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The Negroes in the South.

The South Carolina correspondent of the Balti-
more Gazette writes the following letter, in which he
portrays the dissatisfaction of the negroes, and pre-
dicts that they will rise in insurrection :
" Sampit, Sept. 28, 1865.
"The negroes are beginning to show their hand. En-
raged at the disappointment of not having the lands and
plantations parcelled out to them by the United States
Government, there is no doubt in the minds of the
calmest and oldest planters that an effort will be made
this winter by the blacks forcibly to possess themselves
of the plantations. In plain words, it is pretty well ascer-
tained that an insurrection is contemplated, and prepara-
tions are being made to that end. Unfortunately for the
peace of the neighbourhood, one large estate has fallen into
black hands, and while every other gang of negroes on the
river has been brought under white rule, the three places
belonging to this estate afford sanctuary to malcontentsand
a safe focus for sedition. It is known that an old blacksmith,
Tony, is refusing all work for whites, and receiving all guns
from negroes to put in order. This is an indication unmis-
takable, and could the local authorities be made to believe
that the opinion of planters is worth some consideration,
there is yet time for the evil to be arrested—but when spoken
to on the subject, the Provost Marshal laughs and says he
'thinks not.' Of course, if the negroes were not wily and
cunning, like all savages, they would be little to be feared;
but their strength is in their dissimulation—they have
taken the measure of the Yankee foot, and know that pre-
sents of melons and wild grapes and fowls, and a mingled
servile and silly manner, can blind the sharpest officer in
the United States service. These are their tactics, and so
the officer calls them a jolly set of boys., these midnight
robbers and would be murderers. Let the Abolitionists look
to it—there will be a rising of the freed negroes, and some
planters will be murdered and many women and children
dishonoured and butchered, but such a flame of vengeance
will be kindled that the black race will be exterminated by
the United efforts of the Northern and Southern men. On
this ground there will be union fast and firm, for there is
not a Northern soldier iu the ranks ever stationed here that
does not learn to see that the blacks are only fit to be ser-
vants, and must be forced into that position. If planters
are to begin anew to plant their lands, let it be recollected
that they are now citizensof the United States and entitled

to demand full protection in their pursuits, which neces-
sarily isolate and expose them to danger and death from
the deadly enemies with whom they are now actually
contending—for the struggle has already begun. On several
plantations the negroes havo given notice that they will
not hire themselves as labourers ; that they must either
hire or buy the land. On many plantations they sullenly
refuse to answer when questioned as to their intentions.
On one or two they have named wages from 815 up to $3O

a month as the only terms they would accept. Now, what
is to be done with a peopla so impracticable, so blind to
their own interests as to insist on pushing matters to a
conclusion which they are forcing on the most, obtuse
planters, viz., there is no alternative except white labour,
and to that complexion we shall come at last? Slowly

and reluctantly, but surely, this conviction is gaining
ground, and it is one fatal to the negro ; under the most

'aNturable circumstances the blacks will be forced into a

competition with white labour, but were there no pressure
exercised the advantage would be all on the side of the
negro, better suited to the heat, better fitted by custom for
the work, and better able to subsist on less wages than the
white race in this climate. The blacks, therefore, hold the
solution of the labour question entirely in their own hands.
The planters would be glad not to make the wrench neces-
sary to substitute whites for blacks, because it involves
much trouble and possibly a change of culture, either in the
manner of watering rice, or, perhaps, in planting cotton and
indigo instead. The negro has the inside track in the race,
but the winning depends on his not baulking.
" On one of the plantations where the negroes have been
orderly and quiet the whole gang struck in the midst of
harvesting, and said they would not work under the orders
of the head negro, but wanted their own man ; they lay in
the sun two days while the birds ate the crop, half of which
was their own. They did not pretend to have any cause
of complaint, it was simply the malice of a parvenu raised
to power he is unworthy to exercise, and desirous of show-

ing his irresponsibility. These are the drawbacks to that
perfect understanding between the masters and their freed
slaves which it is so easy to talk of at a safe distance as
the duty of enlightened planters, and as simple justice to-
wards the poor unoffending negro. If the advocates for
elevating the black race would only undertake it them-
selves, leave off their damnable faces and begin, it is pro-
bable that they would, after a duo course of aggravation,
consider the gibbet the most practical means of elevating
the mass through the righteous punishment of a few. The
two negroes who murdered Skinner were bung yesterday

in Georgetown, and three others, accessory to the fact, were

imprisoned. Immense numbers of blacks went to see the
execution. The men ' died game,' as it is falsely called—
that is, utterly stolid and impudent, without saying one
word. Young Coachman, whose life they threatened on
the same occasion, and who escaped by a miracle, was the
only planter who went to see the hanging ; he felt it right
to do so. Billy, the head of the crew, recognised him as
he was mounting the gallows, and started and stared at
him, but made no sign. As the bodies swung off a deep
groan rose from the crowd of negroes.
"The return of the enlisted men, which must now soon
be expected, adds an alarming element to the already
lowering storm in the near future. These men are the
bone and sinew of the district, mostly between the ages of
18 and 25, unmarried, and were a heavy loss to the indus-
try of the neighbourhood. They will come back with the
prestige of military dash, with the recklessness of youth,
and the power of disciplining and influencing the masses.
From one owner on Pedee 40 went to the United States'
army, and so on in proportion. Now, to ignore the danger
of the return of these United States soldiers is simply to
drift carelessly over the Falls of Niagara—we are in the
rapids, and only by strong and untiring steering can we
save ourselves from destruction. We must appeal to the
United States, to the highest and chiefest, as best qualified
to understand our needs, and apply the remedy. Local
authorities may trifle, but the heads feel more deeply the
responsibility. Next winter, at the time when it is pro-
posed to discharge such labourers as refuse to be hired or
are unacceptable to planters, it will be proper to send a
large reinforcement of United States troops here, and to
have a squad of a sergeant and five men on every planta-
tion where masters and families are residing. This would
prevent the necessity of State legislation in arming a heavy
police force, a measure which, while imperatively called
for, would nevertheless be looked upon probably with dis-
favour by the general Government. The very sparse white
population of this district must be heavily added to some-
how in time to anticipate the evil, not to avenge it. We
raise our voice and call for assistance in this, our deadly
peril, for the overpowering majority makes all idea of re-
sistance hopeless if things culminate to a crisis. Reckless
and improvident, the negroes who refuse to work will find
themselves in January without food, clothes, or shelter ; the
temptation to crime will be to such natures irresistible.
Four barns have been already broken into, and this not
from necessity, but from the wantonness of evil. If these
things occur now, whilst the corn and rice—half of which
has been given to the negroes—are waving luxuriantly in
the fields, what hope is there of any law-abiding conduct
next winter, when the food, so lavishly bestowed on them
by decree, has been so lavishly squandered ? This sort of
premium so given to idleness and insolence will have the
worst possible effect on their habits—' the lightly won, we
lightly prize.' A belief in the continued bounty of the
United States is ineradicable in the negro mind. Faults of
legislation, springing out of gross ignorance as to the race
they were dealing with, are about to recoil as deadly in-
struments of woe upon the people they were meant blindly
and most unjustly to benefit at the expense of the planters.
They were indeed totally, perhaps irretreviably, ruined,
because with the throwing out of at least two-thirds of
the lands from laziness, and the vastly diminished product
from negligent tillage, the planter must, at best, have
been seriously injured ; but the giving half the crops to the
negroes has taken away the possibility of securing enough
to pay wages for the coming year, and unless planters can
mortgage their lands to carry on the cultivation, it will be
very long before the plantations can be brought into order.
Famine looms gauntly in the distance, not for the whites--
they may suffer, but the blacks must starve. To think of
the wicked waste encouraged by the Georgetown authori-
ties among the negroes in the spring makes one fear that
retribution will be a measure of divine justice. On Mrs.
Trapier's plantation, between March and September, 200
negroes made away with 9,000 bushels of rice. Mrs. Tra-
pier and her family were, by the agent of the Freedmen's
Bureau, refused 50 bushels for the support of a family of 10
persons, and but for the kindness of neighbours, only a
little less distressed, the family must have starved, while
the negroes, aided and abetted first by Colonel'Brown, of.
the 157th New York Volunteers, and then by Mr. Fox,
agent of the Freedmen's Bureau, refused to allow one grain
of rice to be taken by the family. Mrs. Trapier took the
oath of allegiance and became a loyal citizen of the United
States in the month of May. She is eighty-four years old,
and has been persecuted as relentlessly as if she had been
chief of a guerilla band. On one occasion 30,000 dollars
worth of silver was carried off from her house, whilst at
the same time the public documents printed for the outer
world declaredthat 'all private property must be respected.'
We were cut off from all help by a circle of fire, and then
pillaged and plundered at the will of every ruffian of the
157th New York Volunteers (and a precious set they were),
and the booty they carried off from terrified women would
require pages to enumerate. The injury that was done by
the contact of such men with the negro, in the first days
of his freedom, will never, probably, be retrieved in this
district. First impressions aro the strongest. The negroes

were taught by-their best friends to rob and murder, and
the lessons sank deep, like the seeds in upturned loam.
The crop of evil is now ripening to fruition ; we have still
a few months to prepare for what we see coming. Inaction
will probably bring about a war between the races ; we
wish to prevent this ; so we speak out, and give timely
warning, and call on those who wield the power to protect
us from the peril in which we stand."