The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
ROSS & RossER, Publishers.
From the West Chester Pa.) Jeffersonian.
The Condition q Prospects ofthe South

THREE MONTHS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES: April
June, 1868, by Lieutenant Colonel Freemantle,
ofthe British Coldstream Guards.
The author of this book, Lieut.. Colonel
in the Coldstream Guards, one of the most
celebrated regiments in the English army,
has done tho public, both of Europe and
| America, great service. He has written
what bears the evidence of being truthful
book. In a three months journey through
every part of the South, he wrote from day
to day, what he saw and heard from tn Q
officers and soldiers Of the army. from gen.
tlemen of official station, and from private
citizens, and the ladies. Nothing is ex-
teDuated, and naught seems set down in
malice. To those who wish to get at the
truth in regard to the temper and condition,
and prospect of the southern people. in the
midst of the inhuman war which is waged
upon them by the Abolitionists. this book
will be most welcome. Col. Freemantle
landed in Texas in April 1868. He thinks
the Texans a rough wild, honest people, liv
ing in a country where every white man is
as good as another. (by theory,) aud every
white female is, by courtesy lady, there is
onlv one class" This remark, which every
we'll informed gentleman knows to be true,
is a very handsome refutation of the false
hood with which the Aboltionsts have in-
doctrinated their dupes in the North, that
the social condition of the non-wealthy
white people is eplorable in the South
| 1t is not so. There the social ban is upon
| color. If the white man is as poor as
Lazarus, If he is, at the same time, de-
cent, well-behaved citizen, he is invariably
treated with the respect due respectable
member OF society. There is no such mar
row and odious distinction between a rich
and a poor white man in the South, as there
is in the North Our authors description
of the personnel of th hero of San acinto is
brief, but unique: "In appearance he is tall,
handsome old man, much given to chewing
tobacco, and blowing his nose with his
fingers" At this time Gen. Banks was
progressing with his invasion of the State of
Texas. Col. Freemantle saysi
Banks himself is much despised as a
soldier, and is always called by the Con-
federates Mr.. Comm;ssary Banks, on ac-
count of the efficient manner in which he
performed he duties of that Office for Stone
wall' Jackson in Virginia. The officer who
is supposed really to command the advan-
cling Federals is~Weitzel; aud he is ac-
knowledged by all to be an able man and
good soldier"
This seems to confirm what we have be-
fore heard hinted, that even Lincoln had
such poor opinion of Banks's military
skill that he is only kept an automaton
at the head Of his army as a political
general. This may explain the sudden
start ne has taken to play over again the
role OF Ben Butler in Louisiana. Finding
that after three years he has made no mark
as a military man, he plunges into the paths
Of des potism, determined to make his IN ark
as a tyrant, if he cannot as a general.
Col Freemantle gives a picture of the
condition of the "slaves" in Texas, which
will astonish those who know nothing of the
matter except from northern books and
newspapers. He says:
"The General (Scurry) took me out for a
drive in his ambulance, and saw iunumer-
able negroes and negr esses parading about
the streets in the most outraseously grand
costumes-silks, satins, criDolines, hats with
feathers, laces, mantles, &C., forming an alb.
surd contrast TO the simple dresses OF their
mistresses. Many were driving about in
their masters carriages, or riding on horses,
which were often lent to them on Sunday
afternoons; all seemed intensely happy and
satisfied with themselves"
Any gentleman who has ever been South
will at once recognize this as true picture
OF the general condition of the "slaves." 1t
may almost be said that until a man has
been in the South he has never seen truly
happy negro.
On his way from Texas to Louisiana the
Col met with a number of deserters from
Grants army. He says:
"There were forty or fifty Yankee desert
ers here from the army besieging Vicksburg.
These Yankee deserters, on being asked
their reasons for deserving, generally re-
pile Our Government has brokon faith
with US. We enlisted to fight for the Un-
ion, and not to liberate the Cd id mig
gers"
At Monroe our author had a talk with a
number Of "slaves" who had fed in great
terror from Harrisonburg, when an army at
tackled that place.
Shortly after day light number of ne
groes arrived from Harrison burg, and they
described tine fight as still going on; they
said they were dreadful skeered and one
of them told me be would rather be slave
to his master all his life than a white man
and a soldier.' All spoke of the Yankees
with great detestation, and expressed wishes
tc have nothing to do with such bad peo-
ple.'
Col. Freemantle visited Jackson, the
capitol Of Mississippi, short time after
Gen. Grant vacated that city. The des-
criptiou he gives of the conduct of that OH
Ger is of a character that will make his
cheeks burn, we think, if he ever reads it.
He says:
"All the numerous factories have been
burnt down by General Grant, who was, of
course justified in so doing; but during the
short space Of thirty hours in which
Gen. Grant occupied this city, his troops
had wantonly pillaged nearly all the private
houses. They had gutted all the stores, and
destroyed what they could not carry away.
A ~, -
very eyes of General Grast, whose name
was in the book at the Bowmont House Ho-
tel. saw the ruins of the Roman Catholic
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