Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-05-21
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THURSDAY, MAY 81, 1868.


the treason preaching Vallandigham, will |
deprive their criticisms Of effect with the
loyal people. oGod save us,n exclaims
the pious New York World, efrom the
pusillanimous apathy which would meet
an attempt to crush out the most precious
right of freemen with faint and tame re-
monstrance p "The blood,n il says, ''that
already makes green the springing grass
on Virginia and Kentucky hillsides, spilled
to protect the Union against traitors, is
but drop Of that which will flow on
Northern soil when the American people |
discover that the battle has begun to pre-
serve the constitution against tyrants;n-
Which threatens, if it means anything,
that if the sentence Of Vallandigham be !
approved by the President, the World and |
its political sympathizers will inaugurate
a rebellion at the North against the gov
eminent which is struggling to crush
Southern traitors and Northern meters to
treason, wherein such quantities of blood
shall flow that that already spilled in the
maintenance of the Union, shall be but as
drop to the ocean.
Almost to the same effect writes Gov.
Seymour TO meeting of Vallandlgham
sympathizers in Albany, in the style, as
the New York Post expresses it, of a
"pewter mug" politician, rather than of a
chief magistrate of the great state Of New
York.
The Dayton CO., Empire, Vallsndig
hams organ, of course speaks still more
plainly. ltsays:
''If the spirit of the men who purchss-
cd our freedom through the fiery ordeal
of the revolution, still lives in the hearts
of the people, as we believe it does, then
all will yet be well, for it will hurl defiance
\ to military despotism, and rescue, through
blood and carnage, if it must be, our now
endangered liberties. towards are not
deserving of liberty--brave men cannot
be enslaved.s In our opinion the time is
near at hand much nearer than unthink-
ing men suppose, when it will be decided
whether we are to remain free or bare our
necks to the despot's heel. The contest
ao6H be q fearful one. IL aciU &nvo5ue the
loss of many lines and immense destf1c-
tioa Of property"
If the New York World and its fellows
had ever expressed one 1.-THE of the indig-
nation against the traitors of the South
who have causelessly and wckedly brought
this war with all its fearful sacrifices upon
us, that boils over at the military arrest
of this man who is a traitor in the eyes OF
all loyal men, if not in the eyes of the
law, then the people might pay some re-
spect TO their present heated denuneiatlons
Of the brave and loyal Burnside, for doing
what he conceived to be his duty in the
arrest of Vallandgham. The people will
have no sympathy with this demogoglc
talk. II is the cry of political hounds
on the scent after capital.
While we heartily dispise such hasty,
Incorporate and Transparency over-zeal-
Gus denunciations by those whose only
business throughout this struggle for the
Union and the preservation of our rights,
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loyal effort; we are glad, on the other
hand, to see Gen. Burnside's act criticised
in proper spirit by many journals which
have given . generous support to the adj
ministration in the prosecution of tins war
of the people Gen. Burnside, than whom
more noble and self-sacrificing patriot
has not appeared in this war--whatever
may be his errors Of judgment--and who
may be presumed to know best the militia
nv necessity for the course he pursued
deemed it his duty to the cause in which
he in common with all other loyal people
engaged, TO arrest Vallandigham. Anil
itary court tried and convicted him. Still
more, the United States court of the dis
trict, on application and hearing, refused
him writ of habeas corpus. All thes
things should be borne in mind, and es-
pecially the latter fact whereby the law
fulness OF the proceeding would seem t.
be judicially affirmed. Nevertheless We
are free to confess that in our present Ggh
we cannot but regard the arrest as Z
mistake As question of mere expedlency
it is sufficient to say that such gorgeous
copperheads have hitherto done most tt
iniure themselves and arouse the patriot
ism of the people, when most free ant
open in the expression Of their disloya
sentiments. To crafty them with claim
to martyrdom, has proved mistaken pol
icy. As to the right to sfreedom G
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