Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-10

and traditional.
On the train from Florence to Will
! mington sat near two gentlemen whose
| conversation was so distinctly audible,
/ although not loud or hraggart, that |
! could not but listen, One had been In
/ spectOr. General Of Lees army-the 9TH
! or chief conscript officer OF the State OF
North Carolina. Both seemed to bemen
of education aud refinement. In allud.
| ing To the late election In North Carroll
na they spoke of the defeat OF Holden
as matter OF course, and said that as
soon as suffrage should be unrestricted
again men like Holden would be speed
| lily ousted and Vance Lee, Davis aud
/ their like "wh0 had been true TO their
country in It's hour OF need, would be
the chosen leaders Of the people.
NORTHERN EMIGRATION rHE REMEDY
NoRTuERNEks WELL TREATED.
Such is the almost universal determi
/ nation IF the South, can see no other
way to u permanent reconstruction and
true reunion than Northern emigra-
! ton to the disahected section. Univer-
sal negro suffrage would be Il cruel mea-
sure, cruel to whites and blacks alike,
and almost sure to produce the worst re-
suits.
But while the state of political feeling
is such. it may he supposed that it Is
unsafe Tor a Northern man to emigrate.
This is a great mistake, as am prepared
to show, in reference, under my particu-
lar experience. to the States of South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida. During
the eight or nine months have spent in
the South, have experienced no inCOn-
venience or insult from intercourse with
the native population, although have
never refused political discussion, and
have never failed to advocate, when nee
essary, doctrines so foreign to South
Carolina, as negro suffrage, negro edu-
cation, and the legitimating Of the creamy
by-blOws of Southern aristocracy. The
same has been the experience of most OF
my friends and of all the business men
whom l have known or met.
SAFETY OF NORTHERN MBN-YANKEE TEs-
TrMONY.
In jackson, Savannah and Charleston,
Northern men are so numerous that even
in the event of the removal of the mill
tary forces their numbers and influence
would protect them from their only dan
ger which might liein the hot blood and
ill-temper of the Southern well-bred
youth-whose animal and ardent spirit
we should term rowdyism in our
unchivalrous language. Even this
could easily be avoided by man of
steady habits and calm temper, as it
would come only in the form of idivid-
ual insults and challenges to obnoxious
persons, after the old established South
ern custom. l do not think that this
danger, which looks formidable in the
distance, would amount to more than
what one fears from drunken men in
riding in a late horse-car in Boston.
The same view holds for the whole coast
as the Sea Islands are mostly IN the
hands OF Northerners.
AS to the interior, there are conflict
ing stories, and presume facts conflict
in different sections. All gentlemen
with whom | have Conversed,-I am
speaking now of business travellers, not
newspaper correspondents or bureau
agents,-have assured me that they
were very kindly treated everywhere.
Some have given me permission to use
their names. Captain Stephen X. Blake
State Of South Carolina and visited, en-
tirely alone, several sales and convoca-
tions of citizens, and was very much
pleased with his reception. Mr.. Ephra-
i'm Hall of MedlOrd | believe, formerly
OF East Boston, is experimenting two
or three plantations on the Cooper River,
twenty miles from Charleston, but so
, isolated from railway communication
that he is practically far in the interior.
He is very enthusiastic in regard to the
kindness of his neighbors, and the good
working qualities of the negroes, and
he scouts the idea Of possible danger
feeling actually safer than he would at
: home.
| MR.. TERRY's EXPERIENCE.
Mr.. John X. Terry Of Elmira, New
l York, is planting at Florence, and is
even more coutented than Mr.. Hall.
rode to New York with Mr.. Terry and
received very fall account of his three
months experience. He is the only
Northern man in the district, but Is re-
ceiEed by the planters with open hospl
tality, invited to dine and to visit by
the leading men, receives all the advice
j and assistance he wishes in regard &c
his crops, lis better treated by them thar
! he ever was before in his life" walks
/ about the woodland roads at night, IN
armed, with feeling of perfect safety
t and ali this not Notwithstanding his avOweC
republican principles, his just treatmen'
= of the negroes-of whom, by the way
he can get Give thousand" to work fol
e him, if he wishes, so eager are they t
T. serve the Yankees-and his open sub
: scription to an out-and-out auti,admin
: istration, republican paper. He is erect
e ing school-house for the children o
his workmen and has engaged as teache
a Southern lady whose husband wa
> killed in the rebel army, To crown all
the gentleman with whom he has beef
To- boarding refused to take any none,
=, from him in return.
" Mr.. Terry declares-as | also thor
oughly belieye-that the safety and sue
= cess of Northern man in the South de
p pend chiefly upon himself II he goe
1ojptly ahOut his business is pleaSan