Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-27
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zens OF Jackson county say to John Dick
ing, Stay at home" ..
Another remedy for the intolerance TO-
wards Northern men in certain portion.
OF the South, would be silence. You ma,
come among us, and help rebuild and de-
velope our country, provided you will lei
us hold the offices and run the machiner,
of government. But no Yankee could de-
this, and tits unjust to ask it. Every
man of intelligence and character, mus
take his part in the affairs of life. More
over our murdered friend found himself
surrounded by a numerous class, ignorant
but loyal, just learning TO exercise theil
newly found rights. He might have
saved his life by leaving them, or by
quietly ignoring their claims to the privi
leges o. citizenship. But no. With a
courage and constancy for which we hon.
or his memory to-day, he counted the
cost and took the risks. The tone of his
letters, the detailed instructions TO his
friends, the golden words of his, which
have been quoted to-day, all showIthat in
being loyal to duty, he felt that he car
ried his life in his hand.
There is another remedy. When Gen.
Sheridan was in the Shenandoah Valley,
the rebel guerillas killed one of his quar-
termasters. What did the impetuous
General do? Taking the spot as a center,
he desolated all the region for five miles
square. Not house, barn or fence did be
leave. And after that Phil Sheridan's
quartermasters were safe.
Now am inclined to think similar
treatment in Jackson county several years
ago, when Dickinson's predecessor was
murdered, would have saved our friends
life. But such is an extreme remedy.
And it might secure only temporary safe
ty to loyal people. As Governor Stewart
has said, "desolation is not peace" We
need legislation that shall give permanent
safety. Some power must be exercised
that shall give to men of such character
as John Dickinson, the same freedom snd
safety in Jackson county, Florida, that
rebel carpet-baggers enjoy in New York.
And while it is not our province TO sug-
gest the method, it is our privilege and
our duty to call upon Congress, as we do
in the resolutions proposed, to inaupurate
measures to secure to all citizens the
rights which are guaranteed to them un-
der the constitution.
Rev. Willard Child, D. D., formerly
pastor of the Congregational Churches
in Pittsford and Castleton, was next
called mp, and in response said that it
would be impossible for him to make any
extended remarks, and would only re-
mind them that it was the nineteenth day
of April, the anniversary of the Battles of
Concord and Lexington, and of the kill
inu of Massachusetts soldiers by the rebels
in the streets of Baltimore.
REMARKS OF HON. WALTER C. DUNToN
Hon. Walter @. Dunton, in response to
the calls of the meeting. said that the
South was not civilized her people were
q brbarous people. What little civili-
z4tion they had only aided them in carry
ing out their hellish designs. He knew,
for he had met them in Kansas. What
to do with them is really problem, and
one difficult to answer. We have to deal
with a people nominally civilized, but
really barbarous. They are also cowardly
They did not dare to meet John Q. Dick
inson openly, face to face-so they were
in Kansas, and we did not succeed until
we met them in their own way; we there
fought out the battle, and in the end tri-
umphed and made Kansas free State.
The President of the United States
should send a military force to the South
and guarantee to every one protection in
his business and in the free expression of
his opinions, and give the people of the
South to understand that they must not
interfere with them. He knew John @.
Dickinson well, he had been a college
mate of his in Middlebury College, and
there became acquainted with him and
had learned to love him. Subsequently,,
he had remained for some three months
in Benson, the place of his nativity, and
there had renewed his acquaintance with
him and had also become acquainted with
his parents, his relatives and friends, and
had learned to appreciate him still more,
and he felt and knew that everything
that had been said in reference to him to-
day was true. He had seen him before
going to the South with his regiment, and
had taken an interest in him and had
kept informed in reference to him, and
knew that he had been doing good work
and had been faithful to his duty. After
serving faithfully to the close of the war
he deemed it his duty to remain at the
South to aid the only true loyal men of
the South, the blacks, who never had in
suited the flag of the Union, but had al
ways remained true to it, Sighting faith
fully for it when permitted to do so. and
even when poor, despised slaves, aided
our prisoners to escape from the prison
pens of the South, furnishing them with
fOOu anu lhcih w PihSco VI Saicty
And now, because he had been true
friend 10 them and had been faithful to
bis principles, he had been basely and
cowardly assassinated. Let Us, on this
occasion, consecrate ourselves anew to the
work of saving our country, and let us
send schools and teachers, churches and
ministers to the South, and let them be
sustained and protected when there.
REMARKS OF HENRY CLARK.
Henry Clark was then called upon and
said That it seemed to him on this oc-
casion silence would be more fitting and
most impressive, yet there are questions
and matters connected with the event
that has called the people together on that
occasion, that demand our consideration