Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-11

Rebels AMI IIcitO's world We b. ave
The Yeugtan OF insuled Heaven,
And crush again taat IA cry,
A gael, US God 20 YEA has AlY1ni
Kn0v then! the curse OF He ven res,s
On your Eel clio base dies gu!
To shame o0niu ion, death d wee,
A fats car Goth you res gum
Dsmay row strikes the Trsitor', hearts,
TIL Rebe b nj s oYerthF WI;
The ia nf Freed m ron y waves,
And ptaee Ia.u esumte her thr ne.
wcs; Haven, Fcb 22d, 1881
TIE BEGINNING or THE WAX To
show how utterly false the assert on Of
the cOpperhead leaders is, that the adj
ministraliou r. justly cha,Seable with
the wor. we give below q short extract
from tine southern History of the War;
by Edward A. Pollard, until n short
time ago one of n editors of Ike Rich
moud Examiner Mr.. Pollard sums up
the doiugS Of the c@uteteratcs before the
inauguration OF Mt. Lincoln, as fol
lows:
"On the INCOMING OF the admin istIa
ton of Abraham Lincoln, on he 9Th Of
March, the rival government q The
SOth had perfected ts organization; The
separation had been " iden,d and e,lyCn-
Omad by the ambi-deS Gritty and p,rhly
Of President Buchanan The southern
people, however sill hoped for the
peaceful accomplishment OF their inGC-
peEderce, and duplorcd war between the
two $, ctiOns, az n pc les detrimental, to
the civilized world" The revolution III
the meantime, had rapidly gathered
strength not only in moral power, bat
IN the means of war and mUhimots of
del ne. Fort h0Ultrie ahl Castle
PincErey had been captured by the
South Carolina troops; Fort Pu ask,
tn deituseO of Savannah, had been taken.
the arsenal at Mount Vernon, Alabama,
with twenty thousand stand o" arms
had been seized by THE Alabama troops );
Fort Morgan, in Mobile Bay, bad been
taken; Forts Jackson, St. Philip and
Pike, near New Orleans. had been cap
tnred by The Louisiana troops; the New
Orleans Mint and Custom EOnSe had
been taken; the Little Rock Arserai had
been seized by the Arkansas troops,
though Arkansas had refused to seccde;
and on the 10th of February General
Twiggs had transferred the public p,op-
erty in Texas to the State authorities
Mr. Pollard does not mention IN his.
history that the Southern leaders had
the least disposition, before they began
the war, to agree TO any termS3oG peace
on the basis Of their continuance in the
Union, but only h1ped for The peeesf@ a.
eompIishmftt If t5fj i,tatptaaenef, and de-
plored war between the two sections, as
"poIicy detrimental to the civilized
world "-Lout89sU8 Press
TERMS OF PEAcE--A LESSON TWO Cga-
rURIEs OLD.-~Thomas Fuller, the old
English divine, was contemporary Of
Milton, and during the time Of the civil
wars wrote thus quantity Of certain at
tempts in his day TO cry peace when
there was no peace
III DONE, UEDoEE,"
Il saw one, whether out OF haste or
want Of skill, put up MS sword the
wrong way II cuL even when il was
sheathed, the cage being traasposed
where the back should have blra; SO
that rcrCeiying his error nc was fun to
draw IL out, that ne mtght put it up
again.
Wearied aud wasted with ciyif war,
we that formerly loathed The mama OF
peace, because common, cculd now he
content to iced on it, though full OF
worms and putrefed; some SO d,siroue
thereof that they care not on what terms
the war be ended, 30 it be ended; bat
such peace would De but truce, and
the conditions thereof would 40 longer
be In force than whilst they are in force
Let us pray that the sword be sheathed
the right way; other
wise it may justly be suspected that
the sword put up will be drawn out
again, and the articles of an III agree
ment, though eugrossed I'm parchment.
not take effect 80 loag as paper would
continue"