Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-01-01
Jeff. Davis, Proclamation.

Jeff. Davis, Proclamation.
The Pope's bull against the Comet has
received very emphatic consideration on the
part of the perturbed Comet
Nine days after Gen. Banks assumed COM
mand at New Orleans, JEFF. Davis issued his
proclamation, and must have then known that
it would fall harmless upon Gen. Butler and
his subordinates." The part of the doc
ument relating1tol them seems therefore with
out practical significance. The proclaim
alton is doubtless called forth by the approach
Of the LIST of January, when the emancipation
proclamation Of President Lincoln is expected
to take effect, and to which it is intended as
countsrblast. JEFF. Davis, in view of the
fact that " the President of the United States
has, by public and official declarations, signi-
fed not only hit approval of the effort to excite
servile war with the Confederacy, but his in
tention to give aid and encouragement thereto,
if these independent States shall continue to
refuse submission to a foreign power after the
first of January ne1t," proposes in BRET, to
execute not only negro slaves who shall be
captured in arms against the rebellion, but also
all "white commissioned officers of the United
States found serving in company c0ith said
slaves" The sharpsst comment upon this,
we have seen, is contained in brief statement
of the Tribune, that the first battalion of col
ored men organized for this war was raised III
New Orleans, to fight on the side of the slave
holders rebellion, under the authority 4 Gov
Moore of Louisiana. 1t is law of civilized
warfare that shareholders and rebels alone may
arm and use negroes
The proclamation, says another exchange, is
an out-cropping of barbarism, constrained by
the fears of coming calamity, ana the desper-
January draws near, and with it the stern APP
plication of the policy announced in the Presi-
dents emancipation proclamation. Hitherto
that policy. among the rebels and their sympa-
thizers, has been sneered at, and treated with
affected contempt as bTutum tuLute,a But
the mask of Indifference drops at length, and
reveals the features of dismay and desperation
JEFF. DAVIS knows he is throwing behind him
all the laws of civilized warfare, and is pro-
posing system of organized murder, and
hence he exerts all his ingenuity to fabrcate
list of provocations which may blind the eyes
of bis admirers in Europe. But wherever
there is the opportunity or the disposition to
comprehend the facts of the case, his atrocty
will stand in its unredeemed hdeousness, and
will surely work out its swift retrlbution.
THE ELECTIONS AGAIN. The Tribune
again gives tabular statement of the official
vote of the several Iowa. states which have held
elections IN 1862 also statement OF the
votes of soldiers for the several states Of which
returns have been received, and deduces there
from statement of what the result Of the cleo
tons would have been had the volunteers from
all the states been permitted to vote. The
official maiorities in the several states we have
already given-footing up as follows: Admin
istration, 127 438, and Opposition 1902.
The returns OF soldiers votes so far as received,
viz: for Pennsylvania in 1861 and 1862, and
Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin for 1862 show
a total of 36,043 Republican Union, to 9,Gl4
Democratic Estimating the number Of voters
in the army and away from home on army
business at only 100000, and giving he De-
mocracy one-fourth of these, though the above
figures woul1 enttle them to less, and thu
Tribune after giving the majorities for each
ia tie, arrives at the following general result:
1850 1859.
Republican Union vote 1,s6O,865 l,909,048
Democratic vote, l,724, lO6 1881 1888
Republican gain in 1862, 3o,lo3
Democratic loss in 1862, l42, Z73
Republican majority in 1860, 136,759
Repub. and Union majority in 1862, 327 ,2l5
Republican gain on majority, l90,456
And adds but one loyal State could have
possibly given Democratic majority--New
Jersey and she tried to go both ways at the
Presidential election. .. $50.