The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-22

! eN 9hence ana wisdom.
| Major Meade, who is in
many respects the Bayard of the Fede-
raj army, has just concluded tho
rough and searching examination of
the Southern States. The tour was
performed for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the true condition of affairs
in Virginia and the Carolinas.
His report is eminently creditable
to the uni1npeachable truthfulness
and intelligence of that distinguished
| officer. He represents the Southern
people rs everywhere Quiet, and
cheerf,,yy acquiescing in the restora-
ton of the authority Of the laws and
| Constitution of the United States,
and earnestly desirous of performing
their duty Loyalty in the Union. He
found, as a matter of course, much
suffering in and near the desolating
track of war, but no instance of de-
liberate and Intentional maltreatment
Of the lately emancipated negroes.
Seeing the Southern people as they
are, and happening to be Christian
and truthful gentleman, he has, in
telling the simple, unadorned truth,
given pleasant and agreeable ac-
count Of us. At nearly all the prin-,
cipal cities of the South which were
visited by General Meade he found,
however, highly improved, double ac-
ton, forty horsepower radical Mum
chausens, called ''Our Southern Cor
respondents, in full blast, inventing,
manufacturing and sending North by
every mail and express carrier the
most heart-rending accounts of the
diabolism of the Southern people. The
roads which General Meade travelled
without discovering any unplea-
SAINT odors or revolving spectacles, he
found, upon reading the radical pa
pers, were strewn with the unburied
remains of slaughtered freedmen"
and the dreary pine trees of North
Carolina, he was assured, were break
ing down beneath tA weight of stran-
gulated free negroeX He also ascer-
tained from the same reliable sources
that the ''barbacues' and squirrel
stews" of which he heard some men
ton in, North Carolina, (where there
is an active canTass for the State Con-
vention going on, were fearful canri-
bal entertainments, ut which ere
turned Confederate soldiers roasted
the free negroes alive, and then ate
them with a light dressing to 'trr-
pentine sauce"
In spite Of the general scarcity of
| food tho NorOl;r.,
was surprised to observe the fat,
}sleel, greasy appearance of the ''pica-
ninnies," or Juvenile freedmen, %
whose abdominal development indi-
Gated sufficiency of nourishing diet
The Correspondent of the Associat-
ed Press" at Raleigh, assured the
! General that as the army of Sherman
had destroyed the swine of that sec
! ton, the North Carolinians were fat
tening the young freedmen for the
knife, and that as soon as the weather
became sufficiently cold, the whole
country, about daybreak some frosty
mornings would resound with the
yells and squeaks of the unfortunate
''picaninies. The aforesaid "Cor-
respondent of the Associated Press
has not yet communicated this terrible
plot to the leading New York papers,
because he wants the young freed
men, "killed and salted down" in
time for the New York elections. He
is now, however, hanging and shoot
ing five hundred adult freedmen to
fill 'heavy orders from "Massachu-
sets" and Pennsylvania, where im-