New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-05

blazing lsmps-bostsrous veterans and dancing, sing
ing, praying freedmen.
OUT OF ONE WILDERNESS INTO ANOTHER.
But men cannot live altogether enthusiasm. II
that were the the poor fellows who followed the
track Of the army would have stored enough such
chameleon raons to last them beyond the natural life Of
the commissary. When the army got to halt and
rest the question began what shall be done with the
acksi and every days distress made the question
keener. Happily there was refuge at hand which
must have seemed to those parahs and staryengs to
have grown up like magic providence out Of the
sea- They reached the coast and poverty was at It's
wits end But the gates Of the Freedmens land were
wide open-the pity was they were not wide enough.
On the landing panks, steadily totng over into the
boats their whole households by the hand or upon
their heads just they had done sixteen mics day
upon the march huddled and tumbed together on
board cursed and hustled by the deck-hands-tnus
after much tribuatiou Chloe and Cufee with their
children on their backs and their kitchens on tDeir
heads, brldged their way into the promised land
When they got there after the passage OF tne cree
which in December meaDdrr like SILVER through me
Sea Islands, the ragged and almost naked erewsone
feyeYed and dropping down with incredible Iatigue
little boys worn to the BONE and salowed by DEATH
crying pickaninnes lmping along after harsh
Old men and women just craving along, put inc oe''
part of them surdiy and soidly Drawing the worst
the scene on the landing at dusk might have belonged
10 some humble apocalypse Load after ioaa were SCI
down before the already too crowded caOns put py
some art of persuasion the one hand, and genius
for packing away on the other the new corners found
room There was always room for more anu never
room enough tho Sea Islands. But cabins grew up
like mushrooms and population was soon lost IN aoor
or taken off in colonies to the old work aday paradise
Of Edsto.
THE SEA ISLANDS
one Of the superstons Of history that the Sea
Islands were long AGO discovered by EnglishmeD, who
abandoned il to It's lone savagery, and. erstwhe ire
pressbe rattesnake. The real honor Of discovery be-
longs to the Ant.Slavery pioneers Of 1862. Then the
Sea Islands rose as out Of gulf The May Flower had
sailed again from Plymouth, with Penn's Treaty FL
lots Bible, and a whole cargo Of Plymouth rock
Prayers went up In log cabins as OF old among John
Robinson aud his friends aud may be the soul OF Johh
Brown was not counted out This new discovery was
far more patent than the other so-called. IL founded
freedom whereas all the other could claim was SAND
bushes and raccoon-oy beds For that matter Is
still doubt abstruse whether South Carolina could De
discovered true State before its citizens we're loyal
and free Else than this all sand subbe territory
rafting cotton stalks, without cotton until tne nee
born Adam found there 10 give u comfortable haDi
tation and good name
GIDEoSITE CAPITAL.
The Sea Islands became pretty much what its settlers
designed, an inassailable propaganda Of freedom.
Beaufort WIS its capital-a better place than the
Ashantee village at the Head. whose intellectual dry
ness sailed by the breeze in excellent harmony
with the wooden lite of the place in which war looked
rusty and where suffers thrived. At Beaufort were
washed villas tropic.hke gardens toward the marsh
front OF the old South Carolina watering places genuine
plan houses rustic life, and Mrs. Stoves negroes
picturesque freedmen. with gray heads and gnaried
good NATURES; freedmen Ike dwarfoaks and calibans
and gypsies: freedmen ike old men Of the sea, IKE
drlds and much ike white men; freedmen whose
idiom songs and traditions shame their description
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themselves in the streets working at all sorts OF IN
womanke work; freedmen militant. II became IN time
when black brass bands played at Gen. Sahtons WIN
dow freedmen mercantile too, who proiessed TO under
stand the rough law OF supply ard demand ana whose
figures in the speciality OF chickens and eggs military
orders were useless TO keep down. There was also a
very fine article Of sunset-a strange light on that
"lone Chorasmian shore" clarifying creeks and will
d. gave rise 10 much transparent fancy
and sandy and sedgy verses OF swamp flavor.
" Poured er ALL" were many "Gldeoniies.' Every
day Gdeonsm broke its spiritual pitchers and fought
the good fight. il rampant 80 they said at the
Head. Young officers (some Of the stan, staiilsh
sneered at and swOre at the Gdeonites they were
termed In military circles. The Government at the
Head was not In harmony With tho Que at Beaufort
and under the circumstances, Gideonlsm appealed to
the heart rather than the Head.
THE PALMETTO sYBiI.
or over the river in the island woods, progress kept
CON pany with the pine tree and oldfashoned religion
made a palpable atmosphere among the plantations,
INST, va NSA' ~
ways to tie new conner seemed this region and many
others like iD natural home for the negro, or why
those quaint trees. those antique palmetos whose vege
table architecture always hiEtng-Gs ont OF the
fgmen, of a dream with faint spice Of the lotus-far
away Egypt. Abyssinia and the Nile The Palmetto
is voted By the Paris Islanders disspated tree. Limb
less and almost caess but not tuftess II rears-not
head-but scalp. Its trunk has thin similarity TO
the pillar of an Egyptian tomb: IL might have been
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or rather, not q Secession symbol Its meaning IL
Arcan aud this is its dark indigenous saying while
the palmetto grows in south Carolina the freedmen
must stay"
THE FREEDMES's AID.
These islands became refuge and a sort OF
supply station for all the great human surplus OF the
march. To this day hungry freedmen have continued
to flock them in order to gain bread and work. and
live happy in imagined freedom land. The number
is now than be supplied without reinforced
charity from the North 1t has been almost similar
story all round-destuon in every shape Of the mis-
cradle and grotesque relieved by the good Sanaran
or Freedmens Aid Agent A great cause and idea,
and the negros grateful and useful nature, raised
him up friends. Men of thought and especially men
who recognize the providence Of God In the affairs of
men, said Chief Justice Chase in allndng TO the war
cannot fail TO observe that Il is distinguished by
great charities more than by great achievements"
True enough aud the work OF the Freedmens Aid
more important than victories. In addition TO the lib
crafty OF the North and West it drew substantial sym.
patty from philanhropists in England, Germany and
Switzerland
THE FREEDMEN AT SCHOOL
An idea of total results attained by the Freedmens
Aid Associations il would DO impossible to give, but 1t
Is reasonable look for such statistics the report Of
the Freedmens Bureau. During the war the operation
Of the Feedmens Bureau extended to about 40 stations
in the Rebel territory, and Population OF 10000
chiefly destitutes Between 1900 and 10000 was the
ron oh censnS of tho Gen Isands. h.tvaen nd