Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-11-18

llshed and lie people were only allowed to
live under pretty strict general orders.
For instance, Major General Halleck
ruled that no marriage license should be
issued until the parties desiring 70 Be
married took the oath OF allegiance to the
United States, and no clergyman, magis-
trate or other person authorized by state
laws to perform the marriage ceremony
should officiate in such capacity unless he
himself and the contracting parties had
sworn allegiance to the United States.
Clerks of courts Of record in Richmond
and Petersburg, all attorneys, counsel
Tors, advocates and others licensed to
practise particular profession, trade or
business, all presidents. directors and ON
GERS Of corporations we're forbidden, on
pain OF arrest, to follow their several call
ings without taking the oath Of allegi-
ance.
All guerillas and paroied prisoners who
broke their parole were to be hung at
once, and Major General Wright COM
handed every body to work. SIT is abso-
lutely essential, f" be said, 'that the indus
trial resources OF the country be at once
applied to the cultivation OF the growing
crops in order TO supply the wants OF the
people during the coming year, else the
food necessary for the support OF the in
habitants, now barely sufficient to last
till harvest, will not be raised, and desti-
tuition and starvation must result. All
must work to live. Negroes will there
fore remain at the homes and plantations
to which they belong, attending to their
work as usual, and those now roaming
over the country will at once return to
their homes and their work. Questions
of compensation for labor so performed
will be determined hereafter by the prop
er authorities.n
In its spirited columns The Sixth Corps
Incorporates this prophetic utterance
from the London Times, which, happily,
has long since been fulflled:-" APP
pears to have been hoped, we might per-
haps say anticipated, by the Northern
people that the South would be willing to
bury in oblivion the whole OF this desper-
ate war, or to think OF II only Is a memoir
able incident Of national life. The Civil
war need only live In national memory as
grand struggle IN which the heroism
and endurance Of all classes OF Americans
astonished the world. Neither belllger-
ent need be ashamed OF the retrospect.
Federals and Confederates alike main
tanned larger armies and fought more des-
perate battles than any other people. II
the South has done more with smaller
means, the North has borne up with in
credible tenacity against discontinue and
encouragement and has outstripped
Imagination by the magnitude Of its
efforts. Let both parties forget and for
give. II the South will but Danish from
its mind the vision Of an independent con-
federacy and forego the idea which it has
been found impossible to realize, the
North will forget the trial of its resources
and its strength, and both sections OF the
Union may live together as before. These
seem to be the hopes OF the North and,
extraordinary as such expectations may
appear. We believe them to express the
only basis on which peace can be really
established. Unless the South does con
sent to enter the Union, the end Is as far
of as ever. But will this phenomenon
occur We can only say that it is, per-
haps, less improbable among Americans
than among any other people in the
world"