The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-29
Wet virginiu Election Returns
Gore 7pondence Cincinnati COmmereiali
The South as IL Is.
WASHINGTON, May %.

WASHINGTON, May ~.
A gentlemen connected with the Post
office Department has recently returned
TO Washington from an extended tour
through the Southern States. He is an
intelligent, educated and observing man,
with political opinions decidedly Repub-
lican, vet still. capable of taking a fair
and impartial view of passing events,
and of looking at surrounding circum-
stances without the use of party spec
taCles. Within the last six months he
has visited nearly every town aud vii
lare in the Southwest, and has taken
especial pains to get a correct photo
Graph of the South as it is. His opinions
are worth far more than those of any
little whipper-suapper dandy belonging
to General HOwaTds staff, sent to hold
a migratory Court of Oyer and Terminer
on the affairs of the South, with the
understanding beforehand akin to that
With which the upstart literary critic
sits down to descant upon the merits OF
n kook-that in order to discharge his
duty he must find fault.
The gentleman to whom | refer, and
with whom | have had long converse
ton for the purpose of learning his
views on the condition of the South, ut
terly rerudiates all stories about the re-
belliOus spirit of the Southern people
which are waited north on the wings OF
the Freedmen's Bureau He says that
in all his travels he failed to meet sim
gle man who did not accept the sltua.
tion," in the true sense and meaning OF
that phrase. and that the United States
Government has no truer friends than
the men who year and half ago com
.nossd the rebel armies. All talk of South
ern cruelty to the negroes is faIsehood.
The Southern people express willing
ness TO treat the blacks houorably and
fairly. and the farther removed from the
Freedmen's Bureau Offices the better
contented and better Oft the blacks are.
Every trouble in regard to labor or
wares is traCeable to the Freedmen's Bu-
reau and its agents, many of whom have
embarked in a species of "negrojump-
ing similar to the bounty jumping car
ried on during the war. They are kid
mapping the laborers Of one planter and
selling them at premium of few dol
lars to another, from whom in turn they
entice them, to make another transfer.
Remove tue Freedmen's Bureau" says
nv informant, land y0u'll hear of no
more hardships among the blacks And
we all know this - be true. He relates
an incident which will do to tell in illus
trating the "rebellious spirit of the
Southern people While in New Or
leans he made the acquaintance of an
ex.confederate officer, in whose company
he soon after entered one of the fashion
able restaurants of the Crescent City
Observing a card with the words "Our
own Southern Bitters' conspicuously
printed on it. and alluding to it, he said
to his new made friend, Why DO you
try in this way, even in such place as
this, to perpetuate the memory OF the
| war
The cx.rebel smiled aud replied
Really, l don't like such things, and
that is but a tri1le, | would not have
even it displayed SO, if could have my
yav But that is the device of New
England man, and the Southern Bitter:
are made and labeled in New England
and the keeper of this saloon is a Yankee
who came here since the war, and i:
about the only man in New Orleans whC
is not subiugated, as your people call it
and who says he can't be subjugated.
we took his advice, we would raise an
other rebellion to morrow.
Passing by book store some time al
ter, with the same officer my iHf0rma9
saw large picture of Stonewall Jack
son drapeI in mourning with some hero
ic motto printed underneath it. and h.
remarked, There's more Of 1t. Thes
are the things they magnify TO you
| disadvantage in the North.
Well" said the ex-rebel, "that an
other Of your own sort. The owner
that store is Yankee vino never urea
the sod of the South until the war wa
over. He's what you'd call the wors
kind of a traitor now. Such men com
here and they think by appealing to tn
passions created by the war, they ca
drive a big business. They succeed YER