The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-03-23


II. A FREE LABOR BANK will be estab-
lished for the safe deposit of all accumu-
lations of wages and other savings and
in order to avoid possible wrong to de-
positors, by official defalcation. authority
will be asked to connect the Bank with
the Treasury of the United States in this
Department
Is. The transportation of negro fami-
lies to other countries will not be ap-
proved. All propositions for this privi
lege have been declined, and application
has been made to other Departments for
surplus negro families for service in this
Department.
10. The last years experience shows
that the Planter and the Negro compre-
hend the Revolution. The overseer. hav-
ing little interest in capital, and less
sympathy with labor, dislikes the trouble
of thinking, and discredits the notion
that anything new has occurred He is
relic of the past, and adheres to its
customs. His stubborn refusal to com
prehend the condition of things, OCCASION
ed most of the embarrassments of the past
year. Where such incomprehension is
chronic, reduced wages. diminished ra-
tions, and the mild punishments imposed
by the Army and Navy, will do good.
20. These Regulations are based upon
the assumption that labor is a public duty,
and idleness and vagrancy crime. No
civil or military officer of the Govern
ment is exempt from the operation of
this universal rule. Every enlightened
community has enforced it upon all
classes of people by the severest penal
ties. 1t is especially necessary in agri
tultural pursuits That portion of the
people identified with the cultivation of
the soil, however changed in condition.
by the revolution through which we are
passing, is not relieved from the necessity
of toll, which is the condition of ex-
istence with all the children of God. The
revolution has altered its tenure, but not
it's law. This universal law of labor will
be enforced upon just terms, by the
Government, under whose protection the
laborer rests secure in his rights. Indo
lence, disorder and crime, will be sup
pressed Having exercised the highest
right in the choice and place of employ
ment, he must be held to the fulfilment of
his engagements, until released therefrom
by the Government. The several Pro
vost Marshals are hereby invested with
plenary powers upon all matters con-
nected with labor, subject to the approval
of the Provost Marshal General, and the
Commanding Officer of the Department.
The most faithful and discreet officers will
be selected for this duty, and the largest
force consistent with the public service
detailed for their assistance.
81. Employers, and especially over
seers, are notified, that undue influence
used to move the Marshal from his just
balance between the parties representing
labor and capital, will result in immedi-
I ate change of officers, and thus defeat that
regular and stable system upon which
the interests of all parties depend.
% Successful industry is especially
necessary at the present time, when large
public debts and onerous taxes are i'm
posed to maintain and protect the lib
critics of the people and the integrity of
the Union. All officers civil or military,
and all classes of citizens who assist in
extending the profits of labor, and in
creasing the product of the soil, upon
which, in the end, all national prosperity
and power depends, will render to the
Government service as great as that de-
rived from the terrible sacrifice of battle.
1t is upon such consideration only that
the Planter is entitled to favor. The
Government has accorded to him, in
period of anarchy, a release from, the dis
orders resulting mainly from insensate
and mad resistance to sensible reforms,
which can never be rejected without revo-
luton, and the criminal surrender of his
interests and power to crazy politicians,
who thought by metaphysical abstrac
tions to circumvent the laws of God. 1t
has restored to him in improved, rather
than impaired condition, his due privi-
leges, at moment when, by his own
acts. the very soil was washed from be-
meath his feet.
/ %. A more majestic and wise elem
ency human history does not exhibit.
+ The liberal and just conditions that at
/ tend il, cannot be disregarded. 1t pro
+ tects labor by enforcing the performance
of its duty, and it will assist capital by
compelling just contributions to the de-
mands of the Government. Those who
/ profess allegiance to other Governments.
will be required, as the condition of resi-
dence in this State, to acquiesce, without
reservation, in the demands presented by
4 Government as basis of permanent
peace. The noncultivation of the soil
without just reason, will be followed by
temporary forfeiture to those who will
secure its Improvement Those who
have exercised, or are entitled to the
rights of citizens of the United States,
will be required to participate in the
measures necessary for the re-establish-
ment of civil government. War can
never cease except as civil governments
crush out contest, and secure the su-
premacy of moral over physical power.
Ihe yellow harvest must wave over the
| crimson field of blood. and the represen-
tatives of the people displace the agents
of purely military power.
"a 1t is therefore solemn duty rest
ing upon all persons. to assist in the
earliest possible restoration of civil gov
ernment- Let them participate in the
measures suggested for this purpose.
Opinion is free and candidates are numer-
Gus. Open hostility cannot be permit
ted. Indifference will be treated as
crime. and faction IS treason Men who
refuse to defend their country with the
ballot box or cartridge box, have no just
claim to the benefits of liberty regulated
by Law. All people not exempt by the
law of nations, who seek the protection
Of the Government, are called upon to
take the oath of allegiance in such form