The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-22
NEW SERIES-NO. 542.

must perish of neglect and want, before
any reorganization can take place. They
are knocked about by our soldiers in all
ways. but notwithstanding all, they cay,
we not going back to dem, (their old
masters, } no way"
They like army life, and make excellent
soldiers when in the hands of descent Of
ficers, which, am told, is rare good for
tune Many officers of white regiments
look down upon the officers of black ones.
and SO the old poison of slavery continues
to work.
THE WHITE FOLKS
Along the march are not fascinating pop
ulation. The larger part of the wealthy
people have gone 70 parts unknown, leav-
ing base representatives in their places, or
deserted houses. / am told that there is
one handsome young woman in Louisiana
= Miss Dejean-but the testimony
comes from one of our officers, who hav-
ing been cut of from hoop skirts at least
two weeks, is not in my opinion safe
tribunal. He, however, is rapturous, and
] hope Miss Dejean is equal to his descrip-
tion, for certainly the female gender in
these parts is not what it ought to be.
The people we see along our line of march
are mostly the French creole population,
called by many here, "Cajeans," (Aca-
dians,) and are the reputed descendants
of Longfellow's Evangeline - very
agreeable to them, but not G. editable to
"Evangeline They are weak, inoffen-
sive class, content to be poor and no.
bodis; they are not good-lookink but as
most of the able-bo led among them have
been pressed into the rebel ranks, am of
course judging hastily. Some of them
have been brought in by our scouting par
ties, who say they are deserting and glad
to get to rs. They say they have been
badly treated and wretchedly fed, but they
show no signs of starvation, and may be
spies, though l think not The creole
women have seen are not bitter in tkeir
talk, as the women of American descent
are-they are very fierce yet. We stopped
for half an hour at the house of mother
ard two daughters, fine g,rls, surely. They
said: -
"Wait little-we know We are down
now; but We shall be up again soon."
but You were once very rich here,
had all you conld want, good flag to live
under, and were our masters, but when
you broke off from US did you not make
mistaken"
mo-" said my young lady, "we will
never live with the Yankees again." ''-
"Then am thinking they will have to
live with yOu," said .asds.1 zfw
But the old lady said, with tears in her
eyes, "We shall never again see such
times as we have seen-Nor.h and South
have suffered alike, and must continue to-"
l replied" They have both suffered,
but not alike. We have lost our brave
young men as you have, but we have not
lost our country, or our contidence-we
are not beaten, and we shall not be.'' lnr.
This was bitter, know, and the young
ladies wished to stick the carving knifs
into me; but they did not. '2oi = s.'sa
The upper classes are bitter, for they
feel they are beaten they will, / hope,
disappear from the scene, and give place
to better people; they waxed fat and
kicked, and God Furnishes that kind some
times. But one of the curious facts in the
history of the human mind is that these
people constantly appeal to the "Consti-
tuition to p otect their property in slaves
they do it here now, high and low, even
Gov. Allen thinks We ought to hunt up
and return their runaways. 1t can't be
beaten into their, heads that they have
done and are doing their utmost to destroy
that Government, which once did protect
them against their poor niggers. Madness
ana folly have possessed them it is all
right" God wills it," a.a