Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-03-10
RUTLAND Herald.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1864.
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From she Daily of March %.
Aboiitionism and New England.

'sssss ANNS
Since the outbreak of the rebellion,
the causelessness, the iniquity, the un-
paralleled wickedness of the Southern
treason, its ruinous results, ifsuccessfnl,
to the Union and free government, and
the paramount duty of all men to aid in
its overthrow, have been the themes of
loyal speakers and writers. During all
this time the despotism and corruption
OF our own government under Abraham
Lincoln, the comparative innocence of
rebels, threatened bankruptcy aud ruin
of the north, impossibility of oyercom-
Ing the rebel armies denunciation of
loyal men, but above all the horrors of
'Abolitlonism" and the supreme guilt of
New England, have furnished the never
falling material for copperhead disquisi-
tions.
Among those who have been most vi
olently denunciatory upon the last two
subjects is James Brooks of New York.
Now when this Brooks was younger and
we trust honester than he now is, and
while he was editing q paper in Port
land, Maine, he made a southern tour,
and wrote TO his paper series of letters,
from which the following are extracts
81 cannot understand it-I cannot un-
derstand how man can talk of liberty
and hold another in slavery.
For one, believe in the ability
of the nation, under an amendment of
the Constitution or without with the
sanction of the constitutional mataphy-
sicians, to rid itself of this overhanging
misfortune"
II do not agree with many whom |
meet with here, he writes ''and who say,
judging from what they see, that the ne
groes are an inferior race of men, and
therefore we have right to make them
subservient to us. That is not my
creed / deny the premises, or, grant
ing them, deny the inference. can find
negroes, very many here who are active
and bright, and who if educated, would
make figure in the world.
1t is ignorance, want of education or as
sociation with educated men, that bru-
titles Them
y al am also convinced that the intel
slect of the black man is Us bright as that
of the white man, that the lamp which
God has given him can, after long and
patient trimming and proper refinement,
burn as bright as the lamp which God
has given the white man." +.. ....
He then defended New England in such
terms as these
"Talk Of Northern fanatics, Northern
madmen, Northern meanness Northern
cupidity! How little you know of the
people whom so many abuse. How lit
lie ,au know of that self-sacriflcing spir-
1t which win do everything and suffer
everything for iSe ilSe Union, for liberty, for
the common good of TIE whole country.
New England in the counting -rov.,., at
the money-box and in business hours,
may not be all one could wish, but New
England at the fireside, in the social cir
Gle, in her schools, her public spirit and
her institutions, is a land to be proud
off, vs.9 5 !,
A Such was Brooks, and such were
great many. Others who have latterly
been loudest- -mouthed in their ranting
against "abolitionists" and New Eng
land fanatics But Bro0ks married
southern lady with plantation of mig
gers" and fell from grace, plunged into
Know -Nothingism and finally came up
among the copperheads. After term
of sanctimonious and hypocritical hor
ror of those terrible abolitionists who
are supposed to flourish extensively in
new England, and one of whom he was,
he n, wv shows symptoms of trying to
,scr.mb,'a back again into their ranks
And of suc.h h are the defamers of New
England. He fair name VIII sufier
about as much from such pohucai
tumblers and trickste,. as . r''e rocA rom
the waves which strike "a. eieon ''n al anu arc
dashed in pieces. na 3ro9
statement Of Mr.. Gray.