Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-09-22

| thlru OF year utIoIc any new auihihis-
tration can take its place, The inter
val will be one of hope and confidence
for the rebels, and OF exutatlon for their
allies in the loyal states In the West
ern states armed preparations have al
ready been made by the disciples and
advocates of secession, to follow the eX-
ample of the South and sever the West
| from the Federal Union. The success OF
| the Chicago programme IA ao,c.-j' q
| will be the signal for carrying these de-
| signs into execution, and the 4th Of
March will dawn upon new Western
COniederacy, aiming ut Independence,
delying the power OF the national arms,
and co operating with the slave power
of the Southern states in blotting from
existence the free Republic of the West
ern world.
We call upon the people to crush all
these schemes, and 10 brand their au-
thors and allies with their lasting re-
probation. We call upon them to sup
port the Government, to quell the rebel.
lion, 10 defend and preserve the Union.
We call upon them TO stand by the
President, who, under circumstances of
unparalleled difficulty, has welded the
power of the nation with unfaltering
courage and fidelity, with integrity
which even calumny has not dared TO
impeach, and with wisdom and pru-
dence, upon which success Is even now
stamping the surest and the final seal.
His election will proclaim to the world
the unaltered and unalterable determin-
alton of the American people To quell
81 nd tho linton
will strike down forever the false hopes
and expectations of the rebel govern
lnent, and proclaim to the people of the
rebel states that their only hope of peace
lies in abandoning their hostility to the
government and resuming their allie
glance to the Constitution and laws of
the United States.
We call upon the Union Committees
and the Union Leagues, and upon all
loyal associations in every state, county
and town, to perfect their organizations;
to infuse fresh vigor and activity into
their operations; to canvass carefully
and promptly their respective districts;
to circulate documents and newspapers
containing just and forcible eXpositions
of the merits of our cause; to combat
by asSembiages Of the people in public
meetings, by public speeches, by con
versation, by letters and personal ap-
peals, and in all justand proper modeD,
the deceptive and periIous sophistries
of the agents and political allies of the
rebellion. Let them be on their guard
against the arts OF corruption ana of
intrigue which will be brought with I'M
scrupulous desperation to bear upon
them. The rebel government, and those
Foreign Powers most deeply interested
in our destruction, could well afford to
spend millions in oyerthrowing this ad
minstration AID placing in power the
nominees and representatives Of the
Chicago Convention.
The skies are bright and full of prom
ise The iron hearted citizen soldiers of
the Republic march with steady step
and untaltering purpose 10 speedy and
glorious victory. The heart of the people
beats true to the Union. Every triumph
of the Union arms over the rebel troops
arouses afresh The courage and conf
dence of Union men, and chills the heart
and decimates the ranks of the submits
sion secessionists represented at Chica-
go. A Union victory in November will
end the long and laborious strife. 1t
will paralyze the arm of the rebellion
1t will disperse its armies, destroy the
hope by which the despotism at Rich
mond now holds its subjects in bondage,
release the people of the Southern States
from their enforced disloyalty, and give
them again the blessings OF self gov
eminent within the Union and under
the protecting constitution and flag of
the United States. 1t will enable our
own Government to exchange the weap-
ons of war for the counselS of peace,
to relax the stern control over public
action and public speech which state
of war renders unavoidable, to restore
our financial system, to dissolve all
military courts, and hand over again
to the civil tribunals of justice the pun
ishment of crime and the preservation
of public order, and to restore to their
flresideS and their homes, clothed with
honors to be held in everlasting remem-
brance, that great army of our citizen
soldiers who have barred their breasts
against armed rebellion, and won the
I imperishable renown of saving the glo-
rious Union for which their fathers and
brothers died.
Signed by the committee,
HENRY J. RAYMOND, Chairman,
New York.
SAMUEL F. HERsEY, Maine.
JoHs B. CLAl KE, New Hampshire.
ABRAHAM d. GARDNER, Vermont.
WV. CLAFLN, Massachusetts,.
THo's q. TURNER, Rhode Island.
N. d. SPERRY, Connecticut.
MARcUs L. WARD, New Jersey.
s. A. PURvIANcp, Pennsylvania.
NATH'L B. SaiTHERs, Delaware.
ii. W. HoPFLAED, Maryland.
s. III. BOYD, Missouri.
q. Il. SgNrBR, Ohio.
J. D. DEGREES, Indiana.
BURTON G. Cook, Illinois.
MARSH GIDpISGs, Michigan.
s. JUDI, Wisconsin.
ID. b. STUBBs, Iowa.
| A. w. CAMPBELL, West Virginia.
JANBs III. LANE, Kansas.