New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-29

Tureau. The Civil Court tled 10 peibuaue tne Noio"'
~ give him to them. the civil rule was low i"
stored. This Col +. declined TO do. and VIII o'
babeos corpus issued The party Tor whom IL was
intended was conveniently absent until an answer
could be retu med from Washington to telegram ashs
instructions. Thus the case stands. MISSISSIPPI ue
nands possession Of this murderer TO Try him py ""
sissppi laws, all remaining in force. Ihey a"o" NJ
negro testimony against white man III tnis e"p'"
Is delivered this demand. 10 will he acquiV'eu IN
deed. it was avowed by the ofcias presenting 'be
demand that he would be baed II they succeed. lber
success will settle it for the Prtsenf ana onty ior 'ne
present, that white men In Mississippi may shoot
negro for alleged impudonce or any oher cause auu
there is no redress if Only black men witness H. lhey
NAV main assault and Otherwise abuse and Cypress the
Freedmen and there is no justice 10 reach the offender
This Bureau TO be the only protection "f the iced
people If we have Jurisdiction In criminal cases,
the Bureau will prove failure. These are lvs ques'
tions for the country to consider A new struggle
opens before the country Slavery Is not yet dead
Emancipation may be admitted reluctantly into the
Constitutions Of the Southern States. Yet they may go
on TO enact laws that shall make the Freedmen worse
than II was in Slavery. They may have imposed on
them all the disabilities Of freedom, while they miss
what little protection secured to them by the CON
sideration of their value as property.
The entire opinion and feeling Of the South IL
undeDiably hostile to the freed PEOPLE. They bad
no little regard for them their property, but
as men seeking their own interests, the case is
quite different But whatever We may think OF the
principles that undere this issue ii is clear that
the issue is made, and must be met. II Government
shall yield this point then there protection for the
Freedmen These wards of the nation are put in the
hands Of the Freedmens Bureau TO be defended and
cared for The nation should watch the execution OF
this trust The officials Of Mississippi were not shrewd
in raising this issue so soon They should have let the
matter rest if they had been wise, until they were
firmly possessed of the State power, and then they
might have welded the power of the State more skill
fully and potentially against the United States.
Their promptness in their present shows how
confident they OF Presidential barkng-which they
freely ayowand how bold they are in the assertion OF
their old Estate Rights" doctrine and how reckless
they are Of a collision with United States authority
The writer has recently visited the interior OF Mis-
sissppi and knows from personal observation, that
large portion of the people of this State are hoping and
expecting that reconstruction under President johnson
will enable them 70 restore Slavery. They say: I'VE
shall soon have civil government again, and then We
can manage our affairs in our own way" They
say this concerning the control Of the negroes and the
whole question of labor Their feeling Of bitterness
tow ard the Yankees is intensified by the stern fact
that they are "subjugated." They accept emancipl.
ton in majority of cases, as necessity. but In worry
many tley try all possible evasions of it. some'
times by violence and sometimes by artfa endeav0rs 10
substitute ingenious contracts for terms OF or for
lie for the simple recognition Of the rights and the
manhood Of the negro Oppressed by the operation of
State laws made in the interest OF and by the men who
now held them slaves, the Freedmen will have no
adequate protection but in the exercise OF United States
authority, and the Freedmen's Bureau Is the
only instruments and medium OF that au-
thoriiy. If this fails. everything falls II the
Bureau has not jurisdiction In criminal
causes it cannot protect the freed people and they
thcn turned to the tender meree. OF the State
CODE that rejects negro testimony and that embraces
every enactment preudica 10 their rights and inter
ests that existed under the rule Of Slavery SLAVERY
the legal right to buy and sell themmEa be eKtin-
cuished but everything affecting the condition Of the
people that grew out u this system will remain 1t Is
believed that the President will see his mistake In com.
hitting the whole matter OF restoring the Southern
Statss exclusively 10 Southern hands, The old tcnaeH.
cies will need some check There are Infinite dangers
10 the Freedmen in committing them again TO the op
GRAFTON OF the old State laws even tnOUBh SIa'erl De III
form abolished. Northern will hardly remain In
the South under such q state Of things. There
are also dangers from the Freedmen. We have
taught them TO fight for us-they vii!
surely fight for themselves. Wrongs will
surely bring on collisions; new issues will be opened
antpathies embttered by the loss of men as property
and as necessary consequence their assertion Of their
claim to the rights Of manhood. will supplsnt the in
terest felt in them as property and will largely
| coor the legislation Of the frture
Thus the old struggle will be revived in nav forms,
aud the country will yet bleed it already does until
Justice 10 all men shall prevail
| We that are working in this strife not Of opinion
only, but of power. keeDy alive 10 the question,
what attitude shall the Government lake IN this
matterf" Whit the North wants is not theories.
but FACTS the philosophy Of which they determine
for themselves well the duties that grow there
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