Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-11-21
RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1867.
! ~n,,,, Of the southern Press.

standing the laws VI NohStSsS w
contrary, and are heaping abuse upon
them iu an unmeasured manner, Yet
how many OF them who censure the
blacks TO the beat Of their ability, have
ever given ordinary weight to the fact
that If the negroes were willing to vote
with their former masters and allow
their civil liberties to be controlled by
copperheads and traitors, they would
cesse to be the objects OF ridicule ana |
abuse, and become bright and shining
ornaments to society In the estimation |
OF those who now lose no opportunity to
censure them.
But the black man has suffered too
much at the hands Of rebels and South
ern property holders, and now that ne
has become their political equal, he VIII
lose no opportunity to administer re-
Duke at the ballot box to those who Tor
merly held him In bondage and freely
administered him kicks and cuffs, as well
as their Northern compeers aud fellow
traitors, and as consequence they suffer
prescription and calamnistion from the
smooth. tongued aspirants for political
notoriety and power who cannot control
their votes.
It is only when race heretofore as
serted to be ignorant beyond redemption
show themselves intelligent enough TO
select their friends from their foes, that
they are marked out for measureless
prescription, The rebels, since the cleo
lions in Virginia, Louisiana, and Ala
bama, exhibit ferocity to the negroes
hard to reconcile with the fact that they
had Just been begging them to support
the conservative [rebel) candidates to
the State constitutional conventions.
Here Is q few specimen bricks from the
organs Of the chivalry who failed to die
in the "last ditch:
The negroes have shown US that
"blood is thicker than water with
them, and we can only accept the issue
and treat them with defensive severity,
differing not indeed from the spirit, but
only in the measure, from the treatment
which our English friends used towards
the Sepoys of India when white safety
demanded British severity Richmond
Ehg.
1t only remains for the white people
OF Virginia to look to their interest and
labor TO protect it. They should con-
cert measures without delay to fill the
State with white laborers from the
North and from Europe. They must
crowd the negro out. They must rid
the State OF an element that will hinder
its prosperity; an element that, under
the influence of base white demagogues
themselves without property-would
tax the property Of Others to relieve
themselves of obligation to educate their
children and care for their paupers.--
Iyhthbwg Virgnia".
There Is a lesson taught by the result
OF this election which every white man
..p can readily understand. 1t defines the
line broadly and distinctly between the
races which the colored people have
themselves drawn. 1t Is not our pur
pose to utter one word OF censure OF tn,
colored people for taking the stand the,
have. They are free; but so, too, are tn
whites presumed to be, and until tn
fact is proved otherwise, they should &C
the part OF free men,-FarnsRk ia.
Jswnal. ...
We are gratified to learn that on
hundred and fifty negroes, employed a
the wythe Iron Mines, all OF whor
voted the straight-out radical ticke'
were discharged on Tuesday by th
owner of the works. This is precisel
the step which every white employe
should take with the blacks who, b
voting with "Hunnicutt and his set,
declare themselves openly and abov'
board the enemies of the white race
Lynobbwg Nsses. : 10 . ...sa
Send them adrift unhesitatingly. Ia
them learn how unsatisfactory are til
have them feast. They will soon wear
OF the diet, and then, when they hay
proved repentance, let them return an
be assisted In their efforts to becou
worthy people. But the offense has bee
grievous, and the penance should
severe, and the conversion must
proved by works, Until it is establisht
they should be shuHned rs enemies.
We expect a storm of silly vituper
ton to greet this announcement of polio
The blacks, not yet cured of their foil
will allow themselves to be duped aga
into disregardal OF certain doom, ar
will vow eternal vengeance upon tho
who, In selfdefense, thus treat ther
The Northern Radical press will tee
with denunciation Of the outrageous q
tempts OF rebels to control the votes
freemen, and we shall be threaten,
with heavier yokes and multiplied bay
nets. No matter We have but one 70,
to safety, and though that lead throus
danger, 1t must be followed. There
little to be feared from the North now
from the section where Radicals
writhes in mortal anguish, dying amol
the jeers and rejoicings Of it's form
worshippers. Let them threaten, co
denim, and villify to the full content
hearts STEPPED In gall, but quietly purs
your line of duty, men OF Virginia. L
no man sleep under your roof, bre,
your bread, drink of your cup, who b
spoken at the polls in favor of th
Marty which vvnuld 4apOil paur hmm