The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-09-28

elevate will be an act 20 destroy. llc
cries for bread, you give him stone
white and beautiful it is true, bui
with a tablet for an opiiaph on every
side.
i am not moved to levity, but with
saddest conestness For if anything
on earth was ever sad, it is the present
condition Of the Freedmen Land
less, homeless, you cannot imagine
how forlorn. Free? As the escaped
horse or OK on the wide plain is free
with the snow falling and the winter
coming ON He cannot strike hoe
but 10y the white mans consent Hc
cannot build him shelter, or even
lie down by the way-side but by the
white mans permission. He cannot
draw bucket of water, or cut stick
Of wood, or pick a berry if the white
man forbids. lie may not realize his
condition but this is saddcst OF alb.
There was time to remedy this,
but that time is past forever and I'M
feeling as my friend thinks me, I
would at the close have confscacated
land enough to give every negro a
home. Then he might have been free
now he is not, and TO give him bal
lot will only arouse the evils that are
now latent and bind him closer and
sink him deeper
He does not ask for The suffrage.
The voice of the whole six millions is
not as loud as the cry of six men
of New England few white men
in the far South may cali for it. but it
is for their own protection, not the
negroes. His only hope is in outliv-
ing prejudices and qntagonisms, and
those who would feed or arouse these,
though acting with the noblest Of
motives, yet d. him infinite wrong
Look calmly, for a moment at bis
condition and measure your power Of
relief.
The Negro lircs to-dqy BY yg6,raace
The nation is rich and strong, but
there is not treasure enough in the
Government vaults to transfer one
acre of land from the white Man to
the black, but by the formers consent
There is not power enough in the
Congress and the army together, TO
force a white man to hire negro for
an hour, on lease him a rod of land;
and yet, unless he gets labor or land
he dies.
Suppose you drive the whites to
the wall as some of your orators flip
PANTY advise, and .they fall back on
their plain rights, and remain simply
passive, where then is your strong
black citizen % Yen must fced him:
he must emigyote or starre Is this
pleasant to contemplate? Labor for
the negroes Improvement; send teach
ers to educate them; ministers to con
vert them physicians to cure them if
possible from the horrible hameless
disease that is sweeping them off by
thousands make the noble home
stead-act of Congress, the proudest
act OF the last session officient--pro-
tect them in their civil rights, if it
takes the whole army to do it, and if
they become fit for voters in three
generations they will advance faster
than any other people in the worlds
history.
/ have written at this great length
| know, to be misunderstood and GEN.
sured by many and yet / know that
could those of my friends who cry for
universal suffrage, only see the inner
places of this great prison house, they
would start back agliast, and tremble
at the results of that agitation in ia.
vor of the negro, that il it succeed
may ruin the race.
In my next will write you about
the condition of the white men, and
the inducement 10 Northerners. /
will forestall by saying that it is not
all rose water. OPTICs.