The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-29
Advices from North-Carolina.


vices from North Carolina, affecting the bureau.
a 1t appears from the report that the situation,
condition, and department of both planter and
freedmen remains unchanged: But few cases OF
violent outrages reported, but instances of
petty annoyance and interference with the indus
try and energy of the freed people are numerous
The chivary, so the report represents, take great
delight in stealing the horses and mules of the
lcolored people, and in tearing their fences down
these mean acts rarely be detected, and,
when apprehended, it is next to an impossibility
to bring them to Justice. The assistant commits
sioner expresses the opinion that could the freed
men be sure of full protection everywhere, they
would exert themselves more earnestly to acquire
ton Chronicle
We fear that with the best intentions, the
Bureau at Washington does not receive en-
tirely correct information in relation to the
colored people. There are so many of them,
scattered over so large an area, that it is next
to impossible to gather the facts concerning
them, or to learn correctly and truly what
their real condition is. The colored people
of the South, suddenly set free, are nearly all
emphatically {" children of larger growth"
The practical test of going forth into the
world and taking care of themselves, is alto
gether new to them. While in a state of
slavery they were provided for by the white
race, and it was a rare thing in this State for
any of them to want for food or clothing
Their masters and mistresses had to think
and provide for them. They were a useful,
docile, faithful, thoughtless race, without
forecaste, and seldom providing against flu
ture want. Suddenly emancipated, with
these traits of character, without education,
with a lifelong dependence ON the white
race to think and provide for them, how is
it to be expected that these people will at
once commence career of prosperity? The
idea is preposterous. They must stand alone
before they can walk and they must walk
before they can rum
We deeply regret the allusion in the above
to the g chivalry,' coupled with the charge
that the white people are stealing the horses
and mules of the colored people. There is
no foundation for this charge so far as we
know. Horses and mules are stolen, but
more are stolen by colored than by white
people. There are rogues of both colors
and they do not stop to ascertain either the
color of the horse of the owner. There
are associations of thieves of both colors, but
this is the result of decentralization caused by
the war; and cannot be traced to any dispo-
sition on the part of the so-called'' chivalry"
to steal the property of C slored people, There
was but little thieving in the State before
the war, and there will be as little year or
so hence, if the civil Courts should continue,
as they have begun, to ferret out and punish
the guilty.
We are gratified to hear from various parts
of the State, that the colored people as
general rule are going to work, and are
much more faithful and industrious as la
borers than many supposed they would be.
In some localities they are as industrious as
they were formerly. But the road before
them is steep and rugged. Human nature
is selfish, and those, whether from the North
or the South who have capital and educa
ton, of which the great mass of the colored
people are destitute, will take advantage of
them, and will keep them down for long
time to come They have rs much to appre
bend in this respect from the shrewd, caicu-
lating Northern man who may settle among
us, as from the so-called "chivalry." In
deed, we believe that the great body of their
former masters are as much disposed as
others are to give them fair bargains, and
to settle with them promptly for their labor.
There mean, grasping, selfish, unfeeling
men in all countries. We have such here,
but they are exceptions to the rule. Our
people, whether of the North or of the South,
are not generally of this character.
Let the colored people resolve to improve
their condition by industry and economy
Let them estimate industry or labor as one
of the chief virtues, for without that they
can do nothing. With it they can acquire
property, and gradually educate their chill
dren. Let them bear in mind that the help
now extended to them by the government,
will be withdrawn after a while, and that
much depends on the use they make of that
help. Let them also cultivate the good will
of the white people, and do nothing to of
fend OF injure those among whom their lot
has been cast And let them especially set
their faces against those of their own color
who are lazy, dissipated, and thievish; and
if they cannot reform and save them, let
them disown them and cut them off from
their company.
The Sentinel says, though we were OPP
posed on principle-to the reputation of the
State war debt, because of our anxiety to
preserve the fair fame of the States integrity,
and her pledge to parties, widows and Or
phans and others, not at all involved in the
revolution, we readily yielded the question
when we ascertained the President demanded
it," The Sentinel then implicitly asserts that
/ the President violated principle, cast re-
proach on the fair fame of the State, and in
/ fiieted a wrong on widows and orphans
/ The Sentinel did not want to do this, but
when. the President made the demand it
i welded If the Sentinel feels and believes all
this, how is it possible for that paper to be a
/ friend of the Presldent2
The Charleston South Carolina papers