Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-06-28
RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, JUNE 81, 1866.
Northern Rebeis.-Our Security.

NOCdtts vi stecsciou ohu iSNNi'iSh a. sAAS
South, attended the recent democratic
State convention in Illinois, and wrote
home as follows;
~ almost feel as If were in rebeldom
when i hear these gentlemen talk. II
possible, they are more jealous and I'M
compromising In their hostility to radi-
calism than we are at home"
The New York Daily News, the organ
of one wing of the democracy, warmly
approves the speech of Mr.. Harris OF
Maryland, recently made in Congress, in
which the right and duty Of secession
were openly avowed. The News, howev-
er, says:
ait is of no avail NoV to insist that
the right of secession is one of the at
tributes of the political system under
which exist the United States of Ameri-
ca. That question has been submitted
to the arbitrament of arms; and, so far
as the influence of mere physical force
can determine it, it has for the time be-
ing been determined. The South accepts
the result, in respect to its present prac-
tical application; but that acceptance
does not imply any abandonment, in
thought of the principle, upon which the
secession movement was founded"
Thus it will be seen by the testimony
given by leading Southern ex-rebel
concerning his allies in Illinois, and the
unblushing averment of democratic
organ in New York, that sympathy with
the doctrine and practice Of secession
and rebellion is still cherished by Nor
thern democrats.
The doctrine Of estate sovereignty"
implies the right of secession, and al
though claimed under the Constitution,
it is, as we showed in the HERALD Of
yesterday, in direct and fragrant opposi-
ton to that sacred instrument. Men
talk Of guarantying the future by uni
versal or impartial suffrage, and by va
rious other means; but we tell them
plainly and understandingly, that so
long as the people elect men to office
and give them control of our political
machinery, who so far misunderstood
or misinterpret the Constitution as to
deny it's plainly expressed authority to
protect the government and people
against rebellion by individuals or
States, we have no assurance, no guar
anty whatever for the public peace or
the stability Of the government. He
who advocates the doctrine Of Estate
sovereignty" advocates also the right of
secession, and is in theory an enemy to
good government and rebel. He poi
sons the public mind by such advocacy,
and so far as his influence goes, disturbs
the public peace and puts in peril the
national safety.
We are decidedly in favor of impair
tial suffrage, and would make no dis
elimination on account of race or color;
but to guard and protect the public
mind against the influence of politicians
of the state sovereignty school, we need
and must eventually have suffrage baseC
on intelligence. Let the voting popu
lation be an intelligent one-one thai
can read and comprehend the Constitu
ton and laws made for their protection
and there will be little danger to be ap
pretended from the teachings Of Jeffer
son Davis, Franklin Pierce, or Horatic
Seymour. We are thankful that Yer.
mont has never given support or coun'
tenance to any such heresy but it must
not be forgotten, that before the year o
our Lord 1860. the National Government
and a majority Of the States have beer
of this state sovereignty democracy; anC
the fact is very generally accounted fol
among intelligent observers, by the large
mass of ignorant foreign voters, who
almost to man support the false polit
ical leaders to whom we have referred
Now that slavery is destroyed, the food
tide of foreign migration will be likely
to sweep into the South, as it has sweep
into the North and as ignorance ha'
been the strength of demagogues in tn
past it will be even more so in the fu
ture. The practical and bloody illustra
tons of this false democracy which W
have had the past five or six years, hav
thrown it out of power in all the North
ern States, and the remedy we sugges
can only protect us against its return
The national adjustment provided in tn
reconstruction plan adopted by all tn
Union members of Congress, will, as ia
as it can be made practically available
materially contribute to the public secu
rity; but that security will be more am
pie when suffrage both impartial an
intelligent shall be secured for all tn
States.
PRESIDENTIAL NoMINATIoNs.-Pres
Johnson, on Tuesday, sent to the Senat