New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-30
LET Us CLEARLY UNDERsTAND
EACH OTHER.

serve and perpetuate as much as possible OF the
essence of Slavery, after its outward semblance
shall have been legally buried, are invoking the
name and authority Of President johnson as an
apostle of their school, without, so far as wei
can learn, one particle of authority for so dong.
The Copperhead remnant in Vermont lndorse
and eulogize President johnson; so does The
Uorld; SO do the five.dolar- per.month fossils Of
the Surian era in Virginia. 80 does acting
Gov. j. M. Wells of Louisiana, who, in speech
at New Orleans on the 18th inst, said
It rust be perceptibe TO every who Ia at all con-
versapt with the political history of the country that
the radical abolition party Is broken up oisoigshI1ou
and demorazed, despite their apparent success curing
the present wal. -,
"ihe official corruption unequaled by any party
which has eger preceded may ever succeed H. mas
rendered them obnoxious TO the American people
The heavy taxation which must necessarily ionoN
TO pay the enormous debt Of this war; ana winch nus,
continue for the hafcentury. pres an odtum upon
that party hct ,OiH oHrt me pary ,,,y healing n the
national woundsf Ia it not TO those who have taken
national conservative grounds and VINO ha'e e'c''
during this war, advocated CONSERVATIVE pfneipes ia
those principles advocated in past years oy the oa
Wing Party and recently by the conserVatNs OF
the Republican party and of the Democracy ana under
whose benign teachings we have grown ana prospeteu
as a nation -,
| "Our President Andrew johnson, has over been
conservative Democrat. In his hands Is placed the
destiny Of this nation and from hiIn we nave
strstion Of the brightest pages In our anu
under this Administration fellow citizens looking 70
him tor protection and taking his policy "a our GUIDE
must we organize State Government. Every ehofl
will be made by the radical Abolition party to prevent
the Of power to the conservatives OF he oouu
and all the elements OF opposition Will combine W pre-
vent their success and Of their formidable anxa
res as they suppose is to extend the right oil suffrage
TO that class Of persons recently put IN possession OF
This has been too clearly foreshadowed by the poll
teal adventures who have come among Ms TO have
escaped attention. -
and IT, after having taken this country from TIE kcd
man. and holding it for more than century you nave
become charitable as TO give to the BLACK man
can only submit and bow TO the viii OF the people Inc
mower granted the several States by the Constitution
the United States regulate this question OF suffrage
ut clearly belongs TO the People, ana shai apuc
their decision"
- This hopeful elert of the National Con-
seryative" party of Louisiana will doubtless sue
coed in persuadng his patrons that the blame
and the cost of the War should all be saddled
upon their radical Abolition" antagonists,
who were never in power at Washington, nor
vet in the restored" State Of Louisiana. OF
course. if the Radical Aboli.ionsts are to blame
for provoking the War, the Rebels cannot be;
and if the former have been in power for the
last four or FIVE years, it seems odd-nay' 1t IS
odd-that no "restorad" State iia. conceded
the Right of Suffrage to one single negro or
mulatto, and that Governors Of the wells
pattern rule over every one Of those States
They do say that the constitutional convention
which "restored" Louisiana was an expensive
body; but it never wasted cent on granting
Suffrage to negroes, nor yet on putting Radical
Abolitionists into power
The Cincinnati Gazette has letter OF the 2lst
inst. from Decatur, north Alabama, which
says:
"The contraband is the most interesting feature of
this country He is numerously represented heTe ana
sir hundred Of all ages and shades OF color Here
about the military post they are crowded into ten-oy
twelve shanties two three families in each. and al
though they have almost nothing to eat or wear they
are universally fat and generally c0ntented.
Their former masters seem to hate and despise the
Door creatures as they learn Of their freedom
A few DAYS since an old cOored woman made complaint
at the -Marshals office that her master had
turned her of without cent Of money or any means OF
support simply because he had finished working his
corn and didn't need her any longer An Oh man Oh
sixty years who had served his master since he was
Old snongh 10 nae hoe told me similar story Said
l. Uncle how long since you learned you was nee
| 'Oply week ago, sir thought mought be free
GOOD while ago but wasn't right sure till last week;
and when knowed was free, told my old master
would still stay and work for him II he would give me
INV meal and meat and fifty dollars year. lie told me
no. he wouldn't do it, be was only gong 10 keep ms
hands till be got bis wheat harvested. and then The
niggars might go to the d.
"The old man packed up and left that night taxing
with him all the hands but one. The planter had 10
harvest his grain with his white hands this year
bis black getting IS per day for cutting WOOD
on the railroad. -
"Two or three weeks ago colored man living Is
miles from here learning Of his freedom, became III
tie too saucy IL is termed and refused to perform
some unusual and unreasonable task. lie was uecoyeo
into the woods on some preteIt and shot by paroled
Rebel soldier. His body was thrown into tho river ana
his absence accounted for in some plausible man
ner. but his body was found not long after by some
men who were fishing three bullets had passed through
his head"
We suspect that President johnson, with
all his devotion to Estate Rights" will find that
these and kindred cases demand of him inter
ference and regulation-that very many of the
late masters are too much exasperated by their
defeat, too savage toward the negroes for favor
ing the Union cause, and too indurated in the
ethics and the habits of the STAKEHOLDER, to treat
their ex.slaves with justice, humanity, or even
wisdom. Those who are driving off their ne
groes to steal or starve are the very parties who
fear that 81 free niggers will never work-they
think freedom means idleness supported at the
cost of their masters or of the Government"
We venture the assertion that not one negro in
all the South has preferred idleness and theft or
paupcrism to work for fair wages when assured
of his freedom and his pay. But Of work for
nothing save the scantiest food and covering,