Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-07-29

commission OF rape on luo person OF his |
daughter by negro, All these tbings
pave occurred since the war is ended and
are daily being repeated, it may be imag-
ined that the people do not learn to love
the government that sends them such de
tenders, A single soldier is now station
cd at each farm house as a guard. The |
greatest evil Of all, however, that has be-
fallen this people, is the sudden disrup
ton Of the social relations existing between
them and their slaves. The government
declared them free. The negroes did not
know what this meant. At first they i'm.
agned that "lreedom' was perpetual
Sunday to them and that they would be
fed and clothed by the government -
Their conduct was outrageous and intol-
cradle. One lady Of my acquaintance
told me she had six negro men who, one
morning, told her that they we're "frce'
and did not intend to work any moro
She requested them, il that was the case,
10 leave the plantation. This they refused
to do, declaring that the had a right 10
stay there, that half the land belonged to
them. The d lady sent for a military
posseo to escort the ob'trpcrous darkics to
Jail, where it required about one hour to
restore to them the little sense they ever
had. Some Of tie negro men think "free
DOM is coufounded humbug g-that they
are not as we'll off as they were before
And that is the truth. Free TO 60 where
they please, they lie around in ldIoness,
leaving their wives and children to be sup
ported by their former masters, who eau
not support themselves.
Aud here the great difficulty comment
cos. just at this point we see the pracli-
cal effect OF the Immediate abolition oi sll.
very, Government says to the slaves,
you arc free" The master replies to
Sambo, Every we'll, am agreed. But If
you leave my plantation, want you to
take your wife and ton children away
from here | do not want them" Sam
bo can't do this. IIo he has no homo, no
and, no money. In his dIcma he goes
to the nearest military station and says to
the United States officer, "what shall l do
and where shall 20 ~ The officer re-
plies, "you must 60 back to your master
and go to work. "Blt master don't want
me-" The answer is ''your master must
take YOU" The United States govern
ment finds it has caught an elephant IL
the negro and don't know what to do
with him. For four years we have been
carrying on a war to make Shmbo free
aud when his master tells him 10 go and
enjoy his freedom, the government steps
III and says, emo, you must stay where
you are" Is this jlstico1 Take another
| 4 s., 4 -, l,Nh q
t negroes on my place. Eleven of the able
, bodied working men have gone to the yam
KEGS. Out Of the thirty y-nnc remaining
seventeen arc under twelve years of aga
, tho rest are old meu and old women ,somC
; eighty years Of ago. Deprived of tho la
. boring portion OF my hands, how am t(
i raise corn and meat enough to supply m.
! own family and feed and clotho thirty nin'
c helpless negro women and children ! Th'
= govornneut refuses to receive them, AM
if they remain on my plantation they vii
) starye as suro as the sun shines. Such i
S the prospect before me-" The negro vii
S be the greatest sufferer by this state o
a things During the summer months h
d can lay out in the woods and live on Der
y lies an fruits, or hang around tho camp
of our soldiers and feed on hard-tack an
Il fat pork, but when wintor comes he WI
IN discover that "ircodom" is not what
Of supposed it was, lie will then take
T., stealing and become a curse and nu
il sauce in every neighborh God. II thos
ir abolitionists who have been brawling fl
= tho abolition OF slavery for the last tweut
in years could spend few weeks in I'll
IS South and see how they have 6ehGb"t
IS the negro, they would, if they are hone
ID men, confess that they have been great
is mistaken. Thousands of negroes have Il
Or sense to see aud appreciate their cond
% tion. They see it is "root hog or die
10 with them-work niger or starve. In
or class have returned TO their homes AT
j. begged their former masters to allo
rs them to work on the Same terms as tht
40 did before. Al present society is in vel
ry disorgauized condition. The whole cou
ry try is oVerrun with stroling negroes al
be dcsertors from both armies who appropr
b. ate to their own use every thing they CT
n Law their hands on. All the crops
in the field, fruit, poultry, sheep and ev
it. becves disappear at night from tho pla
mt tatious.
'bt The farmers are disposed to ada
,o~ themselves to tho new order of things.
I'D They propose to cut up their thousa
w. acre farms into two hundred aero iarT
to and introduce white labor. The peoI
if knowledge the superiority ol white
~. Dor and az anxious to be relieved of
lcr negro altogether. When civil law ag,
en- resumes its sway in this old Commo
'ed wealth, | think cuffoy will stand f
md chance of being legi,latcd out oftho Sta
lu- The insoleuce, lazincss and dishonest hi
ag- its of tho negro will insure this result,
Of present thousands OF them are idliug aW
md their time in the woods, living oA 5la'
cv- berries aud such vegetables as they C
ice steal but when winter comes upon tn
al they will starve and freeze 10 death
int sure as fate. saw ono eolored won
md and her family of cridren who had ac
the ally taken up their abode in locomot
an, that had not been thrown from the tr
Sos on the Tennessee Railroad and permi!