control
led by the worst spirit that ever filled tn,
bosom of man. With singular audacit,
of ignorance, some persons pretended t.
compare the rebellion of 1861 with tha
of l776. How preposterous and absurd
There is not the remotest analogy be
; tween them. They were, on the contrary
the very antipodes of each other. TIL,
old REVOLUTION was to establish and per
petuae freedom, but this one was to sub
, vert and destroy it, and make us the vas
sails of France or Great Britain. Th
modern revolution would, if possible, re
!, duce Us to the very servitude from whic
: the former delivered us. The spirit Q
rebellion was fendish, proud, cruel AM
lawless. 1t was so from the day whel
the Devil raised standard of revolt il
Heaven and warred with Michael tn
Archsngel for the supremacy of the skies
We are told that the Devil was conquer
ed and chained in the internal pit, bu
that he was to be let loose for season
!. If ever the Devil was let loose in tn
world, l believe that now is the time, an
that he is actuating this Southern rebe
J, lion. Yet men who had aided this dis
Y boiical rebellion now pretended to talk {
tyranny and oppression ! How long ha