Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-05

General Palmer ~ the President.
HEADoU1RrrRs DEPr OF KExrUcKY, \
LOUISVILLE, ky, July q. !
To His. EreeileHcy Andreso Johnson,
PresiHent of tks United Statss.
siK-f have already By telegraph &C.
knowlsdgsd your dispatch of yesterday,
containing copy of 9 dispatch of Mr..
Prizes, which states that Provost Mar.
shals iasus 9 free papers to negroes
indiscriminately. ! refer you 70 my dis
patch, 10 which l say no "frse papers I"
are issued by any officers Of lhis De-
partmant WhicA, though literally true,
does not quits meet the facts Of the
case 1&MW 10 44 s4a6A 81
/ forward you ny General Orders
Nos. 30 and ~. Under these orders,
many passes have been issued BY Pro-
vostA MArshals. &c, to negroes, who
hold hem and, Lam told, in many
cases, they regard and act upon them as
free papers = q
The reason for issuing Order 80 win
be found on the face Of the order, but
the rsasoas which Influenced the Mayor
and bis friends to apply to me do Dot
Large numbers of the negroes we're then
10 Louisville from the surroanding conn.
try Who had escaped from or repudiated
tbeanlhorify of their mGstefs.o 6L0e
Tbs Mayor and others desired my ap-
prevail OF plan they had arranged for
the general sDfogcemens of the Laws
against vagrancy, aud the law which
forbids slaves to 40 1t large aud hire
themselves oas as free persons To
have enforced these LAYS would have
produced great misery and aIAsm among
the blacks. To leave the negroes in the
citywoald have alarmed the fears Of the
citizens, who we're beforehand taught 10
think their presence would cause pesli-
lence. They sought to make nae re.
sponsible for either consequences.
To avoid both, issued Order No. 80
Under ait, over five thousand negroea
have crossed the Ohio river at this point
alone. - -ss--.se -
Before the Fourth Of July, an inprss-
sion got abroad among tina negroes
throughout the State that on that day
they would ell be made free. InAam ed
By this belief, thousands Of them left
iheir mastera' houses, and came into our
posts 1t different points N the State
Ever. nook apd hiding place st auch
places IS Camp Hels0ns Lexington,
Frankfort, Bowling Gtsen, humloFd-
vile. Sc, was 6iiea =.th them. Thsy
we're without WORT Of means. aeA the
greater thN uumbeE end the more dssti-
tnts they we're, the more The people re-
sisted EN- APPLYING lhem. vas com
PEELED from these causes to issae Gen
eFal Orders No 40; and the free pa
pers" referred 10 in the telegram Of Mr..
Price, are merely the passes isaned I'M
der that ordsr. p
7 ! have been greatly embaFrassed in
respect to The colored people By tia acts
and declarations of politicians and
presses 10 The Observation-Disclosures inter
est. They have given the negroes ex.
trsordinary ideas of the purposes Of The
Government, BY annucncing in their
speeches aud columns that II was the
intenticn Of the Government to free
them All, furnish them with food and
clothirg, and pntthem upon an squali-
II with the whites InTariably . Con
sentative gathering IN Tie nsighborhood
is followed By 5 stampede Of negroes.
/ think, and respectfully sub nit, that
Il is impossible, under The existing state
of facts here, TO enforce the laws Of the
Stats in reference 10 slaves and slavery
At ths esxsupinK 81 the var zen usky sfrl
y bad two hundrsd and thirty Thousand assA,
Stars Say 600
oer reports saow numbsr 81 negro enifst-
SIS
Estimsted noubef % gsmaa and cbildrsn
freed by resolution Of Congress Of Mach
;, 1885. for each nan Tz.Oas
kA+ta
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