The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1865-05-06
for such purpose.
By Order Major-Gen. W. 7. SHERMAN,
(Signed} L. NJ. DAYTON.
Maio CO.
Major and Asst Adit. Genl.

By Order Major-Gen. ". T. SHERMAN.
(Signed,} l.. NJ. DAYTON.
Major and Asst Adjt. Genl
Having been detailed by the proper authority
and being held responsible for the enforcement
OF this order, hereby warn all persons agains
violating any Of its provisions as all such Will bt
held to the strictest accountability for trespass
their effects will be seized for benefit Of thu
Freedmen. and themselves sent out OF the Depart
ment,.or otherwise punished by sentence of ;
military commission. All Superintendent:
of Plantations, Islands, &c, and all officers
or other persons on duty in connection with thu
Freedmen are required to bring to the immediate
notice of the Inspector of Settlements, any viola
ton of the provisions Of this order.
Superintendents of Islands and Plantation:
will cause copies of this circular to be posted W
in conspicuous positions, aud take every oppor
tunity to inform those concerned in its exist
ence.
Thirty days will be allowed for the proper cir
cuaton of its contents and all who fail to vacate
premises which are occupied by them, contrar!
10 and in violation Of the provisions of Genera
Sherman's order No. 15 will be at once arrested
should it be necessary to employ military force tc
carry ont the provisions of this circular applica
ton will at once be made to me for such force.
r. SAXTON
Bvt-Major-G General, Inspector of Settlements
and Plantations.
The writer of the article "Fair Play
the Best Policy" in the May number Of
The atlantic Monthly says:
Now there are but two systems possible
in d.aling with an emanci pated people,
All minor projects are notifications OF
these two. There is the theory of pre-.
paration, under some form, and there i.
the theory of fair play. Preparation is
apprenticeship, prescription, the bar
gains of the freedman made for him, moi
by linn. Fair play is to remove all OBJ,
structions, including the previous mono
poly of the soil,-to recognize the freed
mans right to all social and political
guarantees, and then TO let him alone.
Ss.There is undoubtedly room Tor an hon
est division of opinion on this fundamental
matter, among persons equally sincere
Even among equally well-lnfJrmed per
sons there may he room for difference
although it will hardly be denied thai
these who favor the theory of "prepara
ton" are in general those who take {
rather low view of the capacities of the
emancipated race. The policy pursued
in Louisiana, fer instance, was undoubt
edly based ut the outset, whatever othel
reasons have siuce been adduced, on the
theory that the freedmen would labor
only under compulsion. have seen ar
elaborate argument, from leading ofti
Ger in that Department, resting the whole
theory on precisely this assumption.
THE negro, born and reared i'll ignorance
could not for years he taught to proper
ly understand and respect the obligations
OF a contract. His ideas of his freedom
were merged in the fact that he was to bt
fed and clothed and supported in idle
ness Whatever excuses may since
have been devised for the system, thi:
was its original postulate. To suppose i
true would be to reject the vast bulk o
evidence already accumulated, all de
monstrating the freedmen's willingness
to work. Yet if the assumption be false
any system founded on it must be regard
ell by the freedmen as an insult, ant
must fail, unless greatly modified. :"
We regret that our little sheet will no
allow US to quote largely from this article
1t was evidently written by Col. 7. W
Higinson, formerly OF the First Soutl
Carolina Volunteers -colored troops. W
commend it, however, as one side Of tn
argument on the question "What shal
be done with the negro?" to those VIII
honestly have at heart the best interest
of OR country and the freedmen.
The Colonel, however, makes sewers
errors of staten mt, deriving his informa