Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-08-14
TIE MORAL WEIGHT OF ENG
LAND,

more bold and bitter in its denunciations
of the Free States and the Federal Gov
eminent than ever, 1t declares that the
English people ought to give their "whole
weight to the South, who have so gallant
ly striven so long for their liberties against
mongrel race Of pt,mderers and oppres-
sors."
We are willing to admit that the brute
force of nation so powerful as that of
England thrown into the scale in the pres
ent struggle of the Federal government,
would be power not to be lightly con-
sidered, But il strikes US that the L" moral
weight" OF people who can find it in
their hearts to sympathise with the slave
holders of the South, in their wicked en-
deavor to destroy the best and purest gov
eminent on earth, that they may build up
on its ruins a government, the corner stone
OF which they have proclaimed to the
world beforehand, shall be human bondage,
amounts to but very little. What must
be the moral state of that heart which
can sympathize with three hundred thou
sand shareholders, who are drenching
their native land with the blood of humid
dreds of thousands of their brethren,
that they may enjoy the +" liberty" of
holding human beings made in the ir~
age of God," in everlasting boz ,,oca Voc
leave to the candid judgment of the chris
tan and enlightened world. The Times
represents the slav holders as gallant
people fighting for tneir liberties, against
Northern oppression, What are the lib
critics" for which they are fighting? Was
there single personal right or political
privilege which they did not enjoy up to
the hour they took up arms in rebellion !?
Did they not enjoy perfect liberty of
speech, and entire freedom from personal
restraint through all the long period dur
d. ing which they freely uttered their
reasonable threats to destroy the Union,
unless they were permitted to make it
wholly snbservient to their brutal, hellish
schemes to extend and perpetuate the sys-
TEN of human bondage on this Continent 2
BE- Did they not enjoy the liberty of scourg-
ing, and even hanging without judge or
jury all men who dared within the limits
of the slave holding States to open their
mouths in utterance of the sentiments of
George Washington, John Jay and Ben
iamin Franklin, and James Madison and
Thomas jefferson concerning slavery !?
Where did a people ever enjoy such i'm
munity in doing wrong even. as the gal
liant Southern traitors, over whose woes
and wrongs the London Times hypocriti-
cally sheds its sympathizing tears? Even
the liberty" they enjoyed of holding
men in bondage was not interfered with,
The Northern people are looked upon by
this kinaehearted, and moral newspaper
which boasts of standing at the head Of
the press in the commercial and Christian
emporium of the civilized, world as a
mongrel race of plunderers and oppresors.
And why? What evil have they done
From whence sprang they, that they
should be called mongrel racer That
mother is monster who would stigma
tie her children as mongrel, and brand
them as objects of scorn and contempt
and "Mother England " can claim no
exception from the application of this
trust. The descendants of the Purtans
of Old England who were driven by her
tyranny and oppression to these inhospita-
BILE shores, who through trials and strug-
giles nobly dared and successfully braved,
have been able to lay the foundations and
andEto rear thereon, a government which
secures the personal liberty of all under
its sway,--a young and athletic people
who have twice bearded the English Lion
and sent him bowling to his lair, when
his Jaws have been whetted for /" innocent
blood" are not the people to be denonnc-
ed by the organ of an effete and corrupt
and embecile aristocracy, as mongrel
race" Nor are they exactly race OF
/" plunderers." 1t was not they who plum
dered the Treasury of this government,
who stealthily stole her arms and her
ships of war, who went out of the nation