Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-01-09
UNION FEELING IN TIE SOUTH
MORE EVIDENCE.

to fortify the presumption that there sun
large Union party in tho seeded States
OVERCOME and ,lenced to great extent it is
true by the secession reign of terror, but
which on the first favorable opportunity will
rally around thu old Union aig and aid tho
general government in re-establishing It's au-
thorify and jurisdiction.
In addition to the reasons which we then
urged, we may alude TO the direct evidence
Afforded by the agreeing statements OF numer-
Gus persons who from time TO time are escap-
ing from the South. ...
Among these persons is Mr.. Ely, the New
York Congressman, who was captured at
Bull Run and detained prisoner at Rich
mond until he was recently exchanged for
Mr.. Faulkner. He declares that there is a
strong Union feeling among many of the in.
habitants of Richmond, and that were the
Federal Army within ten miles Of that city,
scores Of Union flags, now in concealment,
would wave from the house tops and hang
from the windows.
Quite recently Mr.. Biddle, highly re
spectacle merchant of Philadelphia, who
married bis wife in Savannah, and who left
that city on the I'd of December, arrived in
Frankfort by way Of Nashville and Bowling
Green. He afirms as indicative of the I'M
willingness of many of the inhabitants of Sa-
vaEnah to serve in the Confederative army,
that during his residence there, there were
two or three drafts for soldiers, and he him
self was compelled to furnish two substitutes
for the r, bel army. lie GAYS that South
has all the force in the field that it can pos
sibly raise, and that Union men especially
have been enormously taxed, and very many
of them actually ruined by the exactons
made upon them. 1.-THE ST. longest and bold
est Union man." says Mr.. Bddle, /" is Hen.
John L. Ward, formerly our Minister TO
China, and he is dreadfully prosecuted by
the re5els, who have arrested him at least
twenty tines while attempting to escape,
robbed him Of his entire property, and threat.
ened several times to hang him. Mr.. Ward
says they can kill him if they like, but that
be will never surrender his Allegiance to the
Federal Government, or cease to detest and
denounce the miserable abortion known as
the Southern Confederacy." MIR. B.ddle fur
Al Ia, b,e ubn .ra
publicly the most superlative fire eaters, to
state, fricately, their strong attachment 10 the
Onion, and their secret hope that our arms
would soon be successful" He thinks that
even in Savannah, our arms would be "huled
Vih joy BY a majority Of the people"
And yet the pubic voice and clamor is all
for war, simply for the reason that no other
expression would be tolerated. The news
papers are filed with the most unjust demon
ciations of the Federal Government and OF
President Lincoln. They declare that
the Administration design this as an
abolition war, and that the South will resist
to h. d. ath. These and similar falsehoods
are spread broadcast among the people in Or
der to keep the war feeling up the point Of
fever heat .
We might fill our columns with similar
statements of respectable refugees, from diff
ferent portions of the South, whose character
for truth is unquestlonabe, all gong TO show
that there is such reign of terror in the Sc
ceded States as the world has scarcely
known, and that the boosted unanimity Q
the Southern people is mytb,-a chest, -ant
a lie. For no other crime than loving thu
Union, thousands of men,-aye, and women
too,-have been mobbed, driven from thei
homes, thrown into prison, and brutally muir
dered, and this under that government a
Richmond, the inspiration of which, according
to jeff Davis, is the unconquerable will f
be free r These are the crimes and inbumal
outrages upon which that government is built
The " Confederate Ship of State is floating
in the tears aud blood itself has caused to b
shed !! There is not rain enough in the swee
heavens to wash the hands of its piraics
master and crew of the blood outlines
wherewith they are stained.
The fact that such a strong and extensiv
Union feeling exists,-however it nay /
Temporarily crushed down by the JEFF Davi
usurpation,--the fact that thousands of Amer
ican citizens, groaning under the heavy bun
dens which the hand Of tyranny has cast up
Oh them, are praying in secret and in sile2c
for that succor which the Government of tn
1ee Union owes to them as loyal people, ought
6 inspire the Administration with fresh yisc
sa and determination. Let the Federal arm
once break through tie Gordon Of arms whic
jeff Davis has stretched along tie norther
frontier of the so called Confederate States
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