The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-11-10
News summary.


southern people do not come mp to all
that is desirable, the wonder is that
they are ready to make so many con
cessions. The apprehenslons that
the president is proceeding too fast
have of late been much allayed and
those who have personal interviews
with him come away with restored
confidence and hope. No one car
doubt that the president is deter
mined that the abolition OF slavery
shall be made thorough and perma-
nent, that the freedmen shall have
full protection by law, and that the
rebel debts shall be repudiated. BY
this latter measure the southern aris-
tocracy alone suffer, and the poor
whites sympathise with tho measure
and will soon come to understand
that the president seeks their inn
proyement and attainment of pollti-
cal power such as they have wholly
lacked under the rule of the slave
holding aristocracy
The Georgia State convention has
unanimously voted the abolition of
slavery, aud will repudiate the rebel
State debt, the president having dis
tinctly informed the provisional gov
ernor that otherwise the State will not
be recognized rs having resumed its
loyalty.
The Legislature of Alabama has
adopted the amendment TO the United
States Constitution, repudiated the
rebel debt, and by it's action covered
the whole ground required by the
president who has made known his
entire satisfaction with its action.
The colored people of Missouri have
issued an address to the white citi-
zens, urging their claims to the suf-
frage 1t may not be granted at pres
ent, but the agitation of the matter is
one of the means by which the freed
men will be educated up to it. The
national freedmen's re lief association
ask for liberal contributions, to ena-
2 Die them to feed and clothe the desti-
1 tute freedmen during the approach
ing winter and to provide for the edu
! cation Of their children This is the
immediate necessity
$ Rebel Personal.
The report has been revived by th,
New York Heraid that jeff Davis is e
be tried speedily, and that sheet ever
went SO far as tJ give list Of th,
counsel employed But the best in
formed persons know nothing abou
speedy trial, and the question scent
to remain just where it has been. Johi
Mitchell has been released from For
tress Monroe at the request of Tia,
r Fenians, and has gone back to Rich
mond In thus releasing this NOR,
than traitor the president says b,
j does not remember Mitcheils Ameri
u can career, but releases him rs Il mari
}. of respect to the large portion Of on
j countiymen with whom Mitchell wa
= previously identified, in accordance
j with their expressed wishes. Mitchell
. was more humble when he came on
: than when he went into prison, an,
Z acknowledged that he had abused
d d good government and deserved pun
ishment Clement c Clay is now tn
only companion prisoner OF JEFF
?, Davis, at Fortress Monroe, and see
y ing that he voluntarily gave him
y self up to Toe tried for connection Wit
q the assassination plot, the opinion i
Z becoming general that he ought to b
81 either brought to trial or released.
= The president has as yet taken II
q definite action in the case OF. Wir2
u owing to the great mass of eyidenc
u to be examined. Strong efforts ar
II making to save the life Of the lnispra
: bic wretch, but if he is satisfied Of hi
y guilt, we do not believe the prcsiden
- will care to extend any clemency t
! him.
ARMY and Navy News.
There is very little that is new O
- interesting in the military or nave
line. The whole veteran reserve corr
! Is not to be mustered out as reported
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