Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-05-13
No Spirit Of sectlonsIism Whatever.

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Rutland Herald.
No Spirit Of SeetIonaIIsnn Whatever
The News remarked the other day that
Colonel Bennett H. Young OF Kentucky
in Withdrawing his acceptance Of the in
vitation to be the official guest OF St. Al
bans during the Champlain tercentenary
hao taken the very best and easiest way
to avoid situation that could not fail to
be unpleasant to both the raider and the
town he looted, and that the incident
was closed.
The st. Adams Messenger insists that
the News is mistaken and that the incl
dent is not closed. It continues =" We
are now reaping the inevitable humiIia-
ton of public reproach that was sown by
newspapers like yours and men like ex-
Governor Ormsbee in violently attacking
the character Of this man and viciously
assailing the governor OF the state and
the mayor and other responsible citizens
that invited him to st. Albans before YOU
knew all the facts or quietly considered
them. Vermont and st. Adams are now
to be heralded from one end of the land
to the other as sunreconstructed.' because
the public at large will not discriminate
in the circumstances and understand that
this hostile demonstration did not pro-
coed out of st. Albans.'
The News has no desire to continue the
discussion of this unfortunate incident
beyond legitimate bounds, but il insists
that the position OF Roberts post, q. A.
r., OF this city, of Ex-Governor K. j.
Ormsbee OF Brandon and Of this paper is
entirely correct.
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sectional nature in this business. We
simply draw the line sharply between a
real soldier of the South and a guerrilla or
bandit who, despite his official recogni-
ton as a Confederate soldier, clearly vio-
lated universally recognized rules of Iegit-
innate warfare. Bennett Young violated
the rules of war of all civilized nations
when he descended upon St. Adams by
way of a neutral nation. He hid under
the cloak OF Canada, non-com blatant.
His methods were those Of piracy. pure
and simple.
A resident OF st. Adams at the time of
Young's raid, now living in New Jersey,
writes OF his experience in being taken a
prisoner by Young and his bandits and he
is utterly opposed to considering Young
or his methods as anything short of those
OF despersdoes. A man who actually wss
a victim OF the raid is in a position to
judge Of its character.
II is ridiculous to think that there Is
any disposition here to keep alive any
sectional spirit whatever. Rutland and
Roberts g. A. R. post have shown on
many occasions their spirit OF hospitality
and brot herly love toward the South and
its surviving soldiers. Ex-Confederate
soldiers have been invited to this city to
deliver Memorial day addresses; General
John B. Gordon received a splendid ova-
tion here, and in times of caiamities in
the South Rutland money has been freely
sent thither. Only last fall large sum
OF money went from Roberts post to the
monument fund for Sam Davis. a Confed-
crate martyr of Tennessee.
Discriminating and intelligent people
see in this Bennett Young incident no
spirit of unforgiveness or lack Of brot her
hood with the South for legitimate Con-
federate soldiers. 1t is simply that Yer
mont does not approve and does not for
give Legitimate practices in warfare.
As one prominent member of the Roberts
post puts it, Bennett Young and his raid
OF st. Alhans was of the same piece as the
of the Younger brothers of
the West; they were bandits, not sol
diers. 1t ought to be entirely easy to
differentiate in this matter.-Rutland
News.