Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-11-06
HOWE con n EspoNDENCE,

from one of the most prominent citizens of our
County.
Well, the die is oast--the great State of
New York, great in her commercial strength,
and prominently great in all the elements Of
power that constitute great commonwealth,
has spoken, and she stands to-day a spectacle
to the nations, of great, educated and en-
hghtened community, striking hands with the
rebels and with the most bloodthirsty fends
that ever desecrated the footstool of God, fly
ing at the throat of the nation, to subvert and
destroy the purest and best Government on
earth. The downtrodden and oppressed all
over the world will at this intelligence send mp
TO Heaven grosn of agony, such as never sa
mted the ears of the nations. Fiends in human
shape, wallowing in the sinks Of dissipation
and death, with red and devilish eyes, and
eaten up with fostering sores and corruption,
| this morning turn in their beds of He'll and
with demoniac yells shout the triumph of Sey-
| mour and Wood, and the devils incarnate who
rallied to their reasonable flag, And all along
the rich and fertile valley of the Shenandoah,
where the minions of jeff Davis are gathered
around their camp fires, and over the cursed
and smitten South, where the red fires OF trea-
son burn and blaze, goes up one grand and
laundering pean "The Union is lost The
Union is lost The Rebellion has triumph
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Tis a sad and gloomy picture We turn
from it with less of faith in the ultimate tri-
umph of free principles and a representative
government than is our wont to do 1t is a
glorious attribute of our nature that men will
never fail in recourses, to sustain and uphold
a glorious cause, even in its darkest and most
| foreboding hours; and even now, when we felt
but yesterday that the result in New York
must decide the fate of the nation to-day we
catch glimmers OF hope, aickers of sunshine,
that open and warm our hearts, and again we
buckle on our armor for the salvation of the
people.
This government, so rich in its resources
so powerfulIn its elements of strength-so be-
nefcent in its influences, can not, must not,
SHALL NOT FAIL. The rotten, bloated, cor
rupt, and putrid sores Of a body polite in
one simultaneous eruption, has poured out its
stream Of deadly filth and for the moment.
the beauty, virtue, and strength of a great
people has been flooded but their moral and
political power is not broken nor DESTROYED.
| The Union party in New York represents
the material strength of her people, and to-day
they stand firmly erect above the shock, and
proclaim to the nations that their government
and country shall be sared. To the President
of their choice they will rally, and holding up
his hands to Heaven, declare that the work of
crushing the rebellion shall 90 on with uu-
wonted vigor, and that New York-an empire
of itself will unfateringly do her work
their work of treason. As candidates they
have accomplished their mission and their
work, appealing to the worst men and their
unholest passions they have at the price of
liberty and the sacrifice of patriotism-plac-
ed themselves ostensibly in power. Will they
not shudder and recoil from the works their
hands and venomed tongues have done? Now
that their present purposes have been served
will they not think once of bleeding nation
to be saved ? Or will they persist in trea-
son?
If the purpose is fixed there is but one
course for the government and country to DUR
sue. The nation must be Sared and men who
stand IN the way of this salvation must be
destroyed if necessary. We hesitate not to
say, now that the election is past, now that no
motives but the most patriotic could be as
cribed to the President, that exhibitions of
treason at home as well as treason South,
should be firmly rebuked by that power which
alone can save us from destruction. Sevmcur
and Van Buren, and Wood and Rynders, and
their satellites have openly and boldly pro-
claimed their reasonable purposes We can
easily understand why that treason was toll
Grated before the election,-there can be no ex-
cuse for such liberation now that the election
is passed.
Let the government look to this matter and
see at the same time, that the hosts Of freedom
now in the field be led vigorously to the des-
truction of the enemies of the country, and |
the next Congress will only come together to
hear the official announcement of their country
saved, and an organized rebellion crushed and |
annihilated.
WHAT SEYMOUR SAID.-Horato Seymour
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