Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25

Ice or ulSSentlOn WOuiu secure tnelI
ends-but single chance remains, and
that is the rssM Of our nert election fer
President. fla democrat succeeds to Mr..
Lincoln, they profess to feel sure of ne
gotiations, and sure of their confederacy,
They believe democrat will be elect
ed. In Mr.. Lliicolns reelection they
see only subjugation, humiliation, for
the war must then continue, and con-
tlnuance is their failure and ruin.
In military affairs IL Is an excellent
rule never to do what the enemy desires
lis it not equally true in politics
Certain 1t is that the ontg remaining hope
Of the South lies IN Mr.. Lincolns defeat.
Now, / am not enough of a politician
to know whether the election of dem
ocrat can result as favorably TO the
South as it anticipates. The wish alone
may be the parent of their belief. But,
assured all who expressed that belief,
that the North, as u mass, is as uni
ted as the South-that no democrat
could be elected on peace platform
and that any President who would in
augurate any measure leading to peace
on the basis of Southern independence,
would be promptly hung, by loyal ac-
clamation, to the lamp posts in front of
his own presidential mansion,
However that may be, If we are but
true ourselves there can be but one re-
suit. What zoe now need is me,'--only men
not substitutes or hirelings who go
forth for any motive but the ,country's
good, and produce but little hey ond de-
| preciating our armies,-but MEN,-such
as really constitute the state, and boast
| of being freemen and the sons of free
men. If these fail to support their coun-
try's cause in her hour of peril, they are
unworthy of continuing freemen, and
should blush ever to exercise freeman's
privileges.
But if bounties must be paid, let it be
in Southern land, not in Northern gold !;
and armies of emigrants, whose sons
may aspire to even the rule of the ma
ton, will cross the seas to win the
broad acres that disloyalty has forfeited
to the state.
To every intelligent soldier who has
fought through all those indecisive cam
paigns on almost numberless indecisive
fields, the question constantly arises,
with touching force, why we do not
overwhelm our enemies
Tens of thousands of lives are lost
because our array of strength is so dis
proportionably less than that against
which we battle. Everywhere we meet
on nearly equal terms, where we might
well have four to one. The cost to US
in blood and treasure, of prolonged
war, can hardly be foreseen-tbe econo-
10 M pit Of ~.
glorious North should put forth.
The south will fight as long as the
struggle is equal; 1t wM submit to such
preponderance as we should show in
every field.
Glance at the summers campaigns.-
If Sherman had but $4,000 or $4,000
more men near, the South would be lost
because Hood would be annihilated. If
Meade had moved in the spring with re-
serves Of $4,000 to 100000 men, Lee
would have been hopelessly crushed.
Even at this moment third column of
10000 to $4,000 rightly moved, would
give unopposed blows to the confedera-
cy from which she could never rise.
What folly then to struggle on in this
way, when we can send to the field five
times the force already there. What
weakness to think that we cannot con-
quer the South. Behind the James only
boys and old men are to be seen, while
here men buy and sell as in the olGen
days of quiet, and regiments of able
bodied citizens crowd the streets of our |
cities.
There is but one course consistent |
with safety or honor. Let the people |
awake to sense of their dignity and |
strength, and a few months of compare
lively trifling exertion, of such effort as
alone is worthy of the great work-and !
the rebellion will crumble before us.
Fill this draft promptly and willingly,
with good and true men; send a few
spare thousands over rather than under
the call, and the summer sun of 1866
will shine upon a regenerated land.
There are some who speak of peace
OF all Yankees the Southron most scorns
those who do not fight, but are glad
enough to employ them as they do their
slaves, to perform their dirty work.
Peace for the South will be sweet in
Iced; for US, except through southern
;ubjugation, but anarchy and war for
ever. The Pacific, the Western, the
Eastern States would at once fall asMl-
der. The South would be dominant, and
The people of the North would deserve
to be driven a-field under negro over
seers, to hoe corn and cotton for south
ern masters.
But no faint-hearted or short-sighted
policy can set aside the eternal decree of
he Almighty, who has planted no lines
If disunion between the Atlantic and
he Western deserts-between the great
axes and the Gulf of Mexico-that sig
lify His will that we should be sepa-
ated; and unless so separated, peace is
delusion, and it's advocacy a treason
gainst the wisest and hottest interests
# our country.
1t has been with trust that renewed |
lope and vigor might be given, when
igor and hope are necdful, that have ,
written, and you have my consent to {
lsing this as you please; and am,
Very truly yours, s&
T. SEYMOUR,
Brig. Gen. U. s. Vols.
To W. E. DODGE, Jr., New York.
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