Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-04-23

ern States have done 2 Would not The
revolution have been complete Have
we not reason TO thank kind Providence
that Breckinrdge was not placed in the
Presidential Chair TO "appease the South2"
Had Douglas beea elected, the pretext
for secession would have been the same
as was urged after the election of Lincoln.
The disunionists declared all through the
canvass that they preferred the election of
Lincoln TO Douglas. They fought his doc
trnes on Slavery as strenuously as they
did those of Lincoln, and their denunOa-
tion Of them was much more bitter. But
Douglas was Union mda, and had he
been elected, aad lipea, he would n
doubtedly have fought the rebels with all
the power of the Government, precisely
as Lincoln has done, and been sustained
therein 10y such Democrats as General But,
Ter, Senator Johnson, and hosts of Others
But had he | cen elected, the fatal disease
then upon him, would have run its course,
in the first plunge of the rebellion, and he
Would have been succeeded in the Presi-
dency by Vice President johnson, who
proved to be one of the earliest traitors
in the South and one of the most obstin-
ate adhe-ents of the doctrine of the right
of secession, and the want of any power
of coercion on the part of the general gov
ernment. So thct had Douglas and john
son been elected, the Union to-day
would have rassed into the history of the
things that were, hut are no longer. As
Tor Bell, he never stood the least chance
chance IF an election; but there would
have been no more safety with him for,
after a feeble protest against the secession
of his State he yiel-ed up ihs ghost Of
UnoRism which be carried through tie
canvass, aud came uut blood thirsty Sc
cesslolist.
Who, in view of the, will say that, in
the kind lrrvidenee Of Go who has ever
mercrlully watrhed over The government
Of our fathers, thu elevation ug Abraham
Lincoln 10 the Presidency, WAS not order
et rs the iAital step in the chain of events
which are destined in the end to defeat
the Gendish attempt TO Ireak up this Umon
ANOTHER REPLY TO THE PEACE MEf.
We Gnd in our New Orleans files extracts
from the message of the rebel Governor
Lubbock, Of Texas, and from the proceed
ings of the rebel legislature. The Cover
nor takes pains to EXPIRE bis hostility 10
reconstruction ''Ihe safety of the
state and OF the institution of slavery"
he says, " depend upon the rigid exclusion
of all Yankees and abolitionis,s" He
earnestly opposes the admss on of any
state into the Confederacy whose laws do
not recognize and pratect slavery if any
one of the rebel states should hereafter
abolish the divine institution thew are to be
deemed no longer members OF the happy
f'm'ly of slave states" These recommend
atoms are made because the Governor saws
he sees on the part of some of the west
ern states disposition to throw off the
power Of the federal government, and
humlly beg for admission into the Confed-
eracy."
The legislature passed an act bv which |
the state assumes part of the debt con-
tracted by the rebels. A bill was under
recommended by the Cover
nor, giving authority to summon slaves to
work on fornfcations. The Governor rec.
also law for the seizu and
appropriation of provisions.