Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-14

NEWS SUMMARY.

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Ger Beauregard has been swearing, that
:. bo has taken the oath of allegiance, and ask
ID for na,don. Times have changed since tho
day Of Bull Run.
A contumacious planter in Arkansas, VINO re-
fuses to recognize the freedom Q, MS sa as o.so
hoen fined $50. He will probably see the case
more clearly hereafter.
The Freedmen's Bureau announces the Wnole
number of the colored population OF Arkansas
ov,onots to 4 .756. The number OF those en-
ployed to 4O,777. The number drawing rat0nS
Is 1879.
South Carolina e~'repeals" her Secession Ordi-
nance. This means, perhaps, that she reserves
the ..right'' to enact it again. Other southern
States regard their Secession ordinances null
and void.
FANNY Jackson, a young -colored woman OF
Washington, D. c., graduated from the classical
course Of Oberlin College at Uhe late commence
ment. She is the first female college graduate
of African descent. a1s
The Secretary of the Interior, at the request
of Gen. Howard, has turned over to the freed
mems Bureau four squares of unoccupleo GOV
eminent ground in Washington, or Whlcn TO
erect school houses for the instruction u L
freedmen.
lot the negro show he is worthy of surattge'
saws one of the fence-people who sat on tnelr
rails the other day when voting was gong on Ia
Connecticut. Well, be has shown 1t on twenty
battle-felds, staying the Rebels. Is there q
higher test still!
Gov. Perry's State militia. it is said, Will not
he interfered with, though Of course ne haG 90
authority for ordering their enrolment: Inc
nrecedent having been set, however, IN MISSES
inni. it cannot well be reeeded from ana nence'
# Is presumed, all the State will be allowed TO
"1o Tome forces to a moderate extent for
their better defence.
The copperhead press are very confident "the
.,tpmnt to advance the black race will degrade
60 wbite." Men who listen to such arguments
neod have no fear on their own account. They
ore bu;lt on the principle of the fellows stone
wou the width of which exceeded its height, so
that ..when it fell down it was higher than 1t
was before"
Some of the Copperhead papers are attacking
Henry Ward Beecher for the reason, that IN a
recent sermon, as they allege, he undertook to
nrovo thqt there is no hell. We don't know
Ppbather this charge is true or not, as we have
cot saen the sermon referred to but it 1t Is
true and Mr.. Beecher can only prove his 9ropo-
aition. we should think the party attaching him
onoht to be under the greatest Obligation to him,
90 there are none who have reason to fear a hell
more than they.
The telegraph reports a large meeting OF
freedmen at Petersburg, Va. The chief enor'
of the sneakers was to disabuse the colored men
of the idea that they were to enjoy an agrarlar
division of their former masters pr perty Wne
oave them the idea? Their enemies of course.
end thew are thoroughly disabused of it now.-
There il not one in a thousand OF the FreedmeH
of the South who expects to gain his living IL
any other way than by hard labor. q"
The Richmond Wing prophesies a great dea
Of suffering among the negroes of Virginia, thi
winter. in consequence of their unsettled condi
ton and destitution of resources. 1t says tina
deaths from starvation and neglect are alread,
freouept among them, and in many districts
thew are really in a most pitiable condition
The Who is right and it might have added witt
equal truth, that it and other secession pro
slavery Journals are responsible for this "pitia
BILE condition"
EMANCIPATION IAN 1NExPREssIBLE GAIN
Hon. Joseph segar, of Virginia, in a recen
speech in Richmond, declared that the South
erners "were inexpressibly gamers by emanc
nation" He further said
81 speak from experience and observation
In nv own county, Wnefe ouanUiPoOlVH - ~
in practical operation from the commencemel
Of the war. and on the Eastern Shore OF VII
gina where the policy has been fairly tested, it
an ascertained fact that the farmers make mo-
clear money with hired colored labor than the
did when they cultivated their farms with the
own slaves. The profit is generally doubled,
some cases trebled."
The New York Times commenting upon ii
question Of universal suffrage in Connection
says:
IF colorcd men would vote as intelligent
and honestly as white men, they should be a.
mitted-otherwise not"
We don't quite see how that point rs to be d
cided, Or who is entitled to make the decision. :
Who is the umpire, and what's to be the test
What is to be the normal measure OF the intel
geuce and honesty in a white mans vote Ht
can you ascertain without a trial whether t
colored mans vote comes up to this STANDARD
Why should the conditions of intelligence al
honesty be restricted to colored men Al
how, the conditions are not very severe. Il
white mans vote is not oppressively intelligt
or honest.
Surgeon j. w. Lawton, o. S. 4
surgeon-in-Chie of Freedmen for
District of Georgia, reports to Gen. Ho
ard that he is about opening a large h
pital with a smallpox branch at Aug
ia, and intends to open others at Colu
bus, Macon, Atlanta and other poll
throughout the : tate were required
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