Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-02-25

! Sir, have been astonished at the spirit
evinced by certain gentlemen upon the
: other side against the Administration
: which Is so earnestly endeavoring to put
down this rebellion. While they pro
claim that they would prosecute the
war they seem quite indisposed to sus.
tain the measures of the Administration
or of Congress, by which alone the war
can be be carried on. Distinguished
gentlemen from Ohio-I learned from
the remarks of my friend of Ohio upon
this side Of the Housewife now prate
their patriotism SO loudly, are fresh from
the support of Vallandigham in the re-
cent gubernatorial controversy In that
state If so, sir, we must somewhat dis
trust them, for | cannot be charitable
enough to believe that, like poor dog
Tray, they were only caught in very bad
company. Sir, had Ii not been for the
Vallandighams of the North, the rebel
lion, II inaugurated at all, would never
have assumed its gigantic proportions.
The traitors of the North have held up
the hands of the rebels of the South,
and, like poor despised Vallandigham,
by the verdict of a loyal people they will
receive their reward. Vallandigham,
now without Government, without a
home, friendless and alone, seeks the
shelter Of foreign land and future his
tory will write his name among the Ar
nolds and Burrs of his country
| The gentleman from New York few
days since delivered most remarkable
| speech. Its only virtue, in my judg-
ment, was its frankness, and hereafter
| loyal people will have no doubt as to
where the gentleman's sympathies are.
lie quotes literally from Burke and
Chatham those immortal English states
men who always defended the people
| against the encroachments of theCrown
and applies the quotations to the pres
ent rebellion. Is the gentleman honest
or is he blinded7 Can he see no dis
tinction between that great and manly
| struggle for independence involving the
right OF government and free insti-
tutions and this rebellion which seeks
to overthrow and destroy them both
Can he see no distinction between peo-
pie rising in arms, who are taxed with
out representation, who are Inundated
and oppressed by unjust DEGREES and or
dinances and regulations, and people
rising in rebellion against the most
benificent Government on earth 2 Sir,
| do not wonder that he is the represent
alive of a city which required forty
thousand national troops to protect it
from the violence and rapine of his own
constituency and the peculiar friends of
the Union-loying Governor of the State
of New York.
The unjust and unwarrantable asser-
ton Of the gentleman from New York
| respecting New England merits and
meets my hearty contempt New Eng
land needs no vindication from the as
pensions of the defenders of treason, or
the advocates of human bondage. Her
''aerie buildeth in the cedar's top, and
dallies with the wind, and scorns the
sun" Her soil is made sacred by the
first blood of the Revolution. Liberty
was first Graded upon her bosom, and
the history of her sons is written upon
scroll which l apprehend the gentle
man Will never reach. Hers was the
first martyr of this goddess rebellion,
and she will stand in the front ranks,
with all her men and all her money,
until this government shall be restored
and the old flag shall float in triumph
ever our entire Union, redeemed regen-
Grated, and disenthralled from the curse
of American slavery. 1t is impossible
to foresee what effect the teachings of
such gentlemen may have upon the pas
sions of men. Before to-day, the clouds
of secession have lowered over our land.
Before to-day, liberty-loving New Eng
land has been treated with contumely
and scorn. Before to-day has the old
Bay State, the mother of New England
and the mother of freedom been unjust
ly assailed But there she stands as she
stood more than thirty years ago, when
the immortal Webster, in his reply to
Mr.. Hayne, said, "There is her history.
The world knows it by heart. The past,
at least, is secure. There are Boston
and Lexington and Concord and Bunker
HILL and there they will remain forever.
The bones of her sons fallen in the great
struggle for independence, now lie min
gled with the soil of every State from
New England to Georgia, and there they
will lie forever. And, sir, where Ameri-
can liberty raised it's first voice, where
its youth was nurtured and sustained,
there it still lives in the strength of its
manhood and full of its original spirit
IL discord and disunion shall hawk at
and tear it, if folly and madness, if UNI
easiness and salutary restraint shall
succeed i'm separating it from that Union
by which alone its existence is.made
sure, it will stand in the end by the side
of that cradle in which its infancy was
rocked, and will fall at last, if fall it
must, amidst the proudest monuments
of its own glory on the very spot of it's
origin
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