Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-03-04

= YORKV LILLE, SOUTH !'lL'l | .
The Yankees and the contrabands.
A man, who signs himself I'D. B. Mich
OILS, Superintendent of the Contrabands,
Washington, D. C. publishes long card,
appealing to the philanthropic North for.
help. He says there are q hundred thou.
sand contrabands on hand, who need every
sort Of assistance ssTheir wrong views Of
Bible morality urgently call for the labors
Of the missionary" When the Negro has
been thoroughly indoctrinated with Yankee
morality, lie will be q very much altered
animal, no doubt! But the trouble is, how
to help him and what to do with him.
Northern philanthropists complain Of Sam.
bo,s unreasonable demands and wayward
manpers--loose all patience and refuse any
assistance. Mr.-Nichols undertakes to ex.
plaintbe character Of Sambo He has been
accustomed to have house, fues, clothing,
food, medical attendance all free GRATIS,
his master furnished them, and, the
rorelied upon him for them: Now he
expects to receive wages, and still to have
all the necessaries and comforts Of life sup
piled to him without price. When asked
by the Yankee philanthropist: ~.
"Why do you expect the North to give
you food, clothing and houses, and what
return do you propose making for those ebene-
fits 2" the emancipated slave replies as fol-
lows: "Old Master gave all bis people food
without having anything to pay for it,
Our bacon and meal, is always here; about
this wehad no care.s5 Now we certainly exs
pect the Union people to do as well BY us
as our masters did in Dixie Then, again,
our masters once year distributed clothing
among the people, and this, again, was free
we had nothing to pay for it; and we
think that the more liberal Union people
willdo even more for us in this repect than
our Southern masters. /"
aBesides this, slavery bad its privileges,
and the slave his rights. The slave was
permitted to have his own poultry.yard and
truck-patch,' and by most masters was al.
lowed the keeping ola pig, and had the
privilege Of doing oyer-work for his own
benefit, when the task Of the master was
completed" -
Now this does not suit the Yankee atall.
He must teach the negro; the blessings of
wages--in Bhich phrase is embraced every
degree of human wretchedness-and for
the simple, confdiug and conteuted being
that he was, make him huckstering thief
worthy of his Yankee associates.
Mr.. Nichols gives few instances of>ne-
gro tgreenness
aFor example few days since, I was
addressing young man, who had only two
children, showing him how important it
was for him to remove his wife and chill.
dreu out OF shecamp and furnish them with
support, buthe replied II only have twenty
FIVE dollars per month."
"Two days since, a well.dressed man,
with a new suit Of clothing on, called upon
me to; ask for. clothing, to have i donated
to him, and his plea was, he had as yet not
received shis share from the Government.
Nowsthis man had no. one to care for, was
himself receiving ten shillings per day every
day he worked, and yethe thought that the
Government mad withheld from him his
rightful dues in clothing"
ga few days since, mother who had, to
my knowledge, received $3.50 for her Ia
Dor, and then spent rs cents for jewelry,
and after that came to me to furnish her
child with pair of shoes, and upon my
saying, why did you not take the money
you paid for jewelry and buy your shoes Z"
she replied, sOh that money I worked for,
and could do as I pleased with it, plainly
showing thus the cropping out of the same
erroneous teaching
We think Cuff will bother the Yankees
some; but it is sad to think what will be
the fate of these poor creatures, when they
shall have passed through the ordeal of
Yankee Bible morality, and been swindled
and starved by the higher law Of free socie-
Rhig.