Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-09-24

ion in all measures necessary to put II
Town. All those who sympathize with
aim in these views will naturally rejoice
10 his election and IN the defeat Of MIR.
Woodbury., who was supported by the
Democrats as peace man; and if any
Of the latter class are disposed TO regard
their defeat as mot much of shower"
why just let them float along and say moth
ing about it, !
PERSISTENT FANATIcIsM. 1t is won
derful how pertinaclously the people of
East Tennessee persist in agitating the
question of slavery. They seem, indeed,
to delight, rather than otherwise, in their
newly obtained freedom Of writing and
speaking, Thus writer in the Nashville
Union uses this violent language:
Menmay say what they please and
form whatever theories their fancies, their |
interests or their prejudices and passions |
may dictate, but negro slavery is gone.
The first gun fired in its interest doomed
1t forever The man that don't see this
is blind to passing events, or given over
to self delusion. With such men | have
no argument. 1t is useless to argue with
them. | speak not of what ought to be
or ought not to be on this subject. | ac-
cept the fact as one fixed and certain,
which no opinion or desire of mine can
alter. To the Shareholder | believe Its
destruction is an act of retributive justice
visited upon him for his many crimes, and
especially the crime of rebellion. What
will be its effects upon the liberated negro
himself and upon the free white man, de-
ponds upon the use made of the event.
| That to Tennessee negro slavery has been
an unmitigated curse have not the shad-
ow of a doubt.
With Andrew Johnston declaring him
self an abolitonist, the public journals
speaking out against the slave system,
the people moving in favor of free labor
and free soil, Tennessee may be counted
as fairly entered on the road to freedom
and true civilization. Post.
A gentleman who has spent the past
year in the South, and who left Richmond
about ten days ago, has furnished the fol-
lowing items of information to the New
York Herald. 1t is scarcely necessary to
say that we take no stock IN the idea that
the South would combine with the North
to drive the Frenchmen into the ocean.
The rebels would unite with Frenchmen
anywhere, or with the hosts of Belial to
drive the sLincolnites'' into the "burning
lake" if they could:
"Singular as it may appear, the feeling
of the Southern people is decidedly against
the occupation of Mexico by the French.
Public men at public meetings do not hes
itate to deneunce in the strongest terms
the prospect of an empire being establish
ed on this continent. They also say that
if the United States would consent to a
cessation of hostilties the army of the
South would combine with that of the
North and drive the Frenchmen into eth
er the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean. They
do not desire, and will not submit, to
Frenchmen being upon American soil or
the French Emperor having anything to
say in the affairs of this continent, and
and fear that his designs are not upon
Mexico only, but also upon Texas and
Louisiana.
The people of the South, he says, are
as one man in their opinion of and love
for General Lee, the commander of their
Virginia army. They consider him with
out an equal anywhere, and believe that
when he commands, victory is certain
They will not listen TO his army being
reduced on the contrary, they are unanl-
nous IN desiring it kept up to full num-
bers and would rather sustain defeat
elsewhere than see their favorite suffer 3
reduction in bis command. When the
report was in circulation that he had re.
signed on account of some difficulty with
JEFF. Davis the excitement was most in
tense throughout rebeldom. The people
declared he should not resign; they would
rather part with a thousand Presidents
than lose the services of General Lee
The report of his. being superseded
by General Johnston is without fcunda
ton.
The middle and poorer classes and tht
majority of the soldiers in the rebel army
do not hesitate to say, in the most public
manner, that if they felt assured of thei
property being respected they would wish
J for peaae tomorrow. They say if the.
could come back under the cid Constitu
). ton of the United States and that OF thef
: state governments they would cease to CIR
) war and demand peace. The farce of thu
independence of the Southern Confederac,,
is given up by thenl--they are not fight
ing for it, but for their property. Ih'
{ latter secured to them, they cease to be
come enemies, ana would, by their sad ex
perience of the last three years, be NOR
united than ever"