La sentinelle de Thibodaux. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1861-1866, 1865-10-21
RATES or ADVFRTISING.

tDpass n Inv for the governments Of the
blacks, DO not doubt. Laws must be
pass, for the maintenance Of the old and
infrm and for the support and education
| of the young. That issoIated cases of
| injustice in the treatment Of the blacks
| will occur, | do not doubt! that some
unwise laws may be passed, is not improb-
| able put / am confident less Injustice
Twill be~done tile blacks as well as the
whites, if the matter is left in the hands
Iof these most deeply Interested. The
flabor Of the black man is an absolute
necessity in every Southern State. Now
that he Is free, self-interest will prompt
1.-THE. men Of the South to endeayor to make
him cheerful and willing laborer.
THE FREEDMEN's BUREAU OUGHT TO Els.
| .ABOLIsHED.
Having acknowledged his freedom, hu-
mani y patriotism and self-interest will
| combine to induce the Statesmen of the
South, to adopt such laws with reference.
to the negro as will be best calculated to
promote his interest and the interests of
the society. But.suppose that distrusting
the Southern people, we take into our own
hands the appalling task of regulating
the relations between the employer and
employ ee-the task of providing for the
| INDECENT educating the young and COM
pelling all to labor who are able but indis-
posed to do so. Aside from the heavy
burdens it will impose upon us-,aside
! from the contentious and bitterness to
which it will give rise in Congress and
among onr people, shall we not be likely
to commit as many errors--fo .perpetrats
as many acts Of Injustice as would bv
perpetrated under the State authorities.
Look at the working Of the institution,
now in operation for regulating the affairs
| of the freedmen.
You often read accounts i'm the news
papers es to the condition Of the affairs
iii certain localities. You are informed
about the prosperous condition of few
schools established for the benefit Of me-
gro children; of the readiness with which
they learn their letters, and Of the ardor
with which they sing patriotic airs. Ac-
cording to some of these accounts the
negro children are far superior to our
own; they mutter the alphabet in their
sleep and spend most of their waking
hours IN invoking blessings on the hsad
Of Gen. Sexton and other distinguished
public men. 10 many presume this is
pleasant reading matter, and it may serye
to convince some people that the great
problem is already solved; that through
the efforts Of Saxton and his co-laborers
four millions of ignorant and degraded be-
ings are to be suddenly elevated, and to
become educated, refined and patriotic
members of society.
You seldom hear of the numerous cases
where the freedmen have laid claim to the
lands of their former. masters, and have
quietly informed them that they held title
under the United States Government, and
have persistenly refused to do anything
but eat, letter and sleep. They fail to fell
YOU If the cases where, just us the harv-
est was to commence, every hand has sud-
denly disappeared from the place. leaving
the labors of year to decay in the field.
They fail to tell you, of great bands OF CO.
lored people who leave their former homes
and congregate in the cities and Villages
or settle on plantation without permis-
sion from the owner, seeking only food
and utterly careless of the future. On the
very day THAT left Vicksburg q poor wo-
man came to me with n complaint that Mt
least fifty negroes, not one Of whom ssho
had ever before seen, had settled on her
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had laid aside for winter use.
D. Our sympathies are due to the white MS
well as to the black race, though we have
no constitutional right to control either.
The difficulties surrounding this question
can only be met and overcome by practi-
cal men. Ii is an easy matter to theroize
ON the subject: to point out the evils
likely to result from The policy Of tho
President, but it will be found far moro
difficult to suggest any other method not /
likely to result iii still greater evils.
General Howard, who stands at the
head Of the Freedmen's Bureau, is man
Of great purity Of character, and will
never sustain system which he does not
think productive of good, and yet, utter :
carefully observing the operations of that
Bureau, I am convinced that more good
than evil will result from perpetuating IT
after the States have adopted constitia-
tions prohibiting slavery.
Lin my remarks upon the Bureau, do
not wish to reflect upon any one of the
officers connecteds with it, Generally
they are, earnest and sinesre men, and
are doing all in their power to make it
successful. It's of the system speak
| contend that it is utterly foreign 20 the
principles by which our people have heen
governed, that it cannot continue. hayo
Become fully convinced that the policy
adopted by the President Of leaving 80
the respective States the entire control of
their local affairs is che only safe policy
that can be adopted.
THE MISSISSIPPI MILITIA--HE ADVOCATES
THE pIsBANDMENT OF ALL TIE UNITED
STATES TROOPS NOW I'm THE STATE.
d In responee to an application for In
structions as to the jurisdiction Of militia
rys tribunals, / received from the War
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