Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-08-09
RUTLAND HERALD.
A straight out Pro-Rebel Concern.
The Philadelphia Convention assem-

The Philadelphia Convention assem-
bles next week, As the time approaches
the character which the convention will
assume becomes more and more appar-
eut. u will oe what we predicted in the
outset a unto Of Southern rebels and
Northe n reoe >ympathizers. The New
York 7 mes tries to keep up a struggle,
single handed, against the admission of
Northern Copperheads" and of South
ern politicians who participated heart
and hand in the rebellion and are rebels
at heart still. But the New York News
says that Vallandigham, Pendleton and
all other delegates Of the same political
character must and shall be admitted
the New York World says there must be
no test oath and no condition Of admis-
sion whatever TO prevent "the North
meeting the South in friendly confer
ence :" the Metropolitan Record says
the Northern delegates must be instruct
ed to vote down all loyalty tests, and
adds that the delegate who comes
from Florida, Texas, Virginia, no mat
ter from WHAT State, must be admitted,
though he fought ALL through the four
years OF war in the Confederate army,
or served in a civil capacity under the
Confederate Government"
These papers, the News, World, and
Record, reflect the views Of nearly all
the Northern supporters Of the conven-
ton, and these views will Of course be
relished by the SouthernIdelegates. The
Southerners arc mot slow to ascertain
their power and make the most Of it.
The Richmond Enquirer joins in the de-
mand for tna exclusion of all tests OF
loyalty, and repudiates the convention
in advance unless the demand shall be
complied with 1t goes further and
boasts that the Southern ex-rebels "have
the game in their own hands" 1t says:
" The Conservatives Of the North,
since their rupture with the Republican
party, need 4c a. much as 9Ce need Mem.-
We have the game in our own hands"
In other words. the Enquirer knows
that the Republican party is the popular
party at the North, and that those OPP
posed to it c&u have no hope of success
except through Southern assistance.
The Northern opponents of the Republi-
can party realize this fact as well as the
Southerners do, and will therefore con-
cede to the South all it demands as they
did in ante-rebellion times. That is the
secret OF the present clamor of the News,
World and Record, against all tests Of
loyalty. What then can the New York
Times, with It's CoFporals guard OF sup
porters. do against the united strength
of the 50 called Democrats " of the
South and North
But Their experience in the past should
teach these old Democrats lesson.
1t was their concessions to the South,
their cringiDg subservience to the whip
cracking slava-dTivers that brought them
from great power as a party down to
utter ruin. Now that they are attempt
ing to re. organize their party, they are
taking the same course, and their party
bids fair TO die IN its birth. And if any
thing furthe- were needed to ALLEVIATE
rrom the new party all support and sym
patty among The Northern people, We
have il in the riots and murders of the
New Orleans mob who are good support
ers Of the ph.ioa7lpAia Convention. Such
proceedings as those at New Orleans
will unite the North as firmly and irresist-
ibly as did 5na FIRST rebel fire upon Fort
Sumter