Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-09-14

none the less will they be opposed and ours
cd by the very men they have saved.
We have some new griefs,--our papers
are going wrong. The Times, which to be
sure has been a.
"Everythlnsb y turns, and nothing long"
has gone over body and soul to Andrew
johnson. And now the Evening Post, which
has been our sheet-anchor, mad on the free
trade question till it can see nothing else has
gone and hung out the Democratic flag. "Et
III Brute9" is all we can say. What does it
all meanP We do not care so much for the
name, hut there is not little in that party
that looks like treason, disloyalty, rebellion,
or the unfolding Of rebellion. And then we
have a sense of personal modification at the
rumors and stories with regard to the Pres
dent, things which everybody knows, but
which the papers for very shame, do not al
ludc to, and which we all want TO hide, as
we would the lailings Tor worse) Of friend
We fear national dshonor in the person of
its Chief Magistrate.
Doubtless you look with anxiety to the
results of the coming elections. There is
something occurring constantly to keep
us awake and anxious. Perhaps this is
our security. We long to sit down quiet
| and be at peace, but the best captain is he
| who is ever ON the watch and in this land if
we are not sovereigns at least we are all
captains--or think we are.
no tho ,,oOplo c,llt- ,,o1or.to,,1 A
Johnson's plan. BY the amendments as
passed by Congress. the colored people. I'M
less permitted to vote as citizens do not
count as citizens, and the representation is
based upon white population only. We have
not much to say in New York, and perhalr,
in other States, our colored people are count
ed and yet do not vote, but their number is
so small it makes no material difference
But admit the Southern States on the same
ground, and it does make q difference
Whereas, formerly, the slaves were only
counted as men when their masters were to
vote for them, and every five blacks counted
only a. three (the three-lifhs rule.) now il
| they return on the same basis with ourselves
counting every black man u man. and yet
voting for him, and voting as we do on the
basis of the whole population, it would give
thirty more representatives in Congress thar
the South would otherwise have had under
the three iifths rule. Shall il be allowed
that the rebellion shall give them added
power in Congress? and that too when they
are growing in their tone more and more re-
bcllious every day?
We are very fond of our Southern breth-
rem in their place, and we are willing to give
them all their rights and all they deserve
but we are not willing to lie down and let
them put their foot on our neck, neither do
we mean to be re-enslaved nor to have our
colorcd brethren re-enslaved. And yet from
the present temper of many parts of that
blessed South, nothing short of this would
satisfy them.
We need little more waking up. Some
of our Inconsistencies are like pictures we
have seen. the space between two trees form
ing the outline of mans figure, at first you
do not see it. but once finding it You can see
nothing else. To call a man a. man. and
count him as such, and yet refuse him a vote
merely on the ground of color, how absurd
If no man is Il man until he can read and
write, very well; like that. Y.