The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-09-20
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Interesting Letter from West Vir-
ginia.
PurNAM. c. H., WEST VA.

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The quill that had selected and
preserved for your correspondence,
has been long as innocent of labor as
a copperhead OF. loyalty, or negro
of sweet smells. Twice, during the
last summer, the quill has trembled
to write; once in ruined town, once
the iairest in this region, but which
torch and shell had RACED, and filled
and surrounded with desolation,
and again among the wild gorges of
New REEVES, where you can toss
stone into white waters eleven hun
dred feet below, and see under you
horses that look like dogs, and hear
the roar of u whirlwind that will carry
falling stone an hundred feet out Of
its way; and see around and beneath,
hill sides all crimson and warm with
miles of magnolia blossoms, and val
leys white and cool with miles Of lau-
rel, while crag and peak protect the
rivers and fret the sky, as, l verify
believe, they do nowhere else on earth,
in the one place to tell you how terri
bly, man could deyastate, and in the
other what wonderous beauty is shut
in by those sentinel hills, of which
Wise, in one of his inspired moments,
cried: "They milk the clouds" But
the quill only tremblod, and your read
ers were saved from reading what
they would have declared incredible
and your compositor from work that
might have driven him to despair
Since l wrote you last, great chang
es have taken place. The South has
been reconstructed" again, and tht
negro becomes, in many States, vot
er, and so protected by legislation ant
bayonets that if they will but be unit
ed, 100000 blacks can rule 10000
whites. And the lew Era dawns -
Already the white loyalists of tn,
South are quailing before the hurcu
lean task of controlling millions of un
, educated men; already the immens
power placed in black hands, ha
, taught lesson to black heads, ant
the few good men who have tried T.
control and direct, are being over
= whelmed. John Minor Bolts is hisse
+ at, and driven from church by colon
e ed loyalists; the delegates of elevei
p hundred white Union soldiers of Rich
f mond are refused admission to q "Re
publican Convention, and the plan
q kneed Hunnicutt is forced to rescu
his falling star by an ingenious tai
ieau performance. by which "two beau
t tiful young ladies' trip upon the plat
e form, and cry that no white man VIII
> has any prejudice against Internal
. riage OF races, is worthy of a negr
@ vote, that they would as soon MARI
# black as white, and clinch their word
e by throwing themselves tragically eac
e into brace of black arms, and cover
! ing with fair hair and FACILITATING be
q SONS, two "dusky matted heads. - An
e in another State the Union men VIII
q would not echo the cry Of ''eonGscatio
and entire equality see with mortit
s. cation and rage one supplant thel
p and become the acknowledged leader {
the party, who was cashiered and dii
missed from n rebel regiment in 1856,
because he whipped his female slaN
to death, | know the instances I
10 which | refer are extreme, and thu
~ they are such as will always occr
,s when vast numbers of uneducate,
! though well intentioned people al
thrown into novel relations, and pla
= ed under heavy and instant respons
2 bilities, and that besides we should II,
z Judge too unkindly of those upc
= whose shoulders we have thrown III
equal burdens, and upon whose liv
will fall the heaviest penalties of the
errors, yet perils surround us none Il
less.
CELEBRITIES.