Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-10
RUTLAND HEhALD.
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1866,
,.,,or..,,ng Letter from the SOuth.

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mast eight or nine months arrived at
New York, a few days since aud from
that city writes an interesting letter on
men and things at the South, not omit
inc the newly Improved railway "ctli-
ties for travelling between Charleston
and New York. which the writer regards
90 far more agreeable and better Than
those furnished 10y SEA, The letter is
dated April %, and in it the season and
ITO developments IN the different .ati,
trd.s are thus described -
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN SPRING.
uAt .biS season Of the wear a quick
,rin rom Georgia 70 New York is q IT.
verse; panorama OF the advance OF
erri,o. A'uug ;he Georgia coast the
cotton ami corn were iust emerging from
the ground. the woods were thoroughly
green. and the early vegetables were
plentiful and tempting in the market
nlaces. Through South Carolina the
negroes were Just planting their crops
in North Carolina the pIOughmen We're
still at work and in Virginia all the
of winter. Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey, Seen in full sunlight, were
like q new coming of the spring in vivid
green Of groves and grains. 70 one
who has been for a long time eNlled in
the South, where green grass is an
exotic, where clover languisheS In gar
den-plOts, and where lawns are unknown
and impossible, the soft beauty OF North
ern verdure in spring time has an mex
irresistible charm. Notwithstanding all
the loneliness that prose and poetry have
united in attributing tOOur sunny South,
il would be difficult to match n the
most beautiful spot of Carolina, Georgia
or even in Ponce de Icons Land of Flow
ers any of our ordinary hillside views
in Nav and for the delights and beau
ties Of renewed vegetation and advancing
summer, they are inappreciable at the
South, since so many plants are ever
green, so many flowers bloom the win
ter through, and so many days OF Janu-
airy have the genial temper of our own
June.
As the letter is the last one the cor
respondent proposes to write from the
South, he gives his opinion as to the
condition of affairs so much more can
didly and intelligently than many whose
illusions we have perused, that we pro-
pose to give our readers liberal extracts,
which we arrange under appropriate
undertakings
SOUTHERN PRIDE AND OPINION.
Politically | cannot but think that
the State of public opinion in South
Carolina, Georgia, and Florida is worse
than it was before the war, or at least
more antagonistic to our Northern ideas
of State subordination. No single orig
inal secessionist. so far as | have seen,
has changed his views in the least.
However resigned he may be to the
course of events, he still Clings fondly
to the belief that the South were right
in every view and chat he and his fell
lows have done their duty to the best OF
their ability, only to be overpowered
by overwhelming numbers of MERGE
naries and foreigners-as clergyman
in Savannah said to me. "1f Hardee had
only remained in this "city, he asserted
at would never have been taken
VeululEu 10 dIluilt W GilC uulllpSA tAil'
energy o. Sherman'S forces. But you
cannot believe that your men, at the
best, were any match for ours in eQua
numbers 2" returned the Southern par.
son. Indeed, how could it be So when
our men were animated by the pures'
motives which ever actnated the heart
of man, patriotism Of the truest kind
the striving for independenCe-tht
Consciousness Of fighting for home anc
all that was dear TO them, while YOU
armies were mere merCenary troops. y
Coursa we were in the advantage.
fear became unpleasantly angry with
the sanity man, and told him warmly
that it would please me to match !
Massachusetts, country regiment, maj
for man, against any crack GtorSll
troops that he might pick. The poo
fellow had to listen to forCible orator
on the composition Of our Northern
armies fortified with citations and foot
notes from DR.. Bellows, the Harvard
and Yale catalogues, Tom Hughes anC
Adjutant, General SChouler,
The universal feeling among tn
original secessiouists of the South seem
to be one of pride in. their course, blind
ness to any merit in their "ConqueTorS,
submission from necessity only to tn
present requirements of the government
and the opinion that under similar cir
Cumstances their duty would lie in pre-
cisely similar action again. So far Their
is certainly no improvement on the Oh
Southern secession spirit.
HOW ORIGINAL UNIoETsTs TURNED SECEs
SIoNISTs,
Where | see exactly the reverse
among many who were anti-secessio
and actual Union men before the war
thousands of intelligent men who bOlc
" and resolutely opposed secession u
TO its actual elimination, then CAV
themselves over body and soul, j vii
ing sacrifice to their State, and used a
their energy and wealth in sustainin
the rebel cause. Most of these men +
tain little or none Of their Union teelir
and are embittered by long fighting ar
misfortunes into regarding the Mort
and the Government as an alien co
queror. Their only regret seems to
ANW