Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-08

chusetts has her laws requiring the pay ment of taxes as prerequisite for voting. Connecticut disfranchises for petty larce- ny; both have educational qualifications. Nor must we forget that black as well. as white South Carolinians practice the in- timidation of voters:
 The negroes moreover are as intolerant of oppos tion as the whites. They txpel ' from the church, ,ostracise, and if they can. mob and kill all of their own, though not of the white race, who would turn dem. ocrats, and they have done this ever since the war. The women arc worse than the men, refusing to talk to or mar y rene z lde. and aiding in mobbing him. They treat bolting republicans Tn the same way.
 Whether Hayes or Tiiden has theverdict of the High Commission now sitting at Washington. we hold that Republicans shoud at one and forever abandon the carpet-bag form of Southern coercion. Should the r. suit show the Southern white still determined to withhold all the great rights to which the Southern negro IS entitled, then let us lave Reconstruc- tion that will at least give just and hon. est government. and that will secure each race from the tyranny of the other. In the meantime we are not without hope that the greatest gift of American freedom-education- not be deDied the Southern negro. Educated, he will not need Northern help; uneducated, he can hardly profit by it. It has been one of the worst features of carpet-bagger, that it taught the freedman nothing but villainy. It raised pretentious school systems only to steal the money that should have maintained them. Georgia, on the other hand, if we are not misin- furmed. offers her colored people the greatest educational advantages of any Southern State. One half her negro children are in her public schools. Gov. Drew, the recently inaugurated Democrat ic governor of Florida, certainly shows as thorough a comprehension of this funda- mental necessity of the Southe situa- ton as any Northern statesman. Says his message:
 Now that very large constituent ele- ment of our population is released from bondage and intrusted with the power of the ballot, a system of free schools has become a means of self-preservation. To educate the colOred race and fit them to exercise the privilege of voting iutelli gently-to perform all the sacred rights of treemen. to "joy their liberty. to become %ise and good citizens-imposes upon us a task to perform, responsibility from which we cannot Il w escape.
 Judge Bradley has been chosen fifth judge on the Commission. The electoral vote was regularly counted ill alphateti- cal order of states to Florida, which is now before the Commission. The ques. ton of what evidence will be received in the case has been argued at length by Messrs Evarts, O'Conor, and others and decision will be given today (Wednes. ,lay). The N Y. Herald says the Repub- Iicans are very confident of succe ss and the Democrats much depressed.
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