Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08

to buy lands in Texas, that am told are
in every way inferior Politics and the
negroes have had much to do with this,
but politics and the negroes both will
have to bend before the advance of the
great American people. There will be
no going back. What is settled will re-
main so.
My friend Clarke of the Mirror and Far
mer as well as of the Rutland Herald
may want to go back, and may think he
is going but he isn't. The negro ques-
ton is substantially settled down here;
up with northern immigration, so that
the whites shall predominant in numbers
at all points, and that is fast coming.
The question will not be unsettled for the
supposed exigencies of any party. The
following letter sent by nue. to the Allan
ia Constitution expresses more fully my
opinions on this subject. Should see
reason to change or modify these l will
do so hereafter, but we may rest assured
that the question can be better settled
here than anywhere else, and in most if
not all its phases will be so settled:
THE ARLINGTON HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, Ca, Jan. 5, 1889.
EDITOR OF CONSTITUTION,
Dear Sir Passing through the beauti-
full South in transit from the cold winter
of Vermont to the city of Mexico, have
been interested in discussions of the negro
question that | notice going on in south
ern journals, and presume is also going
on in Northern ones, more or less. But
in the Southern ones, all of them that /
have thus far seen, the spirit shown is so
substantially correct that it is evident
bottom has been pretty near struck. The
Southern or negro question Is substantial
ly settled. The determination on the part
of the South, to be just toward the negro,
has practically settled the whole matter
1t remains only for the whole country to
understand this, and, In the first place.
perhaps the South wants to understand
1t. The negro question is settled. There
is no occasion for the white voters to hold
together on this issue. If they differ on
other questions, let them fearlessly separ-
ate and act after their convictions. The
negro vote will divide with the white vote
and take its proper position. We have ques-
tons enough that are unsettled and ma
cannot afford to be occupied with some
thing that has gone by. This matter of
the eXorbitant or unlawful use of money
in elections calls loudly for remedy. The
bugle call that Mr.. Harrison has said to
be anxious to hear has been sounded.
Speaker Cole of the New York House of
Representatives gave it with no uncertain
blast, and its echoes have been rolled
along the Rockies aud taken up by the
Alleghanies. They have reached the Pa
cific slope and Maine. There isn't a
State in this broad Union, think | can
say there isn't town, but what sees the
. danger and is anxious to apply the rene
dy. Whether the old parties will apply
this is more doubtful, but if not, they
will be swept out of the way and new
r one formed that will. Then there is this
, question of temperance. The saloon
, power with its vice. as the money power
with its corruption, must be watched.
2 There are besides the economic questions
.. of the tariff, internal improvements, etc.
r This letter has been suggested by the ed
itorial, "Give Him Fair Trial" in your
yesterdays paper. You well say there
e that the South has nothing to fear from
e the incoming administration. And you
p say again. in speaking of the policy of
southern interference: "there is but one
> end TO sucn pOlcy-lt must eventuate
= in the overthrow of those who inaugur-
4 ate it," And again: "if Gen. Harrison
, falls into the trap set for him. he will
leave the presidential chair without the
respect of the liberal men of his own
t party and with he condemnation and
/ disapproval OF his own conscience. as
o well as the people of those States which
would have suffered by his having yield
ed TO the inordinate demands of sectional
. spoilsmen.'
This is the exact truth. The South has
nothing to fear from any attempted Sec
tional policy.
' If President Harrison is wise man he
f will make national administration, and
: probably be reelected. If he is not, he
and his party may go to pieces on this
southern rock, but no one else will be in
: jured.
e Yours very truly, j. B.