Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1865-07-28

A Georgia exchange, says: nThe proper dispo-
sition of the negro presents a question of great
delicacy to our legislators. We fluid him suddenly
set free with no defined policy for his management
He has neither home nor money" Our eotem-
rornry Is, we think, altogether mistaken in, saying
there is no defined policy for The management
of the freedmen. Our late President defined that
,olicy very happily when he said that all should
have "a fair start aud equal chance in the race of
LIFE" There Is the whole Of Il. Let the freedman
"dispose of and manage himself, just as
white, red and yellow men do. Indians dispose OF
themselves as they please; Cinnamon dispose of
themselves in like manner, and why should not the
freed African do the same2-NashciLle Press and
Times, July 20.
If the negro is ever sgain TO be contented and
happy twill he after he ceases to heed the inter-
ested intermedng of the demagogue and ab0li-
ZIONIST in his affairs. Into every cabin and corner
where the poor negro has sought refuge from the
storm that set him sdri these pesferous creatures
or their emissares, find their way, pouring into his
ear such fascinating stories of his privileges and
rights that he at becomes dissatisfied and leaves
his home in search of something he win never be
able to find, and would not be qualified to enjoy if
he should find it. They never think of intoxicating
lessons of thrift and industry, and giving such ad-
vice as win eondoce TO the negros comfort and
happiness. All their teachings and appeals seem,
directed towards creating in the negro dislike of
his former MASTER and an equal dislike &c honest in
dustry. Their converts and disciples may be seen
lettering about the streets, on the highways in
rags and wretchcdness, rottlng in the most dis
gushing dcns of prostitution. What is to become OF
them? They have no homes-they had homes
once, where they well provided for in sickness
and in health--but they are now out in search Of
the promised handwriting and watching for the
abolition millennium to break, In all its glorious
efiulgence, upon them. They have no money
how are they tolive7 They..are in the condition of
the deuded Millerites, who parted with everything
they had-bought their ascension robes, and set
down to await the sound of the trumpet expecting
to be caught up in the air and taken TO heaven
boots, britches and all, except that cuffy will have
to enter "thehappy land Of Cannan," minus those
very useful articles But what difference does this
make? If they can get to ballot box and vote,
Shirts boots brtches, bread bacon vegetables milk,
butter, pound cake, sugar, coffee, whiskey, ice
cream and candy, will all be let down to them
from the clouds First seek the ballot box and
its privileges, and all these things shall be added
unto You - says the abolition demagogue to the
negro. Is it strange that the negro should turn a
listening ear to these seducing and bewildering
promisesP No at all. He knows no better and is
therefore to be pltied and all sensible and humane
men do pity him. The mischeivous persons who
put these wild and impracticable notions into the
negroes head, ought to be made to support every
black vagabond that now strolls over the country
eking out precarious subsistence by theft and
other unworthy means
Convince the aboltionists that the negro would
not vote his ticket and he would see the last one
dead, before he would allow him TO make one
track in the direction Of a ballot box. Convince
Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner that If they
confer the right of suffrage upon the Negro he will
not support their party, and there is not an honest
man in America that believes they would advocate
negro suffrage another hour. The negro might ex-
hibit to them his scars received in fighting for the
Union, and they would laugh at him as a fool.
But says the Press and Tines in speaking of
what is to be the policy of the Government to-
wards the thousands of houseless homeless, penn-
lesr, wanderers that have been enticed away from
their "cabn homes" and are now perambulatinp
the land or crowding our cities in iddleness and
want "0ur late President defined that policy
very happily when he said that all should have "a
fair start and an equal chance in the race of lfe
There is the whole of it, This is very clear,
very satisfactory, and an eminenty practical
solution of the difficulty, which now calls for
action. If the Editor will go to the towns and
cities in the South, where the negroes are con-
gregated to wait for the millennium, and count the
graves, twill convince him that they must have
had ia fair start and equal chance, in the race
of life, from the vast numbers that have reached
the goal and won the trace"
o, but says the Press and Times, there is no diff
fcultY in the question at all. "Indians dispose of
themselves as they please" and let the negro do
the same. The illustration is an unfortunate one.
Where are the Indian tribes that once inhabited
this country They came in contact with supe-
rior race and persisted. One word contains their
melancholy history-erterniaated Is this to be
the fate of the poor African ?-is this the entertain
mcnt TO which he has been invited? Let The
negro do as he pleases-that solves the whole dit.
fculty. Is not the Editor of the Press and Time,
aware OF the fact that there are thousands Of
negro women and children, in Tennessee, aban-
doned by their husbands and fathers, now on the
hands Of their former masters, utterly unable TO
support themselves and would perish If they were
turned GU, to do as the Indian and Chneman do The
bone and sincw of the farm have abandoned il and
left the women and children to be supported by the
former masters These masters know that slavery
is aboIished-that it is dead beyond the hope Of
resunecton--that the little negroes and the help
less women, are dead expense to then-that they
pre- no longer, and can never again be their proper
F-yet they are restrained from motives of hu.
mainly, from driving them away. In view of such
facts, We are told there is no difficulty in the case
lni tho IL. IL. L