Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-12-27
lriLANp HERA' ID.
MONDAY, DECEMBER "a, 1866.
Reviving the Rebel Spirit.

the country into bloody and fratrlcidal
war, which ended In their section being
thoroughly whipped, are now, just as
the nation is recovering from the stag
gering effects Of that strife, endeavoring
to revive the old rebel feeling in their
locality, with the intention of again in.
volving the respective sections of our
land In a suicidal struggle.
We give below few brief extracts
rom the Southern press, beginning with
quotation from the Christian Compan-
ion, Gs its name indicates, a religious pa
ner, published at Jefferson, Texas:
I'VE are no extremist. We believe in
ae bible as 1t is, and the Constitution
\ { the United States as il was. Our
Hight, If we have to fight and must fight,
against the radicals and the devil
The one, if we had the power, we would
Hamply remove from this Union--the
Aother from the entire world. Who is so
5ase a coward that he will not again un-
sheathe his sword in defense of Consti-
a.1tional liberty? Shall the fanatical
Radical usurp the last vestige OF the gla-
ldOus Constitution bequesthed to us by
bur fathers Veteran soldiers, to the
IrOnt-march to your tents, oh, Israel
Imminent dangers surround US Organ
lZe organize!
The Richmond Times gives express
ion to disturbing apprehension" in
Pie minds of many, that the good old
Virginia stock will run out in about a
generation, overwhelmed, confounded
bnd demoralized by an invasion of wash
Ils machines, cooking stoves, Goldfish,
bold meats, picked pork, poor cheese
End Yankee notions generally" but en-
Iourages itself with the hope that "the
lood Of true Virginians" will not dete-
torate so easily, and says, with dellc-
lus flavor of the old bombast of the
ays before the war:
IF Northern immigration sets strong
TO our State it will be seen that the
preign element will change sooner than
Fe will. The habits, customs, genius
hd virtues Of our people have been
tanted by God, and by the help OF God
le VIII keep them. A thousand years
/ war may roll over US earthquakes
kay shake down our mountains and
lFallow up our dry land floods may
hsh their wild waves over the places of
hr abode; but as long as there floats a
tue son of the Old Dominion upon a
Iank Of the wreck he will be Virginian
El."
The same paper revengefully speaks
I the following strain of the burning of
fe frigate New Ironsides:
The Sonthern people will be able to
bar this disaster the more philosophi-
PLY when they reflect on the fact
pat the iron.clad in question was
try prominent actor in the events of
be war on the Southern coast To us
e most touching, pathetic line in the
fcount is the last-and she cost over
100000" Southern pockets will be
lxed to make this good
THE Columbia South Carelinian is one
the most vituperative rebel organs
fblished in the South. In late issue
Igives vent to it's feelings against Con-
ess in the following significant man.
II:
Hooking to Washington one would
lagine that hell had been transferred to
bt point, and that we bad exchanged a
Eiberative Congress for pandemonium
tt all Union-loying, patriotic, God
bring men, North and South, wait,
htch, and stand firm We shall yet
4lsh the strong handed faction ofrump
Jason, and mete out bloody justice
BON its advocates Be men, and bide
CUR time-sleep upon your arms-ready
strike gloriously for liberty and your
nntry Live the republic-perish all
enemies p"
1.-The Nashville Banner, one of Mr..
hnsons most moderate and valued
Rporters in his own State, makes the
lowing observation, which he can
Fdly be expected to acquiesce in:
FIN honest truth, the great majority of
so-called Uunion or loyal men of the
enth were the merest trash that could
COLLECTED in civilized community, of
personal credit or social respectable.
1--we return to the Richmond Times to
aote the following pleasant remarks
ppn some Thanksgiving sermons sent
Jus Office by gentlemen who it calls
pioodhounds of Zion" sPariahs of the
iplt," and "the rabid dancing der
mes OF the church militant" because,
observes, none of them prayed for the
fase OF the unfortunate statesman at
Ftress Monroe
Stufied with turkey and surfeited
[n pudding, they still seem to hunger
the little which the war has left to
defeated section. Rubicund with
Porous wine, their feverish thirst for
pei blood and cruel prosecutions is as
lsumlng as that of some tawny lion
water after days hunt beneath the
Prchlng rays of an African SUM-"