Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-11-07
RUTLAND HERALD.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ., 1867.
The south and the Elections.

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The rebel papers of the South, as well
SIS their Democratic contemporaries OF the
North, are as exultant over the results
of the October elections as they were
over the Democratic victories at Bulls
Run and Balls Bluff. or course they
are, as in this apparent forgetfulness on
the part of the loyal people OF the North
10 their duty to the Union which urged
them to so vigorously prosecute the late
war against a slaveooracy, they fancy
that ground is afforded them for hope
that the South may yet get back into
the Union without negro suffrage or any
rebel Acknowledgement. They forget
that the present Congress has the power
to end the reconstruction question, and
will undoubtedly do so. That the forty
first Congress will be as radical as It's
Immediate predecessor is as certain as
any future contingency we'll can be, so
that no temptation can possibly exist to
close the issue now dividing the politics
of the country; but there Is no reason to
expect that any rebel State will fail to
comply with the terms OF admission
now before them long enough to give
the next Congress an opportunity to act
npon the matter, as it Is more than prob
able that all, or nearly all OF them, will
be ere another year in the full enjoy
ment of State rights, with universal
loyal suffrage established by organic or
constitutional law. The obstruetionists
are reckoning apparently without their
host, in imagining that their Northern
confederates can by any possible means
give them material aid in their diaboli-
cal attempt to keep their respective
States in subsection to military rule, In
the hope of ultimately thwarting Impair
tial suffrage.
In the vain hope Of regaining political
power, the INSCRIPTIONS demagogues Of
the South would sacrifice the material
interest of the Southern people: With
out the security which firmly established
institutions bring, no people can develop
their resources to any considerable ex-
tent. Anything approaching anarchy is
fatal to enterprise. The South may send
up a Macedonian cry for capital and
men, but to little purpose until the close
OF the reconstruction imbroglio. Then
both will pour in upon them and soon
restore the waste places TO their original
condition and not before. The more,
therefore, that that work is retarded the
worse it must be for all classes.
While confident that restoration will
be effected by the present Congress upon
its chosen plan, it is not to be denied
that the copperhead gains in the October
elections are Liable to do some mischief,
as a Washington dispatch informs US
that tho l0-.a sloyaholov,s lao 70 Nod THAR
heads turned so much by them as to look
to restoration of the institution of
slavery within few years, and even
confidently expect monied remuner-
alton for their slaves which were liber-
ated by the emancipation proclamation
of the lamented Lincoln. .....
In tn ose elections every anti-Republi-
can vote cast was a silent, yet distinctly
audible declaration that secession was
right,-at least such was the construc-
ton put upon 1t by those who waged
four years war upon the national gov
eminent and this fact should be borne
in mind by the Republicans of the States
who hold their elections next week. Let
them bear in mind that whatever NAV
be the causes which induce or necessi-
tate their absence from the polls, such
action will be construed into indorse-
ment OF, or at least apology for, the crime
of treason,-a fact which alone should
be sufficient to, and will induce the Re-
publicans of New York, Massachusetts,
Wisconsin and Minnesota to roll up
humping majorities for the cause Of
freedom on Tuesday next.