Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-10-09

great advantages reaped. And that the |
ranks of the loyal WILDE eventually largely |
increased in the border states themselves,
and the loyal become more heartily, firmly |
so, by this separating process, we have no
doubt.
From Missouri (the Democracy comes this
bold and stirring response,
ave should meet the issue as boldly as 1t is
rendered. We should avow ourselves at
once as emancipationists. We should write
the word emancipation upon our banners we
should place il at the head OF our tickets. We
should inscribe it everywhere as the name I'M
der which we will rally, and under which we
will fight We should not shirk the chal-
lense, nor seem to seek to do so, by the
adoption of meaningless names, or the pre-
sentation of subordinate issues, for the sake
of temporary expedient, or out of favoritism
| 10 particular individuals. The president has
stunned no responsibility and no odium. he
has sought only to be- true to the occasion
Those who would sustain his action can only
do so efficiently by being equally true TO the
principle
In North Carolina, says the Wilmington
Journal (Which we have already quoted),
the proclamation is we'll received by the OPP
position Union party and by its papers, ma
iority OF which say that il North Carolina is
not back in the Union by that date Jan.
ls), she will have no one but herself to
blame. The non-slavebolders within our
lines are to hold great Union mass meeting
at Beaufort In honor of the event, in which
all the counties in these two congressional
districts are to be largely represented by the
men, women and children who are to bring
their camps with them and have a three days
celebration, North Carolina bar becue in
cluded All the candidates for Congress in
both districts are to be present and address
the people on the occasion"
1t is SAID that the proclamation is received
well IN Western Virginia and in that portion
of the State adjacent to Washington, D. C.
"a number of men IN Alexandria and Lou
don counties, who have inclined to secession
sentiments heretofore, since the invasion OF
Maryland and the proclamation of emancipa-
ton, have come out decided Union men,
One of the substantial Virginia farmers was
in Washington recently, and he made the
!, remark upon the proclamation that at last
i. the government had put its heel on the sore
spot of the rebellion, adding 'Now that
slavery is to be abolished, the end is certain,
and cast in my fortune with the party which
III know must finally triumph The
proclamation makes constant Roadway here.
In the large slaveholding county Of
Dorchester, in Maryland, is published the
Cambridge Intelligencer, one of the most
widely circulated and ably edited journals in
that State. 1t gives hearty welcome to the
proclamation, and says it never doubted that
f the war inaugurated by the rebels would
prove the destruction of slavery. 1t adds the
following, every sentence of which is weighty
with significant and noble truth:
"There is another sense in which this is a
, war of freedom. There are other men in the
South to be freed as we'll as black men. The
, white men of the South need the strong arm
, of the Government to lift the yoke from their
necks These have endured a slavery far
transcending that of the blacks. The social
system ofthe South has never been anything
c q tie s. age sS The mind ha. forever been
bound here. Freedom Of opinion has never
been tolerated below Mason and Dixon's line
Men have not been permitted to hold, much
less express, their own opinions. A man
might conscientiously have believed slavery
to be burden upon the State, but he dare
: not let the public know that such were hi
b convictions
. Let the mind be free Let the faculties
be unfettered There can be neither
prosperity nor happiness where these are en-
shaved. It's degrading to any peopl We
, shall never accomplish our magnificent destiny
until these are free. The war is unbindine
them. The true glory of the war is not that
1t hberates the black, bat the white men o
!. the South. They are already beginning tc
| shout for Joy And when the war closes theJ
will join their voices in one loud halleluj alb te
the God Of Liberty for their dellverance."
We have not room for more. We have
already given to our readers extracts from
the stirring speeches of those men, slave
holders themselves, whose loyalty has beer
tried in the furnace of persecution, suffering
and danger-Hon. A. j. Hamilton, of Texas
and Rev. Mr.. Carter, of Tennessee, and
many others might be added. All honor tc
them. The South will be regenerated and
re-invigorated by triumphant freedom. The
children Of present shareholders there shall
see the day when they will respond to the
prayer; God bless Abraham Lincoln
The non-slaveholding whites shall join in
zone loud halelujah to the God of Liberty
for their deliverance," and they and we and
our children and chldrens' children shall live
in united, powerful, prosperous and FREE
land, as the reward of the terrible sacrifices
of the present.
RoGUEs ARREsrED.-We are glad to
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