New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-15
BUREAUCRACY I'm aOshsHaNA

mans Bureau for Louisiana, publishes d ""'i"
tive Of the condition OF affairs in that STATE cal
or,otcd 10 excite the lyelest apprehenSiohS'
Tbo, Mr.. Conway was friendly enough to tne
,,oc,roo, "a make him odious to the Rebels. we
knew beforehand. That directly or indirectly
their ronmity procured bis removal, we aiso hncV'
Fran tbe account which wo take TO DC MS, II |
now appears that the proximate cause Vi nN
dismissol was his effort to carry out the pro-
,i.iops or tbc law under which the Bureau was
Organized in relation to land' ho wac
about to lease sixty thousand abanooneu VI
con6scated acres The measure was reSoi'ou
on by Gen. Howard, who had lateiy in'eS'.
coted on the spot the whole question: vi h'
outbori,v over tho lands the act establishing
the Bureau is the best evidence Inc louI'h
section provides that the Commissioner ohuoi
the direction of the President, shall nave "u-
thortv TO set apart for the use Of loyal refugees
and freedmen such tracts Of land within the III
surrectionary States as shall have been aban'
Aorod or 10 which the United States shall have
ACQUIRED title by sale or otherwlse-assghihg
forty acres TO each male citizen, &c. Oh-
less the President interiered therefore, the
purpo,e of Congress was TO DC catIio"
ont. But the President seems 10 haVe
considered the needs Of the freedmen less urgent
than those of the former owners who desired
both their land and the removal OF Mr.. Conway
and who have been gratiGed IN both par'icu'
lars. Yet az tho measure was Gen. Howard
why should not Gen. Howard he removed also
! Gen. J. S. Fullerton, who succeeded MI
Conway, sigpalized his appearance upon the
scene by s3uing,an address, in which he told Inc
freedmen that they must either work or leave
the coEntrv. and that the Bureau would COM
pei" by military force the observance oil Such
contracts A. the Commissioner on the one side
, and the planter on the other might agree upon
for the blacks. II is evident that Gen. Fuller
ton slightly misunderstood the purpose OF the
Bureau. and considered that the interests oil the
planters az against the cruelty, ayauce anu
hatred Of the negroes required protection at his
{ hands. To the same extent he felt bound 70
, consider the feelings and respect the preJudices
of the dominant race in New. Orleans. lie found
certain colonies for aged and helpless freedmen
, whom the planters had turned off their estates,
established in that city. Organized upon an
economical basis, these colonies were SELF SUI
q porting. or nearly so, but they we-s odious "a
i the whites, aud Gen. Fultrton directed the
breaking up Of all but one. He found two
I orphan asylums "A sort Of institution not here.
Q toiorc deemed blot upon civilization, and not
the object of special hatred since a similar asy-
lum in New-YOrk was burned down by the
, riOters in July, "a. Fired by the holy
zeal which animated the mob that Vir-
r ginian Andrews led Gen. Fullerton de-
I creed the destruction Of the NeW-Orleans
g charities Ho vldered the orphans to be
apprenteed. What apprenticeship means in
|, Louisiana may be judged from the applica.
tions of the old Shareholders for "nice fat
, nggor girls" and for little nggers TO black
boots and do dirty work around the yards
may be- Judged also from the fact that these un-
grateful orphans, nsensible to the attractions of
The future thus opened before them, actually
, ran away from the asylums TO escape the ap-
( prcnticeshp. Finally, il may be Judged from
, the order of Gen. Candy who, on learning OF
the edict which Cen Fullerton had issued,
countomanded it, partly on the ground that
the asylums which the Commissioner was
so eager TO suppress, did not lie uader the juris-
! diction of the Frccdmen's Bureau, being in
charge Of two different philanthropic associa.
tions at the North Gen. Fullerton had not
/ thought It worth while TO consult the agents OF
+ these associations before undoing the result. OF
their patient and benevolent work.
{ Next, Gen. Fullerton issued an order to The
+ police to arrest all unemployed colorcd people
p in the city. Under this order, says the account
I from which we quote, more men and women
wero arrested in one day than during the three
/ months preceding. Colored troops who the
day before were mustered out OF the army after
d having served three years were arrested and
Z borne through the streets by the police. La
. borers on their way home from the eyee whcr,
Y they had loaded cotton all day long wcr,
b matched up and carried of, in some instance.
b chained together. This order also Gen
Y Fullerton was forced to revoke. vet hc
did not go without his reward fol
c having issued it. A Il token of gratitude and
respect for his efforts in their behalf the "old
/ citizens meaning not loyal blacks. but Rebel
or at least Reconstructed, whitcS-tendercd then
protector dinner. Whether Gen. Fullerton
did or did not eat his dinner, history strangely
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