The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-03-02

protection as was In the power Oh tue
down -trodden host to grant; in short, tha,
they were the only class in the Rebellious
States, who, without the awe inspired by
presence Of Federal bayonets, manifested
either love or respect for the Federal flag.
In partial consideration of these facts,
but chiefly in Difference to the Proclama-
tion Of the President which manumitted
the slaves in desi gnated districts of Lou.
isana, Gen. BANKS, while in command
of the Gulf District, condescended to fur.
nish the freed negroes with white employ.
ers at stipulated rates of pay-or, in other
words, established for them a system Of
apprenticeship only slight remove from
actusl bondage. A few weeks ago Con.
SHERMAN improved literally upon this
plan, SO far as to proclaim, as he did BY
Special Orders, No. Is, that the Islands
| from Charleston south, the abondoned d
rice fields along tho Rivers for thirty
miles back frem the sea, and the country
bordering the St. John River, Florida,
should ba set apart for the settlement Of
negroes now made free by acts Of war
The blacks upon this reservation are to
have no white persons among them, ex-
cept military officers and soldiers detailed
for duty, end are to be left free to ''form
and regulate their own domestic institu
, tions in their own way" subject only to
the Constitution, and military orders Of
the United States. They may have the
fruits of their own labor, may occupy and
work, aud have possessory title to a
certain amount Of land, and, with the ex-
ceptien Of certain police regulations i'm,
posed by the War Department., arc for
thetime sovcreig gns. ID IL ....H
| All this progress toward docency of
treatmens of the negro race is well
enough; but there is another question to
be settled, viz: If they continue to show
the patriotic devotion to the Federal
Government which they have thus far
shown during the war, aud if their ability
to be useful to the national eau Sc shall
continue to be manifested, where shall
be the Fac Of limitation upon their priv.
ileges as soldiers and citizens? The land
swarms with men of foreign birth, upon
whom the immunities of citizenship have
been showered without stint, who have
during this war rendered every possible
aid and comfort to the enemy. Are white
Traitors to be forever accounted better
entitled to the fruits of Republican Lib.
erty than black Union soldiers? The
people are gradually answering these
questions in the additiona! rsspect.y.hins
race. The latter are accorded the priv.
ilege of riding with other human beings
in railroad cars aud other public convey.
ances. A black man was few days since
admitted as practitioner in the Supreme
Court of the United States. The Black
Laws Of Illinois and Indiana have been
repealed. And it will no. be many
months before the enquiry will be gener.
ally made whether people who are be-
having so we'll and fighting SO well, might
not, also, cote we'll? The War has upset
many a silly and barbarous notion, and
there is 20 telling how far traitorous aris
tocrats who have been accustomed to
teach that the Ethiopian race are scar cely
better than apes, may have their nerves
shocked by revolutions in social and DO
litical franchises,-State Register.