The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-17
Gen. Fisk on Matters and Things in
his BailiW1ck.

The following is q sketch Of a speech made
by Gen. Fisk in New York on the 18th inst:
In seeking 10 aid the freedmen by means
Of the Freedmeu's Burezu, Gen. Fisk sid,
the first rule he found necessary was that
the cooperation Of the whites must be Sc
cured, and he went to work to secure il. One
means Of doing this was 70 find 8 good
agent for the bureau in each county. IN
defining the sort Of men needed for these
posts. 5en- Fisk told a gentleman who ask
ed him, thai the sort Of man required was
such a. Jethfo recommended 70 Moses, viz:
who loved justice, hated covetnousness, and
spoke the truth. The gentleman wrote HIM
back word, alter inquiry, thar there 10as no
such mon N his county, and thas the bureau
could not be established there. In Ken
lucky, still slave State, there will be much
more suffering this winter than in Tennessee.
Most Of this viii be among the families Of
the so geo Union soldiers enlisted from Ken
lucky, Of whom many are now serving in
Texas. Large numbers of such families are
already gathered in large towns, both sides
or the Ohio, and at Camp Nelson, and else
where, and are suffering for food. The
Kentuckians hate the freed people, and
seal and re-enslave them whenever they
can. Gen. Fisk had this very day had oc-
cssiOn to write to his subordinate, at Camp
Nelson, special orders to prevent this man
stealing aud had syOged that rather than TO
permit one free person to be thus re-enslaved
he would be cashiered at once. The belief
so extensive among the negroes that they
were going to receive lands, arose very nat
urally, from the facts that, Congress promis-
ed il by law. 2. The Northern soldiers told
the negroes it would be so; and 3, their mas
tiers consistently asserted that If the Yam
KEGS should win, it would be so. The stO-
ries Of vice and idleness among the freed
men are false. There is less Of it among
the black people than among the whites
In one savings bank for the colered people
there is already S200, 900. Tennessee will
probably admit colOred people 10 the Wit
nsss-bOx. No other State is likely TO do il
Immediately. General Fisk said that the
worst enemies OF the negroes in Tennessee
are not the old shareholders, but the Union
ist East Tennesseans. These, and Governor
RroWnlOw with them, really wish the ne
grOes out OF the State; while Gen. Pillow,
for instance, q large STAKEHOLDER, is building
a schOOl-house and providing teachers Tor
his former slaves. There is q terrible con-
trast between the peaceful eOntentment Of
the oolored people 10 Missouri, where they
are by law competent to testify and their
children may attend school, and the dis
turbanoe and misery which fill Kentucky
from one end to the other. This, continued
the General, is a terrible picture in this iifth
year Of the War-for / count the war not
ended until slavery is destroyed.
We are sorry to say that Gen. Fisk creek
ons without his host" in regard to Negro
testimony in Tennessee. 1t lie not probable
that the lower branch Of the Legislature
will pass the Senate bill on the subject
Heslhenism is not yet obliterated in Ten
peasae