The loyal Georgian., 1866-02-17

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TIE SAVANNAH DAILY HER
AID AND NEGRO SUFFRAGE.'
9a:. SAVANNAH, Jan. %, 1866.
To The Editor Of the Loyal Georgian.
Sla: | noticed not long since an article
in the Savannah Daily Herald, on sNe>
gro Suffrage and believing your paper
to be an independant Journal, aud one,
too, that is liberal enough to give both
sides hearing,I beg leave, as one identi-
| fed with the race in question, to refute.
some of the arguments used, and to set
| the. editor of the Herald right, as to some
Of his assertions about the colored peo-
/ pie. go 8p @ m@i
| The writer commences his article by
the ridiculous remark that General Grant
and Sherman agreed with Senator Docs
little, that the forcing the elective fran
chise on the negro, would breed war of
races In the first place, [ believe
/ General Grant TOO sensible man to make
any snch remark. And suppose be did,
where did the General, or any ones else,
see anything in history, past or present,
to prove the assertion | believe Genes
raj Gfant is the greatest general of the
age; and he has the good sense to at
tend to military matters, and let others
look out for politics Bat the politicians
have been trying all kinds of means to
get him to make public speech, so as to
draw out Of him something to comsort
them. Failing. however, in that dirse-
tion, they are now trying to distort a
private conversation of his, into an op
! position to negro Suffrage But whether
their efforts will result in stopping the
ball that is in motion, time alone will tell
While L admit there may be many Of
the freedmen who are incapable of fully
! approaching their political status, if ad
mitted to the enjoyment of the Elective
Franchise, still, it must tie conceded that
they are in that respect no worse off,
than SIX tenths of the white people in
the Southern States.
The writer says, further, That 'the
fortunes ofwar have bestowed freedom on
100000 slaves But deny that the
colored people lately liberia ed from abject
slavery, are free, according to the true
acceptation of that term, as applied by
that monitor of our liberties the Declara.
ton Of Independence Nor do | be
lieve that tie Herald is correct when it
says that the fact is accented without
murmer or question by the white popula
ton of the South For, on the con-
trary, we fiud, if we are to ju! ge from
the actions of the different Southern
Legislatures, that instead Of accepting
what should be considered the fat of
Heaven, they are trying all manner OF
ways to re establish slavery III another
form As, for example, notice the vag>
rant laws lately passed by many of them,
as we'll as many other laws of the most
oppressive kind. But there is one argus
ment the Herald made use of, that is
calculated to excite the risables Of the
| freedmen themselves. He says, those
who are truly and conscientiously DESTROYS
to promote the well-being Of the Freed
men of the South, as we are, know that
the first thing to be done is to educate
them in the arts of labor Now, sir, |
should like to know what more training
they need than they have had all their
| lives? For, unless the writer reasons
that the slave drivers whip, (which has
kept It's victims laboripg from early dawn
of day to late in tie evening,( has pro-
duced a disgust for labor, it must be con-
fessed that they have had training enough
in that direction; and, more especially,
as it has not yet had the effect of pro-
ducing habits Of industry. Now, | know
there is one thing connected with this
matter that it seems all parties agree
upon, and that is, that the negro must
work Well, am one OF those who be-
lieve it quite necessary for him to work;
and while / am certain there are many
that will loaf about and do as little as
DO sible, still, believe that those who
have worked, and succeeded in taking
care Of themselves and their masters, are
capable of taking care Of themselves, if
allowed fair play And, | submit, that
the freedmen are not 'incompctents,
from lack Of knowledge, to support them
selves by their own labor and that the
great amount of suffering among them,
q depends upon circumstances throWn
around them by the war; and deter
mination on the part of the late slave
no ders MOTTO deal fairly by them. Well
might the Rev John Pierpont, the poet
Z say, asa. 81 IS
J our tobacco they plant, and our cotton
II they pick,