Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-06-07

Letters Were read and some speeches
made and then Wendell Phillips took
the :, nd and delivered the address OF
the occ aston. Mr.. Phillips was Impair
tial as ,stween the President and Con.
gress, denouncing both with about equal
bitterness He charged the President
with having wlllfully and deliberately
betrayed the North, the Cabinet with
supporting him in the betrayal, and Con-
gress with surrendering and ceasing TO
claim the right TO dictate terms to the
white men Of the South. He denounced
the reconstruction amendment to the
Constitution now before Congress, and
in short, with his usual billioushess, as
sailed everybody, from Abraham Lincoln
down, except sumner and Ingersoll and
Thad. Stevens"
But the most noteworthy portion of
his speech was that in which he virtu-
ally declared his intention to join the
"copperheads." His object is to defeat
the Republican party at the coming Fall
elections. He said
HE hoped that the amendments to
the constitution as now shaped would
be rejected, and that on this issue the
republican party would be defeated; and
he should welcome all aid from copper
heads or any other source to accomplish
such end. If on such sasis it wins,
then we shall only have Mr.. Sumner and
a hall dozen others to hold the radical po-
sition. On the other hand, if the demo-
Gratis carry the day, the republican party
will be massed in one solid opposition to
keep alive the war of ideas. The return
of the South means reputation, bank
ruptcy and national ruin. Wilson and
Fessenden and Trumbull are directing
ali their efforts to save the party by sac
rifcing the great principles Of liberty.
The South has triumphed nine times out
OF ten, because she had an idea in which
she believed. The policy Of the North,
ever since the wing party, has been cow
ardice, timidity and failure. Stephen
A. Douglas TaS a power, because he
cherished and believed in an idea, how
ever false. The republican party, since
1861, has gone into the field with plat
form which is lie, and deliberate,
systematic sacrifice of principle to save
party. Mr.. Phillips said that it was our
duty 10 defeat this sacrifice Of principle.
1t was intamy to sacrifice the negro in
such an hour as this. The measure of
basing representation on voters in Or
der to induce the South to admit the ne
gro TO the right Of suffrage from selfish
ness, would fail. If the civil rights bill
depends en the executive force of An
drew Johnson, it is not worth the paper
on which it is written. The white man
will never admit the negro to rights
which may bring him into social equal
ity. A mere vote would not be so OBJ
jectionable; but the southerner is
alarmed at the logical consequences.
The nation has one salvatiOn-and only
One-and II we have not learned the
lesson, the South will come back and
perhaps effect her purpose at last. Mr.
Phillips said that he hoped to God that
the republican party would be defeated
in the Fall elections, and that thereby all
woHld De driven to take q position by
the side Of Sumner, and Ingersoll and
Thad. Stevens He declared that no
troops can be withdrawn and that the
protection OF the bayonet should be ex-
tended 10 every ballot box, so that vote
could De deposited as safely in the re-
motest counties of Alabama or Texas,
by the numblest or blacklist citizen, as
in the city Of Boston. We had lost the
cause through the bigotry and coward
ice Of Abraham Lincoln; and if in 1864
we had possessed leader the contest
would have been finished, and left moth
ing to 0 for '65 and '66. Now he pre-
dicted as many revolutions as there had
been in France before all right was &C
complisned, and the whole teaching of
the war brought to practical bearing"
Phillips reconstruction policy" is to
force negro suffrage on the Southern
States at the point of the bayonet. Con-
gress doesn't adopt his policy, and he
joins the "copperheads. Extremes
meet. We hope the "copperheads" will
have q good time with him and his fol-
lowers, If he has any.
A letter was read from Rev. Samuel
Johnson OF Salem, Mass, who also bit.
terly attacked the Republican party and
declared that slavery had triumphed. |
Whether he made this declaration on ac-
count OF the adoption by Republican
votes Of the Constitutional Amend
ment forever abolishing slavery, and the
passage Of the Civil Rights bill and the
Bureau bill, etc., does not |
appear. Henry G. Wright, who is des-
cribed as an ex-reverend and infldel mis- |
sionary at large, made speech in which |
it appeared that he had spent some time |
in political missionary work in Connect
icut. He said that che thought that |
state, where there were so many prayers,
30 many bibles and so many revivals,
was about the meanest place he knew of. |
The spirit which they displayed toward |
The negro in the suffrage question was
black as ink and bitter as hell. There
was yet much work to be done. The
people had got to be educated to the
idea Of universal equality before the