Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-22
Can Greeley Pay His Bonds 7
TO THE WELSH IN AMERICA.

ONE w HO w AS IOE NREELE1.
Can Greeley Pay His Bonds
TO THE WELSH IN AMERICA.
FELLOW CITIZENS: [ thank you for
the great attention you paid to my last
letter. | want your attention now to
the inside of things little. You have
heard that Mr.. Greeley some time ago,
gave bonds for the good behavior of
Jeff. Davis. That, suppose, suggested
to some one the idea that by giving him
self the candidate of cOnglomerate poll
ticians, he is about to give bonds for the
good behavior of all in the South | do
not happen to know how heavy are his
bonds on behalf of jeff. Davis, nor how
able is he to pay should they be de-
manded. But | know that this other
bond will be great deal heavier, and
neither he nor any one else will be able
to pay in four years. | have not the
least doubt but the South will come all
right by degrees if time will be given
and the proper means used. But it is
not in the nature of things that any
kind of government can in four, eight or
twenty years thoroughly unite two
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widely separated.
1t is not to be expected that, all the
shareholders should pardon their slaves
who have been the innocent occasion of
the late disastrous war, neither will
they very soon forget the northern men
who conquered them. Russia has not
yet forgotten SebastOpOl neither have all
Frenchmen forgotten Waterloo, though
many years have now rolled over the
graves of the victor and the vanQui shed.
1t is not to be expected that all in the
South will love the North while so
much enthusiasm is shown for deCOrat-
inc the soldiers graves. The old plan
ter will not rejoice in the manhood and
prosperity of the cOlOred man, whom he
formerly regarded as his goods and chat
tells. and who las been wrested from his
grasp by the northern army, neither will
all Of them neglect the opportunity of
teaching their children that they have
been unjustly treated and deprived of a
patrimony justly their due.
On the Otlier hand, it is not to be eX-
pected that the cOlOred race will all for
get the great cruelty and injustice with
which they and their ancestors have
been treated A race that have been
held in bondage, kept in gross ignorance
and treated like brutcs, will not rise all
at once INTO intelligence, activity, thrift,
wealth and responsibility. If we look
at the cOlOred people in northern cities
who have been free for years, do they
not still live in the poorest streets? Are
they not, in great measure, Stunned
even by Christian and philanthrOpic peO-
people? How few of their young
women are found in families as helps or
in stores? How few or their young
men in country houses or on farms? |
do not know where the fault is. There
is very likely fault both sides. Perhaps
the cOlOred folks are not pushing enough,
and perhaps white folks give them too
little encouragement. What right have
we to expect that things will be better
down South? Is the black man who is
| there more ignorant and degraded, very
! likely delivered from slavery likely to
be more pushing, or 10 the white man
who thinks he has been wrOnged and
| robbed by giving his liberty likely to be
more encouraging? No, let northern
| people try the experiment and do more
| for the cOlored people who are among
us. instead of blaming Grant that he has
not done more, or putting burden upon
! the shoulders OF Horace Greeley that
| the whole power of the States cannot
| lift. 1t is the schOOlmaster and the
| Christian minister alone that can make
the South peaceful Legislation can
| only hinder them to cut each others
Threats The very able government of
| Great Britain has for hundreds of years
tried to pacify Ireland. Have they
| succeeded? Or there is our own native
| country. 1t is always acknowledged
that the Welsh have been the most loyal
of British subjects for hundreds of
years. But when they begin to assert a
! little independence by voting according
to the dictates of their own conscience,
their foreign landlords elected many
! from farms where their ancestors haC
lived for hundreds of years. The Soutl
has to contend with this difference OF
race, difference in social status, differ
ence in education, and therefore, il
will require a long time or a powerful
revival to bring it to right The spirit
| of the Lord could work a great change
there in short time, but nothing else
can, without a very long time and, in
deed, nothing else ever can do it effect
ually. Do not, therefore, be misled tC
vote for Greeley by the fair promises OF
his followers that he is going to benefi
the South. He can do no more thar
| Grant in that way. | fear that those
who talk so much of benefiting the
South mean greater power to the former
STAKEHOLDER, more authority to former
rebels. Then let former slaves anC
loyal citizens look well to their chance
for fair play. As far as the Welsh art
concerned, | hope no one will give ;
vote that will tend to lengthen the chair
which used to bind the African, or undo
the liberty which has been purchased by
the blood of so many, and at last sealed
with the blood of Abraham Lincoln
As nation we have been on the side OF
liberty for nearly two thousand years
Let us be right in this battle again
when our liberties and those of Others
are about to be taken away by false pre-
fences. RHYs GwEsYN JONES.
Utica, August Is, 1872.