The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-21

taking them out of the water, and burying
them. The squad found no less than IF.
teen bodies Of negro men within g space Of
q few hundred yards. They were lodged
in drift wood, and along the banks Of the
river. No marks of violence were reported
as having been found upon any Of them
The bodies were buried on the banks Of The
river, where they were found. Nothing
whatever is yet known as to how they came
to their death.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Oh IMMEDIATE.
From tbs Hseon Telegraph, May Is
The negro in the South, as he is left by
the war, now considers himself free, and is
equslly impatient of labor or restraint His
mind is full of dazzling dreams Of the fu-
ture, which sad experience alone can dissi-
pate. To his conception, freedom is idle.
ness, plenty of good food ana f'e clothes.
The status of his former master, if he has
been 8 wealthy man, measures his esti-
mate of the exact condition TO which he has
been elevated, and which he is about to
enter. If he imagined, for one moment
the actual truth, that his freedom is Just
now introducing him to severer tolls and
TO responsibilities and cares of which he
now knows nothing, there is probably not
one in q hundred who would voluntarily
accept the boon. But this Lesson he must
learn, and thesooner he learns it the better
for himstlf and for society.
Now, it has occurred to Us, II, By 8 sys-
tenn Of gradual emancipation, this dream
ing dsTkey is Unexpectedly remAnded back
to slavery, and the compilation of his form
or master, he will be earning nothing ct
all for hi nself, while doing little or moth
ing for his master. he will be q discon-
tented, and, therefore, an Improbable la
borer land it might be s dangerous 1aborer
in spsrsely settled districts and the whole
time of his probation for freedom be worth
less to both, while the means of maintsin-
ing a proper subordinstion would probably
be denied to his master.
But turn him loose at once, and he would
in 8 few months or year, find his level and
his true situation and interests. Pass rigid
police and patrol laws, and enforce them
20 as to maintain order and right of pro-
perty-to detect, punish and suppress
theft, idleness and Vsgrsncy, ana Ssmbo
would soon lesrn that he must labor or
starve. When that lesson has been thor
ougly learned and inwardly digested, the
negro may perhaps become Of some
value again, but not before.
There are numerous other considerations
connected with the subject, which have in
spired q doubt in our minds whether, after
all, 8 sudden change may not be better for
US, and which we would like to present to
the reader but not to be too prolix, we
will content ourselves for the present with
this single view.
Whist we may think upon the subject we
have no ides will influence the decision Of
the question at all, but it may be that q
calm consideration OF the matter will con-
tribute to reconcile the public mind to such
a social revolution as we think most pro-
badly awaits US. Since the foundations
are to be certainly destroyed sooner OF
later, it may be just as well to complete the
work at once. We shall then be no more
the subjects or the victims of political agi-
~tators, Northern or Southern, while it
may be doubted whether, under 8 plan Of
gradual emancipation, the North would
not be quite as impatient of the duration Of
slavery as formerly they we're of an exist.
ence which they had not the constitution
81 power to touch.
ROTE AGAINST THE SCALE OF WAGES