Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-11-25
New Schemes of Cancellation.


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e New Schemes of Cancellation.
Under this head we publish an excel>
lent article from the Springfield Repub-
lican which takes strong grounds against
the proposition of Gen. Butler-made by
him in a recent glorifcation speech at
New York-to make one more offer of
amnesty to the rebels, the leaders iuclu-
ded, giving them the privilege of return
ing to the Union by given period, say
January 8Ib, with a free pardon, or in
default thereof to visit them with "de-
vastaton dire" We wish to enter our
protest, feeble though it may be, against
any such offer; and the president, con-
gress and the nation will be belittled by
acting upon the policy of Gen. Butler
We have 40 objection to a return of the
rebels TO the Union, but we wish to have
them do so on the basis Of former proc
lamations from the president; we object
10 any more official coaxing, fatterng, or
teasing a people who have heretofore
spurned every offer made them, looking
to such q return. No matter what dlsas-
tiers they have encountered, nor to what
desperate straits they have been driven,
thei. leaders and their press have ever
presented to US the same unJroken will,
hurling defiance and insulting taunts into
our teeth at each added repulSe to their
arms. or what use then is il to hold out
the olive branch to such desperadoes 7
What good would come Of it? When
one is going TO forgive an enemy he de-
sires to see some evidence of sorrow and
contrtion for past grievances, SO that he
may be assured of bis pardon not falling
upon barren soil, upon deaf ears. Just
so stand our little differences with the re-
bells. When the government sees dis
position on the part Of the rebel leaders
to return to their allegiance to the old flag
when they have brought forth fruits
meet for repentance and have asked for
terms, it will then be time for US TO confer
with them in regard to such return, but
until that time does arrive the less we
say about forgiving those who have thus
far proved an even match for US the bet
ter we shall appear before the world, and
the more will the rebels themselves re-
spect US but as the case now stands they
must have a very mean opinion Of US on
that point, however much they may ad.
mire US in others. When the people are
ready to return--as many Of them would
if they could-they perfectly understand
that we are ready to receive them with
open arms, and that we will be but too
glad to kill the fatted calf in jabilulon
over the re .uoion, and they will all be
ready to return as soon as the spirit and
the power Of their tyrauts is broken, and
they are compelled to Zee for their lives
, before the deserved wrath Of the govern
r ment they have vainly endeavored to
overturn; but as long as the great body
Of the southern people is controlled and
bound hand and foot under the iron rule
of such men as Davis, Lee, and galaxy
of their co>traitors in the council and in
the field, it is worse than nonsense to talk
TO them in soft speech or honeyed phra>
ses. Paradoxical as it may seem, the
root of this rebellion is in its head, and
its head is in these men. When you get
rid of these men you quash the rebellion.
The people of the north have no accu-
mutation of i'll will laid up against the
people Of the south they have no store
Of wrongs to be redressed at some future
day neither have the southern people
tina! bitterness towards US that was man
. ifsst at the commencement Of the war !;
our proves on countless fields OF blood
have proved TO them that we are no mean
adversary there is now but little Ill feel>
ing between the people Of both sections,
and when the war ends there will be none.
Towards the leaders however there is a
deep rooted enmity, an all absorbing ha-
tired, score to wipe out, which will not
down at the bidding of any man, be be
Gen. Butler or president Lincoln. The
proposition is supremacy ridiculous in our
eyes. We abominate il. 1t was the
first grand plank in the copperhead plat
form. For Gods sake, then, let US not in
this first hour Of our victory over them
do so silly a thing as to borrow the rope
that hsns Mcclellan,