The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-11-16
The Southern Papers on the Elect
Ions,


The Southern papers do not of
course like the result of the recent
elections. They are Disguised with
the "radcalism' that so extensively
prevails throughout New England and
the West. They are very obstinate
and insist that they will never submit
TO the terms which the majority of the
Northern States impose upon them.
The Lynchburgh lVa.) Republican
"thinks it certain that the South will
be excluded from all participation IN
the affairs of the Government for an
Indefinite period to come, certainly I'M
til after the next Presidential election;
that we will be held in territorial
condition and be subject to all the an
noyances, determinations, and out
RACES that fanatical party, flushed
with fresh victory, may think it pro
per to impose upon n helpless people,
Ill OIutl W uldhc ihtul SubillSSiNt w
their arbitrary will and power The
Republican, however has way by
which the country can be extricated
from its present dilemma. We quote
"There is but one process that we can
see by which the country can be ex-
treated from its present dilemma. and
its constitutional liberties preserved
from total wreck, and that is for the
President 10 formally announce by proc
iumation, al The close Of me present Con
gress, that he merit on ne,c Congress shall
be composed, as he Constitution requires,
Of t,co Senator'S from each State, and the
proper number of Representatives. from all
The States, and that he cW enforce h,S
part Of the Constitution and he lac by
The phoIe po,oer Of The army and nary Of
he United States Unless he does this
the country will be cursed with a sec
tional and iactious Congress, until
every vestige of constitutional liberty
and peace is destroyed forever"
The election Of two colored men to
the Massachusetts, Legislature calls
forth the following from the Lynch
burgh virginian:
Two gentlemen of color, amid sever
al hundred bowling dervishes of aboli-
ton and miscegenation, is not fair
proportion, as all must admit, of the
law makers. But this, prehaps, is on
ly the beginning; the first suspicious
sign of that glorious era that is before
us, when the shape of n mans nose
and heel, the color of his skin, and the
odor exhaled from his body, are to be
one of trivial importance. All hail
Massachusetts Honored State Long
may thy praise be sounded in the Ian
of the free and the home of the brave !
Thou art peerless and alone. Thou
hast set the first example of victory
over unworthy prejudices ami illnstra-
ted the truth of the declaration that
all men are not only free, but equal:
equal in all respects. Only one step
further remains, and that is to sup
plant Wilson and Sumner with gentle
men of color, and give the seat once
filled by John Hancock and the Win
throps to downtrodden son of Ham
1t must come to this, and the sooner
the better The self-sacriticing Sum
mer and the pious Wilson cannot ob
iect. This is what they have been Ia
boring for, and the laborer is worth
of his hire.
The Richmond Examiner is thankfr
to it's Northern friends; but the Noi
folk Old Dominion gives the Democrat
a terrible "raking down" 1t says
"The fact is, the Democracy of til
North in their attempt to save thei
name and old party organization, hav
not only suffered defeat but hav
proved their friendship for the Sout
to be nothing more than desire {
use her as a cats paw to take Norther
Democratic chestnuts, of the Hoffman
Morrissy, Wood, Vallandigham an
Co. stamp out of the fire. 1t COZ
ellldes this:
The dissolution ofhe Democratic pa
ty, IN 1860. al Charleston, ,cas .fnai.
dan nerer become a great national par
again. Like the old whig party, it
numbered among the things that wer
and all attempts to revive it will en-
in defeat. The friendship professe
by those old partisans of the North fC
the South is nothing more or less than
political farce, poorly played at mat, an
fie sooner ace make up our minds to III
fact the better it will be for all Co
cerned. We have had enough of the
political Bonrbons They have ruin,
themselves, the Conservative NOV
ment and given the Radicals the rel
of Government.