, 1865-08-19
TIRE FKREDmEN-GRN, HJWAHD,s
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SPEACE5.
VIC publlsh elsewhere the very able, practt
cal and deeply Christian address Of Majo,
General Howard, Superintendent Of tee
Bureau for Freedmen, delivered before ths
Maine Freedmen's Relief Society, At Angus
t. Maine. Upon this Bureau derolyes NO
less work than to give effect to the Eman.
capAtloz Proclamatiou,-to bring home to
every plantation that message OF freedom
which, when uttered three yenes ago, WIS
regarded As Of a. little potency In the south
etn etAtes ~ 6now-squall In Icclaud.
Emancipation Is but "eounding bracs and
tinkling cymbal," until master and slave
have fell Its interposing hand protecting the
latter In his rights, nrd substituting for the
Will Of the master and for brute force, the
reign Of law. This Is done by the Freed.
mems Bureau.
After carefully digesting al tie plans pro-
posed 10 him by friends or enemies Of the
frcedmen's rights, South or North, Gen.
Howard undertook his stupendous work,
having clearly before Lis ,ni1d four objects:
L To regulate labor so that the freedmen
should everywhere tave the opportunity to
work for fair wages, and ehould everywhere
embrace ahc opportunity So successful has
he been in this that be declares that fewer
freedmen than whites a1e LOW receiving aid
from the government.
2. To educate the fieedmen. He has found
that thu schools thus established soon be-
co1he selfsupportiug, AZ the freedmen shave
pride Ike white people. They don't like to
be rAuperazed, or regarded aa paupers, and If
they can do soms1hing to aid In teaching
4Antn al ~ = l. IL S1
5. To relieve the Orphans, aged, crippled
blind land deaf-those classes which among
whites are necessarily objects Of charity.
For these asgluns must be established.
4. To secure justice Tor the freed people.
This cannot be done save by upsooting the
despotic notions Of the whites, and the ser
Witty OF the blacks, gro wing out Of s.ave1y.
The whites must be taught to demand no
more from negroes thsn their contract entl-
ties them TO. The negroes must be protect
ed In demanding everything from the whites
that their contract calls for. General How
ard, whose knowledge Of slavery, from prac-
tica1 contact With 1t during tho war, Is ex-,
ceeded BY that Of no other officer, differs
Fhony With General Cox, Of Ohio, relative
to the practicsbility Of the white and black
races living h the samo community. he
cites the case OF Maryland, where In the
lower counties, efforts were made to drive
out all TIT freed negroes as soon as the emau-
cipation clause became part Of the State Con-
stitunon. But now thohe same masters are
sending agents to Richmond to hire free ne
groes at s15 per month. Says General How
aud, the prospect is that tnere will soon be
nore fiee negroes In that eec ion than there
were formerly Of slaves aud free people Of
color. They viii have no trouble In living
With the whites Eor the whites with them.
Thus It win be everywhere"
General Howard Apcaks In the highest terms
Of the aid he itsyerywhere receiving from the
freedman's Aid Commission, and regards the
entire work Of all {feedmen's relief agencies
~ temporary, not q permnuent necessity
A eoon as the States ase able TO take care OF
their own .poor ns we'll as the Frecdmen's
BureEu are doing 1t. they will be- permitted
TO do 50. Not till then.
General Howard is pre-cmInently the RICH.
msn In The right place. Ne rejaice, In com.
men with the friends Of universal liberty
everywhere, that this stu ,ehdous task or
giving practical freedom to four millions OF
our fellow men Is in such hands.