Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-11-03

Amaniie>to declaring that there has been
DO intimidation Of the c5lorel voters On lie
part Of the south Carolina Democracy. and
giving the white lines Of that State a vo7y
admirable character generally. appeared tie
other day over the signatures Of several
leading clergymen Of South Carolina. Az
the clor-ymen there DO NOT take that view
Of tie case The Montpelier Uaiotusa
publishes the following letter from clergy
man in South Carolina. written in reply TO a
letter Of inquiry from brother clergyman
in Vermont. The Unotuq4 youche- for
the writer Us vel posted, and entirely rcl.-
able
OEANcFbrEc, ;. c., Oct. 20, lS-6.
Doar BrofLy-Your favor has Just come
to hand You seem to blame our colored
population that they DO not stand up IN
finchingly for the party who gave them
freedom; but You cannot realize their CON
dition. As the war closed the North were 81
tUid to the old rebs who had been hanging
to the throat Of the nation, that Won gave
back all their land, and all their civil and
bad nothing. They have been obliged to
work for less than they could comfortably
live upon ever since. The white people own
the land-the old quarters in which they
live, and they work for fifty cents per day
and les, ard feed themselves Now they
are told they will be turned out Of doors. and
left to starve, unless they viii vote with
their old friends, the Democrats ! have had
a large number of men come to me, recently,
who have bought land and have it half and
twU-thlrds paid for but unless thev can COM
plete the payment or vote the Democratic !
ticket, they are to be turned away They |
have been asking ne to loan them funds and /
hold the land until they can Iay. | wish | |
Could. Bat it Is vastly worse than this
they are being threatened and alarmed by |
armed men. The Democrats turn out armed /
and on horseback to attend many of the |
political meetings, and by force and arms |
seek to carry everything their own way
You ask after this State We shall roll |
up large Republican majority ifthe people |
can only vote without intimidation, and free |
". Governor Chamberlain is taking course |
in connection with the general Government |
TO secure freedom from the terror Of armed |
organizations. and We have strong hopes Of /
the State You may expect Us to file IN with /
good old Vermont in giving a good majority /
Tor Hayes and Wheeler.
We expect here mean the Republicans
q this State-that Hayes ,r1H be elected, /
and the Democrats, Of course, expect Tilden's
election; and so they did Horace Greeley's,
Sey mour and Blair's. etc. Tic Lord have
mercy on US in the South, il T.1cn is elect
cd, Tor the people here Will have 40 mercy
We can hardly live with them even in the
hope ola Democratic triumph; That could We
do II they should get consummation Of their
fond political hopes? We occasionally
hear that il they could get I'D Of the carpet
baggers they could manage the 'darkics' to
suit themselves; and think this would be
the result Ii requires an education that
slavery never gave the colored people to en-
able them to run political campaign,
FELL our good Methodist friends to make
the most they can ont Of Fraternity up there,
for we get none CT it down here | have
not been asked into Methodist Episcopal
South pulpit for the eleven years that have
been in this country The feeling since |
'ame South never has been more intense
md bitter towards Northerners than since
IIldens nomination.