Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-04-30
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TuURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1868.
.,.w the Daily Herald of April II.
The Next Presidency.

appear sWcn, however, llley are uhueI tnc
panful necessity, (Which they are, OF
course, equal toy o suppressing something
else said by HIM in the same connection,
which is as important and material to the
prediction as, 10 use an old illushation,)
the part of Hamlet is generally considered
10 be to the play OF that name. What be
expressed, as we find il reported, was in
substance his opinion that the next Presi-
dent would be a democrat, but not the can
didate Of tie democratic (i.e. copperkead)
oarty. alt was traditional with that par
ty to aft late with the South, but the ques-
ton of slavery was necessarily one which
broke up the party"
The kind of democrat who would NIL
the presidential chair after the next cleo
uon, therefore, was that represented, for
example, by B. +. Butler, Andy johnson,
and many other similar loyal democrats
who might be named, and who believe it
IS the duty of all men, regardless of past
party distinctions and differences, to
support the government, and the represen-
tatves Of the government for the time be-
ing, in a struggle against treason which
involves the very existence OF the nation
itself. We fail to see, therefore, Just how
the copperheads are 10 extract much com
fort FROM Prince Johns views regarding
he next presidency.
They are sadly in need OF comfort, 1t Is
wue. Their every lope and expectation,
thought and deed, plan and effort, since
the outbreak Of the rebellion, has been
AIMED solely at the power and spoils of
the next presidency. While the Union
has been staggering under the blows of
traitors while all loyal men have been
and still are content to let the next presi-
dency take care of itself until the country
is safe and it IS certain we shall have a
Union to call for another president; while
they therefore have devoted and are de-
voting all their energies to the punishment
Of treason and the putting down Of rebel
hon, these miserable factionists, as all
know, have been solely engaged in one
long, reckless, and woiully mistimed in
trigue for partisan success. Not only deaf
! to every call of patriotism themselves,
and leaving entirely to Others the duty of
saving the country, but also throwing ev-
sry possible obstacle in the way of the lat
ter, they have earned name whose equal
IN lnfamy 1t will be difiicnlt to find in the
history of the civilized world. Now add
to this well known fact the recent signif.
cant indications both in eastern and west
ern elections, that all their nefarious la
bors, all their sacrifices of honor, duty,
loyalty, principle and manhood, are to meet
with a just reward, though very differ
ent one from that striven for, and it will
be easily understood why, in their sinking
condition, they should catch so eagerly at
strsws and when these have failed even
try to delude their followers with imag
mary ones.
The fact is, as has been often stated be-
tore-but these infatuated rebel-sympa-
thizing parhsans are still blind to it-that
old party issues are dead and buried in
the past. A new and mighty issue has
grown out of the new condition of things
one paramount question, overshadowing
all others, and of vital interest to every
individual in the nation, has arisen. This
issue is between loyalty and disloyalty;
this question is, shall the government be
sustained when struggling for the nation
al life against causeless rebellion, the
constitution and laws to be enforced, trea-
son be put down and the Union preserved.
The next president will be elected by the
Internationally loyal party, made up of
men, who, whether they may have been
democrats, wings, or republicans, believe
II Their hrst duty 10 devote their energies
ana influence to saving the Union when
a'Salied and imperllled by traitorous hat
era OF popular freedom and government.
l"'S party is already overwhelmingly |
strong, and from the glorious faith that is
ln II, must continue owax stronger every
Jay 1t viii bury copperheads and trait
0'S, Its only opponents, SO deep that no |