Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-02-02


TERus OF M WEEKLY FREE PPEss--per yess 3
in advance, and II not strictly in acyarc, sac.
The Temper OF the Southeraers.
Trustworthy evidence concerning the state
of mind Of our Southern brethren, Is and
must be for some time 20 come OF great inter
est to US Of the North. Testimony, not as to
words or looks, but as to the actual temper
of the southern heart, not as 20 professions
but as to real purposes, is what we want,
and we naturally seize on ang indications
from which We may draw reliable infer
ences. We have before Us to-day
the cyidenc Of two witnesses-one a
splig Of southern chivalry, born and
bred, and the othCra northern man, Yer
monter by birth, now naturalized at tie
South. Let US see what We can get out OF
them The first is q son Of the notorious o.
b. Lamar of Savannah, of slaye-importing,
blockade-runnng and otherwise conspicuous
memory This lamar, the elder, has recent
ly been in trouble arising out Of sn attempt
on his part to bride certain United States
officials at Savannah to get some c0nfscated
cotton. in which he was interested, released.
Ia the investigation before United States
Military commission, letter from son of
his turned up, which has found its way into
print. This young gentleman writes as
follows to hislather
have taken their (the yankee oath, which
IS made obligatory through the penalties attach
ing TO the refusal of those who would gladly
leave the country if they could, and shall OBJ
serve its obligations as they concern my duties
TO the general government and country but !
have taken no allegiance to private individuals,
and swear TO wreak my hatred, contempt and
vengeance upon them whenever the power i
granted me. | have from the first refused all
introluctions, and have insulted those who have
attempted il, and not one Of the cursed craven
friends of y ankeedom shall ever thank me for
the smallest token Of respect, the slightest act
of comfort or humanity,-but what they do get
from me, when the time shall arrive when we
need no longer groyel for cur lives and proper
ty and peace, shall be given with grace, and
they shall be welcome 10 the guerdon. l shall
Yankee and he who basely deserted Us in cur
lost cause, is my latent enemy, and So soon as
We cease TO be Judged and executed by our &C
cusers. shall be done with the passive, con-
temptuOus Indifference Of to-day, AID those who
touch me or NINE, or hare touched them never
so slightly, shall be made TO prove their right
to do 50. But until that hour comes, ! shall |
avoid and refuse to meet them On any terms, |
but, acknowledging that they have all the pow |
er, will sue in respectful terms for such justice
as they choose TO grant against their acts, and |
if refused, shall await the moment when re- !
yenge can lie gathered ten fold. These are my
views, and they are a secret from none who
desire TO hts) them.
Your devoted son,
DERRY.
This is not very modifying talk for Yankee
ears. But let US call the other witness.
What of him? He Is a Southerner in spirit,
and has been confederate soldier; bat he is
also by birth Vermonter he was 4 grad
uatc Of the University Of Vermont. He
knows, or once knew, what is the New Eng
land moral atmosphere, what New England
principles and spirit. lie edits a paper in a
Southern State. To the general better feel
ing noticeable in those who have fought Us
in the rebel armies, We might suppose II
possible for him 10 add some pleasant recol-
lections of his former fellow citizens and
friends, and we might expect toEnd his
influence throwa On the side Of harmony and |
returning good feeling between the sections.
How is it? His paper is weekly filed with
gross abuse OF the North, cut from
Northern copperhead papers. The writer
who has his highest praise, and hearticst
admiration is a sort Of southern Nasby,who |
signs himself ''Bill Arp" We copy for once
and just to show the fayoritc kind Of reading
in that quarter, from one Of Mr.. Arp 'sreeent
illusions. lie says:
But | want you to tell me, John, if | am
RICH. about the history Of this business. Ii
amt a long story and I'll tell II the way see 1t.
Old PeErytan went of one day with some ships,
and took few beads and iuce-haps and bought
up a lot of captured niggers from the Hotten-
tots or some other tots. and stole few more on
the ceast Of Afriky and brought EN- over and
educated EN- TO work in the field, and cut wood,
and skeer bars and so forth, but not incluiin
votin nor musterin nor the jury bisness nor so
forth.
Well, after while they found that the cold
winds, and Goldfish airs of New England dident
agree with the niger, and so they begun to !
slide EN- down South fast as possible. After
they had sold EN- and got the money. they jinei
the church and became sanctifed about slavery.
sorter like the woman that 90; converted and
then give all her norvels away to her unconvert-
ed sister Well, the Old Dominion and sch Of
her Sons as Washington, and Jefferson, and
Madison, and Randolf, bought EN- and worked
EN- 10 satisfaction whereupon old Pew got je!ous
and began TO preach agin it to break it down.
The fakt is they Wouldent work gals in their
faktories if it warent 50 profitable, for they
cOnci6ntously opposed to everything that don't .
put muney in their pockets After a while they :
went into the striped almanak bisress, maxim
bloody pikters Of poor laserated niggers geitin
hundred lashts for nuthin, and mournn for
their first born becaus they were not. Then :
they started the stealth program and while We c
tryin all the big courts and little courts to
git back sixty mellster by the name Of bred I
Skoif, they were stealing from five to fifty day, a
and coverin their carcasses all over with Niger
larceny, and smuglln the Constitution into an !
abolishun mush. They built fence around the a
institution as high as Haman's gallus, and a
hemmed il in, and LAID seige TO 1t Jest Ike an a
army would beseige city to s;srve out the in d
habitants. They kept peggin at US untell We Il
got mad-show enuf, mad-and We resolved to 1
cut loose from EN- and paddle our own canoo. v
How is it now Mr.. Happy? They conquered G
Us by the sword, but they haven't convinced u u
Of noihin much that know e. All is los; Il
save honor, and that they can't steal from us Il
nor tsrnish. tc
If they had held out the hand Of fellowship, W
we should have made friends and buried tie "
ha,chet. Bat the very mint they whipped US, ia
hey begun to holler treason from one end Of v
he country to the other, just like they had ri
made a bran new discovery. 1t seemed TO u,
'trike en- all sudden like an Apost fax to law, th
md they wanted TO 60 into a general hGngin III
,isness, and keep 1t up as lopg as they could it
ind rope and timber. al