The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-07
NOT SURPRicING.
Why the State of Vermont Has AIwey 3
Been Republican.

A'ScA A>oPu''AS'-h'
Much ado about the Vermont cleo
ton has been made by the goldites i
seems to have elevated them into ;
fools paradise. a few facts may ex
plain why Vermont is always Repub
lican.
/. Vermont refused ID become one
OF the original thirteen colonies, and
although some individuals did join
the patriotic forces, not one man was
furnished by Vermont as such. (See
SpotFord American Almanac, 1886,
p. 80 1t established an 'independ.
ent" State in 1777. Its leading men
were in constant negotiation with the
enemy (the British, and it thereby
escaped much of the troubles of the
revolutionary period, not being &C,
| counted by the British as one Of the
revolutionary colonies. (See almost
any full history Of Vermont, and J.
II. Colton's Geography and Histo
ry," 1879 These facts are not denied
by historians favoring Vermont, but
apologized for as being "adroit, u
'.shrewd" and "by her artful policy
averted invasion for three years. >
CSee Coolidge and Manifold and Halls
hitsory Of Vermont.) Vermont was in
love with the British then as now.
3. Vermont, like the other New
England colonies, maintained slavery,
but it was the last OF the New Eugland
States to abolish it, and did not do so
until 1893, over thirteen years after
Massachusetts, 1t is true, in 1777, it
did provide that all persons then
slaves should be free, males on arriv-
ing at twenty-one and females at 1S,
but this would have kept some of them
as slaves until 1898. Vermont Rugged
slavery 10 the last (S;ee history of the
emancipation AcLs Of the New Eag-
land colonies.)
3. AS to intelligence, the statistics
of 1880 exhibit the fact that the litter
acy OF the Eermonters exceeded that
OF any other Northern State, but one.
The compendium Of the tenth census,
page 1919, states that Of white males
OF twenty-one years of age aud up.
ward returned as unable to write the
Vermont per cent. was 7. L. Only one
Northern State exceeds this as the
class designated. Intelligence reigns
in Vermont forsooth.
/. As to religion and churches, the
remarkable fact is reported Census Of
1870, the last giving full statemenD,
699 organizations and IA church edi-
fees, showing that there were more
church edllices than church organiZa-
ton. It seems the Vermonters used
to want more churches than they
would have any use for. Bob Inger-
soil evidently has been there, and sue
cessfully.
5. AS to the education and schools,
Coolidge and MausGeld's History OF
Vermont, pages TT and 72S, states
That there has been far too little in.
terest felt in Vermont on the subject
OF popular education is very painfully
manifest" and further states THAT
104 OF the districts were without
schoolhouses; 101 entirely without
schools, 222 without blackboards or
other apparatus, and in respect to the
ported good, 7Sl middling and 7CO
bad" The qualification of teachers
were reported poor The census of
1880, page 1910, shows that the aver
,age amount paid monthly per teacher
was only S21S1, which was SIC less
than the average monthly salary at
that time in the entire Union, and, ex-
ceptirg one Southern State, the lowest
paid in any State.
6. As to pauperism, thecompendium
of 1880 census, page 1875, staaees that
in 1880 Vermont had an aggregate Of
l, 564 paupers with a total (then) pop
ulation OF 332, $50, or one out of every
200 was pauper. Vermont was then
the champion pauper State in proper
ton to population.
7. AS to growth, Vermont fell from
the seventeenth in 1880 to thirty-sec-
ond in 1880, and from then, in 1890,
to thirty six 1t had the least growth
of any OF the States from 1870 to 1880,
and its growth from 1880 to 1890 was
only a total Of 1876 persons.
S. Vermont paid the least internal
revenue OF the Northern States (see
Spofford's American almanac, 1886,
page Ii, only $29,S90 in 1885. By
reference to other States of about
equal proportions it is Insignificant.
9. Its excess of expenditures over
receipts in postoffice business is con-
spicuous among the Northern States,
according topopulation (see Spotford's s
American almanac, 1886, page 6O)
10. AS to patriotism, as at the be-
ginning its later career it is not con-
spicuous for fighting proclivities, not
withstanding its one hero, Ethan Al
len. It's per cent. Of troops furnished
to population in the war, 1861 G5, was
with one exception, the least of the
states denominated New England,
middle and Western States (see Spolf-
ord, 1886, page22)
II. There are more persons in Yer
mont in proportion to population mot
in actual number,) who are in the
compendium Of census, 1890, volume
3. page 1876, designated and classed as
insane, feebIe,minded, deaf, independ
ent of deaf and dumb, deaf aud dumb,
with one eye, blind in both eyes, than
in any other of the forty-five states Of
our country. Each of these classes is
separate and distinct in the census re-
port. ard each class in Vermont ex
ceeds the same class in any other
state in pre- portion to population. Par
ticular!y 10 the feeble-minded Of Yer
mont predominant in the census re-
port. This last would account why
Vermont is strongly Republican, but
taking the eleven divisions above to.
gether obtained from authentic records
it is no wonder al all that Vermont is
and always viii be Republican.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Four Boilers Burst.
UAZLET0WN, Pa, Sept. 2S.-Four
boilers al the Iiarwood coIlierY ex-