Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-22

lions on TUESDAY, raulcallsn rau WIui
except in Delaware and Maryland. The
State of Butler and Banks took the lead
in the extravaganza, both in majority
and by the election of several negroes to
the Legislature. The latter circum-
stance, indeed, was very appropriate for
Massachusetts,, and 1t would have been
still more happy and fitting II she had
elected none but negroes, both TO her
Legislature and to represent her In Con-
gress.
What game the Radicals propose to
play with the peace and prosperity OF the
country, now that they have established
their sway for another Congressional
term, we shall see soon enough. There
| is only one solace for the South South
ern oppression is National weakness.
Southern unrest Is general financial dis
order. Southern prostration is general |
disturbance aud distress. And all the
resolutions and pledges and oaths 10
pay the public debt will not avail to es-
| tablish the public credit so long as ten |
! States are denied recognition and their |
| people neither entertained as friends nor |
| dismissed in amity as strangers, out
held as enemies and diligently informed
that they are so regarded. The people
of the North will yet see that such d
course so far from being [statesmanlike,
is the ouintessence of folly. Meantime
nothing remains for the Southern peo-
nile hut to attend quietly to their mate
rial DEVELOPMENT. Politically we need
not trouble ourselves with speculatlOns,
or plans, or prophecies. Eminently APP
nlicable to our case is the universal
truth that sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof; as is also the maxim that
the duty of life consists in doing the
duty that lies next to US We need not
now look beyond the present day ana
the present duty.
The result of the elections in Della
ware and Maryland settles the defeat OF
the Constitutional amendment. The OPP
pressive measures embraced in that in
strument will, therefore, if put in force,
rest on no higher authority than the ar
bitrary will, irregularly expressed, OF
an intolerant faction, dominant Tor the
! time"
The Lynchburg Virginian thus COM
, ments upon the Legislative election OF
! two OF our fellow citizens
p oOur readers were advised by tele-
4 graph Yesterday that Massachusetts had
o done herself the high honor OF sending
S two colored men to her Legislature. She
e might have done still better and constl
v tinted the whole Legislature of gentle
8 men of color. AS it is, the two unhappy
e gentlemen who have been chosen may be
e embarrassed by the lack of suitable as
!. sociates. They cannot have much re-
l. spect for !the poor white trash by which
r thew will be surrounded. They may
If claim, also, that something more is due
i to the sentiment that is all-pervadlng 10
.e Massachusetts than this meagre repre-
W sentation of class for whom white mer
q, in the Old Bay State are willing to en-
i slave and degrade their own race.
re Two gentlemen of color, amid severa
o. hundred bowling dervishes OF aoontloI
ye and miscegenatiOn, is not fair proper
re tjon, as all must admit, of the law max
al ers. But this, perhaps, is only the be
Id ginning; the first suspicious sign OF tina
a glorious era that is before US, when tn
~ shane of a mans nose and heel, the colo
n. Of his skin, and the odOr eXhaIe'
tie from his body, are to be one Of trivia
in Importance. All hail Massachusetts
es Honored Massachusetts Long may tn
ev praise be sounded in the land of the ire
tn and home of the brave Thou art peer
IS. less and alone. Thou hast set the frs
es example of victory over unworthy pre-
iudices and illustrated the truth OF tn
re. declaration that all men are not oni
IN free, but equal equal in all respects
rs ONLY one step further remains, and tina
mt is to suppjant Wilson and Sumner wit
by gentlemen of color, and give the sea
ed once filled by John Hancock and tn
IT, Wipthrops to q down trodden son {
tai Ham. It must come to this, and tn
to sooner the better. The selfsachh(
IN, ing Sumner aud the pious Wilson ca
.at not object. This is what they have bed
M lab0rng for, and the laborer is wTty
of of his hire
.he The Richmond Examiner is thalboL
)m to its Northern friends, saying:
he although the conservatives HE
,.r heen defeated in the recent elections n
ass the Northern States, their labors am 1t
I'D from being fruitless They have ME
&c q noble and gallant stand for c0Ttl-
oai tutional liberty. Overcome for me
~ y by passion and prejudice, they I've
'" nevertheless exhibited a strength nat
ur- will do much to hold in check the 10
lence and excess of the Radical aoon'
aid The fact that they have gained 10 tne
ept popular vote cannot be ignore still
lde less that, with the South, they axe a
ew majority of not less than half n,i,on
us of the white men Of the countr! That
ON such a majority can be perunently
lost ruled by a minority is impossio
lem One of our most judicious cdempo'
not raries says that the Conservativorgan
not ization has been swept away III chan
is and will be heard OF no more. We ar
GUS compelled to regard this as hay anC
the inaccurate conclusion. Such a lrty a
ecu the Conservative party of the birth Il
tern too strong, too honest and too esolut
ade, to lose their self respect or to oando
mes, the hopes which have led them o DEL
and the Radicals in behalf of the Solh an
nich a violated constitution. On 'e cor
the trary. we believe they will ga eac
ex- dav in tone and numbers until TictGy
nth, shall crown their honorable enPavI,s