The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-28
THE SOUTH.
THE SOUTH.
Startling State Of Things in
Mississippi. ~ -
The Freedmen Still RfaGli-
Cally KnSlaVed.
Corruption and PfO-slsFeFy
Feelfng In the Freed bee , !. .
h'D91 ', mans Bureau. o. agssi
Redshuasnilted r Rebels KDiTpRsibnlt-, 1KIiTRe iblt
Red;hIlaanlide Ila ed Rebels Appoint
ed Treasury Agents. -oa

,Tspe<id Core pondence Of the Cleveland Lsader ]
ABERDEEHT Miss September IA.
To day for the first time since I left
Nashville I saw q man who tells me he is
going till he finds apOstofcep and promises
to take this letter. Therei are no mail ia
cllities sstaI lshed YET south of the Memphis.
and Charleston road, except on the hissis-f
sippi river, consequently one would know
az much of the outside world, and have as
free communication with 1t, in the remotest
end Of the Emperor of Dahomey's
Kingdom as in the interior Of
Mississippi, II fact I think the
two countries are very much alike in
more than shis one particular, and I would
state my reasons here did 1 not respect his
sable majesty, over the water, too much to
insult him. 7'i''' 3
TIE EPKoPLE-cRokKERs - sl'l
The crOskar family have existed since
the beginning of the world, and have left
their mark on every page Of human history
from the day when their common father
persuaded Eve that she was q very ifl:ussd
woman, in the garden Of Eden, down to the
latest .aanifvsto of Henry s. FoOte seeking
to convince us that We are on thevergs Of
ruin whenever we fail TO heed and follow
his multiform suggestions as to public
and private conduct. These people are
never satisfied, and never believe in any
thing. When they look st the sun they
detect imperfections on its disc, and while
listening to their lucubrations- on Shings ia
general one is well-nigh amazed that they
should not have been consulted by the
powers that be in reference to the creation
Of the universe. The South, 90 far as my
observation has extended, is unfortunately
filed up with these bemoaning wretcbes,
who still have power to intermeddle with
the progress of the present hour, and an
noy it as gnAts, CAD flies, and mosquitoes
are permitted to worry the gallant the steed
that still presses onward with his burden
unmipdful Of their attacks. These croakers
will relate to you the fearful losses they
have sustained by the war, with faces
as long IS "a Lincoln flag pole,
but when you ask them who
appropriated their money, lands, stock or
cotton; "Oh,E they reply, e'Our loss is all in
the nigger-our only dependenee.5 Bat
you have three or foar, thousand acres OF
the bestland in the world to live on. nYes
but We can't make anything" meaning
they are unable to raise crop. Then they
pucker up their mouths and she1the needy
tear over their own real or imaginary mis-
fortunes, while in bygone. times they only
had the lash and carse fer their fellow
creatures, for whose liberty they now in.
vits consolation but stubbornly refuse to be
comforted 1t is of no avail to tell them
they are better off now than ever before,
for they insist that their lot is the focus Of
all human misery, and it is stupid or IN
feeling in any one TO imagine that there
can be reiet in store for them. They sre]
not bitter or reyengeful, but it il apparent
enough that their proud, sristocratie, i'm,
perious spirit is unbrekeD, and theysubmit to
the inevitable consequences of their folly,
5-t - as DIoVe men, but as whining misers. /
W hOS -ses n theea NH f4Ifsht, ifhai lhatt1as
OF the south, but the wealthy planters who
chiefly sustained the rebellion by their aid
and countensnce. They are the abisct ones
now who were more than Kings, in small
way few years since. f' ~ s1slih o~