Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-08
THE SOUTH.

The actual situation in the Southern
States is always so obscure that any in
telligent and impartial account deserves
the most attentive consideration, and
such an account we have from Mr.. T.
W. Higginson, who is well known as an
old abolitionist of the straitest sect, and |
as an observer of the truest Republican
sympathy. He has been recently in that
part of the country, and brief paper
by him in the WOman'S Journal gives a
clear and interesting statement of his
general impressions. Mr.. Higginson was
the colonel of colored regiment, and
served during the war in South Carroll
ma. No man is more careful of the rights
of the new citizens than he, and his tes-
timony is entirely free from all merely
political or interested purpose. The first
thing that he remarked was the fact, so
often forgotten, that slavery has now
been abolished for large part of a gen.
Grafton, having been abolished by proc
lsmation sixteen years ago, and having
practically ceased to exist from thirteen
to sixteen years ago, according to local.
ity. The young colored generation know
it only as tradition, so that the prac-
tical problems of life present themselves
as they do to white youth of the same
condition. with the disadvantage, in the
South as in the North, of complexion.
The precise truth is, as Mr.. Alexander
H. Stephens has said in Congress, that
there is a universal recognition of the
fact of the impossibility of the restora-
tin,, &c eln-~--- IL .-."s- ~ -
es regretted, but it is fact absolutely
and everywhere accepted. "The negro
question" as such, therefore, no longer
exists, and it is nowhere a subject of
discussion. There is, indeed, the same
grumbllng about the ignorant vote that
there is at the North, aud that there
should be everywhere and there is the
same kind of feeling toward the colored
race as voters with which we are famil-
lar in this part of the country toward
the ignorant immigrant vote. In all his
travelling-and travelling manners show
the real character-in street cars and
elsewhere, he saw no sign of violence or
hostility. Nor did he hear complaints
that they would not work, though there
is very little money to pay them or 9TH
er laborers and, indeed, in Charleston
leading colored man told him that he
thought his people had more money there
than the whites, and the white young
, men are compelled to work, altho' they
must often 60 elsewhere to find some
thing to do
The most intelligent Republicans in
South Carolina, of either color, admitted
that the frauds of the carpet bag" gov
ernments and the outrages of the Ku-
Klux had not been exaggerated. Each
kept the other alive, but both are now
stopped. Naturally, as each State is
left to itself, wherever the dominant OF
Democratic party begins to divide upor
internal or local questions, each wing i,
ready to conciliate, and consequently t.
) defend, the colored vote, as Northern
politicians conciliate the Irish vote Will,
. they denounce it. The Democratic Leg
islature of Mississippi passed vote o
thanks to the colored Senator from tn,
4 State, Mr.. Bruce, which was an indirec
. censure upon Mr. Lamar and Governo
! Hampton of South Carolina, gladly re
q lies upon colored members of the Legis
% lature to pass certain measures agains
&c part of his own party, All this, say
Mr.. Higginson, may not be q. suficien
t. ground of security, but it shows heal
l. thy tendency. 1t is the natural and no,
l. NAL development of the situation, and
!. would have been indefinitely postpone
i. and perplexed if the old system of ma
al tional suspicion and armed repressio
ID had continued and since it was conclr
t. sively proved that the old system coul
IN not retain those States as Republican
il even from a party point of view, patrio
ID ic Republicans must be glad that pc
r icy which merely aggravated the diff
10 culties and dangers of that part of tt
e. country has given place to one that r
f. stores the normal condition of politics
er society.-Harper's Weekly.
of Every week brings new indications
to conciliatory disposition of the Pop
he Reports say that he is DESTROYS to emit
it upon diplomatic relations with the Bri
ut ish government, and has given instru
of tons to the Ponti6cal Secretary of Sta
nd to take steps for that purpose. In
IS public allocution he indicates no int