The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-03-21

are not 50 much opposed TO it; in Gcor
pia and in Florida | found some of III
bitter classes of the community who ar,
in favor Of the education of the blacks
but not many, comparatively a small
number.
Q. How would a proposal to allow ,
negro to vote be accepted in South Caro-
lima a. The are utterly and unquali
hcJly opposed To negro voting.
After stating that there was an OK.
pcctation that the United States wosld
pay for the emancipated slaves, and tina:
the expectation had increased since the
l'nient policy of the government had been
observed, the question was asked
q. Has President Johnson's liberal
policy in granting partlons and amuestics
generally increased or diminished the
respect of the people for the government
OF the United States 7 A. | think it
has decreased the general public respect,
although it has produced in individual
case a certain degree Of interest and re-
gard for the Government which did not
exist before; the general public respsct
has unqnestionably been diminished and
the disposition to be open and blatant in
their talk, expressing their peculiar South.
ern views, as they call them, has been
very much increased by the recent policy
ot Il Q Government, | think.
@ 1t has had a tendency rather to
increase their cOntcmptuous expression
toward the Government A. Yes. Sir;
l should like TO have it put down in those
words | say this not only as the result
OF my personal observation and convcrsa-
tons with these people, but as the testi-
mony of such United States officials and
Union men as | cunvcrscd with in those
parts; let me add here, that every time
| used the phrase Union men it b,ings to
my mind the condition they are placed in
by thai very policy that | speak of; their
situation is actually painful they ON
planned to me bitterly that such men, for
instance, as Howell Cubb-who has been
their opprc,sor for the past four years, not
only a leading rebel, but Il positive inliv-
ilual and personal opprcSsor to their per-
sonal opprcssor TO their persons-shoull
come back now and lord it over them if
ever | heard eloquence, it has been in
in talk like that.
Q. Do you know Cobb3 A. No,
Sir, do not; these people say, "Why
docs the United States Government take
such a course ?" they must certainly stir
up the feelings of pity and sympathy in
any loyal man who has been fighting for
tic Government it is a mistake TO say
that there are no Union men in the States
Of Georgia or Florida there are some
there, but very few. and they seem to
hSvo been ignored by those who are
leaders in the politics and public sentiment
of their W State; they feel and see
that they have been ignored by the off
cials of the United States Government,
who they had a right to suppose should
be their friends and supporters.
z, What III Il rough estimate is the
proportion of Union men in South Caro-
lima! A. l have been speaking now of
Georgia and Florida such men are ex-
tremely rare i'll South Carolina / believe
there are many counties in that State
where you will find none at all in going
through every county | found but one or
two whom l considered to be of that
description.
Q. They were not quite so rare in
Georgia and Florida a. No, Sir, not
so rare.