The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-10-12
AlstellanrUns.
Poor Whites South.

The Freedman's Bureau has charge |
not only of tho freedmen but of the
white refugees Of the South--a very nu-
nerous as we'll as very ignorant class.
In Nashville, lately, says a correspond
ent of the New York Times, two female
refugees (white) appeared at Genera
Fisk's headquarters for transportation.
One Of them exhibited proper proof of
merit, and obtained the ticket. The
other stated her case, but was refused.
She was highly incensed at the out
rage of a refusal She said: GIVE bin
a refugee longer'n that are woman,
and I'm titled to it more'n she is. My
husbands bin ded four years, and I've
got eleven little children to support
Eff you uns don't want to gin me trans
fortation, go to hell with it," The Cen
eral observed a three.months old baby
in her arms, and remembered that her
husband had been dead four years. On
this natural phenomenon he questioned
her. She had a ready reply in expla-
nation, stating that SO many of them
had to live in the same house, and this
,oas because of the aoari These Wretched
and vicious white people have no con-
ception of honesty. They bring their
produce into Nashville for thirty or
forty miles, on the train, and then 60
in rags and filth to headquarters for
"transfertatlon home as tefugees. Fin
route here, man was found at Muir.
freesboro who had sold his whiskey sa-
! loon in Nashville for $1,000, then OBJ.
tanned transportation for himself, wife,
and seven children as a refugee. A
crippled soldier of the Union would
j have been compelled to pay eight cents
, mile for riding the same ride.
1t is not, however, in transportation
r alone where the greatest evil exists.
Hundreds of thousands of white people
throughout the South are subsisting
upon the daily rations of Uncle Sam
:, !, at an enormous expense. Rations arr
:, often issued to the women and children
whom they obtain transportation, inse
y much as they present themselves in {
most destitute condition. A family o.
} a dozen will start from indianapolis
: and be three months getting to Georgia
riding and subsistiug at the Govern.
" ment's expense. First they will claim
70 Louisville as their home; thence tc
y Lexington; thence back to Louisville
y thence to some other place in Ken
!, tucky; and little by little they vii
work their way into Dixie. All thi
% support furnished them being the chari
!, ty of the Government, not a great des
- of proof of Identification has been re
quired. Wan and haggard womer
covered with rags and filth, with an in
, fant at the breast, and dozen greas
" and dirty little "innocent pratters' i
y train, would approach the bureau of
~ GERS with piteous statements of suffe
W ing and rebel persecution, asking fl
- Government aims and aid. Witho
% food or shelter, no time could be CO..
~ sumed in requiring proof of identit
Gu as they would starve in the intetir
And it would, perhaps, be impossible
nu establish any chain of facts shown
their former abode or circumstance
all An examination into the statistics
'ut the bureau at Chattanooga develop
the fact that the negro cannot equal
Anglo-Saxou Ia some things. They {
RECEIVING RGrtoNs At CHATTANOOGA:
White people ...'.''...
= ''Niggers
,to,. ''superiority" OF
sent, "Confrmatiou strong as proof of b.
writ" that the black people are infer
VS. to the wbitesl and hence the justin
aud correctness of the enuuciatiOu
lr the Dred Scott cassAhat negroes "h
~ no rights which white men are bound
respect Let the croaking Copy
heads consult these figures and "m
a note ont"
id'nS ,IsS A Quaker, on hearing a man swea
,v, a particularly bad piece of road, sa
Friend, I am under great obligati
to thee, l would myself have d
what thou hast done, but my reliG
forbids it. Don't let my console
however, bride thine; give thy in
nation wings, and suffer not the pr
sd. dice of others to paralyze the tongu
irz, justice and long sufferiug--yea, yeri
John D. Fox, whose house and
connection with whose family MOI
spirit rapping had its origin, reco
,. died in Wayne county, New York,
jTH, rs years. The old man never bel
in spiritualism. He lived and die