Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-11-19
RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1863.
SruLrrrlcArroS. One of the so-calle


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# SruLTUlcATIoN. One of the so-calec
n democratic papers of this State takes
pains 10 parade speech recently made in
England by Lord Brougham upon the
subject Of the Presidents emancipation
proclamation.
n The tact that there are men In England
n who have displayed as much hostility to
the loyal party of this Union as have our
northern pseudo democrats themselves,
men who have sought every pretext for
lntlsming the public mind abroad against
our efforts Ia crush out armed treason and
save the Union, with as much avidity as
q have the copperheads among us--has been
made painfully apparent during the whole
course OF this rebellion.
Il Something more than year ago the
1 President Issued his celebrated proclama-
ten AIMED at the root and support of the
Rebellion and this the most prominent
and distinctive among the measures of the
the mai-oontents on both sides the Allan
tie, with eamor proportionate to its great
! scope and magnitude.
Our copperheads, as is well enough
known, have made it from that time to this
I the foundation for the senseless charge that
the war is perverted from the object of
restoring the Union into nothing else than
mere abolition crusade and they still
= forth rs the excuse for their hostility
10 the war for the Union, the fimsy pre-
ext that the negro and not the Uaioa is
toe object of the emancipation proclama-
ton.
u Bnt the popular feeling in England is
Niecldedly and radically opposed to the pc
Scnllar institution. Opposition to the
proclamation on the copperhead basis
E"oaid be just The thing calculated to give
1t united popular sympathy on the other
I Sside the Atlantic. Clamor against the
4 proclamation, therefore, is there, quite SIN
sAsularly, based upon the ground that 1t
eas issued merely to aid in the restoration
~ Tue Unlon, and not for the sake of
Fmaneipating the slaves III other words,
4hat "the UaioR and not the negro is the
Object" OF its issuance.
Those who have read Henry Ward
peeeher's recent speeches in England and
II oted the questions put to him by his hear
Rs, cannot have failed to remark how this
suppression has been made to weigh upon
\ be English mlnd
u Now, in this very speech Of Lord
Brougham above referred 10 ana pub
aished eonsplcuonsly, as we said, by an
Opposition paper of this State. this obiec-
hen to the proclamation is clearly and
Rccinctly stated; and Lord Brouebam
Doubtless thought that he was thereby
ealing it a tremendous blow. He said:
8 "When | heard Of North America issu-
N d proclamation to emancipate the
u ayes, knew very well before they con-
ssed il that it was not for the sake of
lrfnancipating the slaves (hear), but for the
sake Of beating the whites. The
paioa, and not the negro, Is the object Of
emancipation proclamation, and to
N al proclamation, therefore, could aot
eto1 eng Kind Of support
We must give Lord Brougham credit for
Ptting the truth here. The President con-
|iessedly had no power to issue the procla-
nation except as military measure to
I'D in the restoration of the Union, by
eakening its armed enemies. Lord B.
ever uttered truer statement than the
above; but then what becomes of the al.
.oged foundation of northern copperhead-
posltion2 And do not our papers of I
at stripe stnltify themselves to rather
terestlng extent by copying such speech
as the above, although made by for
gners hostile to our prosecution of the
ar.