Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-12-08
From the S.. L6nis Retubliean.
The COntr abands.

IL is not true philanthropy which hes In.
sLired the abOlitiOnists 10 their course with
regard to the southern negroes. With them
! 'ue question has Teen, BOT how much
slaves would be benefited by abolition,
Ont now much it would irritats and. bsrasS
save hofoers, and contribute 10 tthe graft.
ncatlon or q sectional malico. Dnrine IN.
present war thousand of negroes have beea
released from servitude to, their mastere
but We eSyi uuhesitatingly that in nin.-
cases out Often, if not 10 n fan Ereafs1
ratio. the change has been pokitiveiS inf9.
riUus to their condition, morally and phys.
IcailyS, How many Of the contrabands are.
better provided for rban uheys Warein sic.
very IHoV many are mofe useful % %.
cletyf How many are happier a. -
1t has been developed during the prO&
gress of military events 10 the last two.
years that trading in negroes .is mot an
uncommon kind of speculation amsne
northern men ir the federal services TheEe
Is case OF d superintendent Of 'ContrS.
bands. at Cairo, who was discovered to Do
extensively engaged in this business, end
was finally arrested for selling . youoS
negro for $50 to his master 10 Kectuckv!
on oeing detected. this sharper dixuIESd
upon sGtoere, ,AmoC them vas q chaplain.
whom he accused Of having. sold eighty.
Contestants have been exchanged for COS.
ton. A Massachueetts.. repa5lican natNR
relates 10 the following llaagusge, on 10.
stance Of the sale of q mulatto boy for
PIX: - = ~ - ct
"a few days ago We were at place,
where pretty colOred lad, about fifteen
years old and almost white. WIS. busyioe
himself. One man psked, "whose neeIo l.
thstr" He beloogsio such s11an, .uo3
the reply. "Where did be come from I"
"A member Of the til regiment gave him
to, for 9 pig that vas worth Eve doll,
lsrs." Such talk 10, Massachusetts sounds
badly: but We have reason to believe that
they are literally trae." ~, q Etc. 4
Officers 10 the army after hagioz euticed
| negroes from their southern. homes. and
kept them in camp until they have fu9ud
them ipdOleet and worthless, have taken.
or senttheD'north, S0d turned them adrift
10 starVe or beg. Abundant cases of, thia,
kind have occurred. Some Of ahe .horihera
cities,are overrun with freedmen. Manv
perhaps are disposed to work, but such ara
kept in the same meniaf conditioni q
when they were slaves, and few Of then.
are 80 well treated, fed or clothed. Few
receive wages like our hired laborers. II
they get sick they are shifted OF on tbs
IcoTPoAAiooS. lucy Oreak bne AW1,. %
do which they ere 90 tempted. Jail -dooss
Hy open to receive them, They ara snt
pioyed when they ore profitable, t. bat II
useless, no more regard lie paid to them
than to other psupers. Il 10 fact, GppAr,
ent and uudeniable, that thersr 10 Lest
sympathy. for the negro ct the north THAI
in the southern states. -
The cOntraband camps, established. .bN
the government, have been little else tlIka
pens 81 idleDess; squsior and disease. We
shuddeE 10 think Of TIN scoreG Of hundfeds
Of black men, women sDd lehildran uhnas
| DIsPraoIe deaths are attributable solely 10
the change 10 their condition produced b1
the wsr-to their own helplessness and to
the neglect sod indifference of:those whom
they. in their Ignorance and strange faith;
looked upon as their beDefsctors and
friends. lBths,eities they wander aboUs
IN poverty aud despair until they sicken
and the cold ground shuts them in from .
colder world. The negro is 6udinR free.
DIM to be fslIscy, and himself q sscrir
hoe to the pitiiess philanthropy of the ab.
olitionists.