Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-20
From the Daily of August i5.

AhS w. pow w N>,'J t''NN'
denounced the war for the defence and
maintenance Of the Union as an unholy,
murderous, unconstitutional and inierna!
crusade against Slavery, and have done
all within their small means by persistent
and malicious misrepresentation and false
hood to embarrass every effort looking to
the squelching of treason, would seem
now. since the recent Union successes and
the overthrow of all their croaking predic'
tons, endeavoring to crawl upon the edge
of a Union platform. If their repen-
lance were sincere, they should be vel
coined, but past experience does not war
rant the supposiuon.
An election recently occurred in Ken
lucky. AS our readers know, the candi-
dates for governor were Bramlette and
Wickhae. Just before the election the
New York World, the chief among the
copperhead papers of the country, parad-
ed the ticket headed by Bramlette as Gre
publican" and contrastedit with that headed
by WickGfe, which it termed "Democrat-
CO Wickhffe is well known copper
head, like the New York World, and the
latter in its first grief and disappointment
at the result of the election, denounced it
as effected by "military terrorism" But
Bramlette's Union majority rolling up to
fifty or sixty thousand, together with the
decisive Union victories recently achieved,
has frightened those "peace" men; and
they now suddenly ''wheel about and
turn about" and claim Bramlette's election
as victory for them. Col. Bramlette is
Union man, first, last, all the time,
above all things, aad "wlthout an if' or a
butt He believes ina vigorous prose-
cution of the war for the crushing out of
treason and rebellion; and this is just
where he was at issue with Wickhfe, the
copperhead-democratic candidate just
where he was at issue with the World
and its followers, before the election, and
where he Is really at issue with them now,
however much they endeavor for the time,
under the moral terrorism" of recent VIC
tories, to convince decent people that they
are Union men of the stamp of Colonel
Bramlette of Kentucky and finally this
issue is the issue between unconditional
loyalty and genuine patriotism on the one
hand, and-"copperheadism' on the other.
What the private views of the Union men
Of Kentucky may be upon the proclama-
ten of emancipation is of little conse-
quence, inasmuch as they subordinate
such questions to the grand duty of sup
porting the administration in the prosecu-
ton of the war, with all the means in their
power.
To show the difference between the
views of Col. Bramlette and of those cop
perheads who are now protesting to re-
pudiate Wickliffe and claim to be on the
same platform with Bramlette, it is only
necessary to give the following extracts
from speech of the latter, made during
the recent Kentucky canvass. What he
says of the employment of negro troops,
for example, we hardly think will be found
to tally particularly well with what these
sopperhead papers have had to say upon
the same subject:
"You object, he said, to negro soldiers.
Who began this business ? Who raised
the first negro regiment? Did Lincoln ?
Don't you know that in the beginning of
this strife, in New Orleans, they heralded
abroad that they had already organized
two negro regiments to fight the Yankees
with ? Don't you know that the first act
in the Tennessee rebel legislature was to
authorize the organization Of free negro
regiments ? Don't you know it to be fact
furthermore, that they have regiments of
Indians in their service, to tomahawk and
scalp our women and children and yet
not one of you here assembled, l will ven
ture to say, have heard these constitutional
Union gentlemen object to their using ne
gro regiments TO fight us with. You never
heard one of them object to enlisting In
dams against us. Why is it that you
have grown so terribly repugnant to negro
aid ? You are willing it should be en-
ployed against us, but now that it is being
employed to help us you are terribly dis
turbed. The reason seems irresistible
that then they were fighting on the side
you were anxious should win but as soon
as they were employed against that side
you object. Applause.
81 am for the Constitution framed by
Washington aud his compeers-those good
and great men who were touched with
more than ordinary wisdom-at all haz
ards and at all expense. Are you for it
Alas | fear that you are for the Constitu-
ton and Union of the Southern Confeder-
acy, for every means and measure that
YOU object to being used by the Federal