Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-10-21
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The following article is copied from
the New York Sun, an Independent pa
per in political matters, and for this
reason it will be of great interest to our
readers. The fiood-gates of violence are
being opened upon us again, all through
the South, and it seems that brute force
IL to be made to balance the books
against the moral influence and force
of the great majority of he American
people throughout the country. When
the war closed the rebels were conquer
ed, and they were satisfied to receive
such terms as might be offered
them. They would have been content
ed to have given their allegiance to the
Government of the United States, if
that Government in all of its branches
had required it of them, emphatically.
Position after position has been yielded
by the Executive until the unrepentant
rebels have forgotten the chastisement
that has been given them, and they in
turn insult the power that spared their
lives and property. Here is what the
San gays:
The Southern rebels, unmindful Ofthe
fact that they owe their lives and re-
tention of what little property their own
suicidal folly has left them to the I'M
paralleled clemency of their conquerors,
seem bent on proving to the world that
they are undeserving of their good for
tune, and that they ought to have been
treated with a small portion, at least, of
that rigor which, in every civilized
country but ours, is thought to be the
desert of treason. Not content with
numbering private citizens, whose loyal :
ty and patriotism rebuke their own
crimes, and whose willingness to assist
in restoring to OrdOr the chaos that sue
2ceeded the dowfall of the Confederacy
has provoked their hatred, they have
grown bold enough to begin again those
acts OF piracy which have given to Sem
mes and Braine such infamous notori-
ETY.. A steamer, loaded with arms and
ammunition destined for the Govern
ment of the State of Arkansas, has been
seized on the great highway of the Mis-
sissippi river, by band of desperadoes,
and her lading destroyed. The outrage
was committed openly, and without
any attempt at concealing the identity
Va tlOSc cIlSdScu III IL. NO uOuDt IL Is
considered among the unrepentant re-
bells of the neighborhood as praise
worthy achievement
The purpose of this piratical exploit is
evidently to cripple the State Govern.
ment in any efforts it may make to pro-
tect the loyal inhabitants of Arkansas
against their enemies, or to enforce the
laws which Interfere with the sove-
reign will and pleasure of the rebel
population. 1t is bold defiance to the
National Government, too; for it
threatens similar treatment to the
arms and ammunition of the United
States troops whenever they shall be sent
into Arkansas to maintain the national
authority. If there We're doubt left in
any sane mans mind Of the nature
and feelings which animate a large por-
ton of the Southern people, it must be
dispelled now. The rebellion is still
smouldering, and only awaits fitting
opportunity to burst out into flame
which would enwrap the whole coun-
try, if it could.
Much, if not all, of this prolongation
of contest which, according to every
rule of common sense, should have been
ended three years ago, is due to the un-
patriotic course which many influential
public men have taken. Instead of co.
operating III the permanent restoration
of peace according to true Democratic
principles, they have persistently MAIN
tanned an attitude of friendship for the
rebels and hostility to the restoration of
the national power. TO crown their
folly, they have nominated las candidate
for Vice-President, man previously
pledged to forcibly undo what little has
been accomplished towards rebuilding
the ruins left by the rebellion, and to
once more put the dis.oyal element Of
the South in the ascendency. If Ian
guage means anything, Mr.. Blair's Ian
guage Means that if he and Mr.. Sey-
mour succeed at theapproaching election
some of the most important results of
the victories of our arms shall be swept
away, and everything of which their
treason has now deprived them be given
back to the rebels. There can be no
question that the nope of such a result
lies at the bottom of these outrages at the
South, of which we have, unhappily,
to chronicle so many, and that it Keeps
alive the passions which burned so
fercely during the war.