Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-05-18
Another Rebellion.

Many Of the leaders of the late re-
bellion are still hoping for second one
which shall be more successful than the
hrst, and day by day are growing more
bold in utterance Of their reasonable de-
signs and expectations. They represent
the old fire eating class of Southern chiv-
airy as It existed in former days, and pos
sess large influence over the Southern
mind, and have already commenced pois-
oning the minds Of the people against the
government for second attempt, in some
form, to overthrow the government
They hope to accomplish enough by the
ballot, in alliance with the Northern dem
ocrats and copperheads, to enable them
easily do the remainder with the bullet.
On the second anniversary of the death
OF Stonewall jackson, the people through
out most Of the late rebel States, ceebrat-
ed that day by hanging their places of
business and abode in Grape and other
emblems of mourning, and of visiting
the graves of rebel dead and strewng
them with flowers. BY such means they
are seeking to preserve the element and
poison of secession for renewal of the
contest for their now defunct Southern con-
federacy. In this work they are having
the unqualified support of all northern
copperheads and Of that party which OPP
posed the war for the Union. On the an
niversary above mentioned Henry A
Wise, late general in the rebel army,
made speech at Richmond, which though
doubtless exaggerated in phraseology, no
doubt reflects the feelings Of large class
of people at the South. He was one of
those who was surrendered in the capitu-
lation by Lee to Grant, but one would
Judge that he was the victor instead of
the vanquished, by the holiness with
which he avows his reasonable hopes
In the palmiest days of the rebellion he
could not have been more defiant. From
this address we make the following ex-
tract, from which our readers can judge
for themselves:
81 don't know that am prisoner
Iaughter.) j am bound by no chain
/ have pass to go where ! please upon
the soil of my native land. At least Gen.
Grant says so. j might be arrested, but
l wanted no man living to tell me whittier
might go. (Cheers.) have the proud
satisfaction Of saying that fought until
we had won the privilege of being paroled.
(Applause) There is no authority here
or elsewhere to arrest me to or to stop
my mouth, so long as j obey the condi-
fions of that parole and upon that pa
role shall stand as long as live. Cap
plause.) You call me a prisoner Of war;
I am not prisoner of war If prisoner
at all, am prisoner of peace. Among
the last shots fired by infantry at Appom-
mattox were those fired by the troops that
had the honor and pride to lead ; and
there at Appomattox peace was brought
about.
You call the cause lest; it is not lost.
If it is lost, the cause of civil liberty is
doomed, for il, too, is lost There was a
Paradise lost and Paradise regained, /
and there viii be Paradise regained in
this country. The blood that has been
spilled is too precious. 1 should not be-
lieve in God if did not believe that
special providence would yet give victory
10 and secure the triumph of civil liberty
in this country
One thing can be said, there was one
man who could not be driven to do that
which he did not consent to do. As long
a. ono man in fhio C<a,nr,,.,, xvoalsL 10
voice, what Commonwealth y What
There never was bnt
me Virginia. Bot / tell you, Old Vir-
ginia Is not at home. She will come back
some Of these days, and then the devil
axe the hind moss. am watching. and