Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-06-29
RUTLAND HERALD.
SATURDAY, JUNE "a, 1855.
Gov. HoIden,s Proclamation.


We think no apology is necessary for
presenting copious extracts from the
proclamation of the new Governor OF
North Carolina.
After suitable preambles, and the nee
essary specifications for the organiza-
ton of provisional government, and
calling a convention, the Governor thus
addresses himself to the different classes
of people;
"Your experience, fellow citizens, dur
ing the rebellion, should attach you by
the strongest ties to the government OF
the United States, You have just been
delivers by the armies of the Union
nom one OF the most corrupt and rigor-
Gus despotisms that ever existed In the
world, Many of you have been forced
for opinions sake, and because of your
love for the flag Of your fathers, to fly
from the land of your birth or Of your
adoption, and seek refuge among
strangers, to escape the hand of arbitra-
ry power. Many of you have been torn
from your homes, or hunted down like
the rebel armies as conscripts, to fight
for the continued enslavement of the
celored race, and also for state OF
slavery for yourselves and your child
rem. Some of you have been subject to
Imprisonment and tortures on account
of your opinions and all of you have
been deprived for years, up to recent
period, of freedom of speech and of the
press, and of every essential guarantee
of liberty and of protection to person
and property, which is contained IN the
Constitution of the United States. You
are once more free citizens of the United
States. By your sufferings in the past,
and by your hopes for the future, | ad-
jure you to guard well your freedom.
Remember that all that you have, and
all you can hope to be, and all of good
that is in reserve for your children, are
indissolubly bound up with the Ameri-
can Union. The unity Of government
which constitutes us one people, should
be more dear to us than ever, on account
of the sufferings through which we have
passed. In the language of WASHING
TON, it is of infinite moment that you
should properly estimate the immense
value of your national Union to your
collective and individual happiness
that you should cherish a cordial, hab-
itual, and immovable attachment to it
accustoming yourselves to think and to
speak OF it as the palladium of your
political safety and prosperity; watch
ing for its preservation with jealous
anxiety misunderstanding whatever
may suggest even a suspicion that it
can in any event be abandoned and in
frowning upon the first dawn
ing Of every attempt to ALLEVIATE one
portion Of our country from the rest, or
to enfeeble the sacred ties which now
link together the various parts
To the colored people of the State I
would say, you are now free. Provi-
dence has willed that the very means
adopted to render your servitude perpet-
ual, should be his instruments for re-
leasing you from bondage. 1t now re-
mains for you, aided as you will be by
the superior intelligence of the white
race, and cheered by the sympathies of
all good people, to decide whether the
freedom thus suddenly bestowed upon
you, will be blessing to you or source
of injury Your race has been depressed
by your condition of slavery, and by the
legislation of your former masters for
two hundred years. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that you can comprehend and APP
preciate as they should be comprehended
appreciated by self governing people,
the wise provisions and limitations of
Constitutions and laws; or that you can
now have that knowledge of public af
fairs which is necessary to qualify you
to discharge all the duties of the citizen.
No people has ever yet bounded at once
into the full enjoyment of the right of
self government. But you are free, in
common with all our people, and you
have the same right, regulated by law,
that Others have, to enter upon the pur-
suit of prosperity and happiness. You
should henceforth sacredly observe the
married relation, and you shonld pro-
vide for your offspring. You can now
not only learn to read yourselves, but
you can instruct others, and procure in
struction from others for yourselves and
and your children, without fear of pun
ishment. But to be prosperous and hap
by you must labor, not merely when you
feel like it, or for scanty support, but
industriously and steadily, with view
to making and laying up something for
yourselves and your families.
1 will be your friend as long as you
are true to yourselves, and obedient to
the laws, and as long as you shall labor,
no matter how feebly, If honestly and
earnestly, to improve your condition.
And now, with charity for all, with
malice toward none," enter upon the
discharge Of the duties assiged me by
the President, earnestly and solemnly
invoking the good people of the State
to aid me in the work of reconstructing
the Government, and in restoring the
State to the protection, benefits and
blessings of the Union.
The New GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA
Lewis E. Parsons, lately appointed Pro
visional Governor Of Alabama, though