Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-21
NEGRO STATES.

NEkHEkV y IN hA's .
r,r the want of better subject, the
r1,,,ocratic press of the country, repre-
.ntirr both the old Democracy and the
;hcrai Republican wing of that party,
goinr into ecstacies over the migra-
, a., Of negroes from the worn-out and
,,nnroductive fields of Georgia and the
w., TO the more fertile States, bor-
,.rioc on the gulf. OF course, the pre-
fiction is put forth and enforced by nu-
,,,orous exclamation points, and double
iaaled columns, that this migration will,
.,,o little time. drive all the white men
sr,c, the States to which the negroes
,,i~rafc. and it is exulted over as a proof
,bat the two races cannot dwell togeth-
unless one is held in bondage to the
other.
The animus which actuates and directs
this evunation and prophecy, is so mani
f.yt that there can be no doubt but
,,bqf the opponents of the black race
earnestly desire to see the negroes of the
country all colonized by themselves,
.naoosing that thereby they will be so
,.lrccd in intelligence that their politi-
cal power in the nation will be diverted
or destroyed. We have not yet seen
any evidence Of an antagonism between
tine negroes and the Republican whites
ofthe South. or any disposition on the
mar, If either to organize separate State
,,,v,rrncnts. In Louisiana, which is
,no pf the States to which there is an
n9ay If the colored element, we find
fine FRONT and center of the Beauregard
rfanu. and also a greater indication of
norIiral harmony in the party than in
other States One of the peculiar at
,rbrt,s of the colored man is his graft
ml, 10 his friends, who have conferred
ruou him the great boon of freedom,
and So long as the traditions of the days
of slavery live among the black race,
they are going to affiliate with and sup
port the Republican party. .....
The example of last year shows that
they know their friends, because in the
exciting presidential election that cul,
minated in the election of last NOvem~
her, every device and artifice was used
tn dcudc them into giving their intlu~
rncr and votes for their enemies but al
though they recognized in Horace Gree
ry, the active champion, who, in the
D. r.,., q, s 4I,,ir bD,,J,fra bod laLOraI
with untiriug zeal for their release and
Advancement, they saw at once, when
he armved himself with their enemies
and attacked the men and party that had
accomplished their deliyerance, that he
was in camp where they could not fol-
low him, and they loved their newborn
freedom, and the friends who had work
ed out such glorious results for them
better than they did any man, and they
gavc their votes for the party Of pro-
grcss, and refused to follow Greeley and
Sumner in the ranks of their lifelong
enemies
We should have no fears of the politi-
cal dcgeneracy of State composed eX-
clusiycIy of colored people. Their pol
ilical intuitions are all right, their
dismal experience, and fortunate deliver
ance las impressed upon them the best
political lesson that men can have, but
we are opposed to any clannish or eX-
elusive organization of any race or ma
tonality in this country. 1t is the
policy of this government to assimilate
nh its inhabitants into harmonious
pooplc. so that every man will feel
more pride and JOY in his boast that he
jsm American citizen, than in the re-
election that he is an Irishman, a Ger
man. an Englishman or a negro. We
would like to see all distinctions of
nationality lost sight of in the great sea
Of American citizenship. We do not
oppose the celebration of historic events
ny amy people, however far from the
land of their birth they may reside, but
with the homage of a grateful re-
mombrance of the land of their nativity,
the ipwelled crown bestowed by our free
government upon the sovereign people,
whether native or adopted, should shine
pre-cmiueut above the recollections of
tIbcyland. OF all our citizens the
negro has the strongest motives to love
his country, and he will show his patriot
ism by grateful allegiance to the party
he halls as his political savior.