Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-02-23
RUTLAND HERALD
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1886.
Rebel FalSeboods.

object in view but to silence, If posi-
BILE, the peace party IN the rebel States.
JEFF. Davis distinctly says that no
thought of peace could be entertained
except on the basis OF confederate inde-
pendence. Yet he knew perfectly well
that we neither could nor would con-
sent to any such basis of negotiation.
He was however greatly embarrassed by
clamOrers for peace all about him, and
he thought he saw in this so called peace
conference the means for squelchins
them. His commissioners obtained the
interview with our authorities under
false pretencss, listened to our terms.
and without submitting any definite
propositions themselves, fastened back
and grossly misrepresented the condi-
lions offered them.
A fear of separate State action con-
tinually haunts the rebel leaders; fear
that some of the Southern States will
conclude to exercise that Estate Sow
ereignty" supposed to have been secured
by their secession from the Union, and
withdraw from the tottering rebel con-
Germ Now nothing was said in this
peace conference" on the subject of
separate State action. President Lin
coins instructions to Secretary Seward
on dispatChing him to meet the rebel
commissioners, which we have already
published, embraced all that was to be
insisted upon on our side. But these
commissioners reported to JEFF, imme-
diately on their arrival, as follows;
We understood from him fLincolnI
/ that no terms or proposals of any treaty
or agreement looking to an ultimate
settlement would be entertained or made
by him with the Authorities of the Con-
federate States, because that would be q
recognition of their existence as sepa-
rate Power, which under no circum-
stances would be done and, for Ike rea-
sons that no Sstc1 terms aotld be entertained
| 6y hin from the States separately =; that no
extended truce or srmistice las at pres
ent advised) would be granted or al
lowed, without satisfactory assurance,
in advance, OF o complete restoration of
the authority of the Constitution and
laws of the United States over all places
within the States of the COnfederacy."
We cannot recognize the legal exist
ence Of the Confederacy" by formally
treating with it or otherwise; but the
States have legal existence and there
is consequently no such reason for re-
fusal to treat with them separately. The
portion Of the rebel report above ital-
lcised was a lie inserted for the pur-
pose OF dumbfounding the troublesome
States rights" rebels.
The rebels seeded ostensibly to get
rid of the abolition agitation, the ever
lasting niger question:" and to secure
from danger of violation the rights and
sovereignty OF the States. It is little
singular that they are having more ex-
cited discussions and violent debates
among themselves over the same mig
ger" than they ever had while in the
Union, and that the State rights and
State sovereignty doctrine is threaten
ing the speedy obstruction of the bogus
confederacy. ......
Again, the rebel newspapers are try
ing to aelude their readers with. such
lies as the following, which is taken
from the Mobile Register:
Lincoln, nor his Cabinet, nor his
Congress, nor his mouth pieces of the
press or the rostrum, have yet written
or said one word upon which to found a
reasonable hope, if we desired recon
struction, esea on tho basis Of emancipation,
that we could get it,
That is particularly brazen in view of
the fact that in all his messages and on all
occasions President Lincoln has declared
that the war would cease on our part
the moment it ceased on the part of the
rebels and they know that the return OF
the rebels to the Union would be most
heartily and sincerely welcomed.
To such falsehoods the rebel leaders
are compelled to resort to keep the
Southern heart fired to the necessary
degree. But the Southern people are
fast finding out the truth, and the reac-
ton will be all the more violent and
sweeping for the deception and false
hood Of their present s-leaders.
FIRING THE SOUTHERN HEARr."-Here
is a specimen of the way in which the
rebel papers fire the Southern heart"
1t is from an article in the Richmond
Wing, painting the degradation of
Southern women under Yankee rule: