, 1865-08-17
FROM NASHVILLE,
Harsh Treatment of Freedmen.

FROM NASHVILLE.
Harsh Treatment of Freedmen
Some Important Statements by a,
Officer Of the Freedmen,s Bureau oi
Duty In Tennessee. :
Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribrne,1
1 NAsIT1I1E. Aus. 1s'h, 1s8s.
The evidence accumulates daily in proof q
the difficulty Of making the white peon1e
"natlyc to the manner. born,'' understan,
that The colored people have the same right
before the law that they hare. In nv Dos,
tlon am stunned at the task Of establIshIn.
justice here. I am thoroughly conylpcei
TINT the only thing BY which the difEicnli1
can bereached, Is to completely oyerturu III.
established order. We haye already goae .
lcpg WY toward this In thu
destruction Of slavery. We must
have another and as radical change, Thu
colored population must have po y er to nro
tect Themselves. The only way to Obtain
this Is to give them the ballot. It is uselcs:
for us to expect that the whites Of the Jstt
slave States will of their own volItion accnr1
1t; they are full Of bitterness aud prejudice
Give the negro power. and he will take care
Of himself With the suffrage thousands n,
friends will arise On eYery hand; the pres.
will ASSERT his rights; the pulpits viii tbnn.
der forth ana'hcmas, and stump orators he
proud to appeal to tn IN for evidence of thai
being friends. ~''
THE FRREDAN's coCRr.
No man Tiil tall to see the truth Of this
who Is called upon, rs am, to vitucs, III,
Ecenes which daily occur in the court orpnn.
lied by Gen. Fiek. Ereryf hour Of the oitIce
time is occupied With listening and aatud5rat,
Ing uyon the complaints nude before The
solicitor, L!cut. Harding.
About one fifth Of the cases are between
colored people. the balance botweeu those
and thclr employers. The cases between col
ored people are generally Of trivial charac
ter. Several cases Of quar1clllug between
those Who havc lived As man and wife have
been adjusted. Others nre simply assaults OF
dsb's. All are readily settled. Tue word Of
the Judge Is Listened to With simple 1oyer-
epce, md they 70 on: satisfied with adjust
1nenta which. arranged ofientimes on not q
preclse]HIegal basis, have at least the merit
Of being Just.
arc Of the usual character, violence Of per
son attempts to cheat the laborers Of tleir
just due cases Of bastardy. These lstter
!nyestitgatfons make tho chiral1y squirn,
Ihtse beautiful quadIoon and Qctcroon wa
men, (many are truly beautifully were good
enough for base Qualification, but not GOOD
enough to be respected and honored a wo-
men sholud be. During the past week at.
tending the co1ored convention Lave seen
dozen women as white as myself, whom I
wasto.d had been slaves.
Among many cases Of outrage which haye
lately come up for investigation. let no slvc
= couple as showing what great work has
brute who calls himself Union soldier;
George ". Eak1n, Of Shelbysi1ie Dedfo,d Co..
being only sNoin deposes md SAYS: About ten
f,!. sgo.s yorns r., nnsa % named W.T.. Smith 0.te
drunken ,psse went to The house Of ,co;ored
fsst aer T. Z; % hFqts ss manner. IA. hsi e
and expected soon to beeon,e raother. Tho a..
etnlt was hr utal IN the extreme, entirely unprn,
ef the whole county ind no one eeis sss ,std wbts
at.est him, nd th.t be viii Kill, cat and s.sy
at his ts:sssa5 Rs'fsss55' e.osa.w.E .E.x,x
An order was made out tor his arrest, and
Lieutenant and ten men aud sergeant, sent
to e1ecnte It. Lieut. Smith will probably be
reported It the Court tomorrow dead OF
Yetit Is to the tendcr mere!es Of he tennessee :
Un'opists, who have our common bond or
feeling with the rebels colorphobia, that Il
Is proposed to remit the protection and we'll
being Of the neg!oef. Ifyou want violence,
riots, bloodshed, insuIrectIons, leave tho uc-
and you Will baye-lt. From Dis.
tant parts Of the State, the complaints
are many against the Union soldiers inst
mustered ont. Counties not represented In
their late Convention Of colored E1cn were
prevented from holding NEE tlngs for the pur-
ma a fVYC w.
Tennessee We lear Of schools being broken
up, and even religious meetings forbidden.
'svAMocs CASES.
Awhile man, 0. A. Hunt, was charged
with refusing to pay boy, John Jones, the
wages be had earntd. Had hired the boy
from his father in February last, at 50 per I
month paid one month and refused to pay
amounting to s7.aa5. After exam,natIou
aunt Was o1de1ed to pay over the moner.
Under the laws Of Tennessee {the.e being no |
white evtdence,) the boy c-uld not have re-
covered his pay.
oSE OF TIE y1R4ooEs. |
!, This Gaze is best told by the affidavit Of |
the plaintiff:
duly sxor0. cepes.s Is 10 lows: ! AN n Jears Of
aee; bare Wtfe and atx children; was The |
O. RoDeFs nse DIED .eot s1
have never received tny pay except one year since
acres, IN addition to what WIS raised for Mrs.. Pit
terfor, ard lat year che promised 10 give me as
much - anJbody ese p.ta. aad At the end q he
al Fte soer rkeettsd.
Thie year the offered me- tix dollars pes month. |
waaied msrfet pst1h sor myee re- md a. 81 nsf Fsye
ne about half IN sc1e. which cultivated. | also |
raised for 9rs. Patterton af1een acres Of corn,
understood Il had any spare time "a aiser err al:enis
Ing TO her crops would work for myself. and
make Whist money eou.d, ra1Eed he, aiteen !
Ter which l worked soms nayeelf, making baskets
a.t'sded btsanse aud aut Eosk fei hef Iii the
irom Tho place. drawing pistol and threatening
to ehoot nc: want 10 know whether eau Gtay |
snese and gathe4F, 7, ~ crop, o. & xhftbnsl must b
ing for yEelf and family to l1ye upon this winter.
~ wife, End ny children Tho are old enough, |
hsEe worked al the hms ,wtthont pay, except |
thetz board end clothes-and they don't get mach |
Ious years past. wanted Mrs.. Patterson TO make
Y wtt9g IN the sp.ns ou abe
,osrrH z 7 P47r.n.os.
Sworn to before Lieut.. Harding.
The only defence made by the LADY, whose
word WAS contract erough'-to be an.
nulleo by the shareholders argument, the re-
that Joseph was lazy and ssucY.
This Is the common plea Of the whites.
They forget that the facts tend to prove that
II is themselves and not the negroes who are
In this case the judgment was that Mrs,
Patterfon should pay, for this years. services,
e14 Fer month to Joseph aud family, and
board, clothe and pay their doctois' Bills in
addition. This is $l64, about this amount the
man alone, in the days when slaves hired
lhe same. In addition, Joseph was awarded
Ill the products Of the market patch cult!yn-
ted BY himself
TIE copPEHnEAD MEMBER
Of Congress, Gen. CampbeI, recently elected
from this District, resides In Wilson county.
In that county are the towns Of GalIatin and
Lebanon. The basta1dy cases referred to ia
late letter were from that region. Nov from
Lebanon VIC have additional evidence OF the
character Of Mr.. Campbell's Constituents.
FFtm the agent Of the F1eedmen's Bureau,
comes complaint Of the arrest on friyilous
pret@nces OF some i've Of the best colored
men Of Lebanon and their incarcara lion in
Ia1. The charge Eas playing cards. This
oners la reported to have been murdered in
jail. He ia known to have disd there, though
q robust msn when locked up. His body was
put In box and lelt unburied, In locality
known as the Cedar. The friends are afraid
to bury 1t. Areign OF terror has existed some
Tennessee troops have been stationed there.
They we're supporters; Of these ont-ages.
When they Lett TO be mustered out tue threat
was made that they we're coming back and
would hang the last "nigger" In the iail,
active officer, With his company, 101st q.
3. c. T., was ordered to. Lebanon. an In.
7estiga1ion will be made.
It is also stnted that one Bradshau and son.
planters still living there, murdered negro
man last winter, who came to the place to
ret his child. His son 'saW tbeec men take
Ills father Afterwards the body was seen In
the Ceda1p, whcte tie bones are reported as
It'll Bleaching. The crime was we'll known
In fhe efohhnrhood rat M r1nffca hna e,.a- 1