The New York herald., 1864-04-06

| slave rccfutt uoWu oOtmu, Sa&tn& tue Cuence9 y
the latter surviving. Governor Andrew. o.
Massachusetts,. said when the proclamation Of
emancipation appeared that sths roads In the
rebel States would be blocked up BY slaves
fleeing from their masters" That interesting
exhibition has moi yet been seen. except where
the negroes have followed In the wake Of the
Union forces. But let the question be decided
whichever way Congress Wills Massachusetts,
Is sure TO make something out Of II. II the
everlasting nigger be concerned In 1t II any
shape
| Tho Tribune's Misesse.atien Sian
ders.
| Some days ago report became curren nj that
several Of the New England women at Port
Royal had put the Tvibune's miscegenation
theories into practice, and that the result was
| a considerable addition TO the mulatto or mis-.
| cegenetc population. Our readers will reeol-
lect that the Tribune took up tAis report, and,
with characteristic malignity. Infatuated that
the miscegenetic babies were illegitimats. For
this nsinuation there was. Of course. not the
slightest foundation. The women In question
were too we'll educated In moral New England
| to hiscegenate without marriage. and II was
shameful thing for the TiJuns to trump up
such charge. Mr.. L. j. Barrows. the super
intendent Of the Freedmen's Association, re-
Dukes this slander a. 1t deserves; but through
some accidental or intentional mistake this
person, not having road oil the papers, puts
the uame Of the HERALD in his note instead Of
the name Of the Tribune. That error the
reader can easily correct. and so We print the
epistle o. 1t was wrltten:--
On BoAap rD plvxorru RocE. L sorsp,l
March 70, 1884
r a. saAv. Esa Prssldsn. Eatloaal freedmens Asso.
nsAn aaYour note Of the sIs, ,ns. calling my attes
tor alanderous assault on the character Of the lady
teachers Of coorsd schools Of Port Royal reaohsd me
No we'll Informed parties require any denial Of euch
ooah and low statements ~ those put forth by the Nsw
YoRR HHRALp and N,,, Hampshire Patriot. said TO have
been authorized by Lieutenant Colonel Liberty B.lnes
OF New Hampshire Yet for the heneat OF those who de
pend such sheets thoae for their Information and
faith may be proper for me 70 say that after spending
four or Eve months the vicinity Of Fort Royal among
those much abused teachers, not even report OF any
such Of crime has reached me having occurred
among the teachers who have been OF are now employed
there
III. oncer referred to has probabIy mads no such
Statements To- he doubtless knowr that these teachers
are white ladies' while the little muattoes are claimed
and supported By mothers Of a much darker hue than
themselves whose fathers are supposed TO rank quite
above their sable maternity Those teachers & 10 my
foreign missions 10 moral excel.ence5 or tsacrhcng
/. j. BARR0wS. 5upt Ed Nat z. r ASS.
| But il will be observed that Mr.. Barrows
Sup't Ed Nat. F. r. ASS, shifts the slander
| from the New England women ahT places it
upon the New England officers al Port Royal
For that reason the Tribune published his let
ter. just as il published what turned out to be
forged extract from the Ne,c Hampshire Pa
giot about the New England ladies. I'm this
view OF the case it would seem that these Sian
ders are concocted on purpose that the Tribune
may copy them and circulate them: and it Is by
no means certain that the name Of the HERALD
was not substituted for the Tribune in Barrows'
note with malice aforethought. II we were
sure that this was the 7ribuae's game we would
make its agents smart for their share in the
transaction. STILL we are willing to give even
the guilty party the beneht Of the doubt, and
shall only press home upon the Tribune the
crime Of slandering New England women and
officers. This crime is. we think most distinct
~ proven; and we wonder how, in this age Of
light and knowledge. a journal can be found
go lost to all truth and honor as to lend itself
TO calumnies so vile, falsehoods so Infamous
and libels so gross upon the fair and the brave
descendants Of the Pilgrim Fathers. II this be
Tribune morality. what is vice.
The point and sting Of the slander. II must be
remarked. are not the assertion that miscegena-
ton has taken place between New England
whites and Port Royal negroes, but that this
mscegenation was illegitimate, and not author
lied by regular marriage certificates. We
are opposed to miscegenation: but the republi-
cans are not. On the contrary. they approve Of
It. Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, Theo-
dore Tilton and all the rest Of them speak
highly OF II. The Times and the Independent
advocate it. One of our most distinguished
Judges recently declared in public that an edi-
tor Of the Ecening Post practised miscegena-
ton with black woman. The members Of the
Union League Club intend to inaugurate 1t on
. grand scale. But all this is legitimate misce-
genation. The miscsgenators are supposed to
be married. The miscegens are able to recog-
nize their own fathers and mothers without diff
Guilty This kind Of miscegenstion the repub-
licans endorse. We do not; but. for the sake Of
argument. we will look at the matter from
their standpoint. Now the republicans do not
as vet endorse illegitimate and ndiscriminste
Yiscegsnation, and the most OF them still call
such abominsble proceedings "scandalous and
reprehensible." This gives the venom to the
Tr;b,me's horrible ISLANDERS upon New England
| ladies and officers. To hint that the white
! mothers OF the misccgens were unmarried was
dreadful but now the Tribune, through Mr.
Barrows. definitely accuses white officers Of
having illegitimate connection. with black
women. This is. indeed, terrible. We lack
words to stigmatize il as it deserves. We call
on the gallant sons of New England TO resent