The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-12-12

the officer who writes us has the reputation of
being highly conscientious; but it is rather
with the tendency, than the intention-thc CT
forts, than the purposc-of acts that VIC havo
concern. When blown to the winds of heaven
by the projects of some simple engineer, it is
of little alienation to our sufcrings to learn
that that was not his object; and again to be
instructed in the oft repeated lesson that the
heaviest calamitios of life may como not from
its crimes.
But we have failed to see that such is not
tho tendency of even that organization. We
arc referred to the orders of tho I'd instant
1t had been more to the credit of that body if
that order had been published sooner. We
arc referred to public addresses to tho frood-
men. There are some of the public speeches
to freedmen, and from officers of that bureau,
that would not stand the test of criticism, and
it had been better for the unhappy victims of
that oratory to havo been spared its inspira-
tions We are told the whole burden of
orders of late, rs we'll as verbal instructions,
why, then, do they not contract? Under
whose influence are they, but of these friends
of freedmen, either in or out of the Freedmen's
Bureau? Why is it that planters who never
locked their doors at night, now hesitate to
visit their places? Why, to those long exiled
from their places On Edisto-the account of
whose visit is published in another column
was there the common response that they
would not work under their former masters?
Is this repugnanco of their own nature? 1t
was not SO before the intervention of others:
negroes had SO much confidence in no others
as those they had always known us masters
Isit from the conduct of their former owners?
These had not been permitted to SEQ them
before. Or if it be intended to assume that
it is the purpose af the Freedmen's Bureau, in
good faith, to encourage the restoration of re-
latons between freedmen and their former
owners, why is it that these orders were not
published sooner? Why have owners not been
permitted sooner to revisit their estates upon
the seaboard? Why, when it was intended
to give opportunities to owners to visit Edsto,
was not more than ono days notice given?
Despite the apparent fairness of the Freed
mems Bureau, it is still responsible for much
that has occurred, and is justly liable to the
censure due to the result, if not the purpose
OF want of concurrence between the whites
and blacks in the labor of our country. They
have surrendered lands, claimed to be aban
doned, to just claims, with reluctance; they
have interposed their claim to hold lands,
taken as abandoned, Notwithstanding the par
don of the President; they have forbornc to
recognize tho right to reclamation of lands
upon the islands and the adjacent main, until
forced to make it, and they make it with re-
luctance, and the interposition of every incon-
venient form and rcquisition. An officer of
this organization, high in this State, has
declared his conviction of the propriety, and
his wish, that the lands should be divided be-
tween the whites and blacks
The purpose, therefore, is declared, in terms
and by necessary implication, that there shall
DO lands reserved, to some extent, for the
exclusive occupation Of the blacks; that it is
not intended, therefore, that there shall be
further necessary dependence between the
races for support; and whether, under the
influence of this course and purpose, or by
more direct teachings, tie negroes have come
to the common belief that they are to be cared
for that they are to have some better state
provided than they can find with white pro-
prietors; and that they should not be inclined
to enter such relations, or accept of such SER
vice. The suggestion, therefore, is not without
warrant, even with respect to that bureau, that
they may have other objects for the negro; that
it is not, in perfect faith, their purpose to re-
store him to the felos of former owners; that
there is some other Eutopia of which he is the
fitting colonist; that he mny not, even if he
would, forego the opportunities of that, bright
destiny to the meaner labors necessary to
subsistence; und that he must live or die.
inexorably, to the realization of that bright
idea by which it has been determined that his
fortunes or his fate shall be Illuminated.
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We HAD HOPED, by the first of this month,
to make the promised enlargement of The
DAILY News, but owing to our disappoint-
ment in receiving q supply of necessary mate
rial, we have been unable to do SO.
On the first of January, however,, THE
NEWS will make its appearance in its new
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