The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-20
The Negro at the South.
A Lifelike Picture Drawn by the
Loyal Governor BrOyynlOSv of Ten.
nessee...Enect of Ra deal Teaching
POrtrayed.-.NegrO Troops Must De
Withdrawn.

Loyal Governor BfOWuloW "a VII
nessee...Enect Of Ra deal Teaching
POrtrayed...Negro Troops Must bt
Withdrawn.
From Brown'ow' Wing of the 27th nit
Thousands of free coored persons are con-
prepating in and around the large towns III
Tennessee, and thousands are coming In IRON
other States, one third of whom cannot ges
employment Indeed. less than one-thiro
want employment. or feel willing to sloop "
work. They entertain the erroneous luea tnaC
the government is bound TO supply al Ineir
wants. and even 20 furnish them with houses,
if in order to do that the while occupants
must be turned out. There is large demand
for labor in every section OF the State' out Inc
cOlored people, with here anu .Eeio IT,, ss
exception, scOrn the idea OF WORK. 1hey hd-
die and dance at night and lie round the stores
and street corners in the day time. And some
of the indiscreet teachers of negroes from the
North who know nothing OF the negro char
acter, have been known TO tell them not to
in their heads of abolition, they advise the
simple and credulous negro to life of pre-
carious subsistence, Of idleness and dancing,
and of crowding into towns to be educated,
in preference to good wages and comfortable
homes in the country. If some great change
is not made when winter comes on, and if the
military force is withdrawn, as they will be,
tality among them.
SUFFRAGE AND sUFFERANCE.
There is bad state of feeling now between
them and the whites, and it is daily growing
more bitter. Many of the negroes are insult
ing the white females who never owned any of
their color and never did them any wrong.
They frequently elbow unprotected white wO.
men off our narrow pavements and curse white
women passing them just to show their au-
thority. Others are swearing on the streets,
and we have heard them say that they will
clear out the id town! And still another
class will say that if they are not allowed their
rights at the ballot-box they will resort to the
cartrdge-boX. And they swear they will be
backed up by the Government.
As one desiring the welfare OF the colored
people, they will permit me to say they can't
drive the legislature of Tennessee into confer
ring upon them the elective franchise. They
this direction, deprive themselves of any such
privilege, so far as Tennessee is concerned.
The Federal Government has no right to con.
troll the suffrage question in Tennessee. And
the great Union party of the nation will have
more sense than to attempt to control the
question by Congressional legislation.
THE TOWNS TO BE CLEARED.
General Tilson, at Memphis, has determined
that he will compel the free people of color
to leave the city and surrounding towns, even
if their removal requires military force. He
has sent a patrol through the city to learn who
have employment and who have not, and to
notify them that no further supplies will be
furnished to those that can support themselves
and refuse to do so. At Memphis they have
been contracting for wages and becoming dis
satisfied, break their contracts and leave off
abruptly. Gen. Tilson has notified them that
this will not be allowed, that they must make
On0d their contracts and that no will mol
them to work at the rates and places agreed
upon.
rank Gen. Tilson among the best men we
ever had in command at Knoxville, and am
pleased to find that he is still showing his good
sense and love Of justice at Memphis. We lack
such d. G Zine among the colored people in
this enc .. me State, and I hope it will not be
long until more rigid regulations are adopted
by the Commissioners of Freedmen, who, as
understand it, have control of this branch of
affairs. There is no better man in the service
than Gen. Fisk, and If he fails to do bis whole
duty, it will be because his headquarters are at
a distance, and he is not posted as to the
state of things here and along the line of this
road.
EAST TENNESSEE AND THE DARK1Es.
President johnson will remove all the troops
from East Tennessee before great while, and
thecolored people, as well as the whites, will
have to take care of themselves. A portion of
them know and feel assured they will be
industrious and quiet citizens, providing for
themselves ard families. The great majority
of them will not, and will get into trouble
many Of them will break into the penitentiary!
They will fail by their threats of violence 70
accomplish any good. and he is their best
friend who advises against this course of con-
duct. Colored soldiers in Federal uniforms,
with guns in their hands, must not suppose
that East Tennesseeans will be inundated by
them, or suffer their families to be abused.
know these people, and know they will
not submit to be run over by negro soldiers.
And knowing this l desire to keep down any
conflict between the races. The East Tennes-
ace troops, who have fought three dreadful
wears to free the negroes, and get the privilege
Of coming back to their old and cherished
homes are not the men TO he run over by col
ored soldiers who came into the fight at the
eleventh hour. And those who have the I'm.
mediate control OF The colored troops, and are
i'm daily conversation with them, may as well
understand this fact at once.
WHITE AND BLACK RIGHTS.
LOYAL men in East Tennessee concede to the
colored people their freedom, and the right IL
tpioy ali they eau make. or even realize from
The aid of the Government, and the still fur.
tner privilege of educating their children; bu,
III, are not prepared to see all their churches
and school houses turned over to them and
the innocent white people OF Union parents
who never owned any slaves, denied houses o.
worship and houses in which TO attend scnooi
because few impudent teachers, upstart:
from the North, out of any employment, have
conceived the idea of immortalizing the negro:
There are those of us Eere, claiming to be OF
the side of the Union. who still think, not
withstanding the result of the war, that TIT
white child is as good as q black one!
There are those of us here, ON the side of thu
Union, who do not recognize the right of thu
Government, after emancipating the negroes
of Union men, t. take their lands anG property
rs a punishment for having owned slaves
There are those of us here canning lha, Their,
is no discount upon our Uniolism who dom
recognize the right OF captain or Lieutenant
in command of colOred troops, upon the rep
resentation of a negro of bad character ar
resting respectable loyal white men with negrt
bayonets, and marching them from one count,
m another tor trial, when their condemnation
has heen agreed upon in advance! And Their,
aro thousands of true hearted Union citizen