The Shasta courier., 1865-09-23
Nursin e Mischief.

Eastern newspapers and kilograms tell us
that all is quiet at the South, that the
negroes are well treated BIZ their former own
ers, and that all are reconciled to the new
order of things. This is no doubt true in
some localities; in others, and perhaps in
the main, it is false. Even where this gen
eral acquiesence is chronicled it is in many
instances only seeming. 1t is hard. almost
impossible, to imagine so speedy and quiet
submission to the changed condition of affairs
IN the States where so lately owner and
chattel were the relations in which the two
races stood to each other. 1t is not in the
nature OF the late masters to regard their
serts OF yesterday as their equals of to-day
Ihe semblance of yielding all their former
preJudlccs is assumed for a motive, and that
motive is to cause the withdrawal of the
National troops from the States recently in
rebellion; when the pro-slavcry portion of
the white population fatter themselves they
can deal with freedmen as suits their own
purpose. Notwithstanding their dissem-
bilng this motive occasionally crops out. In
certain sections of Alabama the planters cir
cudated the report that President johnson
had revoked the Emancipation Proclamation,
and proceeded to treat the negroes as slaves.
The interposition of an agent of the Freed
mems Bureau put things to rights, and
thereby prevented serious trouble with the
negroes. North Carolina has had the reputa-
ton of being rather conservative during the
late rebellion yet General Fitzpatrick, who
has recently been travelling through that
State, has written to one Of its prominent
citizens, in which he expresses as his opinion
that reconstruction there, as well as in the
remainder of the South, has been commenced
at least four years too soon. He is repre-
sented as :tating it as his belief that tie
majority of the people Of that section are not
to be trusted, and will. as soon as they re-
gain their lost political power, commenc a
persecution of all Union men, as well as the
negroes, eHdeavor to re-enslave the latter,
and, in conjunction with the Copperheads of
the North, attempt to secure a reputation of
the national debt and ultimately MAKE
another desperate effort to effect their separa-
ton from the Union. The bitter feeling
against their late slaves is inherent in South
ern nature and cannot be eradicated during
this generation. - suppose you think you
are as free as anybody" said a South
Carcl.nan, recently, to a former slave. g
suppose | am as free as anybody" quietly
answered the negro whereupon the former
severed the freedman's jugular with bowie
knife. Such feeling on the part of the
ultra people, if acted out, can bear but one
fruit-it must ultimately result in violence,
bloodshed and ali the horrors Of negro in-
surrection. This mornings dispatches
mention an armed mob of negroes a trifing
affair, ii is true, but it is very suggestive on
two points that those concerned should heed
the infamability of the negro element
and, that the power which now shields the
black man from outrage is the only power
capable of yielding full protection to the
whites in the existing state of things Had
the Bee an extensive circulation in the dis
loyal States, it would warn this faction of
mischief seekers Of the danger Of their
course but as it has not, it merely refers to
the matter as one Of the indications Of the
course of events, that after the events al
luded to have transpired- oppression and
tyranny must invariably provoke retaliation
-sympathizers with treason and slavery in
our midst may not point TO it as the work OF
. Northern fanatics" but as the legitimate
result Of the conduct Of the mischief breeders
of the Suuth.-Bee
GENERAL CoNNoR WHIrs THE INDIANS