Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-05-09
Mares Nests.

We are sometimes greatly amused at the
absurdlties into which the malignants of the
Northern press continually fall in their wick
cd attempts to misrepresent our people and
country. 1t will tickle our beloved people of
tho Ozark Corner" to be told, as we are by
one of these malignant presses, that
EdgeGeld District, South Carolina, is one
of the. largest and most rebellious in the
State, and is controlled bv TWO organized
gangs of outlaws led by an ex-Confederate
major. They have been waging sort Of
guerrilla warfare upon the peaceful inhsbi-
tants, Union and colored, numbering some,
despoiling and expeling others. All efforts
made by the infantry to surprise these we'll
mounted desperadoea have proved futile. An
efficient cavalry force is needed to hunt them
down, The planters of the State are just
discovering that there are not enough ne
groes by hale to cultivate the land, and that
their labor only is available in the rice fields.
This is a strong security for better treatment.
The circular Of the Bureau concerning mar
riage rules; has been received with satisfac.
ton by the freed people.
This is terrible news and an outlaw here
and there who steals horse, robs hen-roost,
or murders traveller for his money, is made
to cast discredit upon an entire country.
Now, if we take up the daily chronicle Of
crime in the Northern papers, the rapes,
robberies, burglaries, arsons, poisonings, muir.
derings, which they daily report, as proof of
the rebellous and insurgent character of the
people7 As for the original Union men"
in Edgefeld District, it would be sight and
a show, as attractive and exciting as the ex-
hibition Of Hippopotmus and Gorilla to dis
cover one. Touching the. suferings of the
vir.uous freedmen at the hands of this re-
ported benditti. We rather fancy that the
boot is on the other leg, and it will require
but little search, if the. quest were honestly
pursued, to make the discovery that this
banditti was measurablkaf net mostly, made
up of our ".loyal colored citizens" AS for
tie deficient numbers Of the negroes for
the cultivation of the lands, we conceive this
to be great mistake also. There would found
quite enough of them for this purpose, could
Culfee be persuaded to regard freedom in
any other light than as relief from labor.
To require that he should still work after he
has attained his freedom, deprives liberty of
all its charm in his Imagination.
fernapS, however, t.e grealest VI aii 'ne
absurdities of this paragraph lies in what is
said of his approval of the Marriage rites
and rules" as propounded by that sancti-
monious institution, The Freedmens Bureau.
Cuffte does, indeed. so far approve of mar
riage that fit implies great supper of ba-
con and bread, with bountiful supply of
whskey, be will, to obligc the Freedmen's
Bureau. take q new wife every night, espe.
cially as Sukey and Jenny are not uuapt, af-
ter marriage, to exh bit decided preference
of the whito soldier, who, in addition to the
supper, will give her new calicofrock when
she wants it, q black laced veil, and
glittering brass brestpin as large as soup
pla'e. A bracelet will do wonders with her
fancy, and puir Of brass anklets complete
happiness.-South Curoinian.