Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-03-17


dent, we cannot undertake to say. But
it is true that thus far the opposition
TO his denomination has
proceeded almost entirely from a few
discontinued politicians While the peo-
pie of a majority of the loyal States
have already spoken through their leg
islatures or state conventions most en-
phatically for Mr.. Lincoln, the move
ment against him has been inaugurated
chiefly BY self-constituted committee
of politicians at Washington, operating
by means Of secret circulars, gross at
tacks upon Mr.. Lincoln and his admins
tration and hints of boiling unless the
friends Of Mr.. Lincoln succumb to their
demands. The campaign which has
just terminated so successfully in favor
of the Union cause in New Hampshire,
was opened in the state convention by
the Endorsement of Mr.. Lincoln, and his
recommendation for denomination. Thus
far, we say, it is evidently the people
against few discontinued politicians.
We yield to none in respect and admira-
ton for Mr.. Chase, and shall gladly
support him to the best of our ability
should he be nominated by the Balti-
more Convention. But thus far, without
any fault of his own, he has fallen into
the hands of ruinous friends. These
self-constituted friends have opened the
contest in such way as to play direct
ly into the hands of the peace democrats,
and defeat their own candidate as we'll
as Mr.. Lincoln. The prosecution of
their present schemes involves demon
stration, by protested friends of the I'm
ion, of the corruption and failure of
the present administration of which
their own candidate has been no incon-
siderable part; it involves a concession
Of or rather an active attempt at prov
ing all the charges against the admin
istration which the copperheads have
hitherto vainly urged. 1t is no wonder
then that the copperheads are all struck
with an intense admiration Of Mr.. Pome-
roy's circular; no wonder they redouble
their attacks upon Mr.. Lincoln and sud
denly and almost entirely cease their Bit
ter vituperation Of Mr.. Chase, in the
hope of helping on the Pomeroy move
ment to the division and distraction of
the Union party; no wonder that Mr..
Pomeroy's own State repudiates his
schemes; and finally no wonder that a
"manly man" like Mr., Chase, appreciat
ing the disastrous effects to the country
of movement thus commenced, repu-
dates it by denying all knowledge of it's
inception and finally by his most pat
riotic letter of declination to Hon. James
C. Hall of Ohio.
II 1T is necessary for the Union party,
which has supported the present adm. I'm
istration against the false and disloyal
charges Of the copperhead tribe, to stab
itself by attempting to prove those charg-
es true, in order to open the way for ano-
ther Union candidate, then the party may
as well die peaceably and let the copper
- = r'r"'t over the CORPSE unopposed
to the White House. But there is not
the slightest occasion for any such sui
cidal proceeding. 1t is all gross and
gratuitous blunder of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee" alias Mr.. Pomeroy.
The merits Of Mr.. Lincoln, Mr.. Chase,
Gen Fremont, Gen. Butler, or any other
man, for the presidential nomination can
and should be fairly and candidly dis
cussed, without resort to clandestine
abuse or copperhead arguments. 1t will
be public calamity if the best men like
Mr. Chase or Mr. Lincoln, or Others
mentioned, must be killed off by unau-
thorized and ruinous proceedings of
protested friends; and he is lunatic
who now threatens to bolt if his candi-
date is not the nominee of the Conven-
ton. sH
Mr.. Chase has well vindicated himself
by his letter to Senator Hall. The best
wish we can make him is that he may
not again fall into the hands of friends
whose zeal so outruns discretion.
BARBARous,-A special Washington
dispatch to the New York Times says
that son of Admiral Paulding is among
the parolled officers from Richmond He
states, authoritatively, that the rebels
learning that Fitzpatrick was advancing
upon Richmond, placed one hundred
barrels of powder in the vaults of the
Libby Prison, where several thousand
of our prisoners were confined, and had
Gen. Fitzpatrick succeeded in forcing his
way into the city would have blown up
the buildings and prisoners. All the
other prisons were similarly mined. jeff
Davis himself issued the barbarous or
der. Col. Dahlgrens body servant has
arrived at Washington. He confirms
previous statements concerning Dahl
green's death and the barbarous treat