Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-11


Grant, on the Sd, concerning the enforce
ment of the Ku KIux law. The language
used in the proclamation shows that the
President is determined that the law re-
quirements shall everywhere be main
tanned. Letters from the South state that
the mere enactment of the law has had
most excellent effect-Tbe Giadstonian
budget was adopted by the British House
of Commons, according to despatch, by
only 46 majority. These are small figures
when we know that the Liberals have
more than $50 majority in that body-and
1 Liberals and Ministerials are supposed to
be as one.-In Australia they are punish
ing men for their religious opinions. A
member of the Unitarian church was re-
Gently fined and sentenced to one years
imprisonment for announcing his faith in
a merciful God'-All the objections made
to the Ku.Klux bill remind one Of those
made to all attempts to enforce the law in
the South in bad old democratic times.
Then everything was as wrong as wrong
| could be that purposed to interfere with
the playful way the Southrons had OF
lynching men they didn't like, rifling the
mails, and cutting up all kinds Of shines
in the exuberanee of their chivalrous
spirits. To burn a negro was not so very
uncommon an occurrence in that dark
section, but sport of that vivid kind is at
present denied to the superior race, who,
naturally droop, now that their liberties
are interfered with by tyrannical, and
oppressive, and an undiscriminating ma
tional government. President Grant car
ries his ideas Of duty to such an extreme
that many persons actually believe that
he wouldn't surrender the Southern forts
to rebels, should they renew their little
game of 1861 in 1872. When such a
state of affairs prevails. everyone must see
how necessary is democratic restoration,
in order that the sacred right of rebellion
may be saved from proving total loss,
with no insurance.
A most respectable defalcation has been
discovered in the revenue department at
Baltimore, as the amount taken is said to
be 81 100000. The transaction took place
in 1S67-68, when Andrew the Second was
President. IT'S whisky ring affair
President Grant will visit Boston this
week, where and when the reunion of the
Army Of the Potomac will take place. A
number of distinguished Generals will be
present Burnside, Mcdowell, Barlow
and Park. Gen. Sheridan is expected
| While Northern Democratic journals de-
clare that there are no Ku-Klux outrages
at the South, some Southern Democratic
journals deplore the preparation of such
outrages, because they may lead to the de-
feat of the Democratic candidates for the
Presidency and Vice-Presidenoy in 1871.
Mr. Edward II. Rulloff, who is so I'M
pleasantly placed as to be lying under
sentence of death, he having been convict
ed of murder, has petitioned Gov. Hoff-
man to pardon him, first, because he is
not guilty of the crime of murder-which
in common fairness, is a very good reason
for pardoning sentenced man, provided
always, that it be made out and second
ly, because he 1.-THE said E. II. r.. is a
"tonguey fellow,"-that is to say, he
knows great deal about language. He
claims to be can expert" ia philology and
to know some things he would like to
make known to the learned world-but to
do that he must have time, and he is
under orders to swing on the 18th of May
Short time ia his to make known to the |
Western world what "Bacchus brought
from India" o thousands of years ago.
That nan,t ha an-o ;a +~ol~o days-
though the drinking business in which
Bacchus figured is already well known,
and badly followed.
Some learned men, acting after the
fashion of jury of matrons in an anale-
gous case when condemned woman seeks |
to postpone her execution, have examined |
Ruloff, and they can't see that he would
be delivered of any good were his dying
day to be postponed. In all probability
the man is an arrant humtug, and in pre-
tending to be rare philologist we sup
pose he is only doing his best to get the
rope from his neck. He cannot be blamed |
for making the best possible fight for his
life,-and as strategy is part of the fight
ing process, it is his right to have resort
to the stratagem of claiming to be master
of knowledge that would be found valu-
able, and which he is willing to exchange
against pardon. One pities the wretohed
man, and pities him all the more as his
purpose becomes the clearer. Even cor
nered wolf excites some feeling, and to
such beast of prey thus placed, Rulof
bears considerable resemblance. But his
trick is vain one, and will avail him lit.
tie, or nothing. The rope he is to stretch
is made, and his coffin boards are planed.
He processes to be particularly streng in
respect to the roots of language, but soon
the sheriff, aided by the sexton, will put
him-not where his brain will be fixed
on those roots, but-in a re cumbent posi- ,
ton, with
''The point of his nose
And the tip of his toes, /
Turned up to the roots of the daisies
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