Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-10-12

day last. The publishers are Messrs.
Brooks & Crane. Mr.. Edward Z,
Brooks, the editor, has been the North
Carolina correspondent of the New York
Times for some time past, and also one
of the editors of the Raleigh Progress,
from which paper he withdraws. He
served four years in the war, and owes
slavery grudge which he will pay in
this philanthropic work. The prospectus
OF the publishers is frank and fearless
document. They start with thousand
subscribers, and feel confident of sue
cess. Two hundred thousand freedmen
in the State are learning to read, and
this paper will be their organ. Its title
is the Journal of Freedom, issued week
ly at four dollars per annum.
GIN. SIoKLEs Down ON THE COPPER
HEADs.-The democrats have lately been
claiming Gen. Dan Sickles as one Of their
estrays returned to the told, and have
mentioned him as a candidate for mayor
of New York; but when they read the fol-
lowing, from letter which he has Just
sent TO Fitzpatrick, who is making re-
publican speeches in New jersey, they
will feel differently about Sickles
al would not have you suppose, my
dear general, that am not duly CRATE
full for the kind offer of sympathy ten
dered by the democratic convention of
New Jersey to the officers and soldiers
engaged in the late war. | presume
they are sorry for us that we did not
keep out Of the war, as they did and,
of course, we ought to seize with avidty
that compliment to white courage and
white patriotism paid to us at the ex-
pense of the black troops The credit
of the victories won by the Union
armies are due alone to the white officers
and soldiers This quotation from the
seventh resolution is rs generous as it is
grammatical. You and | know, as all
our comrades know, that the exclusion
of the black troops from fair share of
praise is unjust as it is mean. They per-
formed their duty with courage, and
fidelity, and zeal. They have proved
their fitness to enjoy the freedom which
their valor helped to win. If, as the
copperheads say the war was waged for
emancipation, was it not right that the
raceiwhich was to be enfranchised should
share the perils of the conflict? II, as
we say, the war was prosecuted to de-
fend the Union and constitution Of our
fathers, need the COpperheads complain
that negroes took their places in the
ranks ? Let them grumble no one else
is hurt"
ANECDoTE OF GRANT.-The story is
told that while Gen Grant was in Mon
treal, on his late tour through Canada,
and just after an interview with a num-
Der Of Canadian officials and others, he
appeared much disturbed, and calling
on Mr.. (" Bowieknife y Potter our con-
sui, said:
Potter, sit down. want to talk to
you; I never was so angry in my life"
1t seems that some one had been in
troduced to the General, and remarked
gratuitously:
Gen. Grant, I am an Englishman,
and wish to assure you that my sym
pathy is and always has been with the
South and President Davis, / hope your
government will not hang him"
"And hope, sir, that he will have an
impartial trial, and if he Is convicted, he
will be hung as he certainly deserves to
be. He has murdered hundreds of our
men; he has starved our prisoners. u
That, sir" interrupted the other, L"
don't believe"
O. have unfortunately met a great
many men Of your stamp, VINO Will new
er believe anything against the South,
but who are ready to believe everything
against the North aud the United States
Government"
Sir" said the Englishman, " am in
the habit Of associating with gentlemen"
Glow little apt we are to improve our
advantages" was the quiet reply Of tine
insulted and indignant General, and the
Englishman walked out crest-fallen.