Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-19
The Flights which Should Accompany Lib


Provisional Governor Parsons Of ALBANIA has
ately been quite manly and frank in giving his
views respecting reconstruction aud negro citizen
ship, and it is quite evident that the Governor has
pretty clear apprehensions Of some of the rights |
which ought to accompany the freedom OF the |
negroes, as well as the great difficulty which VIII
be experienced in giving the negro the full pro- |
lection which the ballot alone can furnish There
is much senseless talk that determination will be
the inevitable result Of giving suffrage to the ne
gro and we regret to see some prominent men
at the North endorsing or repeating this unrea-
sonabe prophecy. But there can be no Inerme-
date state between absolute and unrestricted
freedom and the slavery from which the negroes
have just been liberated, which will not be inf
nitely more productive OF mschievous consequen.
ces to the two races than recognition Of the full
rights, which ought to be given to every freeman
in this country. Governor Parsons says, he can
imagine no greater social evil Than class Of hu-
mainly in our midst SO excluded from the civil
pale as to become stngnant, seething, missmatic,
mora cesspool in the community" This ian
guage is not too strong. A race which is nom
nally free, and winch is yet wholly at the mercy
of the governing race; F." which is allowed TO
protect it's freedom and is yet deprived of every
right and nstrumentality necessary in cur gov
eminent to secure that protection which is rec
osnized as human, and is yet denied the privileges
OF manhood, and which is continually forbidden
any share in the control of its own desnies, must
! come at last and soon to feel itself outawed, and
to understand that it's only redress rests in its
right arm. And when it fully realizes that it 10
thus despised and hated and outlawed, it will be-
, come what Governor Parsons predicts seethng
! mora cess pool or fearful and stormy revolution
y airy and lawless body Of people. The danger Of
= collision between the whites and blacks will be
increased much more by refusing the negroes the
4 rights to which they ere entitled, than by giving
them the means Of peacefully defending their
liberty.
And Gov Parsons forcibly adds Human
IS nature either improves or degenerates-i cannot
y stand still, but it cannot improve without the
!, moral incentive OF hope and human future.
Therefore the freedmen must, for our own secu-
% rity as well as his, be brought at within the
9 pale Of civil law. His citizenship must be recog
ID nized. AS a man, without any reference to his
discretion or social position, he is entitled o life,
. liberty and the pursuit OF happiness With this
view, have welcomed the chiyirous proposition
Of General Swayne, and hav5 advised my appoint
T., ees, in good faith, to admit the freedmen TO the
}, courts And this logc,-alihough perhaps Gov.
Parsons would not agree that il would lead to
such northumberland stop short Of giving the
negro all his rights, including the right 10 vote on
the conditions, irrespective of color, as the
" white Men are generally no better than their
"A opportunities warrant, and seldom strive to be fit
!. ted for positions which they can never occupy.
IS As slaves, the black race has not improved, and
would not improve to the end of time. A few rise
above the dead level OF servitude, bit it is only
the aspiration after freedom and nober life that
II leads them to higher development. II " hope
y and human future " have no place in the soul of
a man, how can he be expected to prepare himself
. for condition which he can never attains
= The STAKEHOLDER is right and slaycrys right, or
the negro should nowhere be excluded from any
II civil right by reason of his complexion If the
&c blacks cannot have voice in making the laws by
10 which they are to be governed, slavery is not
70 abolished and while the blacks are at the mercy
T. Of the governing race" emancipation can only
10 DO regarded as mitigation OF involuntary seryi-
IT tude 10 Tennessee the blacks we're formerly the
70 slaves Of individual masters, and the institution
y was regulated recognized and limited by the laws
IN which the white men made. Now 10 that state
the blacks are still at the mercy Of this same white
race, and the individual tyranny has only been
!" exchanged for tyranny in which the entire white
ss lace in the state have become masters, and the
x freedmen are the sers. This is not liberty, or il
Gu it u.s. is wholly at the mercy Of another and is
NY freedom which the liberated slave is impotent tC
protect. white man recognizes that freedom
as only the most annoying and tantalzing seryi
tude, which brings with il no right and no powe
of sefprotection and while he does so in hi
VI own case, why should be take credit to himsel
j. for emancipatng race, frcm which he yet with
10 holds the rights which he himself would no soone
'eU surrender than he would surrender his liberty
'"' But it is something hopeful, after ALL to find
W Southern official recognizing the necessity o
wv stimulating the eniranchised slaves to efforts 70
higher type of civilization, and better deve
-, opment of manhood, by holding out to them tn
hope of "humAn future" Dim and remote a
that future" is to them in the light of bot
Southern and Northern prejudices, it is yet some
:, thing, And the blacks art quick 10 learn, an
-, are apt aud patient scholars and it is not i'm
=. possible that, though prejudice and hate and pc
:. tcsl schemes may for time keep them out
!; their inheritance they may, not many years aheat
90. be strong enough, manly enough, and sufficient
g.; fearless to demand their full rights, and open
..o themselves the "humSn future" which is lh
''' lawful heritage Of every free man.
eral
,ing TUE RlGnT GROUND. The Minnesota Uno
nth State Convention recently holden at St Pau
ali unanimously passed the following excellent rest
nm, luton
-. Resolved, That the spirit Of our institutions II