Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-05-22
thieves and soou ndrels that head this re-

tultNcs anu scouHurtis tHat hcou 'h'' ~
bellion in the South. Applause,
The only favor they extended to me
was to allow my family to send me three
meals day by my son, who brought the
provisions in basket. | requested my
wife to send also enough for the two old
clergymen. One of them was put in Jail
for Offering prayers for the President of
the United States, and the other was con-
fined for throwing up his hat and cheer
ing the Stars and Stripes as they passed
his house borne by company of Union
volunteers. When the basket of provis-
ions came in in the morning they exam
ined il at the door-would look between
the pie and the bread to see if there was
any billet or paper concealed there COM
municating treason from any outside
Unionist to the old scoundrel they had in
jail-and when the basket went out,
again the same ceremony was repeated,
to discover whether | had slipped any
paper in any way. The old man Cate
had three sons in Jail. One of them Jas.
Madison Cate, most exemplary and
worthy member of the Baptist church,
who was there for having committed no
other crime than that of refusing to vol
unteer, lay stretched at length upon the
floor, with one thickness of piece of car
pet under him, and an old overcoat doub-
led up for a pillow, in the very agonies of
death, unable to turn over, only from one
side to the other. His wife came to visit
him, bringing her youngest child with
her, which was but babe, but they re-
fused her Abundance. Iput my head out
of the Jail window and entreated them for
Gods sake to let the poor woman come
in, as her husband was dying. They at
length consented that she might see him
for the limited time of fifteen minutes
As she came in and looked upon her hus.
bands wan and emaciated face, and saw
how rapidly he was sinking, she gave ev.
ident signs of fainting, and would have
fallen to the floor with the babe in hel
arms, had | not rushed up to her anC
cried-'Let me have the bable'-and ther
she sank down upon the breast of her dy
ing husband, unable at first to speak sin
gle word. sat by and held the babe un
til the ID minutes had expired, when tn,
6 officer came in, and in an insulting ant
peremptory manner, notified her that tn
interview was to close.
hope | may never see such seen
6 again-and yet such cases were common
all over East Tennessee. Such actions a
these show the spirit of secession in tn
South. 1t is the spirit of murder and as
sassination-it is the spirit of hell. AM
yet you have men at the North who sym
pathize with these Internal murderers.-
i Applause. . ..
If owed the Devil debt to be dis
charged, and it was to be discharged b,
the rendering up to him of dozen of tn,
meanest, most revolving and God-forsakel
wretches that ever could be culled from
the ranks of deprave human society, an,
!, l wanted to pay that debt and get pre-
MUM upon the payment, | would make
3 tender to his Satanic Majesty of twelv.
Northern men who sympathized with thi
, Internal rebellion. Great cheering. /
If am severe and bitter in my remark
! II Cries of no, no-not bit of it, i
. l am, gentlemen, you must consider tina
we of the South make personal matte
of this thing. Laughter. We have n
respect to nor confidence in any Northern
man who sympathizes with this inferno
rebellion Cries of Good, good, mo
should any be tolerated in walking Broad
way at any time. Such men ought to b.
ridden upon a rail and ridden out of tn
North. Good, good.'] They SHOULD
either be for or against the "mill-dam !
and l would make them show their hands
Laughter and applause.
Why, gentlemen, after the battle a
Manassas and Bull Run, the officers anC
privates of the Confederate army passed
through our town on their way to Dixie,
exulting over the victory they had achiev
ed, and some of them had what they cal
led Yankee heads, or the entire heads O
Federal soldiers, some of them with Ions
boards and COATES, by which they would
take them up and say-"See here is the
head of damned soldier captured at Bull
Rum" That is the spirit of secession at the
South. 1t is the spirit of murder of the
vile untutored savage-it is the spirit Of
hell, and he who apologies for them i:
no better than those who perpetrate the
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