Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-08

names OF tue NiCtiuS Oh the reOelllOn
buried in cemeteries in Maine, MINES
ota, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida,
Louisiana and California. The pamph-
let contains some 5000 names of de-
ceased soldiers, representing nearly every
State in the Union.
SOUTHERN oPINIoN. The Mobile Reg.
lister prints extracts from two private
letters from two gentlemen "who have
held distinguished places in public life"
both Breckenridge Democrats and Sc
ceders, and both large slaveholders-one
in Georgia and the other in Alabama
as "indices of the hopes and fears of the
thinking men of the South as to the fu-
ture." Both are very interesting ex-
pressions of Southern opinion, and we
transfer them to our columns The
Georgian, who writes under date of Oct.
%, it seems, instructed the President
year ago how to manage in order to out
run Grant in the Presidential race for
1868. The writer sees that Johnson has
completely failed, and is now ready to
throw him overheard as the Southern
candidate, and 'form on" Grant, If it be
possible. Johnson has been down in the
| dirt for his Southern friends, but went
too deep, and they will cast him aside
as soon as his official term expires, hav-
ing no further use for him. The Geor-
gisn says
Il have no real fear for the future. |
cannot conceive that the great body OF the
Northern people can be so utterly des-
titute of sympathy for their own race
and color as to do the very terrible
things which some of their leaders
! threaten. They have accomplished by
the war all they desired except one
thing, and that is the breaking of our
! proud naughty spirit. Whatever it is
necessary to do to retain power, that
they will do, and they would be glad to
have US properly subdued, that they
might retain it forever. | told the Pres
ident q year ago that he had but one
thing to do, and that was to keep so
close to General Grant that the latter
could not hit him. If he can do this, he
can be elected in '68 ; If not, he must be
beaten. Grant is really the man for us
to form on, if we can do it. He is the
great man of the North, and his word is
law whenever he chooses to speak. II
we can form party with Grant at its
head, he will crush out all lesser lights.
Johnson has done all he dared do for US ;
had he dared more, he would have been
stronger. He dallied too long with the
great questions before him. He saw
them from the beginning, and ought to
have taken his position promptly, and
made issues for the Congress in
place of allowing Congress to make
them upon him. They will make no
serious attempt to impeach him. They
will talk, introduce resolutions, and per-
haps present articles of impeachment in
theHouse, but without intending to send
them to the Senate. Impeaching the
President is q big thing'-it has it's
dangers as well as it's advantages to
them, and they will not be likely to do
anything which will affect the three
thousand millions of public debt held
by their constituents The curtain has
fallen only upon the first scene In the po-
litical drama. The grand principles for
which we fought were lost not because
they were wrong, but that their vindi-
cation was attempted upon questions
| involving slavery, and thus identified
the former were lost sight of in the
worlds hostility to the latter. But the
curtain must rise again upon other
| % hppDiD that nlonnn will
| not appear and then will come our vim
dication aud our triumph else self gov
eminent is failure and the divine
right theory is established in the worlds
history"
The Albanian is much briefer and
less hopeful. His letter is also dated
Oct. %, and is as follows;
"My opinion is (but it is worth little)
that in eighteen months our States will
be organized with Constitutions dis
franchising the negro-the adoption of
the constitutional amendment follows
and then what? | pass-Johnson is
making the same fight we made for thir.
| ~ years. Logic is not the weapon for
Radicaism. Buck and ball is the only
argument they are willing to compre.
bend. We commenced the fight and
would have whipped in it had the con-
servatiTe power of the North (agreeiDg
with us in pyipc5ple) joined US. We threw
that off in the rejection of Douglas.
Secession was rightful, but unwise In
that it diyidea tie friends of true representa-.
tire government. But enough Of this, etc.,
ETC."
As one more indication of Southern
sentiment" the comments on these ex-
tracts by the Register, whose editor is
John Forsyth, the well known Alabama
| politician, will be OF interest. 1t says
ave think the last correspondent has
| touched the germ of the question he dis
cusses with the acumen of a statesman
Rem tetigd aeu. The Radical mistake
was to undertake singly and alone at
the South to fight the battle of constitu-
tionalism, when by diplomacy and delay
we might have alliediwith us the friends
of the true representative government in
all parts of the Union. But we rather
share the hopeful views of our Georgia
correspondent. We believe the crisis
has passed when confiscation and dis