Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-06-25
TuE wAR oY CAVALRY AND NEGROES,

The Chattanooga Rebel in abiding to
the statement that 100000 cavalry are to
be raised in the North and that regiments
of negroes are being organized, says;
"The cause of these new movements is
clear; our enemies despsiriug OF conquest
by arms of infantry, aud unwilling longer
to expose their own precious persons 10
the privationS, suffering aud death result
tant from fair and equal conflict, are re-
solved to burn ~ our bridges, cities, de-
pots and dwelling houses, 10y raids in the
interior, and TO add the horrors of u st.
Domingo massacre to thet own plumber
ing ami brutal warfare,
Such elements of darkness do not mean
reunion; they do not even stop at the
idea of conquest aud subjugatiou, they can
only portend utter desoatlon and eXter-
mination. We feel profoundly touched at
the sad and solemn picture of the future
that is thus weaving in the womb of fate,
but we are not sure that ii is to be de-
plored as an unmixed evil thousands of
innocent, helpless and nobls hearts will
fall crushed and bleeding under the wheels
of this iuggernaut of fanatoism, but from
the blood of the martyrs will spring the
seed of the church, and the temple of hope
and freedom will be rebuilt and reconse-
Grated We cannot thus he subdued. We
shall rise higher, more intact and united
as these tenfold furies, thus turned loose,
| have to be met and confronted
Our government must develop It's re-
served energies, cast away forbearance,
and humbly initiate the course sand by
Milton TO have been pursued by our Crea-
tor, when the devils heaved up volcanic
mountains and tartarean pitch, to over
whelm his angels and desolate heaven, we,
too, must gather the two-edged sword, and
pour out a consuming fire that will deluge
the East with destruction, burning and the
horrors of despair,
We can arm and equip fifty THOUSAND of
oar veterans, who never fled from the face
of an enemy, and can move unhurt, and
almost mchalIenged, from Cincinnati to
Boston, They can lay in ashes the richest
and most populous of Northern cities,
| leaving behind them belt as broad and
burning as the Elliptic, They can run a
burning ploughshare over the hotbeds of
pulling fanaticism, from which spraug the
Ate turned loose on the South.
Ii our President will but announce and
permit such policy he will be justified
in the eyes OF the civilized world, and will
evoke new spirit in tho South that has
never yet been called into action. Thou
sands of men are Just now thrust out with
cruelty and ignominy from louisiana,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland, and
they are thirsting to go back with fire and
aword. Thousands more of our people,
who have felt the mere defence of our own
land wac not the true policy, would be
stirred to their inner depths by the trum-
pet call of invasion. We believe firmly
that myrads at the North are prepared
to take refuge in our ranks from the storm
of despotsm that is darkening around
them.
If 1t be necessary, IN order to save our
selves from cavalry raids and negro mas
sacres, that we should raise the war cry
| of " Dlue Bonnets ovor the Border so bc
1t. We have struggled long and faithfully
to meet the exigences Of this contest IN a
fair, open and manly fight ; but when the
demons of hell are to be turned loose on
our beautiful land, aud its civilization
choked amid blood and flames, we must
In self defence, pour back the fel tide Of
ruin on our barbarous foes, and make
them sing, amid the fallen glores of then
once thriving cities, the song of the Per
sian poet
| The spi4er has woven his web and the owl has
sung in the towers of Apasiah.
We shall meet the truculent Yankee,
as the Indian Cananchet did when they
sought his alliance, after numbering hi;
people and devastating his land. He
raised himself proudly to his full height
and replied:
1.-The fire that consumed the lodges Of
my people turned the heart of Conanchet
to stone"