Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-04-30
THE RUTLAND HERALD
The Vile Language nj the 'on>'N-
nIi,e Press,
FRIDAY. NrBIL 49, l~s

ntiNe PRESS
on the anniversary OF thc death Of the
lamentel Lincoln, thc laCro,,o Democrat
which IS popular Journal If the 'o"''r''
alive or Democratic muses. o' the ofun-
try, some hundred, ofwhieh are circulated
among the Grcnn Mountain oi Vermont
presented Ia II, r,ad,r, an article on the
tragedy which made u % nation ct
mourner,, and in concluding gave vent :"
the following vile language, which 1t docs
not seem possible even "a demon could
ndite;
DO YOU blame as when -, ,ay that
God was Jus, in sending John Nllkt-
Booth on tina, dark Good Friday night
three years agn. the darkest and gloomles'
in American history, O. strike the traitor
down, aud libcratc the white freedmen
of America from the yoke Of dc,po'
God i just,
He struck the tyrnt Lincoln from
existence at an hour when the country
eeald ia laager- hear the burden OF him.
and God in His wisdom, cannoi lct the
free people OF America, whom He has ;"
protected and prospcrca, long remain
chatting under the rule of dc>pots
This history of the past has many
warnings for the future.
80 Treason treason We hear you cry,
but ii such things be treason, We confess
il, and beseeeh you "a make good use of II.
This day-April l5th-is the anniycr'
sary of the emancipation of the white
men of America from the CALLING chains
Of Jacohin tyranny. and. as such, will
long hence De celebrated. On each &C.
currence of this day il will be the glori-
Gus privilege of the liberated freemen OF
America 10 lift their voices, and with one
accord thank God there is no Abraham
Lincoln President now |"
This is the foul utteranoc of a man who
claims 10 be, and is. leader of his party,
and even at their honds is rendered the
compliment Of nomination for high and
responsible Offices individuals of that
party tell US they are not responsible for
the shameful language of this man, and
yet he is a representative of a large and
important element of their party, and his
paper has a party circulation and patron
age which gives it power and influence.
Can it be- possible that men of any po-
litical class can countenance in their hon
est hearts such yituperation Of the mem
DRY of the statesman and hero whose
virtues are preserved with venera-
ton which is accorded to few men
who have been three years in
their graves Time has tempered the
sftliction, but, the great calamity which
the country endured when Mr. Lincoln
died, is fresh in the mind and hccft
of every American citizen, whether
loyal or disloyal, and when the anniver-
sary otthe sad tragedy returned, all those
high qualifications came up in review,
and the wound on the b0dy polite by his
assassination, bleeds afresh when such Ian
guage is spread before the public by one
who is backed by numerous party, who,
by their endorsement of such villain,
give silent endorsement Of this attack and
leads us to thoughts of comparison be-
tween the pure and noble and the vipers
who send forth such outrageous villiica-
ton What a contrast between the mar
tyr whose memory is proclaimed and those
who thus stigmatize his memory In the
place of his wisdom, they exhibit folly !;
in the place of his goodness they show an
unconquerable propensity to evil; in
stead of his personal purity they endorse
debauchery. He was slow to anger
they give vent to fierce, jealous and sus-
picious temper; he exhibited unselfsh
ambition, they tho aspirations of vulgar
demagogues, He was patriot, they un-
blushing partisans He was moved by a
christian spirit, they by the animus Of
pro-slavery ruffians.
o how shameful to parade before the
world as virtue, the greatest tragedy in
which j. Wilkes Booth ever bore part
1t is perhaps within the possibility Of
christian endeavor, though the life o.
Lincoln was poured out, to forgive the
morbid desire for notorcty and the unrc
lieved brutality, the result perhaps of a
perverted moral sense by which the muir
derers hand was steadied. But TO- hold
up before an enlightened world the brutal
assassin as one whose act will he reverence
ed and admired in future history is an
unblushing sacrilegc that should make
the men who support and sustain
the author Of such sentiment
be he the political Godfather of then
party, hide their heads in shame. But
Notwithstanding we have such politica
savants in our country rs would defy j
Wilkes Booth, yet We have the cousola
ton to feel that in the perennial freshness
OF Abraham Lincoln's name, every ycal
growing brighter in the minds Of the race
as the thinkers thereof have time to apprc-
ciate and weigh the unity and beauty OF
his character, We have the final contrast
to that quick forgetfulness that will bury
the assassin and those who seek to make
him the martyr Of American freedom in
the grave of oblivion.
kossUTH.-The lower house of ~ the
Hungarian Diet has verified the election
g. of Kossuth, and it is probable he viii ac-
nayN$ h I. ed.
twenty years, the great radical leader may