New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-02


! By Col. Charles Bcntzoni, commanding Of
/ Helena, Arkansas:
! HpoRs Drsrnfcr OF East ARKASsn
HELENA. Afk., July :. lh5.
GESznu ORDERS No 81 To prevent the recurrence o.
outrage tie persons o. coofcd people ty thcig former
sul other posed persons Is hereby ordered
that tie Superintendent, Of Freedmen OF tis District VII
bring ell such cases coming his knowledge before the Pro
,c.Mara in the OF charges. and the Martial
vii Try tie case IN the prescribed for Field Officers
Courts in she Army the puu.hn, to be inflicted by this
Provost Coart will he limited 10 one month. cou-nei"fn nj
with without hard labor, hue equal TO one month
earnng OF the accused both The proceedings will be
laid before tie Colonel Commanding sud Il approved the
sentence viii be- executed irnmcdia'ey.
H. Should the rovos:Mnr.hal after preliminary er'
animation find tia. the punishment; limited above /.
inadequate tie o,nse lie II not proceed with the trial
but lie will refer the charges with his Involvement thereon
back the Colonel Commanding. and tie accused Will be
bfoush, before military commission.
! ILL., Cooed free in an 10 choose Their own
employers bu. nr has been made and approved
by tie Superintendent OF Freedmen icy will be required to
keep on their part; bu, a employers prohibited from
the law into their lands under any circumstances.
ont the Superintendent Of Freedmen will hear comp amt,
agus; employee sid If necessary bring them to Fi before
! the PTovo,,-M,rsAal
H. II Is held that al former slaves have been free since the
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from their liberty tie psne. who have ployed them
thu; tine viii be required pay them their back al the
rate established by Orders NO o dated 'sburs, Miss.
March H. 1905 snd signed by order Of the Secretary War
L. Thomas General, add in Of compliance,
the ProvosMafa % Try the and aef approval by
the Colonel Coalnsndn, payment viii be enforced By the
| Provost Marshal.
v iseHp,ccd that the people viii thelr Interest,
nnd also tha: Of their former BY treating them like
/ T. e.. q al
the procaaiions and policy OF the United state Gov
eiimcut
By order Of Col. CHARLES BESrzoSL
W. T. Jkouls, firs, Lieut.. and \. A. A. G.
Here is one military commander who evi-
IDENTIFY believes that Slavery is abolished and
that black men are citizens. The order, it will
be observed, is dated nearly month ago, and
must, long ere this, have come 70 the knowl-
edge of the War Department for approval or
disapproyal. Whether it has been thought
proper to rescind il or not, We do not know.
The question of back wages, which the order
assumes to be due those former slaves who
since January, 1868, have been restrained of
liberty BY their late masters, has also been raised
in Virginia, and decision will, doubtless, be
made upon it. Should it be in favor Of the
Freedmen and payment enforced, there will
probably be some changes i'll the ownership OF
real estate at the South; for many of the
planters have nothing else wherewith to pay
the accumulated wages of two years and half
Bat, however that question may be settled,
Col. Bcntzoni clearly raises no new one and
establishes no new principle in the three first
sections of his Order As things have been and
are still managed at the South, the Order is q
bold one; but as it is simply just, the error
| is not in his having issued it, but that Others
with similar authority, have neglected to do So
Col. Bcntzoni bases his action upon the Adolf
ton of Slavery. Slavery being abolished
the relations between master and slave, as
such, exist 40 longer. Both are equal before the
| law and each is entitled to precisely the same
protection in life, liberty, and property. Before
the law, they are not white men and black men,
late masters and late slaves but simply men, TO
be protected in all their rights. Not recog-
nizing this new state OF affairs, the White men
have committed outragcs upon the Blacks, and
it is simply "to prevent the recurrence Of these
outragcs" that Col. Benzoni thinks it neces-
sarv TO warn the whites that they can
no longer be perpetratcd with impunity. The
necessity of such notice we have no doubt ex-
listed at Helena for we know there issad enough
necessity for it in many other places. 1t is be-
cause it does exist, and because 1t is not
promptly met, and that protection extended to
the Blacks which is theirs by right, that society
is still disorganized at the South, that the whole
land lies fallow, and labor is denied its just re-.
ward.
1t is in this order that the Southern people
may read the lesson they have yet to learn. II
is not simply that with the Abolition OF Slavery
the ownership of the negro ceases. All the
relations OF master and slave cease As well. II
Is not question of superiority of races, but the