Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-02-17

T00 ROOU ABoASAWs
wr-Auwssssesifinmt assls1 Tie state
.ssss e .es;ssss isd,sidpalA .srny ONO,
On, assats u the ChristiGa commissios.
&ci, Win regard - tas tssasnsas 400
condition Of the .'snsnoipated negroes
10 .s55lasainsppityallsy," and taken
occasion 70 remark upon the fate to
Which they vsrs ,s;d sfs sssv'ssesy esss
.igosd BY the hypccsi.ical Phy'aoshfopy
and real .veric. Of the white patriots In
70 whose tender hands they are placed
BY the government. 1t has pleased ~
eral Of our excessively loyal cotenpor-
ss,ss 70 question ne soupdssss Of our
f.Steapd reasoning. and tsiuPugn our
u,otives in exposisg the berbarism OF
Aminidab Sleeks and viIlains generally,
who have been favored BY the Admin-
,stratiou with plantations well stocked
with negroes in the section mentioned.
Perhaps the following from the New
York Independent, on the Mississippi
Valley system, may be more successful
in commeadssg itself to the confederation
Of the email fry radical prints TO which
We have referred:
That system was never framed for the
benefit Of the negro. Like Gen. Banks
In Louiaiana, which IN terms vas made
TO depend On the accord Of the govern
ment aud the planter, thin was meant e
stimulate the production Of cotton, snd
to relieve the military authorities from
the maintainsnce Of IN emancipated
population. The welfare of the negro
was 40 after thought, or wss consulted
mainly in Difference to the growing phi
lanthropic sentiment Of the NORTH
Like the apprenticeship experiment II
Jamaica. it placed the negro in the band
Of irresponsible guardians, who were 70
strained neither BY competent superb
sion nor BY their own interests from
frightfuI|y abusing their trust. Thu
slave-ownsr had invested capital in hi
human chattel, and there was . liini
beyond which it We not profitable 4
abuss him. The plantation lessee hire
his negroes Of the Government, and suf
fsrs NO loss whether he ovsyvorks o.
ssssyss slssss, and evidencs is abundaa
that many Of tie s.ssees havs done both
It i. not apprenticeship in name, lik'
Jamaica, but It differs mainly in the sob
s'itution Of grasping and keartless spec
ula&ors 10 place Of the former masters Q
the slaves.
There is q camp At Young's Point, i,
which ere 300 men, women, and chill
dren, crowded in miserable novels, desti
tate Of Oh comforts, and dying At the tel
rible rate Of thirty, City and seventy -6v
per dyy. The whole number on tb
Mississippi 10 estimated at more tina
$4,000, none properly cared for, the m,
jority not cared for at oil. God CAV
them to the Government to be freed
educated, lifted into . new life. Th
Government put them int1 hands
guardians, from whose care, essness an
,ohose cruelty some Of them even see
refuge again III slavery. The profile,
Of emancipation is made dosbIy compile
for the negro is almost taught to dout
the benefits of freedom. We have Ion,
tanta'issd him, with the possibility of i
Wenow darken the clear prospect whic
dawns on his strainiug sight xith sue
shad0ws % rested on HE life Of slavery
We do it, for the Government il oni
the agent and servant Of the people, an
it belorgs to 20 TO hold President
Cabinet 0enerals, Congress to their &C
countability, and to insist that they d
Justice 70 the negro.
Lo. the poor Africanl What pros
pect for the American citizen Of Afrioa'
descent under the psternal care of al
abolition administration /!