The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-01
Facts for the Northern Green
hacker.

Gen. Weaver, the Greenback can
didate for President, came bac from
tbo Sonth convinced that the Demo
cratic party of that section is not only
hostile TO the North, but intolerate and
upscrupulous. Representative DE Ia
NTatvr. another Greenback apostle,
repeats the story. The Democrats oil
,bat section have not changed. They
may not murder their political oppo-
nents. but they will make their voting
of no effect. And now Mr.. Ramsdell'
the editor of the National Pfe'c, the
Greenback organ at Washington,
comes back and relates his experience.
Mr.. Ramsdell is not Republican.
He did not 90 to Alabama and Missis-
sinpi TO advocate the election of a Re-
publican President, but quite the
reverse. As a Greenbacker, he would
probably prefer the election OF Dem
ocrstic Congress, because the section
which sends Democrats to Congress
is more or less imbued with the infla-
ton heresy. Mr.. Ramsdell, however,
is one of those editors who have labor
ed to make Northern Republicans
believe that their leaders in Congress
are responsible for keeping alive the
sectional strife.
With the conviction that the Repub-
licans had been disappearing South
ern sentiment and action, Mr.. Rams
dell went South to proclaim the
GreenbaclI, heresies. His meetings
were advertised, but when he appeared
to speak these peaceable Democrats
whom he was defending against Re
publican ISLANDERS appeared at his
meetings and demanded a "division OF
the time" in order that they might
make "bloody shirt" speeches. Not
content with this trenching upon
the rights of the Greenback speaker,
the Hancock party began to disturb
his meetings. AT one place band
was stationed near the platform and
the Ramsdell theory of finance was
overwhelmed with Democratic music.
At last Mr.. Ramsdell arrived at Shu-
buda, Mississippi. His fame had pre-
coded him. Imagine his surprise when
he was accosted as "the - -
Yankee Greenbacker who ought to be
killed." coupled with the proposition
to "give three cheers for Hancock" and
to ''give the - Greenbacker h
Then Mr.. Ramsdell was handed note,
which was a notification to 'pack his
buds and get out of this town in thirty
five minutes" RamsdelI at first
thought this was a boyish ebullition
A carpet-bagging Republican or a
negro orator might be treated in this
manner, but could it be possible that
a Greenbacker, with national repu-
tation, was really ordered to leave
town to escape personal violence
The directness of the Bulldozers
speech, soon opened the eyes Of the
Greenback leader, and not wishing a
coat Of tar and feathers, a whipping.
or to be shot in a strange land, he
left Shubuda without enlightening its
denzens with that theory of finance
which will make everybody a million.
aire with Government fiat and q
printing machine. Comment on Rams
delps experience is unnecessary. We
simply call attention to it; and par.
ticularly the attention of those Green.
hackers who have been Republicans.
and who now have no sympathy with
Southern bulldozing. Such men are
asked to vote in Maine for a Fusion
State, Congressional and Electoral
ticket. If they so vote, and are sue
cessful, the victory will be claimed by
those men who drove Ramsdell out OF
Shubuda and cheered for Hancock as
a Democratic triumph and a victory
for the Bulldozers of the South. More
over, every Fusionist nominated for
Congress in Maine will act, if elected,
with the Democratic party. Repre-
sentative Murch, it is asserted, has
promised to vote for Hancock. If
reelected, he will sustain that party
in Congress whose majority represents
the element which drove a member OF
the National Greenback organization
from Mississippi. Does the Green
hacker of Republican antecedents who
has been led to honestly entertain the
Greenback financial theories propose
to be made an ally of the solid South
by sustaining the Fusion programme