Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-06
DANGER AHEAD.
From the siehmond Dispatch, Feb, II.

A taCt u Hldut' 4 hiN II SutlltCl ttllltl-
I ntIy worth the attention of Congress and
'of the State Legislature We confess that
IDn this point our apprebensions are great,
I Ind that We sometimes fear that, after
kostilitits have ceased, the South will me
! main as completely under the CONNER
5ial domination of the North ~ il ever
kas before. 1t is unnecessary 10 snY thar,
a this event, the Union will have ceased
10 exist only in name. II would still be
y Union Of the power',' and the weak, of
D. independent and the dependent, leav-
tbg the South rs completely at the mercy
II the North as she ever was under the
brmer government. II the North, after
be war, is still to conduct our commerce,
&ade and manufactures, we shah ALWAYS
ke weak, less and l,s, capable of Self-de-
knce, and the question of our nominal, as
kell as actual suhiection, he o " a ques-
ION of time. We have heard the predic-
ION from one OF the most sagacious and
6spassionate observers of men and things
d the South, that, as soon as peace is
Acared, whole legion of Yankee COM
mercial and manufacturing agents will APP
ear in every Southern city, town and
&igborhood, each of them with an enor.
bus pile of documents under his arm
loving that he had nothing whatever to
with the present war; that he had
Zen prosecuted and malreated on ac.
unt Of his strong Southern sympathies.
tbd respectfully requesting share of
buthern patronage. Men whose hands
bye set fire TO Southern homes. demol-
bed Southern property, and are red with
puthern blood, will be here by thousands
ND tens of thousand, smiling, smirhing,
bwing, cringing, fawning, protesting Gnd
roving by documentary evidence that
hey had always opposed the war, and in
Nardly gloating over the folly and credu-
Nv that Can be so easily imposed upon
u the smooth tongue of fattery and de.
ID.
A The people of the South are naturally
Hooked at the idea that after the stupen-
\ BUS crimes and horrors of war whose un-
6raleled barbarities have called down
/ q solemn reprobation of every civilized
eSnntry in Europe, we should ever permit
earselves again TO become hewers OF wooa
nd drawers of water for these malignant
I'D mur,lerous tyraDts. 1t would be bet
III, far better, to be subjugated in name
- we'll as in act, than to be guided by the
Rmbug of indepenpence, and become real
ID tributary slaves to a hideous despot-
N. In the one case our vassalage will
- be our degradation, because we shall
I've resisted it with all the courage, pow
II and talents the God of heaven has
laced at our disposal, and we shall throw
u off at the first opportunity, and trans
III our wrongs to poste.lity Tor redress
I'D retribution. In the other we shall be
be authors of our own shame, we shall
row contempt on the graves of our he
tic dead, and with our own hands deliver
y sr childred and our children's children to
become the commercial servants and trib-
ularies of an enemy whom We had con.
.qpered. Yet, disgracetul and infamous
~ would be such sequel of the war, il
bamong the possibilities, and ii the war
short, 1t is probable as Well as possible.
- peace were declared tomorrow, unless
Mere are stringent legislative enactments
"a prevent it, there are men in every
Gouthern community &C who would hurry on
~ the next train for Northern goods, and
ne first through cart from the Northern
A ies would bring Yankee drummers, with
eir boots yet wet with the mud of the
btomac or Roanoke Island, and the smell
blood fresh upon their garments. OuI
fn infant manufactures would he nippet
the bud; home Industry and eni, t.
pse OF every kind straneled; Yankee
pps, clothes, carriages. agricultural i'm
ments, cotton and WOODEN goods, schoo
Cks, Iing histories and filthy weeklh
u again Peddied at every counter. W,
nmend this subject most earnestly tt
pngress. There are difficulties and PER
exities, we are aware, in establishing 3
item which shall prevent these evils
unless they can be prevented, We ar,
|ht'ng for sha dow and name, ant
puid better at once lay down our arms.
IN regard to the danger that Yanke,
emles will transfer their business ant
emselves to the South after the war, W,
Ve heard it suggested that it might b,
waited by requiring of all foreign emf
ants who desire naturalization or resi-
nee an oath that they have not beel
gagged IN the present war against tn,
uth, and in the event that it is after
arus shown that they have pc, jure,
tmsel,es, TO cobfiscate their property
is evident that stringent laws must i,
opted IN regard TO the exercise of tn
ut OF suffrage bv all future emiCran,
'he South. Either a high freebol
afhcation, or The possession of negr
operty, or, if no other means will NEE
case, the entire exclusion from al
ch franchise OF all future emigrants iron
North except by special act OF Con
'Ss. We have never been able to Sc
y our own eountryren should max