Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-10-14
THE NEGRO AT THE SOUTH.
A Lifelike Picture Drawn by the
Loyal Governor Brownlow of
Tennessee Effect of Radical
Teaching Portrayed-Negro
troops must be Withdrawn.

Effect of Radical
Teaching Portrayed-Negro
troops must be Withdrawn.
tBrownlow's whig Of the 9Th ul,l
Thousands Of free coored persons are
congregating In aud around the large towns
in Tennessee, and thousands are coming
from other States, one.,hird Of whom can
not get employment, or feel willing to
stoop to work. They entertain the or.
roneous idea that the Government is bound
10 supply all their wants, and even to
furnish them with houses, If, 10 order to
that, the white occupants must be turned
out. There is large demand for labor
in every section oil the State, but the col |
ored people, with here and ther u noble
exception, scorn the idea Of work. They
fiddle and dance at night, and lie around
the stores aud Street corners in the day
time. And some Of the indscreet teach
ers Of the negroes from the North, who
know nothing Of the negro character, have
been known 10 tell them not TO hire to
white people Having the single idea in
their heads OF abolition, they advise the
simple aud credulous negro to a life of
precarious subsistence, ,of dleuess and dane.
ing, and OF crowdipg into the towns to be
educated, in preference to good wages and
comfortable homes 10 the country. If
some great change is not made when Win
( ter comes on, and if the military force is
Withdrawn, as they will ba, there will be
great suffering and fearful ID ortalty among
them.
SUFFRAGE AND sUFFERANcE.
There is bad state Of feeling now be.
tween them and the whites, and il is daily
growing more bitter. Many the negros
are insulting the white females, who never
owned any oil their color, and never did
them any wrong. They frequently elbow
unprotected white women off our narrow
pavements, asd curse white men passing
them, just to show their authority. 9th.
ers are swearing ou the streets, aad we
have heard them say that they will clear
out the id town! And still another
class will say that if hey are not allowed
their rights at the ballot box they will re-.
sort to the cartridge boz! Aud they swear
hey will be backed up by the Govern
ment.
AS one desiring the welfare of the col.
ored people, they will permit me to say
they cant drive the Legislature Of Ten.
nessee into coniering upon them tho elec
tive franchise. They eau, by the dem on
stratious they are making in this direction
deprive themselves Of any such privilege
so lar as Tennessee is concerned. The
Federal Government has no right to con
troll the suffrage question in Tennessee.
And the great Unlon party Of The nation
will have more sense than to attempt tu
control the question by Congressional leg
islaton.
THE TOWNS TO DE CLEARED.
General Ti)son, at Memphis, has deter.
mined that be will compel the free people
Of color to leave the city and surrounding
towns, even il thoir removal requires mil
isary force. He has sent patrol through
the city to learn who have emplo, mcni
and who have not, and to notify them that
no further supplies will c furnished to
those that can support themselves and re.
fuse to do SO. Al Memphis they bayt
been contracting for wages, and becomiur
dssatis fed break their contracts and leave
of abruptly. Gen Tilson has notified
them that this will not be allowed, that
they must make good their contracts, and
IT, at he will compel them to work at the
rates and places agreed upon.
frank Gen. Tilson among the bert men
we never had in command at Knoxville
and am pleased to end that be is still
showing his good sense and love of jus.
tice at Momphis We lack such discipline
among the colored people in this eud o.
the STATE, and hope it will not be long
until more rigid regulations are adopted
by the Commissioners Of Freedmen who
as understand it, have control of this
branch of affairs. There is no better
man in the service than Gen. Fisk, and
il be fails to do his whole duty it will be
because his headquarters are at distance
and he is not posted as to the state O!
things here and along tho line Of this
road.
EAST TENNESSEE AND THE DARKIEs.
President johnson will remove all the
troops from East Tennessee before great
while, and the colored people, as well as
lHe Wulles, Will nave 10 take care OF them
selves. A portion of them know and
feel assured they will be industrious and
quiet citizens providing for themselves and
families. The great majority of them
will not, and will get into trouble-many
Of them will break into the Penitentiarv
They will fail by their threats of violence
to accomplish any good, and he is their
best friend who advises against this course
Of conduct. Colored soldiers 10 FEEDER al
uniforms, with guns in their hands must
not suppose that East Tennesseeans will
be inundated by them, or suffer their fam
lilies to be abused.
know these people, and l know they
will not Submil to be run over BY Negro
soldiers. And knowing this, desire tc
keep down any conflict between the races
The East Tennessee troops, who have
fought three dreadful years to free the
negroes, aud get the privilege Of conf NJ
back to their old cherished homes, are mol
The men to be run over by colored soldier.
who came into the fight at the eleventh
hour. And those Who hava the ;mma5;