Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-02-11
From the Daily Of Feb. 9.
de- uoM-llelprr--yic,ory Of Ideas

HHosh sno A>otsy % ANUs Os IN
dc Uow--IHelp~r-victor of Ideas.
We have not yet had our say about
De Bow. In the absence OF any proof
to the contrary, we fully believe that he
published the article which, as is stated,
rendered him obnoxious to the 30 called
Confederate Government, and sent him
to prison.
De Bow was the Superintendent Of the
seventh Census, that of'1850; and the sta
tistical tables of that Census constitut-
cd the most telling portions of Helpers
Impending Crisis" 1t was shown, for
instance, that the annual hay crop of
the Free States was worth considerably
more than all the cotton, tobacco, rice,
hay, hemp, and cane sugar annually
produced in the fifteen Slave States.
The summation is as follows;
Hay crop of the free states, $l42, 1898
Cotton, &C., 138,605,723
Balance in favor Of the free
states, 8,533,275
Our own little Green Mountain State
has been wont to produce a larger num-
Der of tons Of hay than all the Southern
and South Western States, except Vir-
ginia.
Several comparisons were instituted
in the "Crisis," all based upon statisti-
cal tables, between particular States,
oh I'm, hot xyhs n
the advantage was originally in favor
Of the South, it is now most strikingly
on the other side The cause may, in
the opinion of the author, find solution
in the most hateful and horrible word
that was ever Incorporated in the vo-
cabulary of human economy-Slavery."
The writer, i'm behalf of six or seven
millions of non-slaveholding Southern
whites, proceeds to address what he
shows by De Bows statistics to be con-
siderably less than three hundred thou
sand Shareholders, proposing plan of
emancipation, expressing settled de-
termination to carry it into effect -
"And now, sirs, that we have thus
laid down our ultimatu what are you
going to do about it2 Something
dreadful, of course Perhaps you will
dissolve the Union. Do it If you dare.
Our motto, and we would have you I'M
derstand it, is, The abolition of slavery
and the perpetuation of the Union. If
by any means you succeed in your trea-
sonable attempts to take the South out
Of the Union to-day, we will bring her
back tomorrow. If she goes away
with you, she will come back without
you"
This is the kind of leaven that has been
working and in seeking for the causes
or this "causeless" rebellion, it would
be interesting to know how much des-
perate determination on the part of the
two or three hundred thousand slave
holders to annihilate all such outspoken
freeman, had to do with it.
The difference between De Bow before
the rebellion and now, seems to be that
before, he published the naked and dry
statistics now he publishes few
common sense differences AS Professor
Denton remarked the other evening,
"there is poetry in Geology, but many
biologists have given the dry rock, with
out the poetry which God had placed
there" So De Bow presumptuously I'M
dertook to eviscerate his statistics of
the common sense, the political econo-
my, and the moral ethics which God had
placed there.
But the hard knocks of the last two
or three years have quickened all his
perceptions, and in fact made him a new
convert. What is true Of him is doubt
less true of thousands of others.
1t would encourage our hearts and
crafty our pride to gain splendid vic
tories over the Southern armies but
this VICTORY OF IDEAS is far more valua-
BILE, and Ear more enduring.