Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-02-12
RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY u, 1863.


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1863. /
Trouble I'm Rebelaom.
Indications Of restitution, Of approaching
allure Of means to persist, unaided, in this war
against the Union, have been numerously pub
ished but no intelligence has hitherto reached
as, which seems so significantly and reliably
70 indicate the desperate condition to which
rebeldom is being reduced, as that disclosed
by recent southern journals, the substance Of
which was contained in our dispatches of Sat-
urday. It is evident that the opposition on
the part of the people in some sections Of the
south to the rebellion into which they have
been cheated and forced by the leading slave
holders, is becoming irreprsssible.
This opposition is not confined to words, but
has reached open outbreak and mutiny, insur-
rection, rebellion against rebellion. A force
from Gen. Kirby Smiths division 1--WE are in
formed by the Charleston Mercury Of the 9th
ult.,) has been engaged in putting down and
dispensing the "tories" in Madison county,
North Carolina, and "many were killed and
captured" in the process. But the tories /"
are not confined to North Carolina. A gene
raj order Of Gen. G.. w. Lee reaches us
through INC reoei P"Por-'--y.- that dAaArt-
srs, "tories " and conscripts are resisting the
l,ws in northern Georgia As well As south
western North Carolina, and the matter is so
serious t,S:.st q military force is despatched to
aperture them, "to suppress insurrectonary
movements, and restore tranquility" Gov.
Shorter, too, Of Alabama, appeals to absent
ees and desertegs from the army, " in every
part os the State;'' he states that . large num-
Der of persons subject to consumption are
shrinking from the tolls and perils which those
of like age are bravely enduring" and he
calls upon all exempts to form companies fol
a reserve force, subject to service in the State
Gov. Vance of North Carolina also pro
claims that a "large number" Of soldiers are
absent without leave, exhorts them to return
to their duty by the 10th of February after
that-dsath, when caught.
The rebel journals are not generally in the
habit Of parading, exagserating and encour
aging divisions and dissensions Of the people
in their own States; the effect Of such
course is obvious enough to them; only Ger.
tain northern journals have reached that infa
nous style Of warfare upon their own gov.
erament, though engaged, in the latter case
in the defense Of the life and integrity of The
nation. These troubles at the South, there
fore. are rather indicated than fully dis
closed. What we have above is mainly
official, the publication of orders and procla-
nations. We may ada to this an account
from the New Orleans Delta, reae"nlng Us Tut
same day, which, though not from II.
journal, or Of the same official character as
the foregoing, is worthy of consideration
1t says the " accounts from the rebel army at
Port Hudson and elsewhere show most
wretched state of affairs among them. The
men are only kept from mutiny by the prom
Use of peace within ninety days. Consumption
among the rebels is rather dangerous, as over
twenty consumption officers have been shot
while endsavoring to raise men,"
What are we to conclude from all this 1t
is true that accounts of rebel restitution have
long ago reached us from which no results
seemed to flow in checking the vigor with
which the rebellion was prosecuted. But the
southern people have been ground down under
the heel Of the slavocrats with power which
the labor system of the south has unhappily
concentrated in their hands. and which is
welded by them with all the desperation
struggle they have precipitated upon the coun-
try, is calculated to create. The emerging
from this despotc control is a work of time,
Of courage, of great peril, of a counter despe-
ration on the part of the people, resulting from
their wrongs, destitntion and suffering becom-
ing ntolerable If we take, then, onlv the
facts indicated by the rebel papers mentioned
the beginning of the end of rebellion, unless
defeated by northern disloyalty, would seen,
Enthusiastically disclosed. 1t is shown that the
people in some sections of the South are al
ready beginning to reach that point where
they will brave danger and death against the
slavocrats who have misled them Ii Is shown
that already dissensions, assertions, democrat
izations and open instructions prevail among
the people. How speedily, when this
quickly contagious condition has become more
general, the whole fabric of rebellion would
crumble, is easily seen how easily just and
secure reconstruction" of the Union would
follow is as plain to be understood The rebe
leaders deposed, and the Union is already re-
stored We trust we shall soon hear such
news from expeditions now foot as shall
quicken this contagion, this hatred of oppres-
sion, with returning love of the old Union.
Peace.
The northern malcontents who are for wal
hair hut