Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-04-03

and it becomes the North, as vic
tor, to hold out the hand of good
fellowship, and let the dead past
bury its dead; and until it does
there will be a Mason and Dixon's
Lins, just the same as there was
twenty-five years ago, and it's hu-
man nature. too. Tell q child fifty
times a day he is a mean, disreputa-
BILE little fellow, and never say a
word of praise; misrepresent, curse
him and keep him down, and does
he make the same man as the child
who gets his praise for good, and a
word of encouragement to to it
again2 Of course not, Just so
with South and North. When You
hear of 2 man who was shot because
he would vote the Republican tick
ct, don't curse half your fellow citi.
zens; regret it. of course, but class
the man who shot him with the man
in Essex County that l know of,
whose employees must vote the Re-
publican ticket or lose their places;
but for whose contemplate action
| no good Democrat blames an honest
opponent. The South is Democrat
| ic-"sold"-and why? Because its
political stand was taken thirty,
forty, fifty years ago, and it has not
seen fit to change, and so the charge
has been used as a reproach and
shame that the South and Democra-
cy are one-one in disloyalty, inhu-
manity, solidity, simply because
they voted Democratic from belief
in doctrines which never did, and
never will disturb the freedom,
unity, prosperity or advancement of
the Nation. And to-day we have
Democratic Administration which
has the confidence, and will have the
cooperation of thousands of its po-
litical opponents, with Southern
men in its high positions; and the
good people of the solid North need
have no fears of an attempt by their
Southern countrymen to disrupt the
Union, pension ex-Confederate SOL
diers, re-enslave the negroes, or run
away with the leavings of a highly
Virtuous, but rather hypocritical
North.
And now comes the question Of
ten asked-What of the negro I?
That was the question that dug the
trenches for million soldiers, and
has kept the Nation in a jangle ever
since, My observation is, that the
colored man Is better treated at the
South than at the North, The Ala
bama Legislature has just passed
law for the full and thorough educa-
ton of the colored people. AS me-
chanics they have all they can do.
The colored men of New Orleans
have their So day. The colored
people have the preference as hired
help at hotels and boarding houses,
and on steamboats, and rail trains.
In fact, they monopolize mechanical
labor, and are fast getting a hearing
in the professions. They have their
race represented in the legislative
balls, The eloquent and accom-
plished Senator Bruce is an ilIustra-
tion of the possibility in their political
elevation. They are in better cheer
than the colored people in the North.
Which OF the Northern Legislatures
has black men in them? How many |
co lored Representatives has Maine,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Massa.
chusetts? Ten? No. Fiyep No.
One? Introduce into the Fabyan,
Crawford or Alpine Houses group
of colored servants, how many of
the other servants would remain
Not one. If / were a black man
with family to support, and was
determined to be sober and thrifty,
| would go South. The climate is
more lenient, the feeling of the white
people toward the colored is more
kindly and Christian than in the
North, We cannot teach the South
how bettor to treat the black man.
until we treat him better ourselves. |
Imagine scene: Statehouse, Boston,
within ten minutes walk of Faneuil
ttaii-HThe Cradle of Liberty
and within one minute of the histor-
lcal Common. The Legislature as
'embles and white men take their
seats; colored man has accidental.
N been elected: he comes in TO taka