The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-11-01
Excellent Advice to the Freedmen.

equally indiscreet produced general feeling of alarm
in those parishes where the colored residents outnum
Der the whites. Under this state of circumstances
petition wassen to Gov Wells and Gen. Candy for such
relief the circumstances admitted of Previous to the
publication of this petition, assistant Con
way made his final address to the freedmen OF this State
in circular No % in order correct the evils attend
ing the belief now almost universal among the freedmen
of the State that the government Is going to DIVIDE up
the greater portion of the abandoned land in its pos
session to them and that the government will furnish
all necessary tools farming implements, ANIMALS, food
and all other necessary means for the production OF
crops and in order to convince them that VIII pc 10
their interest to make agreements with all who offer
them fair wages and good treatment
On our first page this morning will be found Gen;
Fullerton's address s'to the freedmen of LOUISIANA
and the advice he gives them IS SO timely ana sanitary
that it cannot fail to recommend itself to the approval
OF every unprejudced mind Throughout the state II
will cause thrill of grateful satisfaction Seeing the
menacing attitude which the recently emanclpated ne
groes occupied the planters became dsheartened ana
dstrustfu The present to them was full OF dseour-
agement the future rife with doubt. Those officials
who had been entrusted by the government with the
management Of the freedmen took prejudice to their
counsel and sowed the ares of hostility instead OF the
good seed of kindness and concation Impressed with
the idea that hey had become the master through
out the south the negroes became insolent and over
bearing Having the bayonet in their hands they, as
the Rev. commissioner Callahan ndlscreety admitted,
presumed to give law to their former masters and IN
this they were encouraged by that foolish few who CON
cuded that they could make the negro stepping
10 political power and were willing to sacrhce every!
thing to consnmmation 50 inglorlous
more unsatisfactory state of affairs could not well
be imagined. Though the planters had returned IA
good faith to their allegiance they were unwilling 10
accept he bayonet in the hands Of the negro their
only law, and their hesitancy i'll this respect was re-
ported against them disloya(ty of the most deep
seated character.
To heal these difficulties Gen. Fullerton has come
amongus with ample power and detern inaon to act IN
such would vndcae at once the rights OF the
people and the magnanimity OF the government HIS
add ess to the freedmen is important step in the
correction of abuses He tells the negroes that the
government has set them free and will protect them IN
their freedom but 'it will do nothing more The land
which white people had purchased and paid for IS not
to be distributed among the freedmen. IheY must re-
cognise that imperative law pronounced III Eden mat
must live by work. that bread is the reward Of tol
And lest this might not be sfhcient f0f people 50
ready to be deceived in matter which promises them
such advantages the general adds: But II you do not
work of your own accord, or II the law cannot coPe
YOU to work then you must leave the country and the
rood opportunities that you have OF gaming llv
ing and making yourselves independent VIII De given
to deserving persons ADVISE you aii 70 return
to your old plantations, where you have been kihdiy
treated for there you known and there you can
get better wages.
Such counsel from such source is likely to have
some weight with the deceived people TO whom 1t 5 ad-
dressed IF they wish to secure for themselves posi-
ton of manly independence they must seek 1T IN peace
full labor not by armed force The problem before
them NAV be difficult but its successful solution the
whole future of their depends. To live with the
white man terms Of freedom they must cultivate the
white mans friendships if they array themselves in
deadly hostility they have been advised to do by the
false prophets that have gone among them they viii
carve out for themselves Il destiny dark the shades
of night. New Orleans Times.
President JOHNSON on JouS BRowN,-Sone of our
readers will doubtless readily recall the alusion senator
Sumner recently made in his last speech, to the hu
manitv of John Brown; in which he poinedly called
attention to the fact that he carried negro child IN his
arms on the day he mounted the scatfod. Now this
address was made with the ostensbe purpose of
dorsing president Johnson. We have before us
snrecb that the president himself made about John
Brown and we quote from it. to show his views OF the
so-called humanitarian:
Three months after VIM Doyle and his two sons were
murdered his skull cut open in two places, and the
stream had washed the blood out of his cranam-three
months after that John Browns killed at 0ssa-
watomie. Then, what becomes of this excuse2 Why
this aDoopv for man like this? Three months after
he had committed this fendish act his lost his life
at the battle of 0ssaWa0mie. 1t was on this night,
about II o'clock as testified by Mrs Doyle, testified
by her son, as testified by@r Halrs--these men lnno-
cent unofendiug men-were taken out and IN the mid
night hour and the forest, and the roadside fell
victims to the nsatiae thirst of John Brown for blood
Then it that those murders committed; that
hell entered his heart not the iron of his soul Then 1t
was that he shrank from the dimensions OF human
beng into those of areptlle Then was ltno before,
that he changed his character to demon who had lost
all the virtues of And you talk about sympathy
for John Brown!
John Brown stands before the country murderer.
The enomity, the extraordinary erocousness Of the
father set the son mad The blood of these murdered
men-not unlike that of the sacrificed Abel-cried even
from the tongueess of the earth to him for pity
and heaven TOR justice, but his IRON neaft, not SOUL
refused to yed but heaven in the process Of time has
meted out to him justice the galloWs. Justice divine
to punish SIM moves slow--the slower the pace, the
surer its blow. it will overtake if living it will
orcrtakc if dead Justice has overtaken its victim
and he has gone to eternity with crmsoned hands with
blood upon his head.
ssBut The senator talks about the school in which John
Brown was taught. Why, sir John Brown, according
to his own confession had entertained these ideas oI
twenty years John Brown did not go to Kansas to &C
( to school He went there as teacher the 24th Q
mid -bptrr pf nIfrbt rOT
the mother he dragged the husband and two sons, ant
imbrued his hands in their blood. These were the doc
lincs that he went there to teach He did not go ther
70 be taught, but he went there as teacher. 1hes
were his teachings. Imagine the cries and lamenta
tons on the hand and the shreks OF the dying ant
nutilated on the other | think sometimes that hea
shrieks, so loud so clear, that listening angel
stoop from heaven to hear. This Is the man for whom
an apology is offered.
1t can now be seen how much sympathy there is be
tween the president and the leader of the party that
his political meetings, always sings John Brown sou
I is marching on"
WM. b. Asron-Ilow liz ENJors HIS WEALTH
! New York correspondent gives the following brle
sketch of the habits of the wealthy William b. Astor:
No bank clerk on the salary Of $1,000 year goes t
his bank as regularly works many hours, as WI
liam b. Astor, who counts up his $40o0Vo0o ms ntt
one story office, step two from Broadway on trlmc
street, with its iron bars, making 1t resemble Pohc
nrison is the den where he performs his daily toll, ant
out of all his wealth and labor gets only ms yctuai
knows every 5ar Of rent income tbat is 9sess
due pays outeycry dollar, makes his entries in his
hand aud oblgcs his subordlnates to come to him f0
information while he does not 60 to them. he gener
ally comes down in the omnibus at early hour in h
dav and remains closely absorbed in business until
O'Clock He rarely takes exercise, and finds his pleas
ure in the closest attention to business. friend 0
mine rode to Washington with him in the cal
from New ork He neither spoke got out Of scat
and hardly moved from Jersey City to Washington
He usually leaves his Office at O'Clock, and walks
slowly up Broadway to Lafayette place He is over si1
feet high, heavily built, with decided German look
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