New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-27
RIGHTS OF FREEDMEN.

la the courts of reconstructed Virginia, as OF
most other ex.R, bel States, the Colored Race
have no standing whatever. whether as suitors
or witnesses Though nomlnally free. they
have no means OF yindicatlng and upholdine
The freedom afforded them by the Constitution
and laws Of their State; while the great mass OF
her ex Rebel Whites have fully determined that
they never shall have any. These have for
yoars preds@,ad that emancipation would prove
curse TO the Blacks. and they are now doing
their best TO fulfill their own prophecy.
The Federal Government has attempted 10
secure the Blacks some faint approximation u
Justice by mean. Of the Freedmen's Bureau !;
but so limid and yacileting il It's action that II
TOO often raises hopes of protection only to
blast them. Let US give All example:
The Freedmens Bureau has divided the
South into districts, and means to have an
agent in each who is there to see some modicum
of.justice accorded to the negroes. In that OF
Yorktown, Virginia, as in others, the Whites
and Blacks are each invited to select person
TO sit with the agent and aid him in doing justice
| in the casos brought before him.
The Blacks, thus invited, have designated on
their part an educated and capable mulatto,
: born in Massachusetts,, trained al Oberlin, and
every way respected and worthy, The
Whites, who are allowed to select whom they
please on their own part, have resolved that the
| Blacks shall have no such liberty and insist
that the choice of the Blacks on their part shall
be oyerulcd. And there is great danger that
they will be allowed to prevail No ono dis.
putes that This man il the unanimous choice o
| the Blacks; but the Whites say they will choose
no person at all if Niger" is to sit on tbe
bench; and it is quite likely that the Government
will be bullied into allowing those who would
to-day be Rebels if they dare to dictate (vir
tualy) the choice of both these ide-judges
and give the hearty UnionistJ no choice al all
Take another case:
There is an association Of partially recon
strncted Rebels in Essex County, Va, Gas ",
presume in many other counties, whose ayowct
object is to prevent any negro who was yolun
,arily within the Union lines during the progress,
of the War obtaining settlement i'll thai
county. Here is the application of an ex-slavc
holder TO this body:
| BowIKs H.. Oct. le65.
GESILkgES Garter has applied to me for the prvileg,
| Of binding upon my premises at Bowler
nm not disposed 10 do anything In which would a
all b. blamed by the community have agreed that b.
| and George Drlano may bulld upon my laud II yol
think me lusiihatle. Lot me near from you.
Your friend. &c.
J.J. GouLDxAs.
To DR.. A. @. Roy and r. H. Boughton. jr.. ESQ.
Carter was q slave Of Gouldman-had worke,
for him many years for nothing-and is
shrewd, intelligent, steady, hard-working man
But the Association returned answer that Gould
man must not allow him to make home on hi
premises-so he must go--Ileayen knows where
And this il fair specimen Of the Il ilder o
negative form Of oppression this day prevailing
oil over the South. One Of it's inevitable result
will be the starving to death Of hundred thou
sand Freedmen before next Spring; anothc
will DO the shooting Of thousands moro bccaus
famine will have constrained them to steal;
third, anxiously hoped and worked for by tho OK
Rebels, is q negro insurrection, which viii
enable them " MAIN and butcher Of will VII.