Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-28

The. President, in his dispatch to Mr.
HuMPHREYs, Governor elect Of Missis-
sippi, which was printed in the REPrbLi-
CAS- of Saturday last, informs the people of
that. State that they will be required to
adopt measures giving protection in persOn
and property to all freedmen and freemen
without regard to color How timely and
necessary this admonition was may be judged
from careful reading of the bill recently
enacted in that State for the protection y
Of freedmen. Bearing in mind that the
noIicy of the Government has been from the
first to induce these people to enter into
agricultural operations on their own account,
AS owners or lessees, and the efforts Of the
Freedmen's Bureau have been constantly
directed to the object of encouraging them
in this direction, the first section Of the bill
reads little curiously. 1t is as follows:
That all Freedmen, free negroes aud mulattoes
NAV sue and be sued, implead aud be impleadcd
in all the courts Of law and equity Of this State,
and may acquire personal property and chooses
in action, by descent or purchase, and may dis
pose Of the same In the same manner aud to the
same extent that white persons may: PrOpitted,
That the provisions OF this section shall not be
80 construed as to allow any freedman, free ne.
gro or mulattO to rent or lease any lands or ten
ements, except in Incorporated towns or cities,
in which places the corporate authorities shall
control the same.
Which is simply a declaration that no per
son of color shall ever become an employer
his family even, in that branch Of industry in
which the great mass Of them have always
been-and in which from the nature of the
country they must continue to be mainly
engaged. No matter how thrifty, how in
dustrious, how successful he may be, he shal
never, as owner or as tenant, cultivate al
acre of cotton land, or even garden spot
save as the serf of white man. Servant
Of servants shall he be-"
We continue: Section five provides that thu
colored man or woman shall, on the secOnC
Monday of January next, and annually there
after, have constantly with him written eyi
dence, in the shape Of q license from tn
mayor of a town, II he shall be denizel
therein, or from policeman Of his neighbor
hood, If he reside in the country, authoriE
ing him or her to do irregular job-work, or
written contract with some employer. IL h
~ deserts that is the W0rd-duriDg MS con
tract term-and the term is something b,
has nothing to do with, being established b,
law-any white loSfer can earn Ave dollar
and ten cents per mile travelling expenses b,
arresting him. 1t does not appear that tn,
Arresting white man is under any obligation
TO provide himself with license, or 20 wea
A collar or to be muzzled. But the case o
people who attempt to induce the cOlore'
people TO leave the delicious State of Mssis
sippi is thus happily attended to;
SIC, 0, Be R further enacted, That II SOy per
sou hall persuade, or shall attempt to persuade
'rt,, , % desert from the legal employment
SHw S,IT sep.op before the expiration Of hi: or h
SsT,o rof service, or shall knowingly employ an an
such desertipg frSsdman, free negro or mlAS y,
or shall knowingly give " 'sn !" NY VIVA "