Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-02-05

TREASON IN THE ARMY.-The Troy Wing
day or two since published a portion Of
letter purporting to be written by Vermont
er, who is an officer in the army to which the
Troy Times replies in so truthful a manner
that we cannot refrain from transferring the
remarks to our columns.
The correspondent of the Wing declares
that " the war is becoming unpopular in the
army" that the time of the 100000 men will
expire about the first Of May and that the ar
my cannot be filed up by drafting, that the
men will never light with negroes, &C., &c
The Times replies
Whoever that officer may be, he is a trait
or to the cause he pretenas to serve, and de-
serving Of something more severe and emphat-
ic than simple reprimand. If the war is be-
coming unpopular with any portion of the
army, il because disloyal partisans at home
and sneaking villains in the camp have striven
to corrupt the minds of soldiers with false
opinions in reference to its origin and objects,
and to lead them to believe tLat they are need
lessy kept in service for the aggrandzement
of ambitious leaders. Instead o. it being true
that the time Of three hundred thousand men
will expire about the first of May, only some
fifty thousand, fragments of eightythree regi-
ments, are then to be discharged. If the army
cannot be 6lled by drafting, it VIII be because
a revolutionary resistance is interposed at the
North, such as was recently made in the coun-
ty of Ozaukee, Wis, which gave 'conserva-
tive majority of over one thousand. If the
men will not fight with negroes, provided they
re,+f fIo, E,.bf IL IL, IL.
are exceedingly foolish. Our revolutionary
fathers had no such scruples, and the best
blood of the times that tired mems souls ran
on the same fields with that which had flowed
in the veins of unadulterated blacks The re-
fined and chivalric gentry of the South, who
are no doubt regarded with peculiar alteration
by this 'oflcer of the Potomac Army are not
such ninnies in reference to the Niger bust
ness They are very glad to have their slaves
work in the trenches and handle artillery, and
do anything that can impart strength to their
arms, and impair those of the; Union. The
young gentlemen of Carolina and Alabama,
who have been nursed by black mammas,
don't revolt when asked to, fight with chat
tells And as for our soldiers, we believe the
assertion that they won't fight with this or that
class of men, to be the sheerest moonshne. If,
when our beaten and dispirited colvmns were
falling back from Fredericksburg, a division of
Congo Africans every mothers son of them
thick Tipped and ebon-skinned blackamoors-
had been marched to their support, they would
have been welcomed with deirium Of thank
full Joy. When men have disagreeabe ask
in hand, they are glad to get assistance in ac-
complishing it, and are not apt to be partcu-
lar as to the source from which it comes 1t
may be an open question whether negroes in
considerable numbers can be got to fight for
us, with Jeff Davis's threat of massacre hang
ing over them, and without protection from the
Government, but there is no room whatever
for the belief that the men will refuse to fight
with such allies.
- This officer of the Potomac whoever he
may be, is a betrayer of his trust, and dis
grace to the State from whose green hills so
many patriot sons have gone forth TO battle
have poisoned the minds of thousands of men,
and detached them from the support of the
Government. No man who-talks thus is fit to
have command of troops, OF should be trusted
within their lines
EI The Union men in Arkansas begin
to show themselves since the rebel defeats in
in that state. An enthusiastic Union demon
onstration occurred at Fayetteville on Tuesday
Over 1000 loyal citizens of Arkansas were
present Speeches were made b. DIR. John
son, prominent Union refugee, Col. Bishop of
the lst Arkansas cavalry, and others. Fif-
teen home guard companies were organized,
and were to be accounted as Arkansas militia.
Hundreds OF citizens signed a petition to Con-