Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-12-13
RUTLAND HERALD.
spirit oi the southern Press.
The Augusta Constitutionalist devote


party. 1t points to the readiness with
which the people Of the South have "for-
given" Seward and Johnson, in times
past justly regarded as their worst enc
mics, rs an indication that the present
leaders of the Republican party would
receive the friendship OF the reconstruct
ed communities with equal promptness
should they do as much to deserve 1t,
and says:
Summers record, or wade's record, is
not enc whit better than Stewards. Not
so bad. They have not done US so much
harm as he. They would conciliate us
by o little justice and little kindness,
as easily as Seward has done. The
Southern people are not implacable.
They are not vindictive. Why do not
the Radicals take the hint 2"
The same paper in another issue thus
curtly hints at contingency which the
Southern papers are constantly holding
In view, as the result of continued contu-
macy:
"When matters get into an inextrica-
Bile snarl, some Grant or Sherman may
enact the part of Alexander, Conse-
quent upon measures pushed to the last
extremity, the South may peaceably in
herlt her rights"
The Columbia South Carolianian thus
treats of Thanksgiving day, announcing
q suspension of its paper on that festi-
val under protest
"In the Pilgrim land turkeys will be
murdered by the million, and baked
beans and pumpkin pies swept from ex-
istence by the cartful. Political preach
ers will go into ecstacies over the glories
of the Republic in general, and the Yam
kee in particular. We shall be abused
and held up to the scorn of all mankind
and the rest of the world, and fed into
imaginary knife-mills that will tear us
into ten thousand fragments; but we
presume nobody will be hurt or fright
ened, and if we indulge in thanks at all,
it will be that Providence has voucbsafed
to us the privilege of living apart, as
separate and distipct people, from those
whose prayer and aim it is to make us
little better than slaves"
The Memphis Post records highly
honorable incident at recent dinner in
Richmond, of which q son Of Gen, Lee
was the hero. The guests were mostly
ex-rebel officers:
1.-THE wine went round, after dinner,
and one fiery young blood, who, with
all his hard knocks, had had no discre-
ton knocked into his boiling brain,
arose and proposed The Fallen Flag
Colonel Lee promptly placed his hand
upon the glass and arose. Gentlemen
said he,' this will not do. We are pa
rolled prisoners. We now have but one
flag, and that is the flag OF our whole
Countrywide glorious old stars and
stripes. can recognize no other, fight
for no other, and will drink to no
other"
In the course of the comments Of the
Georgia Constitutionalst on the Presi-
dents message occur the following
en,en,es:
at is impossible to withhold grim
smile when the Emperor Of Russia is al
luded to as humane and enlightened
ruler or at the constant reiteration of
the word nation as descriptive of our
autonomy. The logic of such strange
bits of blarney is inevitable, and the
casuist may trace in the qualification of
words the rapid progress Of republican
ism towards autocracy. 1t would be
damaging for the people of the United
States to abuse the Gear, for both have
Polands and Siberias. 1t would offend
the consoidationist if nationality were
rejected, although the Fathers renounced
the word, and every day makes US less
and less homogeneous, less and less a
nation.
In that portion of the message which
relates to the South, we are painfully
struck with its exceeding calm. 1t has
the appearance of last protest against
wrong, the final testament of dying
gladiator. He seemed to feel that duty
required him to thus emphatically enun-
ciate the faith of his unshrinking soul"
The Richmond Examiner prints an
elaborate protest against the expression
of "Southern opinion" made by its
former editor, Mr.. Pollard, in the pros
pectus of his new paper, and says the
perpetual hate which he proclaims
against the Yankee" is not shared by
the people Of Virginia in general. The
Examiner says:
rive yield to no man in just indig-
nation at the wrongs and atrocities in
1icted by the North on our unhappy
section, or in q becoming resentment for
the conduct still pursued towards us by
those whom Providence for some in
scrutable reason permits to WELD power
and wreak malice. We have no excuses,
no palliation to offer for the guilt Of
those who have thus pursued US with
sauseless hate. If this harsh rule
shall long prevail, the effect will I'M
questionably be to make these resent
ments permanent and enduriDg-per-
hsps, indeed, an ineradicable hate, wait
ing simply for an opportunity of re-
venge. But, if the cause of contin ned
irritation be removed, if the Northern
people shall be brought by reason and
reflection no longer to treat the South
ern people as enemies, but with tie
justice and respect due to equals under q
common government, then the resent