Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-13

WHAT oUR Exchanges SAY.


WHAT OUR EXCHANGES SAY. =
We continue to receive, from all parts Of
the South, responses to the reconstruction
nearly all is unfavorable to the law and to
its ratification by the Southern states. There
seems to be, however, a tolerably correct un-
derstanding of the real situation, and of the
fact that the terms now offered are the best
the rebel states can hope to get
The Richmond papers, as usual, are the
most disposed to make difficulty. The En-
quirer of Wednesday has long article in
opposition to the holding of state conven-
ton. 1t says:
d" We verify believe that We are less likely
to be further prosecuted in our present con-
dition by the dominant party than if ex-
cite their jealousy and alarm by showing our
selves eager to get into the government, and
to take part in Presidential elections. So
long as we besiege the doors of Congress, OF
clamor to be counted in the electoral college,
some excuse must be found for keeping us
out. They do not intend to imperil their
power by admitting to share it, until they
feel that they can trust in party sense
until we give proof of radical sentiments, or
until their hope is realized that the combined
negro and "loyal - vote will control in our
states. We shall have more peace if we
say less about representation, and recon
struction and the like, and confine ourselves
to our several business avocations.
The Richmond Examiner is more desperate.
1t says:
cit would delight the heart of the Re-
publican leaders to see every Southern city
in flames, and every hearth desolate; every
southern parent and every southern child
starving, and the entire population given
over to the unbridled rage and passions of a
drunken mob. That is what Mr.. Stevens
and Mr.. Sumner, and Mr.. Wilson, and Mr.
Shellabarger, and Mr.. Wade are laboring for
and have assiduously labored for, for four
years past. We can prevent it-and prevent
it alone by perfect harmony. Let our politi-
cal enemies be our personal enemies, our So
| cial enemies, our business enemies
| The Stanton Spectator thus graphically
| sums up its idea of the situation
" A large athletic man, clad in armor and
armed cap-a-pie stands over the PROSTATE
body of small though gallant man, un-
armed &; helpless, exhausted, and, fearing the
small man may arise and overcome him, the
| large one pins him to the earth with a bayO-
net
The Lynchburg Virginian thus shows its
lack of confidence in Northern copperhead,
who threaten resistance:
:. We have an indistinct recollection tina
aid and comfort of this same kind wa.
given to six years ago by the false friends
who afterwards Joined the Republicans il
bounding on the war upon us. They were
going to do wonders. They declared tha
the streets of New York would run with
blood ere army should march from there
to invade the South. But it did march, and
John Cochrane, Dan Sickles and many Others
of those bowling democrats marched with it
and the New York World favored war to the
knife. Let the Southern people he warned
! NORTH CAROLINA.
The Wilmington Dispatch is in heroic
vein. 1t SAYS
We shall not advise the people of thi,
state to dishonor themselves by calling al
assembly to ratfy the proceedings of an un
lawful, unconstitutional body. We shall
nail the same old flag TO the masthead, and
clearing decks for action. seek rathe
than dishonor any fate which may be imposed
If the star of our destiny he clouded in blooC
il shall not be obscured with obloquv'