The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-28
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WASHINGTON, February 49,
The kentucky and Tennessee Freed an en-
Brigadier-General @. b. Fisk, Assistant Com
missioner OF the Freedmens Bureau for the
States of Kentucky and Tennessee, reports to
MajorGeneral Howard, under date of February
A. that he regrets his inability to report the
affairs of the Bureau progressing as favorably
in Kentucky as in Tennessee The freedmen of
the State of Kentucky are very generally dis
posed to entor into labor contracts for wages or
a share Of the crop, and most of them prefer
to remain in their native State TO emigrating
elsewhere.
On the part of large majority of the whites,
he believes that there is an homes. desire to
adjust on a fair basis the new relations arising
from the abolition OF slavery, but the Bureau is
not popular institution among them. They
regard its presence among them as unauthorized,
denounce its officials usurpers and despots and
clamor for its immediate removal from the State.
The opposition of the State authorities, the Com
missioner states has rendered it difficult to con-
duct the Bureau affairs in the State with the har-
mony and efficiency which have elsewhere pro-
| duced good results.
| The Commissioner further says that the 20, 900
colored men who have served in the army are in
many instances scourgcd, beaten, shot at, and
driven from their homes and families, and ale
| likewise fined for having in their possession
arms which they go nobly bore in defense of the
Union. The Commission gives gloomy picture
of affairs in the State and Cities a score of in
stances in which brutal murders of unofending
freedmen have been committed by returned
Rebel soldiers, the murderers In every case
having been acquitted by the civil courts
More Presidential Sentiments.
The President has expressed his sentiments
once more. He was called upon last night by
Congressman and a State Senator, both from
New York. They called merely on business, but
the President showed some anxiety to express
to them his political views In the course of
the conversation the President said that the
test oath was little too severe; that many OF
those that had participated in the Rebellion
| we're good men to represent the Southern States
in Congress, and that the test oath ought not to
be applied to them. He added that mere oath
| to support the Constitution was all that was
necessary; for man who would take that oath
was loyal man.
| AS to the Constitutional amendment changing
the basis of representation, the President said
that no Constitutional amendment ought to be
passed until the public mind should be quite
free from excitement and the Southern States
represented in Congress- The inference drawn
here by men who discussed the purport of the
| Presidents remarks, was that the President
wants to make the entrance of the Rebels in
Congress as easy as possible, and has no objec-
tion to the introduction of Constitutional amend
ments when the presence OF representatives from
the Rebel States in Congress renders 1t quite
sure that they cannot be passed.
The 81 Louis Postmaster.
The statement which has gained currency
that the st. Louis Postmaster was refused
confirmation on account of an unfriendly feeling
towards the President and that his rejection
was intended as 8 rebuke TO the President, is
untrue. 1t was ascertained that the gentleman
nominated for that Office was personally hostile
to both of the Missouri Senators, and, in ae-
cordance with long established usage OF that
body, he was rejected upon that circumstance
and none other, and the President was SO IN
formed,