The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-08-22

Our special dispatches from Vermont
yesterday, describing the part taken in the
Democratic canvass of that State by speakers
from the South, embodied rebuke and an
example to the Republican managers which
they ouglt to learn something from, if they
are not hopclessly Bourbonized. Two
rebel brigadiers," one from North Carolina
and the other from Mississippi, have been
talking to the people of Vermont in speeches
that have commanded general attention by
the moderation of their tone and the nation
alism of their spirit. Gen. Martin, one of
the speakers, declared, what every intelli-
gent man knows to he the truth, that the
South believes the war to he over: that it
has forever given up slavery and secession
that it has acccded to the constitutional
amendments, and has no wish to disturb
them. lie likewise dealt frankly with the
bugbear of "the rebel claims" There is,
he said, no rebel debt; the bond given by
the Southern Confederacy was simply q
promise to pay certain sums six months after
a ratification of peace with the United
States" The only claims that can constitl.
tionally be presented or considered are those
of Southern men who opposed the rebellion,
and these the Southern members of Congress
have steadily voted against. No Southern
newspapers or speaker, he claimed, had
advocated the payment of pensions to Con.
federate soldiers. In short, the speakers
position was that the South. when it was
defeated in the war, accepted the situation
with all its logical and necessary conse-
quences, and that it has no ulterior purpose
in this election inimical to the welfare and
honor of the Government, and most candid
men will be willing to accept his statement
that the sectional issues would have been
settled long ago if they could have been left
to those who fought in the war.
But our purpose is not so much with wha
the Southern speakers say in Vermont, al
with the fact that they are there. Suppos,
that, instead of coming North and meeting
our citizens face to face with full exposi
tion of their views and purposes, these gen
tlemen had stayed at home and kept up
howl about "the Solid North" WoulC
there not De more justice than there now j,
in the Republican charge that the South i.
| responsible for the sectional issues which
they are again forcing upon the people
When the Republican committee will do fol
Mississippi what the Democrats are doing fol
Vermont, they will be better entitled to Sc
up claim as national party. There is NJ
longer any pretence that it is impossible o
dangerous to undertake u canvass of th
South by prominent speakers from the North
The reason given for the backdown from tn
patriotic position taken by Gen. CARTEL,
| early in the canvass, and by Chairman Jewel
in this city, is that it "won't pay tina
| the party can better be rallied by abandon
ing that field and keeping up the cry of 81
| Solid South" which the managers are to
pusillanimous and narrow-minded to attemp
| to disintegrate. Southern Democrats ma,
invade the North, hmilarizing our peopl
with their real sentiments and purposes
and doing good service in assisting thei
party to carry three or four Northern States
| by illustrating the new spirit of nationaisl
which shall yet pervade the whole country
| while the Republican committee reinforce
the Dutch troops that are assailing Holland
surrenders its claim upon section which
boasts OF having conquered, and goes int
the battle behind the din of its tiiteen-year
| old gongs, under the plea of one more tern
to save the country Verify, there ar
| Bouib bons and Bourbons, and the Republica
leaders seem bound to dispute the old Demo
cratic claim to pretminence in learnin
nothing and forgetting nothing, Bo,to
Ieruld