Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-14
Vermont Butter I'm Georgia.

Randolph, Vt, sends away to market, every
week through the year, an average OF more than
two thousand pounds OF fresh butter put up In
little prints suitable for the table. One farmer
sends one hundred pounds per week to Georgiato
fill contract with hotel-keeper In one OF the
cities OF that state. Before long, some other Yer.
monter will probably see profit and saving OF
express charges by going down there with his
dairy stock and setting up butter-making nearer
the market There Is no good reason why Geor-
gia should long be compelled to import her but
ter from the Green Mountain farms, when she
has all the necessary facilities for making GOOD
butter at home The Vermont cows are fed upon
meal made from cotton seed, and from corn-fod-
der packed In silos The corn plant will grow In
Georgia as well as In Vermont, and silo Is as
easily built in one state as In the other
We cut the above from the New England
Farmer and print it for the purpose of add
ing the advice, don't" for any Vermont
farmer who might think of going south to
engage in dairying. No doubt good butter
can be made and sold in Georgia, as well as
in all the rest of the southern states, by
men who know how. But unless New
En- gland farmer is mad at himself" and
thinks he has been having too much CON-
fort, he had better let the southerners do
their own butter-making. There is con-
siderable class of southern people who well
come northern settlers and desire to treat
them as worthy fellow citizens. But they
are not the controlling class. A majority
of the people, even in Georgia (Which is the
most liberal of the southern states), have a
scarcely yelled hatred to the yankee"
and rejoice to cheat him and abuse him
whenever they can. There is consequently
no neighborly feeling toward such as go
there, and Georgian who fellowships" a
Yankee neghbor is twitted and sneered at
so that he is timid in showing his good will.
Even if a northerner is democrat, it makes
little difference the way he will be treated.
He is a Yankee, still; and he finds, too,
that the so-called democrats of the south
are really aristocrats with whose ideas, If
he is a genuine Jeffersonian, he can have
very little in common. An old neighbor
of ours speaking of political parties lately,
| Che is eighty four years old, and lifelong
democrat of the old style), said that what
the democratic party needs in order to
come into power and stay there, is more
democracy The republican party, demo
cratic on the dead slavery issue, is aristo-
cratic on most other points, while the south
ern so-called democrats are Enlightened to
man-yes, and to woman. There is nc
human being more overbearing to all those
whom he thinks "beneath him." (and
that includes every working man, white oil
black,) than southern gentleman, "-un
less it be Massachusetts "blue blood " o.
federalistic antecedents.
When we say the republican "party" il
aristocratic, we do not mean the rank anc
file of the voters. The vast majority o
these, all through the north, are thorough.
democratic, and so are many of the leaders
in the agricultural states. Our Vernon
senator, Edmunds, is reported as sayinl
that if he knows what democracy means b
is a democrat. Abraham Lincoln was
thorough disciple of Thomas jefferson, an,
20, with few exceptions, was Garfield
Nevertheless, the tendency Of legislation b
republican msjorities in congress for tn
last twelve years has been favorable towar
monopolies, extravaganza, and disregard c
the true principles of our constitution. Thi
is the reason why the people fell ava
= from that party in the fall elections. Bu
the people of the north have no confdenc
in the democratic party, and will not hav
so long as it seeks power through allianc
with the aristocrats of the south. There
growing democratic spirit in the soutl
but it labors under difficulties many an
great. Those who have it can find hon
in neither party as at present constituted
and although Vermonter going thel
would find some friends among souther
Jeffersonians, their friendship would be bl
little support to him. He and his who
family would be homesick enough to die
year. The aristocratic spirit does nj
show itself in the cities Of the south {
much as in the country, and norther
man can get along pretty well in such
place as Atlanta, for instance. But
would be like homeless dog on southel
farm, regarded with distrust if he held h
tongue, and with active enmity if he talke
as he thought and voted as he pleased.