New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-23
THE PRO-SLAvERY REBELLION.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.


aR.upPaARD's BRAGGING--SwNDLING GERMAN
E,uGRANTs-wHTTE MEMS WAGES FIFTY
CENTS A DAY-CoLD COMFORT FROM EN-
GIAND-DIsAFFECTIoN AMONG THE TROOPS
NO PAY EXCEPT FOR OFFICERS.
From Our Own Correspondent
CHARLESTON, March IS, 1861.
An honest man cannot visit Charleston now
without being convinced of the utter absurdity
Of any attempt to defend the Institution of Slav.
cry. Many Northern people who have Travelled
10 these parts have returned home after having
been deluded and deceived and permitted to see
ebly the surface of the whole matter, with the
Aea that it was not so bad as 1t was repre-
ssnted; but, after four months scrutln'zing
haairy as to its details, / have come to the
conclusion that there is no good thing connected
with il: that it is rotten, and has begun to
putrefy; aud that it will be supremely ridiculous
on the part of the North to attempt to defend
4 or compromise with it. After minute exami-
aation OF the relations the slave system bears to
he free white population. cannot help agree
hg with Gov. Seward that there is an
lrrepressible conflict existing between Free
dom and Slavery, between right and wrong,
and that in the end Freedom will triumph.
I have talked freely with negroes during the
past week, in order to ascertain what disatiec-
hon existed among them. find them much more
intelligent than | expected, and nearly all of
them possessing firm conviction that at no dis
tant day they may all enjoy the blessings OF
freedom. Que of the free blacks, who keeps
very respectable tailor's shop, when speaking OF
Tho anft ha Afofa
said: Poor things! if they had not gone they
would have been whipped; but l would rather
lose my right arm than help the tyrants." This
rood man also told me many things which led
ma to believe that widespread diSafectlOn exists
among the slaves in the interior Of the State,
snd am fully convinced that, unless the planters,
WHO are now expendiDg their gas in Charleston,
10 not quickly return to their homes, they will
have abundant and serious cause to regret it.
The long-expected orders from Washington
have not yet arrived at Fort Sumter. 1t is
earnestly hoped by the Union men here that the
Government WILL if possible, sustain Maj. Aader-
sea in his position. A struggle seems imminent
10 any case, for Gen. Beauregard has distinctly
stated in the hearing of intimate friends of mine
that the fort shall be surrendered TO him and
not evacuated that be shall not be satisfied
unless Maj Anderson delivers into his hands bis
sword. He also says that no United States
vessel shall enter the barbOr until his officers
have searched it, and is talking large generally
upon the strength of his newly-acquired power.
A force Of one thousand well-trained men in the
City of Charleston would blast the whole con-
cern; and hundreds of working men, with true
hearts and hard hands, would Immediately rally
from all parts Of the State If the Stars and
Stripes are once again unfurled. Every humane
man must deprecate war; but it is worse than
v.r to see the honor, the freedom, and fair
fame of ones country trodden into the dust by
these traitorous hordes.
I wish through your columns to direct the at
tenton Of the Emigration Commissioners in New
York and Baltimore to the fact that there are
sooundrels lying in wait upon the arrival OF every
German packet, for the purpose of decoying ig-
aorsnt uneducated men, who do not know sim
gle word of the English language, into enlistment
Coz the Southern army. Seventy of these poor
FLOWS recently arrived from Baltimore, all of
whom had been induced through specious promi-
sos TO ship for Charleston. They now lie bleach
iag m the sun upon Morris Island, almost naked,
with no beds and very little to eat. A true
Union man, who is German, obtained pass,
through the Captain of German Company, to
Wait the Island, and went Especially at my
auest) to communicate with these unfortunate
mon. They all sOemnly declare that they had no
Aes they were enlisted against the Government
Of the United States, and a.! agree that they
wero deuded by false representations made to
shem immediately upon their arrival. There are
also number who came by way of New York, and
wbo give a precisely similar account of the means
resorted to, for the purpose Of entrappng them.
Passing from soldiers to civilians, l cannot
give you better idea of the position to which
the white abOring man has been reduced from
the effects Of this Rebellion, than by assuring you
that the few labOriDg who fortunate
&c 10 be retained in the employ of the South
Carolina Railway Company, are now receiving
the extraordinary sum Of fifty cents per day for
tkeir labor. One of their number told me this
morning that his wages had been gradually re-
deced from two dollars TO Seventy-fve cents a
day, but that when it got below that he left, and
with his small saving, as last resource, estab-
hahed whisky shop. Daily applications are
made to the Foreign Societies here, begging them
10 send whole families away to the North; and
the distress is increasing daily and with rapid
strides. Meantime provisions are steadily in
measng in price, and the season is gradually
crawling toward the time when disease as well |
a want VIII make sad havoc among the poor