Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-11-07
RUTLAND HERALD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1867.
Prescription in virginia.


The result of the recent election for
delegates to the constitutional conven'
tlon 10 Virginia having resulted adverse
TO the conservative element therein,
that class appears 10 be taking it TO
heart In manner i'll. becoming van.
Quished rebels, and are institutiDg q
system Of prescription upon the black
labOrers, whose votes on the side of
constitutional liberty contributed to the
success OF the convention. The news
papers, previous to the election, urged q
Wholesale prescription in case the
negroes refused to vote the conservative
ticket, and their advice seems to have
been pretty generally acted upon, as
dispatches from Richmond and other
cities in the Old Dominion announce a
general suspension Of work in manufac-
turing establishments in consC quenCe OF
the dismissal Of the laborers, the
employers having closed their shops
against them, telling them to go and
seek employment from those whom they
voted sor."
The rebels die hard, and hate TO relin.
ouish their former prestige over the
Jacks even though the law Of the land
oroclaims that all men are frte aud equal.
They are determined that slavery, or at
east system OF it, shall still exist, and
though they are compelled to give the
laborer his hire they mean, as in times
o. old, to do his thinking and acting, or
at least throw such u pale Of influence
about him as will serve to force him to
10 it according to their wishes,
Prescribing man on account Of poll
teal or religious sentiments is a prac.
tice not in keeping with democratic in
s.itutions, and, as we have said, indi-
Gates 8 spirit Of dictstion Ill. becoming
a action so thoroughly subdued in a re-
sort to arms against the supremacy Of
the national government.
The Southern Opinion, a Richmond
newspaper, whose editor is a Pardoned
Confederate, and who, we should judge,
needed good deal of reconstruction to
restore him to his proper senses, pub
llshes the following article, when we
give to our readers as serving TO show
the sentiments Of the men TO whose ten
der mercies Andrew johnson, who orce
profrered bis services as the Moses Of the
coored race, now asks the country to
turn them over:
Men OF Richmond turn off every ne.
gro who voted The radical ticket. Give
employment and support no longer to
those who banded aud voted with Hun
nicutt and his party to degrade and des.
troy you who have shouted insult and
dtfisnce in your very face who have
Contemned and taunted your policy {;
who have left their work to keep up in
your midst a saturnalia for three days ;
who have even mobbed men Of their own
color who dared to vote the conserva-
tive ticket; who would to-day cut your
throats If they could. VIII you commit
the suicidal folly of employing longer
these enemies OF our peace and home
We ask the proprietOrs of oar foundries
and workshops, of our factories and
stores, If 1t is possible, after what we
have seen in Richmond for the last three
days, that they are going to receire back
a'2 their employment these negroes who
have affiliated with Hunnicutt and his
party for the destruction and extermina-
ton Of the white people of Richmond z
Our eyes are upon them,
We call upon every man to think seri-
ously Of the matter. Now is the time
TO act. Let every negro who voted the
radical ticket be turned of, and his
place be supplied by those few brave and
deserving colored men who voted the
conservative ticket; or, what Is still
better, let their places be given to whit
men. There are plenty Of phite men 10
Richmond who can supply their places
and who would be glad and grateful tc
get some OF the work that is now done
by the blacks.