Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-04-14
Mr.. Bryant and the South.


M,srs Ediiors,-In yours Of the 26th ult, there
was an item, doubtless from some correspondent,
slough DO name was subscribed, which spoke Of a
remarkably happy meeting, In New York, presided
over by William c. Bryant, in which Major Della
ny, a colored citizen Of South Carolina, held
forth, professcdly pleading for both whites and
blacks In his section He made some statements
that must have been rs hattering JUNCTION To the
soul OF Mr.. Bryant They must have helped him
to believe that everything was lovely in the South
that the civil rights bill was by no means needed :
that the whites were ready TO extend the helping
hand to the blacks; that they could not do with
out them, and the blacks could not do without the
whites that all the disturbing element there were
the shaipers carpet-baggers that had gone there
tof course, from the North, been elected to Office
and had msuscd their power To injure all classes
But what Mr. Delany 81 plea was for, is conjeetural
lie does not say the North must keep such men
away, but It may be inferred that both he and
Mr. Bryant would rather such men would be in
Connecticut about this time,
From these statements we should suppose there
was no lSu-kux, no white leagues, no white man s
government Dragons no caste even, no abuse
praciiced on the blacks, and that the three thou
in four years, never occtired-,hat no white Re
publicans had been killed in South Carolina nor
Georgia, and II We would only do our duty and
keep designing men away, what a paradisiacal
state they would hayel
Such stuff us this may be brooded over and sent
out by VIM. C. Bryant just before an election, and
Major Delany may have been bought to say it, but
IN the dialect Of the darkey's a man must be pow
erful weak to believe this In face Of the distress
that Is made known TO US by the hundreds Of
teachers who have gone from the north to teach
colored children, and whose bones now bleach on
southern soil or who were obliged to fee for their
lives, so great was the love which the whites Of
those unfortunate states bore TO the blacks and all
who befriended them. Mr.. d. may make himself
believe that all is peace and harmony in that
happy land That suddenly they have somehow
believed that God did not make the negro TO be the
unpaid laborer he ever has been, that he was mol
the proper target for the white serenaders pistol
that he ought not to labor till the harvest Is Sc
cured and then be dismissed with false charge,
against him sufficient to balance his account, and
that it wslld not be quite right to refuse him al
just refrigeration. But II they have met with an,
such changes Of views II is not generally under
stood, and the Northern people who go there and
are friendly to the blacks have not received mucl
benefit from 1t, for they continue to be shot Will
alarming frequency. Doubtless Mr., Bryant look
imposing when presiding over such an assembly
especially when he can have Peter Cooper to ST
on the other side OF the PLATFORM but would he si
there II Fred Douglass was about to address tina
andience9 Would 1t not be well for him TO show
something beside his poetic genius, editorial pres
,igc, and flowing white hair, to make people be
lieve that he has labored hard, given literally
and in every way endeavored to secure to then
every right; and that he has now the pleasure o
seeing that his labor has not been in vain?