Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-07-21
schuxIcr Cslfax--Hi. Creed.

There Il no nice hair.splitting or
squeamishness about Speaker Colax.-
He says what he means, fully and frank
ly, In good honest English, On the 18th
of June he wrote home TO Indiana, as
senting to be u candidate for pnomina-
ton to Congress, which has since been
unanimously given him, and that there
might be no doubt as to his opinions, he
defined them thus:
81 Justify the administration in It's
denial TO suspected traitors and their
abettors of the writ of habeas corpus
for, as | read the constitution, this was
the express intent of its trainers, when,
in time of instruction the public safety
required 1t. / justify it, also, in what
Is denounced by its enemies as 'arbitra-
ry arrests; and only regret that any
thus arrested, against whom there
seemed reasonable suspicion, like Mar
shall Kane and others, were discharged
without trial. justify q Butler in dar
ing TO hang traitor in New Orleans,
and Burnside in arresting an intluen-
tial politician for publicly defying and
splitting on q military order, deemed es-
sential for the nations cause. hearth
ly approve the presidents emancipation
proclamation, and his solemn declara-
ton that no slave of any state, whether
on the border or further SOUTH who
fights for his country, shall ever wear
the chains of bondage. l am for the
most vigorous eXertions to reinforce
our armies by the largest possible addi-
tion of colored troops; and only regret
that the persistent opposition TO them
by the enemies of the administration,
their congressman and their presses, has
retarded their organization; when, had
they unitedly aided in the work and en-
couraged it, we might have had ere now,
100000 of such soldiers, instead Of 1907
600, and avoided all impending drafts,
l indorse most heartily the policy of
confscating the property of rebels vol
UNFAIRLY in arms against their country
and who, guiltier than the parrcide,
seek to involve country and citizen
alike in q common destruction. ! am
for striking at slavery, the cause of all
our woes and the progenitor of this gi-
gantic rebellion with every power UNI
der our control-war power of the ar
my, blC Ut ioNOl VI N1N nav oiN'
the proclamation power of the presi-
dent; and for its final and irrevOcable
extirpation from the land, by an amend
ment to the constitution which shall
make that instrument as we'll as the re-
public itself, forever free; and thus al
so, obey the divine injunction, TO break
every yoke and let the oppressed &C
free" l am against treason wheth.
er it rears its hideous form in
front of our patriotic and gallant ar.
mics, or under the roof of our capital
in the streets of New York, or within
the borders of Indiana; and / am
against the severance Of the Union by
the sword of rebellion, by a disgraCefuI
compromise, or base surrender of the
sacred cause in which so many martyrs
for the right have so sadly and yet SO
bravely fallen. And, to sum up, I am
for Abraham Lincoln-the pilot who
shrank not in the darkest hour--and
for Andrew Johnson faithful among
the faithless found-for the highest of.
fees in the nations gift, of which they
are each SO worthy"