Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-13

JefI, Davis, Appeal.

10 which Rebellion is reduced, 1t has
reached that point where it becomes ne
cessary for its Chief TO issue a desperate
appeal to the passions of Its dlshearIenea
soldiers, founded chiefly upon what ne
knows to be most outrageous and bare
faced fasehood. He tells them that TINS
war TO maintain the Union is waged by
the North with malignant rage and afro
cious cruelty, for the destruction OF their
homes and the determination OF themselves,
their wives and children; that no alterna-
tive is left them but to struggle again for
victory or submit to slavery and utter
ruin. With such mendacous argument,
he exhorts the deluded men who have been
fighting IN a suicidal cause, to rally once
more to resist the "wretches whose afro
cious cruelties have stamped inflmy upon
their government and who come to IN
cite servile instruction, light the fires OF IN
cendiaTsm, and give loose to the vilest pas
sions of an inferior race, "hltherto doclIe
and contented"! That persistence ito
the last ditch,n in their devihsh en-
deavors to destroy this Union, Is neces-
sity with JEFF. DAVIS and his fellow con-
spirators, is readily seen and hence his
last desperate outcry for help. How long,
by such persistent lying, he can conceal
from the masses of the South, the fact that
they have only to slough off their present
leaders and reasonable surroundings, lay
down their arms, and return to their alle-
glance to the Union, in order to enjoy
peace and all the rights Of citizens OF a
free government, is the question we be-
heve the time is now short.
The occasion for this urgent appeal by
Jeff. Davis, is evident enough. We know
that the rebel armies lost over third O
their number, including paroled prisoners
, during the last month. We learn from
southern journals that the rebel prisoners
captured and paroed at Vlcksburg, are
in great measure scattered and lost, anc
$ the Western and Southwestern Conteder
ate forces, are being rapidly diminished
bv desertions. The assertions from th'
Il army of Lee during his northern ''lnva
sjon,n were numerous; and many reoe
prisoners now in our hands, are asking to
Co.'S the oath of allegiance. Only four state
= and part Of another are left, since tn
grand Union success of the month O
July, under their military control. III
fall of Charleston they are already mourn
ing in anticipation Mobile is threatened
N her defences are weak and the rebels haN
}, not the means of protecting her; and
l. peace and Union feeling is being deve
), oped in Secessia itself, if we may judg
N from the cutlery of the rebel papers again
ID southern {" reconstructionists." Und
~ such circumstances, JEFF Davis makes h
last grand effort for self preservation, by
er attempted wholesale CONSUMPTION of evel
III III man in the South capable of bearing arm
re-, followed up by this proclamation to
s. uSoldiers of the Confederate States
D. which of itself reveals that great numbe
# of them are now ''absent from their post
A. and that his "countrymen' are not haste
w. ing to the camps with anything like sat
rv factory alacrlty.
tt We give the proclamation in full belo
To the Soldiers of the Confederate State
N After more than two years of warf@
OF scarcely equaled in the number, mag
Ted tude and fearful carnage of its battles
nd warfare in which your courage and fol
a tude have illustrated your country, a
&C attracted not only gratitude at home,
mt admiration abroad your enemies contr
a struggle in which our final triumph M
lily be inevitable Unduly elated with tn
recent successes, they imagine that tenn
rary reverses can quell your spirit
ual shake your determination and they
the now gathering heavy masses for gene
les invasion. in the vain hope that by d
ork perate effort success may at length
ioi reached.
mt You know too we'll, my countrym
of what they mean by success. Their ma
nant rage aims at nothing less than
ia determination of yourselves, your WI
and children. They seek to destroy W
lew thew cannot plumber. They propose
the spoils of victory that your homes s.
He be partitioned among the wretches WI
atrocious crueltes have stamped lnta
rey, on their Government. They design to
cite servile instruction and light the
80 of incendiarism whenever they can re
w. your homes, and they debanch the mi
en- en- or race hitherto docile and contented
s o.n promising indulgence of the vilest pass
; ;cb as the price of treachery. Conscious
, ,.a their inability to prevail by legltln
L.