Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-04-16

PROFESSOR Parsons ON SLAvERE.--
Professor Parsons, of the Cambridge Law
School has published very interesting
pamphlet on Slavery, its Origin, lnhu-
ence and Destiny The subject is sur,
veyed from the point of view both of the
jurist and moralist. We give slnole
paragraph, as illustrating the tenor of the
work:
The preservation OF our nationality will
be necessarily al some time AID IN some
way inc death of slavery: For the heart
ana essence of our national existence is
ere principle of freedom. This principle
has grown in development and strength
beyond the principle of slavery, not by
any accident, but because it could not be
otherwise, in a nation founded as ours was,
and characterized aud circumstanced as
ours has been, and is, and must continue
! to he so long rs we are nation. The
| South felt this. The southern mind has
| become essentially a slave mind.
Many persons there are probably una
Die to form a conception of nationality or
civilization without slavery; and some
( have ayowed this. Their hatred of the
accused Yankees is only an expression
of the love Of slavery; Yankeelsm being
with them an impersOnauon Of non.sIav-
cry. They saw pajaly, or they felt NJ
stnrIjvoiy, that slavery would perish /
nationality should continue. The death
9 gl,p d
They are Gght0 turlle. hey are haM
ing 10 destroy cur nationality, Icceuse il
nationality lives slavery must die. In all
this ,hov alc not mistaken. The only
strange th,ug s th.t We do hot see luis as
plainly as they do
A SorruN WARNINe TO WtvTs A
correspondent of the Selma reporter re-
latee a story which should serve rs sol
emn warning to the wives Of so 5lers.-
He saws few weeks ago soldier was
tried and convicted for the cr.We OF deser
tior. and sentenced 10 be- shot. The day
for the execution arrived, ard at the ~
pointed hour this brave man, who had
fought many battles and endured every
kind of hardship, fell a blood corps a
! the hands Of his comrades. Upon inquiry
il was ascertaned he was as true as stee
to our cause, and that it was on accoun
L. of his wife that he deserted. tie received
s letter from her fiji of complaints. Look
q ing alone upon the dark side Of the PIC
0 ture, she bad magnfed her troubles an(
t suffering. and earnestly entreated her hus
- band to return hone. He became rest
less, Disconnected, unhappy. He ceased
2 to take any interest in the discharge o
his military duties, and thought only o
how he could get home. HIS solemn oati
never to desert troubled him much, and h
well knew tie crime of desertion had be
come 50 reQueDt in the army 1t would b.
punished with death.
: In this state of perplexlty ne drew IN
wife's letter from his bosom and read
I over again, and shutting his eyes to tn
s consequences, he deserted! and for TIM
crime he suffered bloody and ignomlnl
t Gus Death His wife, now a widow knows
no peace of mind, but is constantly haunt
ed with the thought that her exaggerated
7 representations of her trials and troubles
= caused her husbands death. Let this b
= warning to all wives and Mothers,
When YOU write to the soldier, speaE
, words of encouragement - cheer thel
3 hearts, fire their souls, and arouse thel
4 patriotism. Say nothing that will emblt
ter their thoughts or swerve them from tn
t path of patriotic duty.