The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-06

public trial before some fairly constrrot.a al
honorable court. This letter, open. was en-.
closed in one to Gen. VIM. Birge. comrc"rSs 81.
at Savannah, to be delivered or returned ~ *
might think advisable and surely in this trsns e
action at least there Is nothing to DAMAGE Pr
vate O'Greely in the Judgment OF any Candid
or compassionate censors.
Justice and Truth to the south.
The jackson, Mise. correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, hitherto conservative
Republican sheet, tells the truth and does ms
tice to the Sonth, while exposing the lies and
exaggerations which prevail IN the Northern
Black Republican organs, in letter from
which we make the following extracts:
1t is an opinion very widely spread and per-
sistently adhered 70, that in the present order
OF things. the vast majority Of the people of
the south are exerting their highest energies
towards harnssing, defrauding, and in every
way depressing the freedman. On the other
hand, there Is corresponding impression pre-
vaning mat the unfortunate negro is every
where 10 the country, covering, timid and
helpless. fleeing naked and hungry from the
terrors OF the lash, or else huddled together In
the cities, herded together in filthy quarters
and subsisting on Government rafioms or m,
the ephemeral wages earned from petty Jobs
done here and there, with naught before them
i 1 the wmter out starvation and death. So
dimccult Is 1t, so impossible is it, for the MAS
OF the people to form correct impressions of a
distant country which they know only Through
the columns of a newspaper. confess with-
out hesitation, that shared these distorted
notions to greater extent than would will
ingly make known. before had seen the &C.
Qualities for myself do not speak Of other
States than Mississippi, nor Of other cities
than Jackson, but Of those things that have
taken place here, and in small surroundine
territory. II speak that which do know"
am well aware that It L. not fashionable to
write as have about these matters, but can
not understand why should write part of
the truth and not the whole. In the name Of
justice protest that we of the North should
not allow ourselves to believe that the South.
works of the devil, without conscience or re-
straint. Let rs have fair understanding of
the matter, and knowledge that We both
North and South, are descended from one man.
Adam, whose first-boTn son killed his second.
both OF them having, in all probability, good.
white skins. The fmbruting effect which Ella.
very and unrestrained domination of one hu-
man being over another, has bad upon the
minds and morals of shareholders, do not for
q moment overlook; but 1t is curious, and
certainly not very fattering to Northern hu.
mainly, to observe how soon some of our Off
GERS fall into modes of thought and action very
much resembling those of our erring. broth.
1t ought to be understood, for the Guidance
OF all, and for the avoidance of numerous mis-
takes, that the negro is child; thoroughly,
and in all his ways, child. To regard him as
such, and treat him as such, for the present Is
the surest guarantee of his welfare Iinsist
upon it, from the observations hove taken
upon various grades of society here, that the
planters, IS body, regard him as such, but
their great fault is that they entertain no ex-
pectation of, and make no provision for. bis
growth. Whatever may be said by casual OBJ
servers and superficial reasoners, however hon
estly, am persuaded that O majority Of the
planters treat their former slaves kindly; treat
them as children whom the chances Of war
have unfortunately turned adrift, into posi-
ton Of hopelessness and dependence. They
have frequently spoken. to me of their freed
men with sentiments Of undisguised pity and
especially is this true of the wives of wealthy
planters, who had in their houses from five to
twelve house-servants, whom they have brought
up around them, and between whom and their |
mistress there is often genuine reciprocal at
tachment. As general rule it Is not the for
mer large slave-owners, or their wives, who
abuse and harass the unfortunate freedmen,
but rather the poor, ignorant and unre.soning |
men of the streets, or the "poor white trash"
of the country, who have an inssne dread and
adherence of negro equality. They cannot
have greater adherence of this equality than
their richer and better-informed neighbors, but
they do not understand so well how impossL
BILE 1t is 10 make perfect social equality, and
how improbable it is that they will attain legal
equality, and consequently allow their preiu-
dices and hate to overbalance that sentiment of
pity which the planters have not wholly lost
One not accustomed to Southern ways would
expect, after hearing many planters bewaa
ton of their farms, and bezate the aithless,
thievish idle, goodfor.nOthing niggers, which
it was his hard lot to be compelled to keep in
indolence-I say he would expect, as soon as
he was out of sight, to hear Of him driving
them all violently from his door. What does
he doa He goes out among them, showering
upon them all an out-pouring of good-natured
curses, at which the negroes grin before his
eyes and 90 about their pleasure.
The Southern people are habitual scOlas;
they have become so by habit and the negroes
understand it. IA slothful servant is like smoke
to the eyes" is the substance of what the wise
man once wrote, and the South is an illustra-
ton of it to-day. When the negroes were
slaves their masters were too INDECENT to teach
them good habits, and they now curse and
seold them for their bad ones. There Is o re-
prOachfulness of speech which means the OPP
posite of what it says, rs when doting parents
employ upon their offspring the epithets
''rogue." rascal, scamp" &c. The rebukes
administered by the wrathful planter are gene
rally about as harmless as the terrible parental
anathemas conveyed in the above words.
Reapins the Trusts.
A writer in the Atlanta, Georgia, Intel
hgencer, who has been through Louisiana
and Virginia since the close ofthe war says:
In Louisiana received calls from families
who, before the war, had rolled in wealth and
Misunderstanding horses and car7iages-com.
ing to me now In q cart drawn by mule. 60
poor az to be unfit to steal Thus came refined
and educated ladies. with the same ease and
elegance of manners Of their better days. Say.