Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-01-12
have we Rebels Among U.'

MI. II. a. IOlidIui Cultoi vi viz isiNn
mond Examiner, was captured on
blockade runner last May, and brought
TO Boston, where he enjoyed the freedom
Of the city for time, and the hospitali-
ty and communion of the Democratic
leaders. In his History OF the Third
| Year Of the War, he has added an APP
pendlx giving an account of his Boston
experiences. His account furnishes an
interesting and inside view of the real
principles OF the leading Democrats in
our midst, He says;
81 passed week In Boston, entirely
unknown and secluded, when an Incl
dent occurred that was to open up to
me new and surprising interest in this
Yankee metropolis. / was sauntering
In the reading-room of the hotel
| (Young's) one evening when an amiable
looking gentleman came up TO me, with
a beaming face and whispered, Are you
not Mr.. Pollard, from Richmond 2 |
was so taken aback by the plump ques-
ton that | could not help answering,
Yes. Il thought so, he replied quick
| w; some detectives here know you;
hush, talk low-I want you to let me
bring friend around to see you at nine
O'Clock this evening" l signifed my
assent, and awaited with some interest
an interview about which there appear
cd to be some mystery.
| At nine o'clock l received in my cham
| Der the gentleman who had so unCere-
moniously introduced himself to me, and
! who was, indeed, to prove friend, &C
| Companied by gentleman whose name
! was already familiar to me as one who
had suffered for his early and brave
| sympathy with the Confederacy in this
war. There are obvious reasons why I
! should not mention here the names of
! those friends and Of other sympathetic
persons in Boston afterwards found,
who surprised me, not only by the
| warmth and deliCaCy of their personal
| kindness but by their sentiments for my
country. O
The next day it was insisted that l
: should be introduced to a number of per-
( sons in Bosto1 who sympathized with
| the South, and some of my countrymen
will be surprised to learn that to meet
| these persons E0was carried to the Mer-
| chants Exchange, to the offices of lead
ing lawyers and to some Of the largest
| business establishments in Boston. l
may say that in the course of two or
! three days l met at least one hundred
| gentlemen in Boston, among its most
| influential classes who expressed to me
an ardent sympathy for the South in
| her struggle for constitutional liberty,
| and an earnest desire for the acknOwl-
eGgment Of her indepeneev~'s- "a the
| only possible termination C. annst-
ural and unhappy war,
What was made a. private witness
of in Boston was sufficient To satisfy
| any candid mind that the Southern Con-
federacy had q party in the North OF de-
ovoted and intelligent feiends entitled to
her consideration and gratitude.
In short, / had discovered a circle of
'secessionists' in Boston, and had been
| cursing the black desert of heartless
crowds before my eyes, withoGt the least
| thought that it contained an oasis for
the despised Confederate. / was over
| whelmed with kindness by my newly
| found friends, offered testimonial din
ner, which peremptorily declined in
vited to charming country places and
suburban rides. Alas, from this AMIGA
BILE diversion my thoughts were to be
turned into channel of bitterness ~
The "channel of bitterness to which
Mr. Pollard alludes is figure Of speech
for q strong fertilization overlooking the
| channel of Boston Harbor, to which he
was soon committed Here Mr.. Pol
lard kept a journal in which he records
his opinions, his daily experiences, his
disgust of Yankeedom and his cores
pondence with rebel women and he
further obliges us by pEinting the whole
Here is q specimen: d
July. We had quite discussion in
our mess to-day. Ole of the company
remarked that Ii South Carolina a me-
chanic was not respected as he should
be. took occasion to advance some
peculiar notions Of my own: Chat the
democracy of the North was an utterly
false one, being an insolent assertion OF
equality, a sort of "d--n you, am as
good as you are" which placed two
classes in society in an exasperated and
bitter contest that was constantly going
on in Yankeedom beneath the outward
semblances Of its social laws; that the
insOlent democracy was especially the
product of free schools that educate the
population just to the point Of irrever-
ence and egOtism; that In the South
there was to be found the moss perfect
democracy in the world, &c"
The last we heard of this traitor he
had been released by government from
Fort Warren and was residing on
parole in New York, where he has
doubtless found a choice circle of sym
pathizers. Meantime A d. Richardson
and two or three other newspaper men,
one Of whom ought to be exchanged for
this Pollard, if he is not to be kept in
confinement, arc dragging out miser-
able existence in Southern prisons,
where they have been for more than q
| year and half.-Boston Journal
VINO SAckBH ATLANTA 1.-The Rich