Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-09-22
RUTLAND THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER %, 1864

| last slave wrenched from you by stern
| military rule as South America and
| Mexico were, or by the vindictive decree
or universal emancipation, which may
reasonably be expected to follow?
But what have we to gain by this pro-
posed change of our relation TO the gen
eral government We have always had
the control of it, and can yet, IL we re-
main in it, aud are united as we have
been. We have had majority Of the
Presidents chosen from the South, as
well as the control and management of
most of those chosen from the North
We have had Sixty years of Southern
Presidents TO their twenty four, thus
controlling the Executive department.
SO Of the Judges of the Supreme Court,
we have had eighteen fiom the South,
and but eleven from the North. Al
though nearly four-fifths of the judicial
business has arisen in the free States, vet
q majority of the Court has always been
from the South. This we have required
so As to guard against any interpreta-
tion of the Constitution unfavorable TO
US. In like manner we have been equal
ly watchful TO guard our interests in the
vi EQNtihHltub. III
choosing the presiding Presidents (pro
tenn of the Senate, we have had twenty
four TO their eleven. Speakers of the
House we have. had tweuty-three and
they twelve. While the majority of
representatives, from their greater pop
ulation, have always been from the
North, yet we have so generally secured
the Speaker because he to great ex-
tent, shapes and controls the legisla.
tion of the country.
Nor have we had less control in every
other department Of the general govern
ment. OF Attorney Generals we have
had fourteen while the North have had
but five, OF Foreign Ministers we have
had eighty six, and they have had but
htty-tour. While three fourths of the
business wAich demands diplomatic
agents abroad is clearly from the free
States, from their greater commercial in
terest, yet we have had the principal EN-
basies, so as TO secure the worlds mar
kets for our cotton, tobacco and sugar
ON the best possible terms. We have
had vast majority of the higher Off
GERS of both army and navy, while
larger proportion of the soldiers and
sailors were drawn from the North
Equally so of clerks, auditors and comp
trollers tllling the Executive depart
ments; the record shows for the last fifty
years that of the three Thousand thus
employed, we have had more than two
thirds of the same, while we have but
third of the white population of the
republic. Again. look at another item,
in which we have great and vita. in
terest, that of revenue, or means of sup
porting government. From official doc
uments we learn that q fraction over
three-fourths of the revenue collected
for the support of government has uni
| formly been raised from the North
Pause now while you can, and contem-
plate carefully aud 'candidly these i'm
| portant items. Leaving out of view for
the present the countless millions of dol
lars you must expend in war with the
| North, with tens of thousands Of your
| sons and brothers slain in battle, and Of
| fered up as sacrifices upon the affairs Of
| your ambition--and for what 7 1t is for
| the overthrow of the American Govern
| ment, established by our common snces-
try, cemented and built up by their
| sweat and blood, and founded on the
broad principles of right, justice and hui
manity ? And as such, | must declare
here, as have often done before, and
which has been repeated by the greatest
and wisest of statesmen and patriots in
this and other lands, that it is the best
and freest government, the most equal
in its rights, the most just in its decis-
ions, the most lenient in its measures,
and the most inspiring ia its principles
to elevate the race of man that the sun
ever shone upon. Now, for you TO at
tempt to overthrow such a Government
as this unassailed, is the hight of mad
ness, folly and wickedness."