Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-30

whole history of slavery, and dweit upon
its violent abolition, denouncing the gov
eminent for inhumanity in freeing the
negroes and then leaving them, poor,
ignorant and unprotected, as well. as for
comforting upon them. the right. of
citizenship without educating them mp
to its duties and Obligations. He also
declared the utter antagonisn and IN
stinctiye antipathy Of the races, and the
impossibility of the whites and blacks
dwelling together in peace and harmony.
He quoted the opinions of the greatest
men iu the nation, from Jefferson to
Lincoln and Ben Wade, to prove that
the negroes could not and ought not to
remain in the same community with
white people ia q free condition, and
that with their freedom must come their
deportation to another country or ex-
termination. He cited the case of the
Indians who had been driven out and
excluded from our society. A conflict,
too, between white and black labor was
coming, which would prove irresistible.
He believed the object of General Grant
in his effort to acquire St. Domingo was
the colonization of the negroes of the
South in that favored spot. He had
never believed in the charge that the
President had any sob" in view in this
but that prompted by the highest, purest
and most patriotic motives and governed
by the wisest of craftsmanship. He was
only DESTROYS of securing an asylum and
refuge for this outcast and oppressed
race. The fact that he had entrusted
the mission to Ben Wade, who was
avowedly in favor of sending thenegroes
''to the tropics, and to Fred Douglass,
one of their own race, was proof posi-
tive, in his mind, that the President
favored this scheme and was alone de-
sirous of furthering it in his purchase of
St. Domingo Mr.. Stuart referred to
the exodus of the Jews from the land of
Egypt, and predicted a like exodus of
the black race and grand future for
them in the Canaan of the Presidents
selection. 1t was either this solution or
the bloody one of war of races and ex-
termination.
The Southern papers say, the temper
of the speech was most admirable
throughout and the tone conciliatory
while the language was courteous and
the expressions towards the North and
the government all of a kindly nature
and friendly. But as whole it did not
give satisfaction to the people of the
South, and is looked upon asimpractica-
BILE, especially that the feature relating
to the negro exodus, which almost ev-
erybody feels to be an impossibility, no
matter how desirable it might be from a
sentimental point of view. There can
be no doubt but the aristocratic elements
in the South feel deep humiliation at
having the political power of the negro
raised equal to their own, and they
would be rejoiced to see the remedy of
determination or depopulation applied
to the colored race, but those who ever
have any expectation that the negro can
ever be driven to seek a home away
from the home of their childhood, and
relieve the proud Caucasian race of their
dark presence, are very few in numbers
and weak in responsibility.
We might have expected some such
ideas rs these from such men as Stuart,
but we are happy to believe that the
common people of the whole country are
getting rapidly over the notion that
races, nationalties and clans should be
separated under a democratic govern
ment. 1t is this idea of exclusions in
the recent Catholic problem that we
dislike, and we hope the time is coming
when the distinctions of birth, religion,
color or education will be sunk in the
great sea OF American citizenship,
when the Yankee, the Irishman, the
German and the Negro, will stand on
the same platform of political and fra
ternal equality, and the Presbyterian,
the Baptist, the Catholic and the Unita-
rian will gather around the same COM
munion table, and that the whole people
of the nation will know only one citizen
ship and the disciples of the Prince of
Peace cease to contend over formal
difference.