Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-03-26

HARD dITS.-At the GreA War Meeting
in Brooklyn, on Monday nigh asst, John Van
Buren made one of his sting and witty
speeches, from which we takete following:
You hear the remarks Of dntlemen in the
discussion in which some ard engaged. their
declarations against the writ d habeas corpus.
their outcries in behalf of fri speech. You
would suppose they were nevdsllowed to open
their mouths. And yet, If ! Judge of what
they do, instead of what th& saw. / should
think the difficulty was one "a which the gov
ernment is not at all responsts. for they are
never able to shut their mo3ts. [Applause
and laughter. met an old tahioned farmer
not long ago, who said to n "Souiren I'm
the country lawyers are all hires. ESQUIRE.
who is this man that is golue all round the
country talking all the time n insisting that
|. Tree speech has been crushedfu by the gener-
al governmentW [Great lat eker. SWELL"
SAID L, II don't know whom} you refer to."-
Well" SAID he, "he is a pan with very
hard name. l SAID, "PerhaE you mean Val
landlgham." "That's the tme," said he
Said he, Squire, why can'I be be content
with being beat at home, witbt coming here
TO snow us how we can be befen here. Great
ma great many peopf1tel me that we
are right, mat this rebellloHis unjustifiable,
and ought to be put down, b,{ it is impossible
to subjugate the South that they are six mil
lions of resolute people, peratly united. and
never can be put down. sly with Col. Mil
Ter, OF Erie, SO TAR as 1t is Necessary to subju-
gate the South ''he will try.'f | believe that
the people who say that it is npossible to sub
jugate the South are sighira to be beaten
They are people who seem b hope that we
cannot overpower the Soul. Whenever /
hnd one OF those men who ells me that vou
cannot subugate the South, ALWAYS think he
is man who is signing to ke snbdued and
hoping to be conquered. lIbelleve we can
overthrow the armies Of thd South, and the
intelligence that comes to US pow is calculated
to confirm that convection applause. We
do not propose to sub]ugate fhe South. We
propose to subjugate jeff. Dttis and set the
South free. Applause.[
A year and a half ago, all over the United
States, meetings were held to peclare the righ-
teousness of the war, and to ipyite our fellow
citizens to embark in the contest. did not
take part in any Of those MEETINGS. although
my name was used as an ofirer of them, and
from that time | contributed such small sums
as it was in my power to P. But if had
been one of those men who tssembled in Un-
ion Square in New York, any denounced the
rebels, and invited men to q forward to the
field of battle and put down tis foul rebellion
against the laws of the land hnd the rightful
authority of the country, # bad sueceeded
in that way in getting my ff5d, my kinsman
or my neighbor to abandon hA daily pursuits
to 60 to far distant land, to beexposed to the
fire of the enemy, to famine and to disease, and
if ton ght when the questin was whether
these troops, thus excited by ne to go forward,
should now be furnished with supplies, and
now be reinforced by men, and should be up
held by the arm of the Government, and the
concentrated vigor of public opinion say,
if then sat here and cried peace, while they
were being fred upon and killed, and provid-
ed for no reinforcements AMI supplies to go
forward to them, God might forgive me, but |
am sure man meyer would