Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-11-16

Following is the interview alluded to:
Gen Buierw was interviewed ON Wednesday. l.th
inst ON the result Of the election
What is your opinion To the OUTCOME, uf the
election. General asked the reporter
"Oh. we have beaten the English both h their
attack upon our manufactures and trade, and our
markets aud upon our fisheries Thus.' have h.an
the ISSUES uf the campaign. aud the parties have
been England uu the one side, bed hy cleveland
and West, and the American people on the other
SIDE, led 10y Harrison aud those who agreed with
him
The outcome is particularly grateful to me.
because IL settles the question Of protection for
many years to come and still mon. grateful H..
cause tue questions between the North and south
arr now settled forever.
The outh. taking advantage uf the amount Of
power that the get, because ut their negro popu-
latiuu, m tine luus, of Representatives aud In the
electoral college; have tried, with The help Of the
city uf New York dominating that great state to
ruiz the North, and To recover what they lost hy
the war They have >ignally failed, and they can
never make the attempt again
In the first pluce, the next census which will
dytrruinc tue representation In Congress and the
electoral college, Will bring in great an incrcas..
IN the inhabitants 81 the states and territories Of
the West AMI Northwest that the South aud New
York cannot govern the nation any NOR. Sec
und. that 10y the fourteenth amendment, when
ever Congress finds that the freedmen made. vnt
ef are deprived Of their political rights then the
states IN which that * done can IL. deprived Of
their political powers. aud the North will no long
er tamely aud foulishy allow. a. they have. The.
south "a exercise the political power IT the negro
vote aud not let him vote There ar. "A good
many people ~ thu North who think the negro
has tpp much right when be has the right to vote.
ana uutil he T. educated a very great many men
are inclined To- that view. But do not know Of
anybody who believes that the negro ought not to
have the right to vote but that his former master
shall haN" ia" right a. vote for him, and that Is
what Is going ON lu the South now. II won't 20
on any more They will break up or get broken
There VIII l- two new states admitted. Dakota
and Montana. which will s.-ttlr the control Of the
Senate, and PERHAPS al~u tho, territory of Wash
ingtuu aud ps,s>ihiy New Mexico
The result is grateful To- h-'caus,. II dis
poses uf "a threat OF the southern politicians that
the Western people would join with the South To
l"at the East aud II W. did not give the south
whirlwind. ] have lived to So, that Western
whirlwmd II took place IN 1861 II vas relied ON
then by the South But 10 the men II the East
and ut Prnusy lNauia, and Of New York and Con
nrctlcut, who settled the West and who are con
unuiug that settlement still West and who lately
have voted rs they fought and. | regret to say.
have done hrttcr IN their votes than every New
England state has done, showing their appr-uia.
tinn uf the question of protection of American
industry ami ut American Wurkingneu can
now fully trust the future d,stinirs Of the country
There Is a single other thing that am glad to
hnd that Tins election has demonstrated that the.
freshmen have found who their true friends arr
They are NO longer to be- deceived into afiiliating
with those who claim to H. their especial friends
at the very moment they are hobnobbng and col.
leaguing with the English government
small you look Tor any new tariff legislation.
General, II the Republicans have gained the con
troll 81 both houses was asked
oh, the tariff is To- he revised and lowered &c
replied the Lowell statesman: but our victory il
that II is not to be- an English tariff Don't make
any mistake about that