Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-04-24
NORTHERN AP0L0GISTS FOR
SOUTHERN TRAITORS.

ly occupied from day to day, ana rom
week TO week, in assaults upon the patri'
otism, the intelligence, and the nationality
of the Republican Party. These assaults
all originated with the right, or Southern
wing of the Democratic party, now gone
off into rebellion against the Union and its
flag. They were caught up and repeated
by their Northern satraps and lickspittles,
and have been repeated, and the hum
drum, and rub-a-dub of that REPETITION has
been in our ears from the commencement
of the rebellion until the present hour.
These bigoted partizans, instead of eyin-
cling the stern and unyielding hatred of
nullifers and secessionists which charac-
terized the old Hero of New Orleans, and
the leader Of the Democratic Party at
time when it had some Democracy to
boast of, are constantly devisiug paliatives
and excuses for the treason of their latter
day Democratic masters in the Southern
States. The rebellion, they tell us, was
brought on by Republican intolerance.
The South rebelled, we are told, because
the Republican party stubbornly refused
to yield to them their constitutional rights
of equality as States in the Union.
How different from this semi-secession
twaddle of Northern doughfaces, is the
bold language of Gov. Andrew johnson
of Tennessee. He told the people of
Nashville in recent speech, that the ne
gro question was merely the protect for
secession, and not the cause of it. Its
cause was the unholy ambition of the lead
ers of the Democratic Party, who could
not, and would not bow to verdict of the
people pronounced through the ballot box,
which sent them from the seats of power
and patronage into retirement.
But it is urged by the malignant oppo-
uents of. the Republican party, that the
war might have been avoided, had the
Republicans in Congress been willing to
adopt the Crittenden Compromise. Moth
ing ia more false than this assertion. The
Crittenden Compromise was defeated in
the Senate by the secession consprators
Six of them, viz: Benjamin, Hemphill,
Iverson, johnson of Arkansas, Slidell and
Wigfall, stood in their places in the Sem
ate when the vote was taken, and refused
to record their votes, and thus defeated
its passage in that body. Two days later
upon a motion to reconsider the vote,
Senator Wigfall of Texas, as if apprehen-
sive that the Crittenden Compromise
might have succeeded after all, actually
voted against a reconsideration of the
| question, and the other Senator's above
named refused to vote at all. Nor is this
all, for as shown by the Louisville Jour
nal, at the very time these Senators were
Withholding their votes from Mr.. Critten-
den's proposition, when with their votes
it could have been carried, they were stt-
ing at their desks in the Senate--the paid
and sworn servants of the government
icy were REASONABLY plotting to destroy,
pr pairing dispatches for the South, an
nounclng to the Southern people that
"Me Republicans Fad aoted do'On Grit
,e,,d.,'s proposttion, and all eoas lost r'
These dispatches were sent Of 81 rs soon as
tbs vote was taken, and were intended by
these traitors to " fire the Southern heart
They appeared the next day in the South
ern journals. These are incontestibe
facts, and prove as distinctly as if it were
written upon the face of the sky, that nc
compromise was d. sized by the rebels and
that none could have been devised to
check the rebellious tide upon which the
slaveholdng democracy had determined
TO embark their fortunes and their destiny
We admit that the Crittenden Com
promise was opposed by the Republican,
and we glory in the fact,-but we al
lude to the fact of that measure for the
purpose of showing that the Southern De
mocrats, with the aid of their subservien
allies of the North might have carried i
over all Republican opposition had the.
so chosen to do They did not desire tt
do sol
We are not mistaken about the aniInu