The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-28
The Yanke.. and tha Contrabands.

philanthropie North for help lie says there
are hundred thousand conralands on hand /
who need every sort Of assistance. Their
wrong views Of Bible morality urgently call
f6r the labors Of The missionary" When the
negro has been thoroughly indocHinaied wifi
Yankee morality he viii be very much alter
ed animal. no doubt Batthc trouble is, how
to help him and what 70 do with him. North
ern philantlropists complain Of Sambo's M.
reasonable demands and wayward manners
lose all patience and refuse any assistance. Mr..
Nichols undertakes to explain the character Of
sambo. He has been accustomed to have
house fuel, clothing food, medical attendance
all free gratis--hs master furnished them and
the negro relied upon him for them. Now he
expectsto receive wages, and still TO have all
the necessares and comforts Of life supplied to
him without price When asked by the Yam.
koe philauthropist:
"Why do you expect the North to give you
food clothing and houses, and what return DO
you propose making for those beueits?" the
eman4ipated slave replies as follows: Old
Master gave all his people food, without hay-
ing anything to pay for it. Our bacon ana
meal was always here; about this we had
care Now we certainly expect the Union
people to do as well by us as our masters did
in Dixie" Then again, our masters once a
year distributed clothing among the people
and this, i ain, was tTee--we had nothing to
pay for il; and we think that the more bera'
l.. Y So. ff,4 so
respect than our Southern masters"
"Besidee this, slavery had its privileges, aud
the slave his rights The slave was permitted
to have his own poutry.yard and 'hach patch
and by most masters was allowed the keeping
Of pig, and had the privilege OF doing ooer-
,o0rG for his own benefit, when the task of the
master was completed"
Now this does not suit the Yankee al all
he must teach the negro the blessings Of wag
in which phrase 10 embraced every d ree
of human wrctchedness-and for the simple,
conGding and contented being that lie was,
make him hucks ering thief worthy of his
Yankee associates.
Mr.. Nichols gives few instancee of negro
greenness:
"For examples few days since | was adj
dressing young man, who had only two chile
rem, showing him how Important it was for him
to remove his wife and children out Of the
camp and furnish them with support, but he
replied only have twenty-five do'iaf5 per
m0rtl"
Two days since, a weIl-dressed man, with a
new suit OF clothing on called upon me TO ask
for clothing, TO have it donated to him, and his
plea was, he had as yet not received his
o No,f "a ma
had no ono to care for, was himself receiving
ton shillings per day every day lie worked and
yet lie thought that the Government had with
55iA it55id from him lis fghtEal dues in clothing
"A few days since, mother who had to my
knowledge, received $3.50 for her labor, and
then spent IS cents for jewelry, aud after that
came to mo to furnish ber child with pair OF
shoes, and upon my saying, "Why did yon moi
take the money you paid for jewelry and buy
your shoes?" sho replied, "Oh, that money
worked for, and could DO as pleased with i :
plainly showing thus tho cropping out OF the
same erroneous teaching
We think Cuff will bother the Yankees some
but 10 is sad 10 think what will be the fate o
these poor creatures, wlieG they shall have
passed through tho ordeal OF Yankee Bible
morality, and been swindled and starved by
the higher law Of Free society.--Ricb. Why
cenctderate Bouds neiter than "Grcea Iiaciss.
From the London correspondent of the Man
chester Guardian we have the following piecc
ofimportant intelligence.
"Whle the enormous new issues Of paper
money by the Federal Government announced
Iby the last mail are the subject of very un'.-
yorable comment, aud while the credit OF the
North IN the London money market is down to
zero it is stated positively that there is no
difficulty found IN the negotiation of Southern
cotton warrants believe these cotton war
rants, which derive all their value from the as.
sumption of the certainty of recognition at no
very distant period, KS bting very largely
used at this moment both in tho Loudon and
lprovinc al markets, in the purchase OF ships
and s.o,es by the Confederate Government,
The three million and quarter bales OF cot.
ton still in store in the South seems TO he a
perfectly safe security, aud the idea OF 'repu-
diaton' does not seem TO suggest itself to
those who thus constitute themselves credl'
tors Of the South. On the otherhsnd, II is dii-
iicdIt 70 find any ono who believes that The
Federal government can be tril ted not to ro'
pudlAtc even lia ueol 10 l1a VNh NVNHH hioh'
Bs9~ Among the Daich-fankce prisoners
carried through this city day before yesterday,
from Charleston, were Messra Antonio Watch
quits and Alexander Mackerel On the same
day they were met IN Richmond by some ol
their fellow Dutchmen Of the 5th Pennaylvania
regiment Of cavalry, captured on the 9Th inst,
Inear williamsburg. Included in this batch
were Capt. Duplat Haiglaimastcr- Edward
( Ehinenoiler Frederick Plaaudg and Charles
4 iUlpitkait. lmagno the scono OF the inroduc.
ton between these fellows imagine too the
calling OF tho roll OF a company Of such long
named Dutch Yankees. Wouldn't Il be enter
tanning to listen to Wouldn't it 10 pleasant
20 watch the contortohs OF the Sergeant os he
rolls out each name? Wouldn't wc rather
listen TO It than do Il ourselves = Petersburg
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