Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-07

| Hcnt, lllll you NONlu DC always ana Ol
necessity defeated; that your would
never know how to handle musket
that recruiting would become impracti,
cable; that your loans would not be
taken that YOU would become bank.
rupt that riots would ravage your cit
les that your Government would be
overthrow, You have given To all these
oracles the simplest and best answer
! You will reply in the same manner to
those who assert that the re-establish-
ment of the Union is impossible.
What seems really impossible is not to
restore TIE UaioA Whore draw the line
between North and South hom mann
tain between them a state OF Peace, or
even of truce? How shall Slavery and
Liberty live side by side 2 How, more
over restrain the South from European
protectoates and by what means arrest
the frighttul consequences of such pro-
tectorates Geographically, morally,
politically, separation would create an
unnatural situation, situation violent
and hazardous where each would live,
arms in hand, waiting for the hour of
conflict.
Ill.
Courage You have before you one of
the most noble works the most sublime
which can be accomplished here below
work in the success of which we are
as interested as yourselves work the
success of which will be the honor and
the consolation of our time.
This generation will have seen nothing
more grand than the Abolition of Slavery
Gn destroying it with you, you destroy
it everywhere), and the energetic upris-
ing of people which in the midst of its
growing prosperity was visibly sinking
under the weight of the tyranny of the
South, the completely of the north, obi
Gus laws and compromises.
Now at the cost of immense sacrifices,
you have stood up against the evil; you
have chosen rather to pour out your
blood and your dollars than to descend
further the slope of degradation, where
rich, united, powerful, you We're sure to
lose that which is far nobler than wealth,
or union, or power.
Well Europe begins to understand,
willingly or unwillingly, what you have
done. In France, in England, every
where your cause gains ground, and be
it said for the honor of the nineteenth cen
fury, the obstacle which our ill-will and
our evil passions could not overcome,
the obstacle which the intrigues of the
South could not surmount, is an idea-a
principle Hatred of slavery has been
your champion in the Old World A
poor champion seemingly Laughed at,
scorned, ii seems weak and lonely. But
what matters it, ere the account be
closed principles will stand for some
thing, and conscience in all human
affairs, will have the last word.
This, gentlemen is what we would say
to YOU in the name of all who with us,
and better than ourselves, defend your
cause in Europe Your words have
cheered us may ours in turn cheer you
You have yet to cross many a dark
valley. More than once the impossibility
of success will be demonstrated TO you
more than once, in the face of some
military check or political difficulty, the
cry will be raised that all is lost. What
matters it to you? Strengthen your
cause daily by daily making it more
tuSl, anu lGdE iub-tiNlI IL al wv apoNN'
We love TO contemplate in hope the
noble future which seems to strengthen
itself before you. The day you emerge
at last from the anguish of civil war, and
you will surely come out freed from the
odious institution which corrupted your
public manners, and degraded your do.
nestle as well as your foreign policy
that day your whole country, South as
well as North, and the South perhaps
more fully than the North, will enter
upon wholly new prosperity. Euro
pean emigration will hasten toward youl
ports, and will learn the road to those
whom, until now, it has feared to APP
proach. Cultivation, now abandoned
will renew its yield. Liberty-for these
are her miracles-will revivify by hel
touch the soil which slavery had render
ed barren. .....
Then there will be born unto you 8
greatness n6bler and more stable than
the old, for in this greatness there will
be no sacrifice of Justice