Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-22

the war terminates, little or no property
will remain under the control of the Bureau.
by this policy of restoration, the expecta-
tons OF the freedmen that land would be as
signed to them, have beeu disappointed
and difficulty has arisen, thereby, which
has been overcome with comparative ease.
Much embarrassment, and much actual suf-
fering has resulted for the restoration of
property in use, and much more will result
from the curtailment by the Bureau. About
one tive-hundredth of the amount of land in
the insurrectionary States has even been
held, and the plan of assigning it to freed
men carried out. The Bureau would have
been able to furnish an acre per family,
Experience has shown, as a general rule
that it is better to leave the price of labor to
be regulated by the demand.
Schools have been established but the hos
tility of the white people to them is undis-
guised. Congress, when it created the Bu-
reau, made no appropriation to defray its
expenses. 1t has however received funds
from miscellaneous sources to the amount of
S49S, 1868, deducting the amount held as re-
tanned bounties Sl15,236, and balance on
hand Oct 31st, 1865; available to meet La
bilities S313,769. The amount held on as
colored soldiers or their families. The
breaking up of the old plantation system
has necessarily left the sick with little or no
medical provision. As soon as they can earn
money and become better versed than now in
the order of selfsupport they will doubtless
secure necessary aid.
From information derived from various
reports of military officers, inspectors, and
/
arrives at the general conclusion that free
labor, notwithstanding the sudden enamel
patton, and the thousands of causes of dis
turbance incident to the war, will prove sue
cessful, that the Freedmen's Bureau, or some
substitute for it of national character, will
have to be continued, and that the present
organization of the bureau, with the under
standing that it is not to be permanent, is as
good as he could suggest, except as the sub
jects of Freedmen's courts, and the employ
ment Of civil agencies. Some general sys-
TEN for providing for the aged and intirm is
necessary, and it would be well to devote the
funds raised during the war under the treas
| ury laws for the benefit of the freedmen, for
| securing sites and buildings for school pur-
poses in the different States, and that 4 joint
| commission, whose object shall be to aid the
poor blacks and whites in the rental, pur-
| chase and settlement of land should be en-
Outraged by the Government, and that the
rights of the freedmen to rent and purchase
real property should be guaranteed to them
beyond question. 1t is intimated that the
amount required for expenditures of the
Bureau for the fiscal year, commencing
January l, 1866, will be S1,l74,505.
New YORK, Dec 20.-The Commercials
Washington dispatch says the Presidents
action in restoring to the Southern States
which have adopted the amendment, the en-
joyment of all their constitutional privileges
except representation in Congress, paralyzes
the action of radical Republicans and pro-
| duces an intense interest.
An exciting contest, however may be ex-
pected between some of the radical and
| conservative supporters of the President.