Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-09-10

pIERs. Judging from the speeches OF
George f. Pugh made in the present can
VS. ohio, he remains good specimen
of the Buckeye Copperhead. Here is an
exact from one Of them;
orfectly obvious that Mr., Lin
col. esire TO restore the Union,
| say a,,.y. He does not wish
to restore 40 Union he would not restore
it to-day if he could He is not in favor
of maintaining the Constitutions Of the |
United States, nor the Constitution of the |
States he is determined to constitute |
himself tyrant, an usurper, and despot |
to rule us, not by the Constitution, but by |
the strong arm Of military power. Talk
to me about your Union party it is an
unmitgated fraud of thebasest character
ANY man that is so deluded as to imagine
that Lincoln and his followers, (l mean
the leaders, mean to restore the Union,
has scarcely enough intelligence to be al
lowed to go at large, Laughter aud
cheers "=.....# .
The following is another equally ele-
CANT and truthful extract from the same
speech ..su
s. know we hear great deal about
the bravery of the negro, There are
stories told of them that exceed the adTen-
lures of Baron Munchausen, or the stories
of Sinbad and the sailor Nobody be-
heves them Everybody knows, at least
every lighting man knows, that the negro
won't fight. Non combatants, and those
that stand up in pulpits may do so, You
NAV do as they did at Port Hudson, put
a regiment of white men behind them and
drive them and let the enemy kill them be
cause they cannot get away, and you may
in that way inspire them with something
of the courage of despair, but | would not
give three cents for all the negroes the
government has raised or will raise. |
would undertake to whip them all with
one good solid regiment Of Democrats
raised in the counties of Mercer and
Augaize. Cheers. AS | said, the
American people are not to be fooled
with the bravery of negro regiments.
You might as well give jeff. Davis all
the arms that you put into their hands,
for be will take them all away from
you"
We suppose the testimony of those
generals who have had negro troops under
their command in battle,is as valuable and
Trustworthy as that of Pugh. Their OPP
portunitles of Judging are quite as good
Gen. Blunt, for instance, is regarded as
sighting man, yet he seems to be strange
" ignorant of the fact that negroes Won't
fight, notwithstanding Mr.. Pugh's asser-
ton to the contrary. In his official report
of the battle at Hovey Springs, Arkan-
sas according to our dispatches of day
before Yesterday, Gen. Blunt says the
LIST Kansas colored regiment particu
larry distinguished themselves. They
fought like veterans, and preserved the
line unbroken throughout the engagement
Their GOODNESS and bravery he neve
saw surpassed. They were in the hot
test of the fight, and opposed to Texal
troops twice their numbr whom the,
completely routed. The Goth Texas reg
iment, which fought against them, wen
into the fight with three hundred men ant
came out with only sixty.
The testimony of all other officers
whether of democratic antecedents o
otherwise, is to the same effect. Shall W
believe them, or the stay-at-home copper
heads, who knew beforehand all about it
Read again what President Lincol
saws in his letter to the Illinois Union Stat
Convention:
| know as fully as one can know tn
opinions of others, that some Of the con
manders OF our armies in the field VIII
have given US our most important victt
RES believe the emancipation policy an
the use of eolored troops constitute th
heaviest blows yet dealt to the rebellion
and that at least one of those importar
successes could not have been achieve
when it was but for the aid of black so
diers.
Among the commanders holding the:
views are some who never had any ATTN
tv with what is called "Abolitionsm' {
with Republican party politics." br
who hold them purely as military opinion
| submit their opinions as being entitle
to some weight against the objections oftt
urged that emancipation and arming Il
blacks are unwise as military measure
and were not adopted as such in GOO
faith.
You say that you will not fight to fr'
negroes. Some of them seem willing
fight for you--but no matter. Fight "
then, exclusively, to save the Union.
issued the Proclamation on purpose to a
you in saving the Union. Whenever Y
shall have conquered all resistance to Il
Union, if | shall urge you to contin'
fighting, it will be an apt time then f
you to declare you will not fight to fir
negroes. i thought thatin your strugg
for the Union, to whatever extent the n
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