St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-10-02

| person was present AT any IdlS, i
was told that regular shout
could be gotten up to order in a col
ored church by hint to the pastor
and a liberal contribution dropped
into the box. The whole perform
ance was degrading, brutalizing and
disgusting to the last degree. No
feeling of true devotion could stand
it. should say that the first thing
to be done in elevating the colored
race is to do away utterly with their
barbarous form of religious service
Another thing to be done is to let
things take their course. Let the
South work out its own salvation
from the evils which slavery be
queathed to it. 1t will take half a
century of thinking, experiment, suf-
fering by both races, wrongs done
and avenged, to develop harmony
between the two races. 1t will take
| till those who remember the days and
customs of slavery are in their
graves, the black as well as the
white do not see how outside in
reference can hasten the work. 1t
is problem to be solved, not a bone
to fight about. All these schemes to
get rid of the blacks by transporting
them to Africa, or Cuba, are mere
| fol-de-rol The blacks are there and
they are there to stay. They have
been trodden under foot; but they
will learn to stand erect. They are
ignorant; but they are learning the
value of knowledge AS race they
| are lazy; but some of them are learn
ing that industry means comfort,
luxury and wealth. Some of them
are vicious, but-white folks are not
all like Enoch.
l will close this letter by noting
down a remark made to me by a
white Virginian of some common
sense,-a republican, by the by. He
was telling me how he had seen
slaves tied up and whipped, how the
great welts would rise in the track
of the lash, and how sometimes
the blood would run. l asked
him with what feelings he looked
upon such performances at the time.
Said he, Il thought, if they really
was human beings, it was pootty
rough on EN-"
F. BLANCHARD.
MIR. REED AND THE MAINE ELEC-
TON.
In estima ting the Maine election
the personal admira ton of Mr.. Reed
must not be forgotten. His audacity
and resolution, like the same quail
ties in General Jackson, strike the
popular fancy as heroic, and every
people loves a hero. The old hero"
was favorite name for Jackson, and
very pretty name it was for head
contest with the bank were compre-
hended by very small number of
his fellOw-cIt1zens. But the great
mass of them could easily compre
bend his denunciation of the monster
and the money power, and in one
man contending with a great corpOr-
alton they saw Hercules wrestling
with the hydra. In the same way
the Speaker is represented as alone
wlthstanding the monster composed
of the serried host of confederate
brigadiers trying to capture Con
gress and overthrow the Union, as
Mr.. Ingersoll, in his famous speech
at Cincinnati in 1876, described Mr..
Blaine as 1.-THE plumed and belted
knight" holding open the mouth of
the same monster, and performing
prodigies of valor There is a good
deal of poetry in politics, and all this
rhetoric tells in the most effective
manner. Mr.. Reed is a heroic and
picturesque figure in the imagination
of his party, and that is an immense
advantage. They will be naturally
gra teful to him also for giving an oc-
casion just at this juncture for reveal
ing the party unity. In the strict
party sense he has been of great ser
vice, and that fact will not be for
gotten Harper's Weekly.