Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-08-30

the sacred pledge and guarantee OF the
nations honor and the Constitution OF
our forefathers, and yet-dare assert
that the rights Of the States are, were,
and never shall cease to be respected
The national debt-Hot a dollar OF
which is held at the South, but which
has been created to subsidiZe mercena-
ries to throttle our infant freedom-the
national debt is pledged TO be sacred and
inyiolate, no doubt meaning non-taxable
also; while the pittance snatched nom
the widows and orphans from the South
TO help in defending the sacred soil of our
homes, is branded with eternal worth
lessness."
The Richmond Examiner complains Of
the Southern delegates TO the conven-
ton -
rive did not send the right kind of
delegates to the convention, and those
that we did send appear to have neglect
ed their business. The whole subject
has been treated exclusively from
Northern tand-point, and the South
once more has been left out in the cold.
The fourth resolution afilrms the right
of representation, but in terms which
squint strongly at the test oath, and Mr..
Raymond's heresies. Unless the test
oath be set aside, we regard all talk
about representation in Congress for the
South as hollow mockery. That the
Northern people should think it right to
tax US for the support of the widows
and orphans of those who fought against
us and desolated our land, is it not sim
| gular; for they come of a selfish breed,
| and think little of the feelings of others.
| This exaction, we suppose, we must
| stand; but it is not right to call upon
us to dishonor our gallant dead, and to
| trample on the feelings of the widows
and orphans of the South by recogniz-
ing the services of the Federal soldiers
| and sailors in the late contest. That
Southern delegates should join in this
that they should avow their readiness
to tax all, including even the widows
and orphans of the South, for this pur-
| pose, is, to US, utterly incomprehensible.
There are some things which nature it.
| self cannot brook which no cold sug-
| gestion of policy will allow us to toler-
ate, and that is one of them. We have
no votes, and all we can do is to look on
quietly, wishing success to the conser-
vative phalanx, but declining at the same
| time to ratify what is not true, or to re-
ward by ovations our own very unprof-
table servants who have paid half fare
to Philadelphia, and done less than half
work"
The Richmond Times is not satisfied
with what the President has done. He
must do more. Says the Times
"The measure of Andrew Johnson's
magnanimity and justice to the defeated
section is yet dwarfed and its symmetry
impaired by his failure to issue proc.
lamation of amnesty, or of free and full
pardon to all the prominent confederate
officials who participatedin the late wal
for independence. AS long as a pure
unselfsh, noble Christian hero, states.
man and soldier like ex-President Davis
is. immured ina dreary prison, and sub.
jected to the insults of coarse brute
like Miles, and left to the tender mercies
of q judicial ruffian who has declared
that he could pack jury which would
convict Jefferson Davis, the Presiden
will not occupy in the eyes of Christen
dom the elevated position which he Ii
entitled to FILL"
There are reports that the "noblt
Christian hero, statesman and soldier,
Jefferson Davis, will soon be released by
order of President Johnson, for the pur
pose, we suppose, of fulfilling the lat
ters immortal declaration that "treasor
must be made odiousp. The Richmond
Times will then be satisfied on that point
And if there is anything else the down
trodden trait-no, patriots Of the South
would like, they can doubtless have i
on application to A. Johnson and tn
supporters Of "my policy" For "trea
son must be made odious !"
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