New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-16
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ing events. From what can learn am satisfied 1t ID
not his intention to be In any hurry about calling Con-
yeption to frame Constitution. Yet delay will not be
very agreeable TO the people. They are anxious on
many accounts to exchange martial for civil rule The
idea that all their principal lows are garrsoned by
colored troops is not the most agreeable to their old
preudices they want everything out of the way that
IL remind them OF tho foes Of rebellion and to have
the ancient order of affairs restored.
We are left mostly conjecture in regard to the req.
SONS which have induced the Governor to postpone or
at least delay tho call Of Convention His instruc'
tons from the President in reference to the Freedmen
are full and definite and he has idea OF the kind OF
Constitution which must be formed in order to secure
recognition BY Congress- He fears that the people do
not sufficiently comprehend their changed situation
and the duties growing out Of the order OF things
to act wisely and safely in the matter. lie is anxious 10
secure Convention whose action will be acceptable to
the sovereign Government at Washington, and at the
same time receive popular Endorsement at home. On
his arrival among he issued his proclamation or adj
dress and delivered speeches at jacksonville Lake
City and Taahass ee scattering among the people the
ideas which in his Judgment must he incorporated In
the new State Government. lie is now fonnd every
day Sundays excepted for then he is at church. the
place for al good people and for bad ones TO become
rood) nj the Governors Rooms in the State House, re-
ceying visits hearing the complaints learning the
views of the people and giving them his own is often
comforting with Malor-Gen Foster Commandant OF
the Departments and thus is educating and preparing
Florida to put off the last dirty rag OF secession to
wash herself a. with hyssop aud be clothed again in
the robes Of state The following tens Of CONVERSE
ton which we're dropped by fordians on the cars
few DAYS since between Tallahassee and Lake City,
aud carefully preserved hciDg opponents OF private
opinions rather too publicly expressed, may be taken
as an index Of public sentiment generally The leading
spirits of the first group a clergyman and doc
tor who lad been 10 Washington aud had obtained
pardon:
well doctor. you have got back nom Washington.
and report says His Majesty. tie President OF tue
United Sts,cA pleased grnoiously TO pardon you
"Y-e-s yerly--rm pardoued' (sneernglO.
What confession did you make. aud for what were
you pardoned ~
made no confession, and did Mt inquire wha, my
sins were for which the dspcnsation was granted
expect the President knows, h,. ha, ha
well what do yea think Of johnson, any wayF"
We'll Sir III be DID pardon me. did Int think
iha. you a clergyman. but believe that he is on
our side lie treated very cordially and very kindly.
He il a true Southcracr and those Yankees and Abo
liiionisis arc badly bt-they have caught Tartar.
Hes down on niger suffrage the hardest kind"
is thatsoi Well / believe Providence Is yet on
our side and what has happened was 10 humble Us
li,t, You know the rae.ites were carried captiFes
TO Babylon and kept there seventy years Their enc
mics then thought tbey had got them down and would
keep them down. bot the Lord on their side all the
time ard asterwarl brought them back to their own
land aud made tnc-n great people. So believe we
will yet drive cot the Ysnks and rule the land
But the North and Congress will make great fight
over the Suffrage business They say. aud believe
they are rgL, there that 1t is man TO deny the privi
ego Of pofag to who have sh for their country
But dom, think the Yanks care fig about the
ringers voting They know that il will mortify u.s. and
that all they do II for but II it comes to that there
will be war again.
To the war question the doctor made reply. think
ing perhaps Of the pardon he had received. and the
oath be had taken but. changing the subject, said:
"Do you Know Edwards has got back from the
North. and is to be Postmaster at Monticello"
Yes, I've heard Of II, aud don't you think his wife,
mother and sisters have got lot Of clubs laid up to
give him terrible beating II he comes there, ha
ha ha," in which both joined heartily.
A rather sage and sober looking man Of another
group said:
well, neighbor. the colored people are free and
among u.s. and we must encourage them. teach them
industry and morality. II nc can"
"Neighbor did not answer. but drew an impressive
Sigh Sage men discoursed little further in about the
same strain and dropped tho subject As general
thing the Southern people have not the sghtest po
cal interest beyond their State lines.
That me spirit Of the South Is yet restless and untamed
and intends effect by political intrigue what 1t
failed TO accomplish by force OF arms, Is oreshadowed
by the following announcement which appeared In the
last number OF The Nep Era, q paper Published at
Gainesville:
In the OF years, after the National Debt Is
c,uguished by taxation, or disposed o. III some odher
WAY we think Ii very probable that the slaves VIII be
paid for they "a specLes OF property hccordlug
10 the decision Of the Supreme Court o! the cmted
states.
We have thrown ont these ideas for the benefit OF
all concerned II Slnyery could be established BY The
Government Of the Uuited States 1t would be hailed
with pleasure by ihe South. but to indulge tho nope.
with the lights before US is proposerous III tue hghest
degree. Planters should not imagine that they are
ruined forever II is that the loss heavy and
the shock severe but they have the lands aud STOCK 10
work them with anl labor therefore be employed
nroteby The negroes nrc In the country and must work
for livelihood. The State pU enact lars 10 MAKE M'i 40
So and although ney may not do as much as rAeH M'V
tode sIares, they can sill be made 81 some use
The "somo other way besdes taxation for "disposng
Of the National Debt" nothing but repudiaion'
financial ruin and national disgrace project wen uh
derstood in Secession circles both North ana oou'n'
The whole South is to Its delegates IN 'on
gress uniting with their former friends Oh tue Du'
chanan school. to devise for the exngushhen'
Of the National Debt In other way than by payng
1t will be further that their continued interest I'D
The aber OF the negroes is to DO secured BY state les
ation. Much is said by indscreet parties OF what VIII