Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-04-27

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for the laboring people of the South.
Upon them has come the labor, the toll
and the loss of this war, they have
fought blindfolded, they have fought for
class that sought their degradation,
while they Were made TO believe that II
was for their own homes and affairs,
Their leaders meant supremacy which
would not long have left them political
liberty, save in name but their leaders
are swept away. The sword has been
hungry for the ruling classes, 1t has
sought them out with remorseleSs zeal.
New men are TO rise up. New ideas are
to bud and blossom, and there will be
men with different ambition and altered
policy. Seventh-Meanwhile the South |
no longer a land Of plantations, but |
of farms-no longer titled by slaves, but |
by freedmen-will find no hindrance to |
the spread of education. Schools Will |
multiply books and papers will spread |
churches will bless every hamlet. There !
is good day coming for the South. |
Through darkness and tears and blood !
she has sought it, 1t has been an UNI
conscious ia Dglgrosa, but in the end 1t
will be worth all it has cost.
Her instructions before were deadly.
| She nourshed death in her bosom. The
! greater her secular prosperity the more
! sure was her ruin. Every year Of delay
! but made the change more terrible.
Now by an earthquake the evil is shak-
en- down, and her own historians IN
later day shaH write that from the day
the sword cut OF The cancer she began
to hnd her health. What then shall
hinder the rebuilding OF this Republic
| The evil spirit is cast out. Why should
! not this nation cease to wander among
| tombs cutting ITSELF Why should it
not come clothed and in its right mind
to sit at the foot of Jesus Is it feared
that the government will Cypress the
conquered States What possible mo-
tive has the government to narrow the
base Of that pyramid on which its own
permanenCe stands Is it feared that the
| rights of the States will be withheld
The South is not more Jealous of State
rights than the North. State rights
from the earliest colonial days have been
, the peculiar pride and jealousy of New
England. In every stage Of national
formation it was peculiarly Northern
and not Southern statesmen that guard
ed State reghts as we were forming the
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: al States gave up forever that which
had been delegated to the National Gov
eminent, and now in the hour OF VlctO-
= ry the loyal states done mean to trench
upon southern state rights. They Will
. not do it or suffer it to be done. There
.. is not to be one rule for high ATTITUDES
and another for low. We take nothing
from the southern states that has not
already been taken from northern. The
south shall have Just those rights that
every eastern every middle, every west
= ern, state has-nO more no less. We are
: not seeking our own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by
= impoverishing the south. Its prOsperl-
- tv is an indispensable element OF our
l. own. We have shown by all that we
= have suffered in war how great is our
y estimate of our importance OF the
n southern states of this Union, and we
will measure that estimate now in peace
by still greater eXertiOns for their re-
= building. Will rejecting men not per
-. ceive. then, the wisdom Of accepting es-
= tablished facts and with alacrity OF en-
y terprise begin to retrieve the past ? Slav'
n cry cannot come back. ..J It Is hGsjgHfrE
end. Do YOU want more war are you
y not vet weary of contest? Will you
~ gather up the uneXplOded fragments o
: this prOdigiOus magazine of all mischle
and heap them up for continued expo
. siOns? Does not the south need peace
~ and since free labor is inevitable VIII
= YOU have it in its worst form or its best
= Shall it he ignorant, impairment, lnuo
~ lent. or shall it be educated, selt-respecl
= ing. moral and selt-suppOrting WI
YOU have men as drudgeS, or will yo
" have them as citizens, since they haV
y indicated the government and cement
- ed its foundation stones with thei
- blood May they not offer the trlbut
W of their support to maintain its law
- and policy? 1t is better for religion
~, it is better for political integrity-lt
y better for industry-it is better for MOI
- ey-n YOU will have that mOtly
e' that vbu should educate the black MAJ
u, and by education make him either
w. LApplause) They who refuse educatlo
,,- to the black man, would turn the sout
-, into a vast poor house, and labor into
So pendulum-necessity vibrating betWee
~, poverty and Incidence. From this pu
~: ~ nit Of broken stones we speak forth OF
!" earnest greeting to all our land. W
40 offer to the President of these Unite
;1i States our solemn congratulations thi
10 God has sustained his life and healt
lSs under the unparalleled burden and su
;tb ferings Of four bloody years, and pc
nn mitted him to behold this auspicio
nS, consummation of that national ami
' 'fri for which he has waited with so mu
nns patience and fortitude, and for which
us ho has abored with such disinterested W
ny. dom. (Applause.) To the members
o,Is the government associated with him
tb the administration Of perilous affairs
IIat critical times. to the Senators and Re
?SSSo reseAtatives of the United States W
b on have eagerly fashioned the instrumer
l 40. by which the popular will might e
Wv, oo press and enforce itself, we render
i p,n grateful thanks. (Applause) To
l o,ns officers and men of the army and ma
s 5ro who have so faithfully, skillfully a
,o Ii obviously upheld their country's a
an an thority by suffering, labor and suolll
a as courage, we offer here tribute beyo
IL do +bo cOn1paCS Of words (ADDlauS