Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-21

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Gen. auckland, In a speech at Sandus-
ky, on Saturday, said he knew a Copper
head who sent his son over to Canada to
avoid the draft, and bribed an acquaint-
ance, who was going to visit Canada to
look after him, and see that he was not
suffering for the common necessaries of
life. After a long search he found him,
having hired himself to a negro for $l2
a month and board. Such sad results of
Republican mismanagement' are truly
.deplorablei
The September reports to the Freed
mem Bureau showsa acknowledgements
ing numbers of those receiving ~Tations from
the Government. There are more than
"a, 600, freedmen in the district compris-
ing.Washington, Alexandria. &C., out of
which number only S64 sick and destitute
were fed at Government expense. Many
of these are wives and children of colored
soldiers killed or disabled in the service of
the country. In the Department of Ten
nessee and Kentucky there were 979 per-
Sons subsisted by the Bureau Sept. % +;
at present there are none. As the inca
pacity of the cnlored race to take care of
itself is perfectly we'll known, we presume
the 979 are all dead.
SMALL ox IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
bias been received at the Freedmen Bu-
reau from the chief medical officer in
charge Of she freedmen-in Alabama that
tire smallpox is raging all through the
State, and although every ~precautlon has
been taken to prevent it's spreading, new
cases are appearing daily, and probably
will continue to do SO through the winter.
Efforts have been made there to engage
physicians for the smallpox hospitals, but
so far only one has been found who is will
ing to do duty for a moderate compensa-
ton. Vaccine matter and instructions as
to the course to be pursued by the attend
ing physicians nave been forwarded to the
offeerin Alabama from the bureau here.
The Chicago Times publishes an account
of the assassination of a number OF negro
soldiers at Paducall, which calls for the
early sitting of a court martial on the
murderers. 1t says:
. cat Paducah, a few days ago. as an
Illinois and Minnesota regiment were being
relieved by a negro regiment, from duty
as Provost guards, at this place, the white
soldiers concluded that they had been out
ragged by the presence of the negro soldiers
and the abolition lies that all the brave
fighting during the war had been done BY
the negroes, and they took the matter int
, their own hands, and concluded to wreal
> revenge upon the blacks with stones anc
y revolvers. The negroes at first attempted
to resist, but this only increased the fur.
:. of the white soldiers, and before all th'
negroes could be collected and taken insid
the Notifications of Fort Anderson, six 0
seven of them were killed. The negroe
were only saved by being collected within
/ the fort and a white guard placed aroun'
l them, when the excitement finally die
out, and the white. soldiers we're sent on
of town on their way home"
Il The abolition of martial law in Ken
- lucky does not, as is supposed, settle a.
the d mculties there. The chief difficult
- Of all remains. Gen. Palmer, by virtu
h If his military authority /" gave passe
r to all negroes to go whittier they woul
;, in search of work, without regard t
N whether they were free by virtue OF sci
u vice in the army, rebellious masters or b
= any other cause. The State courts den
the validity of his action, and as the
At still recognize the institution of shaver
.t as existing in the State, are now enforcln
n IIlO ldWS "IlCH PICEChV PA'J ~ 49,
hiring slaves without the consent of tn
masters. Innumcrable lawsuits are tn
conseq uence while those who wish t
le procure labor, deprived Of their own ne
u groes by military authority, are prevente
. from hiring others by civil authority, an
the freedmen roam the country or congre
Is : gate in camps, | ecome demorallzed' an
= either steal. or starve. AS the negroe
:, thus freed cannot by any'posslbllity
n re~-eASlaved, the only solution OF the ma
ar ter is to suspend the action OF the Stat
Vt Courts until the Legislature, which NEE
-. in November, can pass the constitutions
amendment. Kentucky IS the create
Of sufferer in the South from the hlde-boun
rs tenacity with which she clings to a dea
in institution.
onrAT Enp0UcMcNT IN cE WlNG MAcHINE