Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28
New Light.

scattering the accumulated clouds of
error and prejudice, and letting IN the
light of truth II IL doubtful II this
thickenlne prejudice and error, 80 long
INDUCED, could be dispelled In any 9th
er way. At all events 1t Is the appoint
ed way, and the grand results TO the
prosperity and progress Of the country
and indirectly of the world, which are
TO spring from the sacrifices and suffer
ings of this war, arc becoming directly
visible.
A new convert, In the South, Is Mr..
DE Bow, who, in his Review" was
lately warm defender of Southern In
stitutions. His change OF views has
become so radical, and his expression of
them so plain and significant, that his
Review has been suppressed by rebel
authority, and himself thrown into pris
on. The article in the Review which
thus brought down upon its author the
rebel vengeance, has reached the North
and we make from 1t some extracts
From the great superiority in material
resources exhibited by the North over
the South, in this war,-from the CON-
paratiye prosperity prevailing here dur
Ing its continuance, and from the reyela-
tions made by the census of 1860 he
comes to the conclusion that free labor
Is true economy, "that it actually NAV
be more economical to labor for our
selves than TO maintain negroes for that
purpose He says they have succeeded
badly in raising cereals, and in the mean
time g. the production of cotton is slim
ping away from us, and we have already
slipped away into unknown depths, and
are drifting to fearful and to an uncer-
tain future. Let us turn, then, as ad-
vised by Gil Bias when he assumed the
practice of medicine to set what other
practitioners are about" He contin-
ues -
II the negro will not raise enough to
feed himself and his master, what Is the
use OF the negro7 If we are not per-
mitted to avail ourselves of the high
qualities Of the negro, and found "A SUI
perior civilization upon him, why should
we not accept the civilization which be
longs to people in general, founded upon
the dignity rs well as the usefulness of
labor
The people Of the North live comfort
ably; more so, indeed, than the majority
OF the slayeOwners in the South Thev
sdtcate tht'r children, and teach tto,n that
tAf-s Is no d,shonOr in employing either their
Aards or thew heads end l say bol4lv, epesi
s9osnst our pr9Raiccs, / think t4ey are right
i. that"
In this, TO them, new theory; In this
adoption of the system of free labor, he
says
eve see our road to progress; cotton
has failed or will fall US; the negro has
failed or will fail us; it is idle 10 hope
longer to enjoy peacefully the proceeds
OF his labor when at this moment eighty
thousand of his color are organized and
hold arms in their hands to free their
fellows. The longer the war is pro
tracted the more violently will slavery
be destroyed, For two years and half
we have waged war, and lost more than
half the territory over which we assert
ed Jurisdiction; the supply of cattle no
longer comes from Texas, nor does cotton
escape longer from the frontier to furn-
ish us supplies. The Mississippi bears
hundred gunboats, half of them iron
clads, that etfectually prevent our occu.
patton of any point along its entire
course or even the passage of it except
under cover of darkness and by stealth.
" The fruitful valleys of Kentucky and
OF Tennessee have been desolated by
war, and are held by the enemy Ar
Kansas, large part of Louisiana, of
mississippi, of North Carolina and of
Virginia have been held or are now held
by the enemy and have been exhausted
by the supplies drawn by the contending
forces. Nor can we regard Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina or Texas ex-
empt from the march of heavy armies
now organizing for purposes of inva-
sion"
From the foregoing and what follows,
1t is evident he regards the Southern
Confederacy as a failure. He contin-
ues -
awe will say to Congress and TO
President Davis that careful study of
the last Census Report of the United
States will correct or destroy many
pertubations in their minds as we'll as
our own. Let them iegislate so as to
increase the number of cows and think
no more of the negro The land then,
instead of being dcsolated by war and
the inhabitants gaunt with privations
and misery, will flow literally with milk
and honey, as in times of yore.
"A census taken now, as recommend
ed by His Excellency Mr.. Davis, in the
same manner as that of 1860 over the
districts where it might be effected,
would show plainly the waste of war
How many men between the ages of l8
and so would be found wanting2 How
many peaceful, industrious inhabitants
would be found absent, having, through
thousand channels, found their way
into the free States, actually filling up
the houses in every part of that land, so
that none are untenanted2 How many
OF the houses in the region passed over
by the contending armies would now be
found occupied How MANY negroes