New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-31

hOhIHBRN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of LIFE AND PhOP-
ERrY-SEGsoEs killed, SCHOOLS BROKEN Up,
NORTHERN MEN ORDERED oFF-JUsTIcE BAElsHED
FROM THE coURrs-PRAcTIcAL REBsIIIoN
From Our Special Correspondent. efH !.
NEw.ORIRA Ave, July 90 1850
The state of affairs at the South is quite anomalous and
difficult TO be understoodbya stranger Society is in
very disturbed condition. There is general feeling of
unset,Ieduess and with Northern residents affecting Of in
security. They are resolved TO be miserable. | have
heard men who large planters thus mourning
over their losses, when little manly energy might mako
them at least comfortable. But they preferred TO shed
their tears over the past and 70 charge the North with
robbng them OF their property.
1t is staDgc TO how suicidal Is the policy of multi
tudes lle war left them in an impoverished or embar-
ras sea condition. They retained their lands but under
NOR se. or stripped OF stock, often Of buildings and
ences while they had not the capital necessary TO rebuild
repair these wastes aud to stock and seed their pana
oas d pnt them in working order The dictate ofcom-
would be TO seek the most available means OF
ing their fortunes from whatever quarter. Some
men sase done so, and reapiDg the benefit an ae-
quahif 18th few Of this class who gladly avail ihem-
SEW n Northern capital and enterprise Although their
essfe much involved they are resolved TO succeed,
snd doom hem 10 bankruptcy Were such the general.
spr be reconstruction Of the South would be speedily
tn,c "a: esenst this reasonable class must be set OH
She .lcaie, number who nurse their misery and PRIDE
4bey - bitter against the Yankees whose situation
the make 50 uncomfortable that they prefer TO invest
th'n eit in other ways than buying or running
sou. limitations. Some time since II NOTUleTn cDm-
PAM PROF Sed 20 invest large amount in Southern lands,
lu l p0r Of their agent 10 Southern feeling was
nnf r.-le az 10 determine them 70 look elsewhere
knoW many Nortera men, some OF them late Officers IN
thc uy sho have leased plantations whose situation IL
NAL agreeable TO them and their families tLa they
vii not fobGby their leases. So great, too Is the
EEL insecurity as 70 life and p,9ps,y the threat nav
tu r her their crops, that these gentlemen have pro-
I'd M selves with arms, In some eases hundred
-iai feh, necessary, can be put into the hands OF
then 81 70 iaDorera.
IT, county Cou.s are all in the interest Of the South
tIna, mat Northern Union man, ora negro stands
but oy chance for justice unless the Civil Rights bill
shoa'd throw him its projections Sometimes North.
EN- r is arrested false charge TO which plenty OF
me- slad ready TO and be is taken from his bust
Eesh aa detained for days. unless c give ball. which
ssostnes refused Often his laborers taken from
thss charge trumped mp FOR the OCCASION
Judgment pronounced against thom, they are Gent 10
all ONE cases never to return; they having is al
leg sc1pcd which may BIO understood 10 moan that
they murdered. These are facts
Dc Northern planter told me that many Of bie mccs
s s TP q ss & 's guard I'd his
sto.f Tho negroes such TURNS his were often
shot much from hatred TO them as to annoy and
~ icir Yankee masters. He felt less secure than
ho d " ago. knew very respectable Northener,
a ma oi ears who has held responsible Offices under
tho Government, who warned out Of a village in
louisiana by couple Of the chyay representing the
commrny Another, since returned to the North with
his family in like manner directed TO quit the planta
ion ni he managing, and when he paid 10 after
ion threats, he advised by the Sheriff OF the
parish % leave IL he regarded his life. Another who bad
long resident nc the South, but had gone North
d,riLl var met with rough treatment his return
20 his ne and during his absence at time bis house
was hluiod TO the ground.
uthWhard; and yet without them, shall have
10 loo. oag for reconstructed South. For the most
part iDf llty must DO imported
Ma, fthe mischief comes from Southern papers and |
politic.Ds, who foster hostile feeling The people
led TO eyc that tho General Governments trannzing
ogcr t and that only by complete restoration to the
south % Is former p9I,Iess stasss saa w
srson sions the tisIi Rights bin can property
tuYn. - sone uiagie. insence, which nobody exactly
arersi IDS something Is 10 "turn up Hlei 70 wholly
control Dor under the idea too that u must be compul-
rory TO % profitable, tney expect good time 10 come
Vain a. am. The Southern disease demands more radi-
cal oarothe infusion sf new element from without
rp into the country-especally do We write now OF
ousiaaA-and up the Mississippi, reveals the terrible
cfola war, the indispensabeness Of Nohern
enter and capital. Miles explanations once covered
W. ii cotton cane corn, lie waste. abandoned TO
weeds water and the South has not within herself the
OF recuperalon She cannot even build the evees
Necessary TO keep of ruinous inundatons.
Another obstacle TO Southern prosperity Is he feeling
toward the whites. The South is dependent ON negro
labor to M It's lands. There has been some tk, deed
OF foreign white labor the Yankees would not be endured
n they could be obtaIned) and some atemp las been
made introduce it, but with little The fact
that Irish and German hboFers do not feel at home
Southern plantations They feel that labor not regarded
honorable there elsewhere and, beside, they do not
like 20 work with the blacks. And fthey were willing 10
emiate South at the earliest opportunity they wonld be-
come LANDOWNERS themselves lnIOukn pieJuuiSc
d hc so sns s S M Ss Sstepdsd upon
10 cultivate the plantation. For his reason " Is nor the
interest OF the South be the most friendly terms with
the negroes. But great extent they not aed
20 secure their confidence Many have been the oasSs
where through tho dishonesty Of the planters the apoIe
worked whole year to be turned vh without their wages
or 10 find themselves IN debt.
sensible planter acquaintance OF mine, who thinks
Il better 10 work than 10 gumbe either at his situation
ar the Government assured thai nearly all the diff
cuI'y about labor arises from the unfathfulness Of the
empoyrrs Where they treat their laborers well and n
their contracts they find them ready enough 70 work for
them Tho blacks have been much complained OF for con-
crcgatng in and about the towns and cities. This evil
has been greaty exaggerated but so far as exists has
20 considerable extent honorable cause Is TO Sc
cure protection under the shadow Of the military and also
choos Tor their children aud religious privileges for
Let schools b. established the plantations,
lei churches be encouraged and fun protection garan-
teed and the blacks will go into the country.
AT present schools discouraged or broken up and
the teachers In cases few know have been treated
most stability and cruelty by chvaous Southern gen.
tlcmcn Only the other day. IN Jackson, La the dangh-
ter of an intelligent coored minister young
LADY, teacher of colorcd school under The Bureau, was
nearly killed by several loya" people of the neghbor
hood few weeks since, the members OF o Methodist
church for no crime or real oense whatever arrested
in st. Landry Parish La cast into Jail and kept there
three DAVIS On tho morning Of the fourth day they were
on the payment of IS apiece in default Of which
they were to work out the amount tho public roads
Can the South by such conduct, attach TO itself the
black population, and expect TO have an intelligent and
profitable Peasantry!