Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-27

A'HV'l 'hat OF freedom Has the Goyert
meht no power To hedge about It's free te,
rllorles, and protect freemen from the n
gressIons Of slavery? These are impor,
ant questions, In regard to them il be
hooveS to act wisely, yet firmly"
Recently, as we see it stated. Mr.. Red
heId made speech at Montpelier in whicI
he charged the present national tropble
"upon those who in times passed had de
nounced slavery,--the Greeleys and Sum
ners," Ne. Upon the election of Charlie.
Sumner to the Senate, public meeting o
glontication was held at Montpelier. Mr.
Reddeld was on the committee of resolu,
tons, and the following were reported, ,ad-
Vocated by Redfeld in a speech, and
adopted
Resolced, That we hail the election of
| Charles Sumner to the Senate of the
| United States, not merely as the addition
of man of brilliant intellect and honest
purpose 10 that important body, but more
especially as it furnishes a scathing rebuke
at the right time, and from the right
source, to the unparalleled treacherv of
Daniel Webster, and the perfdv of the
tlonal Administration.
Resoioed, hat we yield to none in love
and allegiance to the Union. We shall
cling TO it in spite of the odious tests
which political pharisees have prescribed.
We shall obey the Constitution; but we
remember that it was 'ordaiped to secure
the blessing of LIBERrY.n Yet We now
see 1t perverted to perpepuate SLAVERY.
y The Union must he preserved The
Constitution must be restored
ReSolceo3, That while the - Almiobtv
dollar md the cotton conscience,' Of
Boston are putting shackles upon man
to make hlm a slave, the People of Mass
chosetts send Charles Sumner to Wash /
ipgton to beard the lion in bis den.
Was it not a cruel joke then, for the
Copperheads at this last Montpelier Con
vention, to set up Mr.. Reddeld at the head .
of their ticket, and then fire speeches at .
him charging upon the past course of
himself and his associates the origin of all
the present national troubles Or if Mr. |
RS views bad so entirely changed (demo-
cratic principles, we are told, aeger change) !
should he not at least have manifested /
some penitence for his past guilty course 2 |
But, to go little further, we fad that
some Of Mr.. Redfeld's most ardent and /
arrant Copperhead supporters, and who
are most brazen in their denunciation of
past anti-slayery fanatics, are in the same
with their gubernatorial can
didate. They themselves, as they are in
1868, denounee themselves as they were
in lS5O-wlth zeal that is truly refresh
ing. They are in fact most violent self
accusers; but their insincenty is shown
by their failure to make confession of the
fact.
In 1850, the Brandon Post was pub
lished by P. Welch as the organ of the
abolition Democracy of Rutland Coun-
". In hasty examination of the files of
-he Post, we are first struck by remark
able coincidence between the opening of
he FIRST District Congressional Conven-
lon OF the ''abolitionists" of that wear
md the opening of the last Congressional
Convention of the Copperheads of the
anne district, recently held here. Tn each
'ase the convention was called to orderby
'ohn Cain of Rutland and permanently
'rganIzed by the election of J. s. Petit
zone of Manchester as president. Here
one of the resolutions adopted by the
oRvention in 1850: -
"ResolUed, That our motto be.-No more
lave stltes, and no slave territory Free
ON without mpromee-secured by or
anic lawn {
10 come to Rutland County, the g Free
Democracy" of Rutland County met in
onvention here, July 4th, 1850. During
he proceedings John Cain, editor of the I
resent Rutland Courier, moved the ap- t
ointment of committee on resolutions.
nd was himself appointed on such com
ittee. This committee reported the fol- y
wing among others:
Resotnsd, That the Free Democracy d
e very dlstingushable from the other
'lltlcai organizations OF our country. in @
at the former dlsregarding arbttyaru n
trty discipline heed well their moral Oh z
cations. =
Resolued, That however each or anv of +
e political parties of the day NAV here IL
fore have been divided on the question
slavery, we, the Free Democracy of
ntland County, pledge ourselves, each to d'
e other, 10 use all constitutional means CT
prohibit the extension of slavery. and CO
introduction into the territories of these
nited States now free from this great
il.
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