The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-28

General ORD, who has superseded BUT
LER in command ofsthe departments OF
Virginia and North Carolina, has been
making SOME regulations to compel the
able bodied contrabands who have &C
cumulated upon his hands to either work
OF fight He cannot see the propriety of
feeding on government rations swarm
of lazy and idle negroes who have done
nothing to merit the bounty of the gov
eminent and who do nothing but eat
and bask in the SUM- Because the Gener-
al thinks these Freedmen" ought to be
made to earn their rations by service in
the army or upon some kind of public
work, the Boston Abolitionists are greatly
Mortified and terribly incensed. The
amoauealth, Senator SUMMERS organ,
calls General ORD's regulations merely
"a modified system of slavery" and is
exerting all the pressure" it can bring
to bear for his removal So strong has
this influence become that, in self de-
Tense, General ORD has caused to be pubr
lished a report of his Superintendent OF
Freedmen's affairs showing that the ne
groes are given to idleness and thieyery
and that the public interests de-
mand that they should be forced to work
But no considerations Of public Interest
or of common sense seemto weigh in the
estimation of the abolitionists against
one drop of African sweat, and so the
clamor continues ,-...u
We may be mistaken, and doubtless
the radicals think we are, but we can
not see why the government is any more
bound to support lot of indolent and
thieving negroes than it is bound to sus-
tain in their laziness similar number of
whites. A great many people i'll this
country think white man as good "a
negro. and it is certain that the white
population is taxed more than the ne
groes to pay for the rations consumed by
these camps of lazzaroni. Why then
should not the whites receive q portion
of the benefitsl, They are certainly emit.
tied to them under the equality doc
trines which now so extensively prevail.
Perhaps it may be in the eternal fitness
of things" which eternal fitness" is I'M
derstood to be under the especial SUPER
intendence ofthe party of great hforal
ideas" that Northern farmers are newNto
be taxed to pay these negroes the wages
due them fortheir pastlabor upon SWlth'
ern plantations, and that while german
dizing government pork, beans and hard
tack, the Freedmen Sare merely gentle
men of leisure who have retired from aes
tive business and are living upon their
legitimate income. 1t may be that this
is the view taken of the subject by Mr..
SUMNER and the Commonwealth men, but
at the risk of being considered "disloyaP
we must say that we cannot scott in
that light &. 'I-.r5 ri amor
These negroes in Virginia who, Will
neither work nor fight, are a portion of
those for whom such urgent appeals for
clothing have been made to the beneyo-
lent people of the country. 1t was par
TALLY in behalf of these "Freedmen'
that meeting was held in this city not
many weeks ago; and these are aportion
of those American citizens" whom Rev
BIrrINGER eulogized as superior to
Irishmen and other persons of foreign
birth, 1t is certainly q very terrible
thing that General 0RD's modified ists-
tenn of slavery" compels these superior
creatures to either work, fight, or starve.
The New York Riots as.