Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-11
WHIP, HOE AMI. SWORD" !"
Alive ChapIaIn's Experience In Con,
Ranka1 Dennrtmant

Alive Ch0pl0in'B Experience In Gen.
BankS' Department
We notice in our exchanges extensive
quotations from book written by a Mr..
Hepworth, entitled "Whip, Hoe and
Sword" and jpdging from these extracts,
We should say that it is a work we'll worth
reading. 1t seems to be the production of
close observer, who has had rare oppor-
tnnitieG for learning what We all desire to
know. 1t is tho work Of vigorous writer,
equal to his subject in thought and expres-
sion. When he reached Carrollton in
Louisiana he soon found that the regiment
of which he was chaplain was not likely to
engage early, if at all, in any active SER
vice. Spurning the martial idleness of the
camp, he procured, through Gen. Banks, a
lieutenSnrs commission in the Louisiana
Native Guards, and being detailed as aide
de-eAmp, had rare opportunities of watch
ing the working of the now relations be.
tween the blacks and their masters, under
the eyes Of northern soldiers. It was thus
that his sword came to be crossed with the
oiled hoe and the broken whip. Mr.. Hep
worth speaks faVorably Of the organisation
of colored mon under Gen. Banks, but be-
lieVes the planters need constant oversight,
and seldom hesitate to make any state.
ment, true or false, which will prolone
their waning power! He spoke to one of
them Of the barbsrities of slavery:-
"'Fot slave has been whipped on this
n
offended dignity. The whip was abolished
long ago: My slaves will all tell you thew
are happy and contented. l have told
them over and over again, that, il they
wish to leave the place, they can do so at
any time. beg you to examine this mat
ter, and ascertain the truth of my assertion
1t was very ludicrcus; but in my pocket 1
had little memorandum, which rau thus
MIR Williams plantation. Number of
hands on place at present time, a huudred
and iftyi number that ran away six months
since, hundred and forty-two. Com
plants registered, that boy Tom and girl
Mary were both inhumanly whipped last
TAursdsy.'" wv
The Creoles at the South our writer re.
CARDS as genuine believers in the "institu.
ton" for its own sake, bitterly hating nor
theru usages, and ready to sacriice for
these desperate mistakes comfort, property
aud life. He says of the Creole:-
ga love OF slavery is in the marrow OF
his bones. He says he has so many thead
Of niggers,' aS he speaks of his cattle. He
never talks to You of slavery as a mission
ary society. That is the stronghold OF one
who does not believe what he asserts. He
never offers any statistics to prove that
la loh1 So IT
q platform beneath which are no such SUBJ
terfuges. He simply says, The niger, sir.
WAS intended by Almighty God to be- the
slave OF the white man. He isn't q man
be belongs to a lower order OF being
But sir you commence to reply. There
are no 'buts' about it. l have lived 6fly
years with them. know them through
and through; and nothing is more evident
to sane man, than that the niger ia one
grade only above the ape' This is re-
treshing. There is no chance for argu-
meut You are simply dealing with a IA
matte of the worst and most unreasonable
kind. He is worshipipg his ebony idol
with all the blind devotion of the East
Indian. He is not man of the nineteenth
century, but shows all the characteristics
OF semi-barbarOus age He resists the
government at every point. Just beyond
Carrollton is an immense and magnificent
estate owhed by one of these Creoles. His
annual yield of sugar is fifteen hundred
hogsheads. he might have taken the oath
OF allegiance, aud thus saved his property
but he would not. The work of depreda-
ton commenced, but he bore it without a
murmur. Fret We took bis wagons, har-
nesses, and mules; be said nothing, but
scoWled most aWfully. Next We emptied
his stables Of horses for the cavalry ser
vice; he did not have even a pony left, aud
was compelled to trudge along ON foot:
still nothing was said. Next We took his
entire crop, ground it In his own sugar.
house, used his barrels for tho molasses,
and marked the head Of each 20. s.; not
/ murmur. Then his negroes, three hu dred
and more, house. servants and all, took il
into their woolly heads to come within our
Camp.lines. The Creole was most COM
pleteIy stripped still he stood in the midst
of the ruins, damning Abe Lincoln, and
Wishing that he had eight instead Of four
sons 10 the rebel army"
But these misguided men form but a small
part of the southern population. Many
of them have fallen in battle, a fow more
will probably perish in the "last ditch" :"
and the survivors, hopeless minority,
will glOOmily accept the blessings of free
government which inevitably await them
"There iS!Ahothor class, generally con.
SiStiDg of northern men, who came here
twenty years ago, determined on making
l money. These do not have the usual sur.
plus of children, aud old people. Their
hands are all able to work, and are mostly
mon. They, at first, buy the REQUISITE
number ofl'headH 70 carry Ou their slace.
assuring themselyss that they are sound