The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-04-26

money" which had gone They were therefore, more
careful of the health and comfort OF their anu
this in part accounts for the much greater mortaity
among the negroes under the system than under the
old. . -
Under the new system the Bureau agent requires no
cash capital engage in the trade transportation IRON
the cheap market the dear market is furnished by
government negro dies on the road or before ne Is
dtsposed of tho agent loses nothing; the government
pays salary to support him while in the trade, ana
all he make from his position in the Bureau mo
popoly much clear profit. He may only make five
Or ten dollars head whereas the negro trader under
the old system, sometimes made one hundred or TWO
hundred dollars head; but, taking all things into con
sderaon he Is doing better business on less capa',
and sure thing without risk
Such will be found to be the practical working or the
Freedmen's Bureau at the South, whenever truthful
report is made. do not question that Colonel Brown
the Assistant Commissioner in charge of AFFAIRS AT hch-
mond deserves all that is said in his praise by your cor
respondent and that there many others connected
with the Bureau who are honestly laboring to make II
instrument for good But &c necessfde they must
act through and these las, are and always
will be, necessitous men, for no others would accept
such positions. The opportunities Tor making money
are great the chances of exposure small ior they VINO
pay and he that receives the money are alike interest
ed in not letting 1t be known
am anxious to believe and willing to admit that
many voted for It's original establishment with gooa anu
honest motives but In the Ill advised heat and bad blood
of civil war But if So If their purpose was not TO
break down the old system OF Interstate negro trading
for tho benefit of favored few of the saints OF frcedo
who are now enjoying a bureau monopoly OF the bust
ness il it TO give 10 those favored few an abso-
lutte control of the labor and productive capacity oil the
Southern States If IL not intended by them as an
indirect Of carrying out Thad Stevens favorite
idea of universal Southern conscaon by SO Empower
ishing the Southern land owners that they would nave
to sell the New England saints for song; If 1t
TO continue negro trading under new and more
repulsive form than 1t yet presented II IL was ne.
intended to create odous monopoly OF the cohtro Oh
the labor and industry of the South, which should DC
left free to regulate themselves according to supply ana
demand under the laws of the several states Interested,
then ii should be Immediately abolished ,
AN OLD RESIDENT OF NEW YORK.
p Son reading the above 1.-THE result oil observations
during trip through Virginia, Georgia. Alabama, blis'
sissppi and Tcnnessee to friend, he called my atten-
ton to the following extract from the washington cor
respondence Of New York paper of Wednesday last
vACARIEs OF THE GEORGIA FREEDMEN.
Mledgeve papers that than three thousand ne.
have within two weeks passed over the railroad
from Putnam and adjacent counties for the West They
induced to leave their employers the promise
higher although they made contracts with them,
which ratified by the Freedmen's Bureau.
deprived of their employees will be disappointed
in making their crops This complaint comes from many
counties notwithstand ing have been made OF
who thus tampering with the employees letter
Southwestern Georgia that the corn Is growing
finely and promises n large crop
If the Milledgcvie papers dared to tell the whole
truth they would say that this movement of negro
from Georgia in violation of contracts ratified by tho
Freedmens Bureau the work of sub agents of that
Bureau induced by the higher prices paid to those sub
agents for without encumbrances to West. But
Mr.. Stanton, he used to do with Mr.. Lincoln, has
to revise and explain away President john
SONS proclamation, far least TO retain martial
in Georgia to protect the trading operations OF
the Freedmens Bureau. II the Milledgcville papers
should dare to tell the whole TRUTH under the blessed
rule of martial law and suspended habeas corpus and the
Civil Rights BILL they would be suppressed their edi
and publishers tried by military commission and sent to
the Dry TOrtugaS