Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-11
The Government as an Negro Dealer
and manager.

We have received the following interesting of
fetal correspondence from New Orleans. Ii will
serve to illustrate the character of the Federal
Government in its paternal light While Abes
proclamations have clearly established the fact
that the negro slaves are to be freed his Leuten-
ant, Hanks, Superintendent of negro labor, makes
il no less evident that they are TO be re-en-
shaved on a system quite as arbitrary as that of
their old masters. Read, We Abolitionists and
lovers of negro equality, and tell Us what the ne
gro has gained the hberating powers organized
under the Chicago platform:
NEw ORLEANS, LA, March 9, 1863.
DIR. b. r. SMIrH-SIR BY authority of the
General Commanding, will visit the plantations
under your charge "a frequently possible. /
will take good care, so long as you observe your
part of the contract that the negroes shall render
faithful obedience and labor during the year.
They will not be allowed to leave the place or
hire with others. If they violate their agreement
| will place them on Government works without
pay or subject them to some other salutary pun
ishment Being perfectly familiar with
your practical means of working a large number
of negroes, am led to believe that you will GER
tainly be able to maintain order and secure faith
full labor with but little interference of the military
authorities.
BE assured, however. that Justice to the blacks,
we'll 10 the employer. will lead me TO
protect the labOrers
Very respectfully, yours,
GEORGE II HANKS,
Lieutenant. and General
Superintendent Of Negro Labor.
TO COTTON AND SUGAR PLANTERS.
wish to rent. or work on Joint account. one
or two plantations. can sapply any deficiency
of labor, mules and supplies | will undertake
ut my risk TO secure order and such continu-
Gus labor as will insure a crop
have parties engaged in collecting negroes
mules and carts belonging to the plantations
am now working who will be instructed to assist
other planters who furnish list of their lost
property
ment terms. and wish to hire purchase one hun
dred mules; also, 10 purchase circular saw mill
and wood saving machine
BENJAMIN + SMITH,
No - NJ gazine street, New Orleans
Appended TO this circular are the Government
rules for regulating the negroes upon the plan'a
tons. who agree 10 work on -- plantation
for one year, and to do such \ days work as was
done in former Years; 10 obey the master in all
things to 20 to work at daylight and work until
dark. taking the usual number of hours for
meals; To he in their cabins at the last tap of the
bell at night ami to remain there ill the first bell
in the morning: to never leave the place without
written pass; 30 appear in clean Clothes every
Sunday morning The wages are one dollar per
month for women and bows, two dolldrs for field
hands, and three dollars for mechanics. or one.
twentieth of the crop. with clothing and raiiuns
usually furnished Newark IN. j. Journal.
EE- The Abolit;onists are greatly deighie ed
with General MilrOy's letter in relation TO the &C
ton of the Democratic members OF the late Legis-
lature Of Indiana. Here is the closing paragraph
of the letter:
Il join with my fellow soldiers of the Union
everywhere in warning these traitors at home that
when We have crushed out armed treason in the
south and restored the sovereignty of our Gov
ernment over these misguided States, which
under God. we will surely do we will. upon our
return. while our hands are in, also extermiuate
treason at the North, by arms. if need be- and
seal by the blood of traitors, wherever found
the permrncnt peace of our country and the per
pctuity of free government to all future genera
tons. II. III MILRoY"
Mark this language. Gen. Milroy warns
these traitors AT home" (reierrng expressly To
such TRAITORS" as the Democrats of the Indiana
Legslature.) that, soon the Southern rebel
lion is put down, he and his troops will, upon
their return, ami. uhiie their hands are in. ex-
terminate by force of arms tire Son nj the North
(such treason that OF the Indiana legislature
and seal peace by the blood of the traitors Be
it observed that Milroy and his troops, according
To his statement. are to do all this bucherv, not
after awaiting the action of civil or judicial au-
thorities. but at once on their return from the
South, before they are diSbanded, "while their
hands are in" The threat of notification or
whatever it may be is infamous and shocking
The idea of an army's returning from q sue
cessful war, and, with their grasp upon their
country's weapons unrelaxed, proceeding to de-
eide for themselves what is treason and what
classes of politicians and civilians are traitors
and cxterminate the treason and the traitors by
general massacre is atrocious and revolving be-
yond expression. We had not supposed that
The most blark-h arted Abolition fanatic or luna
tic in all this land or in all the world could put
forth or indorse any threat or suggestion of
thing 50 unu'terublv horrible.
We have no apprehension that any of our
Federal troops, even any those under Gen.
Milroy's immediate command, could ever be per-
suaded TO undertake such n deviIish work he
threatens Evansville Journal.