Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-09-29
RUTLAND HERALD,
ruEDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1854,
Tne war a saiiuTe.


So proclaimed Vallandigham aud
Guthrie and Long and seymour and
Harris and Pendleton and Timothy Z,
7 ~ I'd ~Ul even those redoubtable
warriors Ioer C'tu nd John McKeogh
IN the Chicago .3lvention. Soproclaim-
ell to the world all the ODDS and ends OF
numerou, defunct political factions
which as, nb.ed la that Convention I'M
der the assam Ua,"e of Democracy,
Such was the cnIeI plank Of their plat
form,-that southern rebels lighting for
the destruction Of the Union had, with
the sympathy, aid and comfort of this
northern Democracy, beaten the North
and the North must surrender. Such
was the plank on which they very pro-
perly put candidate who had charge
of the first part of the war when 1t 'eas
comparatively failure, aud another
candidate who has opposed it and done
his best to make it failure through
out. -
Now, as the political success of these
men depends entirely upon this war in
defense of the Union being failure, it Is
fair to presume that the wish had a
great deal to do with the thought in the
shaping Of this main plank of their plat
form. If the war is not a failure, then
their party surely is, Hence their con-
slant efforts to embarrass and defeat
those who would maintain the Union;
and hence, too, it is that their testimony
as to the success or failure of the war is
decidedly too interested to be Of any
value.
Besides, we have the testimony of men
who are not politicians, of men whose
business it has been since the outbreak
of the rebellion to ascertain its strength
and fight it; of men who know, if any
one does, of what they speak of men
whose opportunities, military capacity,
experience and knowledge, added, to
their earnest and undoubted patriotism,
givs-to single word of either one of
them more weight than the combined
declarations of all the interested peace
at-any- price copperheads in Christendom
can balance.
Such men are Grant, Sherman, Meade,
Hooker, Burnside, Logan, Dix, Wool;
and here are some of their recent opin-
ions.
Says Lieut.. Gen. Grant:
"The end is not far distant, if we will
only be true to ourselves. All we want
now to insure an early restoration of the
Union is a determined unity Of sentiment
North"
Says Maj..G Sherman
'fWe must have Peace. To, secure this
we must stop the War that now desc
lates our once happy and favored coun-
try. To stop the war we must defeat
the rebel armies that are arrayed against
the laws and Constitution which all
must respect and obey. ** /
want peace, and believe it can only be
reached through Union anil s1ay, and I
will ever conduct war purely with
view to perfect and early success"
Says Maj Gen. Hooker;
'This Union must be preserved, and
there is no way of preserving it but by
the power of our arms-by fighting the
c.Hspiracy to death. This rebellion is
lettering while / speak it is going
Gown, and will soon tumble into ruin"
Says Maj Gen. Meade:
.'Dismissing, as now useless to dis
cuss, all questions as to the origin of
this war, we have daily and hourly evil
dences that it exists, and that it can o,sly
be terminated by hard fighting, and by
determined efforts to overcome the armed
enemies of the government
Says Maj.-Gcn. Burnside:
"Would it not be cowardly for us to
say this rebellion cannot be crushed, and
the authority of the government sus-
tanned? There Is in my mind no ques-
tion of it. There can be no such thing
as laying down of arms, or cessation of
hostilities, unit i the entire authority of
the government is acknowledged by
every citizen Of our country"
Saws Mai..Gen Logan.
a. The greatest victory of the rebels,
greater than fifty Manassases, and their
only orc that can give them particle
OF hope, will be. to defeat the war party
at the incoming campaign
q Says Maj.-Gen Dix;
"My desire is to do all in my power
to sustain the Government in its efforts
to put down the rcbelliop-an object to
be effected, in my Judgment, by a steady
and answering prosecution Of the
war;" Hoes
tg Says Maj.-Gen. Wool: bs
% 9 Nothing for aught that can discov-
er, will save the Union and its Govern
ment, but the successes of Grant, Sher-
man. Farragut and Sheridan" 2
% Such are the witnesses the people
have confidence in, and win give their
verdict accordingly next November.
y sg' The Boston Journal learns from
4 correspondent that a vote was taken
in the Lincoln Hospital at Washington
on the 22d with the following result =
Whole nsmber of votes, l148 Lincoln
and Johnson 600 Mcclellan and Pen
soleton, $50. LiEcv... majority, 63S.-