Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-10-16
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Influx of Negroes.

exclamation OF the prtSiocus, upon 'no aSso''
a fact that emancipation will be followed b
,.tampede of the negroes TO the north, thei
,ompeution with white laborers here, the con
.Oouent cheapenng of labor and degradation
,fthewhites. This result has been frequentl,
reftod by those competent TO Judge OF tn
matter, and its persistent assertion and re-as
,srtion would seem to be made for the purpose
If prcudicing the minds of the numerous anC
honorable class at the north who would be sup
posed to be particularly affected by it, and t.
influence their.votes in coming elections, Many
Of these same persons, it is true, assert thai
be PROCLAMATION is no better than waste pa
mar that it can have no effect whatever in
py way; but from fear that this view will
scarcely prevail, they at the same time advance
he rather inconsistent bug-bear above men
ponsd. And they are now with seeming zeal
calling upon the Legislatures to enact laws to
prevent the gathering of this dark cloud. That
pne do this, honestly believing what they say,
is doubtless true, but that it is chiefly done for
political effect is as true These same parties
have advocated slavery upon the ground that
labor in the Southern climate mast be perform
sd by the blacks that white men cannot en-
dure it. Whether this be true or not, it is ev-
ident enough, that free institutions will give a
paryelously fresh impulse to all kinds of in
dustry in the southern states the demand for
labor will be a hundred fold increased and
snder a free system, with the great in
cenlves to industry, something to work for,
the caring for a home and family, the lettering
Of their own condition, all the chief induce
nents in short which urge free people on in
their labors, but which have been wholly want
ing to them, it is absurd to suppose they will
not work far more heartily and industriously
than now. Such being the case, with an in
creased demand for their labor, we fail to see
any inducements that could bring them hither.
On the contrary, il is more probable that those
negroes north who are now suffering from the
cncongenlality of Ills climate, would embrace
the first opportunity for stampede south.
All this, and much more, has been said in
substance by many Nothing seems more rea-
sonable Daniel f. Sickles and many other
democrats, to say nothing of men of other po-
itical compilations, assert it the New Orleans
Delta rdlcules the idea of negroes coming
north under such circumstances.
1t is subject that should not be treated
With leyity; yet we cannot forbear placing bs-
fore those who are fearful concerning it, the
following portion of a "parable by Gen. T.
Peronet Thompson, member of the British
Parliament, published in the Bradford (Eng.)
AdUertiSer 1t is rather puzzllng to see why,
to use the figure of the article, horse will not
plow as well in a proper harness, as "by the
tail" The writer says; r.. ........
There are tokens that light is dawning in
America, on the question of how to dispose of
four millions and half not of horses blowing
BY the tail, but of human agricultural laborers
'mpIOyed By an equally losing process.
Fancy that IN Ireland, where the difficulty
vas first exemphfed, the cry had been raised,
Of Where will you colonize these horses, and
what do you propose to do with them 2" What
sage or conjuror will tell us, what is to be
done with four millions and half of horses
that may not pillow by the tail F? Flowing by
the tail is an Institution, and if YOU take it
away, what will you put in its place. You
want to let the horses loose to eat up their
masters Horses that do not pillow by the tail,
always eat up their masters.
And dream that Lord Lieutenant had been
ioQnd to hold meeting with a deputation of
NE horses or their representatives and then
and there lay before them his desire to make
oeglnnnlng of horse expatriation, and the
ISelght with which he would see the four mil
IONS and half of working horses located in
'ome distant land.
Who should have retained the mirth which |
would have broken forth? The fraternity
Who have since expanded into drivers of hack
iey cabrlolets, the genuine successors of the
hepherds in Virgil, would heve asked with
uch concentrations of phrase as they only can
ocomplsh, go, most fit to be fed with
PoGn Unfortunate youth, of whom it NAV
Justly be inquired whether your maternal pa |
gn' was aware of your intention to walk |
broad! Satisfy your desire to know, wheth- |
IL never occurred to your Lordship, that the |
ay 10 deal Nth the horses pas to mork then,
u hsy toere, only not by the tail" Was
1t Loro-Lleutenant ever of woman born. that
ared stand the shock
imagine too that grave commercial men. re-
lectabls house-holders, who might present
lemselves for bail at the doors Of a Bank
aptcy Corut in London, had taken nm the
y and said they should be ruined unless the
I :, were returned to working by the tail
\. \. they had, depended on working by the
~ They were certain they must be starved,
any stop was put to working by the tail.
s y. that ship, which our ancestors loaded
,.h the unwise, must have gone to the bot
'n with such freight