The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-12

SulCatlon with treasury agent, who
had ample means of information on
the subject of Georgia loyalty. He
gave his opinion that to admit the
Southern States to representation at
this time would be highly injudicious.
He did not believe there was a white
native of the State loyal enough to
take his place, and asserted that to
remove him and others similarly
situated would be not only dangerous
to the welfare of the country, but
would be also the height of ingrati-
tude to men who had risked charac-
ter and reputation for the patriotic
cause of cotton and ten or twelve
thousand dollars year. Your Com
mlttee concurred entirely in his OPT
Mon.
''While il Atlanta, your Committee
heard many expressions of sentiment
which go to show how far General
Grant is mistaken in what he says in
his late report. On one occasion es-
peclally we heard what convinced us
that the lava Of secession still burned
in the Southern bosom. The case
was that of a young gentleman from
Massachusetts,, of poor but honest
parents, who had come to the South
in the capacity of a freedmen> school
teacher. He had casually made the
acquaintance of Southern lady of
two score and ten, whose husband
had fallen under the rebel flag, leav-
ing her a widow of handsome estate.
The young gentleman, desirous of
matrlmony and plantations, pressed
his suit, and was progressing, as he
thought, most favorably, when one
evening the widow told him Mt a tea
party, in the presence of large
number of people, that she'd rather
be buried alive than marry a Yankee
The patriot school-teacher no longer
plies the rod of chastisement over
refractory freedmen The star of his
hope has gone down, and he has gone
back to Boston, Il wreck of his former
self.
"Your Committee next went to
Montgomery, Alabama, where, as
at Richmond, the colored citizens
locked to meet us, and We'd with
each other for the carrying of our
baggage. We paid them fifty cents
carpet-sack from the depot, and they
were enthusiastic in their demonstra-
tions of loyalty, IN receiving the cur
rency TON Hss:--.r th4s city, evidences
Of dlsloyalty met us OF every hand.
A Vermont missionary had been in
suited a few days before our arriva!
for attempting to introduce John
Browns Body and Wen hang jeff.
Davis on a sour appletree, as Sab
bath-school hymns. A hop had just
taken place at the leading hotel, to
which whites only were invited, and
to which the freedmen were excluded
on the account Of color. The conse-
quence was an indignation meeting
OF the freedmen, at which equal
rights were demanded. A repetition
OF balls and hops, exclusively white
IN their character, will lead to ia
malca instructions and Haytien re-
belllons magnitied Il thousand times
in their dreadful results. At Mont
gomery, as at Atlanta, we met u
treasury agent, who was opposed to
immediate reunion, for the Southern
States He mentioned incidentally
that he had IL son-in-law in New
Hampshire who would make an ex-
cellent Provisional Governor, and a
cousin who would do for territorial
delegate to Congress. Above all
things, he hoped Congress would not
listen to the hypocritical cries of
Alabama loyalty. He assured us that
there was no loyalty in the State,
except IN his Office, and said it would
be base injustice to supersede him !
till he had finished the making of q !
hundred thousand dollars.
we next proceeded to Charleston, |
South Carolina. Here we had a long !
with a Northern gentleman,
whom we knew to be in every way |
reliable. He had responded to his |
country's call, in the early days of the |
war, with a sutler wagon full of Yam
kee notions, and had been unvarying
III his devotion to the cause ever since,
except at intervals when General
Grant had ordered suffers to the rear. |
Since the cessation of armed hostility,
he had been down South to see what |
could be done Ill the way of buying |
Southern lands. He had found the !
people of South G. rolina so rebel
hous at heart as to refuse to sell their
plantations Tor twenty cents an acre
III Federal currency. He convinced
us that an armed force ought to be
kept in Charleston for many years to
come, and that he ought to be ap-
pointed sutler, as he had had much
experience in the business. He found
IN this hot bed of secession and era
die OF rebellion a decided preference
for gray over blue, which extended
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