Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-30

This is the way Texas democratic
paper puts it: "Gen. Hancock, who may
be our next president is worth S2,000,0O0.
He is II most worthy man, and enjoys the
respect and confidence of all classes re-
CARELESS of political lines"
1t is fortunately too true that the south.
ern whites have been oppressive and
cruel in their dealings with the negro race
and that they have committed crimes that
offend fair. minded men everywhere. But
it is too late now for the national govern.
ment to rule the people of those states as If
they were not states. When they were
restored to the Union, and left free to con-
duct their own local affairs as the other
states that never went into rebellion con.
duct theirs, the national government
debarred itself from power to do what it
could do while they were yet unrecognzed
Other methods must be tried now, and
fortunately they are operating already,
which may settle this dark problem by n
process never dreamed of by philanlhro-
pists or statesmen. Still, the process is II
hard one, and will be attended with great
suffering Boston Advertiser.
The following story of Lincoln is recall.
ed by Washington correspondent: An
active aboitionist had been appointed by
Mr.. Lincoln to be secretary to one of the
territories, upon recommendation of Mr.
Sumner. The man turned out TO be
dishonest, and the fact was reported to Mr..
Sumner who incredulous, went to see the
president. Mr.. Lincoln laid the proofs of
the mans dishonesty before Mr.. Sumner,
assuring him that the man was undoubted-
ly 80 bad egg" Mr.. Sumner was obliged
to admit the force of the evidence, but he
said: why, can't tell his friends that
he is "a bad egg" "Oh, yes" said Mr..
Lincoln, "that expresses it exactly. You
tell them that l say their man is bad
egg" And the classical senator departed
with this inelegant message, which he no
doubt altered into more polished phrase
before imparting it.
Senator Blaine received an important
dispatch Friday, relative to the South Car
DINA political ca,es. The dispatch was
from Mr.. Mackay, the assistant United
States district attorney. The substance
was that the testimony was overwhelming
to show that republican meetings were
broken up, but it did not appear that this
was done because of race, color or preyi.
GUS condition, but because the meetings
were being conducted by republicans. The
United States Statute could only punish
for interrupting the meetings on account
of color, etc., but Judge Bond declared
that it had been decided in the United
States court in the Cruikshank case, that
Federal courts have no jurisdiction to
| nunicb for iptorcnronoa ,u;,h
meetings as such. Mr.. Blaine SAYS the
facts showed that the South Carolina dem.
ocrats make no distinction in color in
breaking up republican meetings.
The migration Of colored people from
Louisiana and Mississippi is checked by
the spring demand for labor, the pacifying
assurances of the whites and the unwill.
ingness of the up river steamers to take
passengers for fear of offending local
sentiment. One traveller estimates that
he has seen five hundred refugees in
camps along the river begging 10 be taken
on board. The Louisiana constitutional
convention now in session has before it a
resolution introduced by democratic
delegate from Ibervile, pledging the con-
vention to defend and perpetuate all rights
now guaranteed by the state and constitu.
ton of the United States. FUNDS are
being collected, both in Kansas and else
where, to aid in setting up the new arriv-
ais in that state, and Gen. Garfield has
introduced in the House and Senator
Ingalls, in the Senate a proposition to
authorize the issue of rations and army
clothing, to prevent starvation, TO the ex-
tent of one hundred thousand dollars. A
congressional investigation is also mooted.