New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-15
why Negroes Arc Lazy.

Why Negroes Arc Lnzy.
The Cincinnati Gazette has q letter from cor
respondent who after travelling and nquiring nearly
through North Carolina. writes from Dobson, Snrr,
County, summing up his observations as follows:
The complaints against the blacks were the same
and unounded as in the South at large 1her rorfh
leSness consists in he fact that ey not disposed
lcork nOiR0 and receive the same treatment WHICH
has always been meted ont 10 them. Their Impotence
consists in not touching their hats and bowling us low
as they did those who have always maltreated
them To dare assert their freedom is considered IN
ngrlitude 10 those who have taken care OF them so
long and mins,ercd 10 them when sick. stranger.
10 hear the men and women OF the South talk. would
suppose that the masters had worked in the fields and
the servants had played the lady and gentleman IN the
parlor
The stories that from time 10 time have reached our
military posts have only partially revealed the cruelty
practlced upon the freedmen. This matter forced
upon attention by Whites and Blacks at every step
The Blacks we're asking for advice, and the Whites
talked OF their with perfect indifference II
there was nothing wrong in their conduct
In majority Of cases, the planters have broken faith
with their hands wherever they have claimed To be free
They have been kept at work by the promise of share
in tie crop until the Summer work il over and arc
now being driven of without cent Tins Is beeom-
ing SO general as TO cause the Government
most of them living in huts and aban
doned houses upon berries and such vegetable as they
can steal procure by occasional days work. The
whites are complaining bitterly Of these petty thefs
and point to them riumphaDtly an evidence OF the
failure Of Emancipation and the ideness aud worthless
Of the Blacks. Few seem To think that there is
anything wrong in thus turning their old servants oct
Of doors They say thst they cannot be at the expense
of supporting so many women and children. and that
they are in no way bound TO help tlem and 80 turn
them adTft with the hearessness that has ever char
acterzed the system Of Slavery and its supporters
Wherever IT has been possible by deceit. fraud or
threats 10 make the Blacks believe they free
il has been done and in this matter rery many of the
strongest Union men are guilty This is the ground upon
which all political parties unite, and all that their
combined intellect, prejudice hate and cunning
devise to keep the Black down will be done Next
Winter the Government will have all those thrown out
of employment-to feed either with food brought from
ne North or obtained here. II would lie but even
handel, Justice 10 cOnscae the crop OF every who
has thus de'euded his hands, and apply 1t 10 feed the
destitute Blacks. They have legal claim TO tue lrui:
Of their laboTs.
Many cases Game 10 os7 rotce here the momen. the
srcs ere turned off the Blacks were paid IN Confed
crate money and then driven on although they had been
promised a support for the year.
On some plantations, the hands were being worked
from daylight 10 dark under the eye and lash OF the
oy erseer as Of old. black boy Mocksslle was
nearly beaten TO death by prominent citizen for daring
10 ask whether he was Tree.
Near DObson, the bands one farm after getting
through with the crop in body and asked their
master whether he was Wiling TO make any definite
arrangement with them as freemeD., dc told them 10
had no use for them reenen and If they wanted TO
be free they could leave at once. After wandering
around for number of days, iltIested by everybody
and not being able 10 find any work they asked their
come if they would submit 10 receive hundred
asNes and on this condition they taken back to
work nothing Of old. and the fogcing was ad
minstered. Another man OF This place gave all his
hands hundred lashes for saying they would ask a
certain Union man OF the place Whether they were
free go.
mower that made them free for time; that our troops
are being withdrawn and will soon be gone, and the
people Of the State have yet decide the subject for
themselves The blacks are threatened with oil sorts OF
4 H. ~ in tau he an ire
These are only few Of the instances which this
short ride brought to notice but they are quite
enough to show that s'TOIg aTa y needed 70 enee.
hare all occurred IN that part Of e STATE styled UH'on and
they not isolated cases. but met with hourly. the
moment one goes oui of sight Of our military posts
Col WhittNesev, the Commissioner Of Freedmen for
North Caroline working theoretically to reach all
such abuses but yet he has been obliged TO coDne
his attention principally TO the central and eastern
parts Of tho State and % the country along the rail
roads The interior towns and counties cannot be
reached till late IN the Fall az least and then the lues
ton of support for the Winter will be very serions
one and VIII call ioI prompt solution.
"Send the negroes away, II the cry nom all quar-
ters Few can be made 10 believe that the Government
will be cruel 10 turn them loose among The whites
While they slaves the South chung to them as II
all that was worth living for was 10 have row Of
Veil filed. Now the idea that these
same niggers' TO be free aud live among them -
thing past comprehension, and only on par With the
other atrocities Of AbolitiOnists.
vegy general dread is eigned o. felt Of great iron
bic with the blacks not because Of the III tEeatuens
they are constantly ccynStbe high toned Southern
eIs sec no provoking cause in hsbnt hecanse OF The
natBrsl pgness OF the blacks and tre ser'ahy 'na'
they will intcrpre; freedom 10 mean license.
The cruelty OF the old matters tends Directly ~
trouble and snythiDg can tiir race Just beginning
to understand that II free, 10 deeds OF violence anu
bloodshed this course will accomplish L. AND Ii II
comes the whole blame will tie shoulders of the
whites. The blacks class are eager 10 work ana
are willing to do so on the most reasonaoe tcrn'