The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-09-28
(FrOm the Western Christian Advocate, Sept. IL,
AnnlnGeIlc.


wrong in the position she is evidently as
suming on national affaire, but il may need
defending, as Watson thought the Bible and
Christianity needed an apology We bad
hoped with the war, to be able to retire
from the arena, which some have stigma.
tized as "poltical," and therefore affirmed
to be out of the sphere of religious journal.
ism. The timo has come, however, whom
il becomes evident that if we maintain our
work at the South, with President Johnson's
policy, it must be at vast expense of
treasure, suffering, and life.
1t ia demanded that we shall be silent aud
lot the heritage God has given us be laid
waste, our minister's murdered, our people
driven from their homes and slaughtered,
our churches aud school houses consumed,
because to tell the cause Of these evils
would be TO introduce politics into our
paper. If the power whose scepter was
lash whose practice was to crush one free
speech who attempted by notification and
secession the nations life, shall again be
restored, without proper limitations aud
restraints, their nature will be found
unchanged. We already 6nd it so. They
hesitate not to say that they expect the
triumph of President Johnson's policy and
the removal of the military, and then they
:" will clean us out" We have before us
letter from oae of our missionaries, who
says;
Had it not been from mortal fear of my appeal
ing as the last resort to the military for protec
ton, the mob would, months ago have destroy ed
every vestige of my work in this place.
A friend from New Orleans has lately
said to us: "We have lost since the riots
fifty or sixty Union families of worth and
pos ton, aud must lose more If military
protection is not given us"
merchant in New York, doing extern
sive business with New Orleans aud other
Southern cities, consulted us, while on our
recent trip, as to tho propriety of getting
out of the Southern trade, "For," said he,
I" they begin insolently to demand sur
render of my principles as the price of
business"
Before the poor negro still darker pros
peet rises, if the power that broke the re
bellion does not subdue it, The President
whose veto of the Freedmsns Bureau Bill
was consttutionally set aside, now seeks
to render the law ineffective by removing
its present officers, and committing the poor
freedman TO those who hate him, because
he could not love his letters. The removal
of Clinton b. Fisk, already determined upon
will be followed by the removal of Howard;
and tell us where in the nation another two
like them, for this work, eau be found, A
private letter, from friend at the South,
is before us, the following extract from
which indicates the result:
Many planters who hired freedmen for the year,
promising them fair wages, as soon as their crops
were laid by" or suti lently cultivated to dis
pense with labor, framed sOme ptiful excuse TO
phnr ri hnnlG. m mu q
were turned of without any pay for what they
had done 2 Although the crops have been cut oil
By the drought yot many farmers are boasting that
they will make more money than they ever did be-
fore, because hsy get the labor cheop1 If any Of
their neighbors demonstrate against their cruelty,
they reply, " The d-d Yankees made the niggers
free, now let them feed them; as for Inc, Pl make
all can out of them, and then let them go to-"
The negroes sometimes go to the man they call
the "Bureau here, and lay their cases before him
lie has not so far in single instance that have
heard of, done a particle Of justice to the negro,
but in every decided iu favor Of the employer
He was furious rebel, and is now most onthusi
astic supporter of the johnson policy. lie is one
of the bitterest enemies of our cause, aud offered
one of my local preachers $50 if he would leave
the Methodist Episcopal Church OF course the
offer was spurned.
At q distance from the town, in country places,
many poor negroes are being constantly murdered.
They are allured, by one pretense or another, into
secluded places, called out from their houses at
night and shot down. Last Saturday night man
was thus enticed from his house q little way
of and shot. The murderers, some seven or eight
in number, then returned and with clubs, beat
his wife so severely that she has since died. /
have not heard that the murdered people had
given any prOvocation at all. think il is done
in some instances by those who originally owned
them and the only proyocaton was their leaving
them when they were first made free. There are
no soldiers now within less distance than one
hundred miles. Thus, as soon as the military is
removed TO distance, they begin perpetrating their
deeds of darkness. These deeds are done by a
class of men who style themselves the black
cavalry" They disguise themseveS by blacking
their faces and putting on shabby and fantastic
apparel. Then mounting their horses they set
out on their nocturnal expeditions, bent upon the
murder Of the poor helpless blacks.
Scarcely Union man, in many sections
of the country, but has received anonymous
missives warning him out of the country
One of our missionaries, in a note to US,
tells the following:
Not long ago, in adjoining country, phys
ician, who had been a surgeon in Sherman's army,
having returned to his home TO reside quietly on
his farm, was assailed on his own premises in
broad daylight. On his own land there is
"justice's" cOurt-hOHse-the house being ha own
property On public day crowd had assembled
tor the purpose Of mobbng him. One of the ''rab-
BILE" was armed with double barrel shot gun,
and he had the promise Of the crowd TO stand
up" TO him. The physician had been out hunting
squirrels with double-barrel gun, and return
ing to his residence via the courthouse, when the
armed ruffan advanced to meet him, ordering him
to lay down his gun. The order was refused, and
they both leVeled their pieces at the same Instant
and fired. Both missed but the assailant, finding
his antagonist ready and not the least intmidsted by
the odds against him. began to run and call on his
comrades for help. The physician pursued, and
after several shots, brought him to the ground
severely, if not mOrtaly wounded. The ruiian
continued calling on his fellows for their assist
anee, and crying out, " Where are a my friends ?
Where are my friends who promised to stand up
to me 2" They had fed at the first fire, and left
the field TO the victorious galvanized Yankee"
as they had been wont to style.
We have a right to speak on such sub
iects We DM speak. Our Conferences
that resolved, in the days OF Buchanan and
thenceforward, that we are citizens of the
whole country, and have the rights and inn
munities of citizens everywhere, are again
resolving in like manner. The people are
gathering their strength for the reass1rtion
of the true principles of national unity. In
the Presidential tour the evident favorltes
of the nation are the men who subdued the
rebellion mere official respect, and scarce
ly that, is awarded TO others. Our Chris
tianity demands we should stand by the
nation. II seems uufeelng to say to our
brethren in the South, they must not aban-
don the field, they must brave mArtyrdom,
they must test, by their lives il necessary,
our claim to an entire country. Indeed, oil
this is true, and they will do it. They do
not mean to be driven out OF the land re-
DENIED to Us by 30 muca precious blood.
Nobly their voices come TO up saying they
are ready to die if need be, but the work
must 60 on. But We must not be indffer.