Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-07-21
RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, JULY Is, 1864.

Tram PRrNoIpLRs.-T Round Table,
sn able journal published in New York,
independent in politics, says; "a ques-
t,op of principles is always secondary
consideration In the calculations OF mere
noliticians. The struggle In the demo-
cratic party can hardly be called one of
principles, though an appeal VIII be
made to the public to endorse certain
cardinal principles in the election of a
democratic President. What the party
Is after is success.
We have already spoken Of the fact
that the democratic party, so called, are
without principles, and that they have
been anxiously waiting for the Chicago
Convention, and for something to turn
M" that they may know what princi-
ples to profess. This is true generally,
but one exception should be made. The
democrats in Congress, by their action
upon the proposed amendment to the
constitution abolishing slavery, have
raised distinct issue upon that point
and have committed their party TO a
policy that alone shuts out every hope
of the success which the Round Table
says is all they are after. The people
have decreed that slavery, the cause of
the terrible sacrifices and sufferings of
this war shall not survive il; that
none of the virus shall be left in
the body polite to manifest itself here
after through other internal treasons
and rebellions. The passage of the pro-
posed amendment through Congress
would not alone have given it validity,
but would have placed it in the hands
Of the people to be dealt with as they
should see fit. These democratic Con-
gressmen refused to grant to the people
the opportunity to wipe out the ac-
cursed institution now and forever, but
interfered to save it to traitors and reb-
els They have committed the party,
then, to ono principle" in the coming
presidential campaign-a principle
Of active pro,slaveryism, principle
which will hang like milestone about
it's neck, principle which will inevita-
bly, sink it to political perdition.--
Nothing could show more plainly the
infatuation of the copperhead leaders,
than their blindness to the palpable fact,
that after the last three years terrible
experience of the devilish effects of hui
man slavery, the loyal people of this
country will brook no compromise
with 1t.
Shall the states, in the present condi-
ton of national affairs, be permitted to
vote upon an amendment to the federal
constitution, abolishing slavery? The
democratic Congressman say no, and in
saying it they have sounded the knell
OF death to their party in the coming
political contest, as surely as the time
shall come for the people to pronounce
their verdict at the ballot box.
PRICE or GoLD.-As sample of the
way in which spectators run up the
price of gold, in New York, the Roches
ter Democrat is enabled to state, on the
authority of q gentleman who was in
Wall street ut the time, that on one of
the days when the precious metal was
quoted at go and over, gentlemen
who had $4,000 in coin to sell were I'M
successful in obtaining an offer Of 200
for it! The quotations were controlled
by political schemers who would trans
fer $40 to $50 in coin at time, back
ward and forward, settling the price be-
tween them, and then cause the rate to
be telegraphed over the country as the
true value of gold as compared with
currency.
The Hartford Post says:
A few days ago the cashier Of one of
our banks went to New York with sew
eral thousand dollars in gold to sell for
the benefit of the owners thereof The
honest brokers of Gotham had their bull
letins out announcing that the shining
ore was worth 235. Many of these
worthy men were called upon, but none
would offer above 2.10, and didn't want
to buy at that They had "just bought
all they wanted" or something of that
sort. These brokers are good men, and
as Iago says, Honest My lord"
The HAPPY FAMrLY.-The democratic
conventions have mustered up courage
and begun passing resolutions, The re-
suit is what might have been expected.
For example:
The State convention of Indiana could