Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-04-24

call him brother"-the Courier says
he and his fellow-traitors will become
Revolutionary heroes, to be worshipped
hereafter by mankind as Washington is
loved and worshipped.
Such is the view which the Courier
takes of this war The South, like the
British Colonies in the war of T76, are
represented as fighting for their " liber-
ties p The Southern "rebels," the Cou-
rier predicts, will be known in history as
" revolutionary heroes" AS for REB-
Els" says the Courier, 4" the word may
sound very terrible now, but be it re-
'membered that GEORGE THE Third had
once quite crop Of rebels that the old
tyrant did not want to associate with, and
the leaders of whom would have been
hung by the neck, had Great Britain
been successful. Fortunately for rep
resentative government, Englands insor
lence towards those she termed rebels,
caused the revolutionary heroes to fight
'on and fight ever against a nation that
employed Indians and Hessians to sub
'jugate them"
Where is another journal in the North
ern States that has dared to put forth
such defence of JEFF. Davis and his con-
federacy as as this The Courier repre-
sents President Lincoln as the GEORGE
THE THIRD of this era. 1t puts jeff. Da-
Wis by the side of Washington, and de-
clares that Northern intol GRANGE, will
make of him revolutionary hero" in
stead of a miserable traitor, as he is. 1t
thinks the rebels are "clean, respectable,
and intelligent, -" our brothers, -" re-
spectacle ladies and gentlemen" Sc, &c,
as will be seen in all forms of compli-
mentary allusion in every column of the
Courier.
Who can doubt after this, that the ed
itor of the Courier is in sympathy with
the rebels? Who can doubt that he
yearns to take them kindly by the
hand ?" Who can doubt that it woulG
cause him more bitter anguish to see JEFF,
Davis hung than it would to see Presi.
dent Lincoln on the gallows? Oh how
his heart yearns towards the poor, virtu.
Gus, but misguided leaders of this re-
bellion We advise Cain to 90 South
and take JEFF. Davis "by the hand" lie
him take copy of the Courier of this
week along with him, and it will secure
to him a favorable introduction. In tina
number of the Courier, jeff will find tina
he is foreshadowed as revolutionary
hero" He will see Lincoln held up as
GEORGE THE THIRD. He will see him
self compared to the immortal WASHING
TONI He will see the large majority OF
Northern people denounced as unreason-
able haters of rebels in arms against the
Union. How would all this delight and
cheer the heart of the great disunion con-
spirator Why will not the editor of the
Courier 60 to Richmond if he intends to
defend rebellion. We can tell him he
will find it hot work to do SO here in
Vermont,
| The Courier has advised the suppression
of Garrison's paper, and the Tribune, and
the Imprisonment of the conductors of
those sheets in Fort Warren. 1t init
mates that the same punishment should be
meeted out to the political writed for the
Rutland Daily Herald. But have any of
these papers compared President Lincoln
to George the Third, and jeff Davis to
Washington? Have they petted rebels
patted them on the shoulder and called
them brothers?" Have they praised
Miss Slidell," and the proud bellies in
jeff. Davis confederacy?" Have they
talked about "sociable, agreeable chat ="
| with traitors in OWNS Tho Corr;ar hoe
done all this and we will say boldly that
if the Rutland Herald had thus made it.
self obnoxious to the charge of treason,
the evidence ought to be sufficient to send
its editors to Fort Warren during the war.
But perhaps the Courier will escaped
ACCIDENTAL DEATH.-A child of Mr..
Oliver Sprague of Chittenden, between two
and three years of age was scalded to death